Summary

In “January Man" Jason Taylor answered the phone in his father’s office after it had rung fifty times even though it was against the rules for him to answer that phone. The person on the other end didn’t speak, but Jason could hear a baby crying in the background. He left the office when his friend Dean “Moron” Moran rang the bell to invite Jason to go with him to a lake that had frozen over. The kids skated and played British Bulldogs. Their games were interrupted when Tom Yew, who was on leave from the Royal Navy, rode his Suzuki scrambler up to the lake.

Jason went into the woods to pee. He found a path he hadn’t seen before and followed it to the house in the woods where it was said an old woman lived. He’d...