After her dog commits suicide, a lonely woman discovers her pet's hidden diary.A suspicious husband sets out to discover what his wife really does late at night in her shop.A man starts a new job guarding the entrance to a pier at night.An abandoned house hides a sinister - and disgusting - secret in its basement.A young girl waits for a message from her dead mother, and then she finds something stranger in the freezer.The Butcher's Husband and Other Stories features the new short stories The Butcher's Husband, Tongue, The Pier and The Butcher's Husband II, as well as revised versions of The Seagull and A Perfect Death, and a new novella titled Larry.