Black Pageant collects six dark stories from Cory Cone. In "Compassion, During and After the Fall" a woman must cope with a strange and new reality. "Autumn in the Woods" finds a lonely ghost yearning for a friend. A girl becomes an unwilling participant in a ghoulish competition in "The Black Pageant". "The Sound of Rain" follows A desperate man as he takes measures to save his dying farmland. A husband in "Resetting Alexandra" discovers the price of new and dangerous life saving techniques. And alone for the afternoon, a girl and her brother investigate the death of their dog in "The Things That Came Up."