Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this all-new story collection of the most peculiar plays ever made.…Sports fans live and die by their teams’ successes and failures―though not literally. But these fourteen authors have written spirited―in more ways than one―new tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched.In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “The Blue Hereafter,” Manfred Bernardo learns about softball from a certain blond barmaid in Louisiana.Life-and-death stakes make the competition get serious in New York Times bestseller William Kent Krueger’s “Hide and Seek.