“If Woody Allen, Dante and Charles Adams had a three-way, their love child would be David Tabak. These stories are dark, twisted and hilarious, three of my favorite characteristics. Like the overused metaphor of the car accident you can’t turn away from, I was drawn to these stories and characters with a macabre fascination, a little bit of horror and a thank-God-it’s-not-me sigh of relief. Carefully drawn and really funny, the people in this collection are in us all, even though none of us would ever admit it in public. Or private for that matter. Buy it, read it, recommend it. You’ll be richer, and happier for it, in the gloomiest kind of way. ”