Howard Cottrell

Howard Cottrell is the narrator and main character in “Autopsy Room Four.” Howard has been out playing golf when he is bitten by a snake. When he is found, it is believed he is dead. Howard wakes in the morgue of a hospital as doctors are about to perform an autopsy on him. He details the fear and panic he feels as he tries to make the doctors know he is still alive. Howard is saved when another man in the hospital is bitten by the same snake that bit Howard.

Gary

In “The Man in the Black Suit,” Gary is an old man who writes about an experience he had as a nine-year-old boy. Gary believed he had been confronted by the Devil during a childhood fishing trip. The Devil told Gary that his mother had died of a bee sting, the same way Gary’s...