Author Joe Hill tackles four novellas in the recently published collection titled “Strange Weather.”

Anyone familiar with Hill’s past works, such as “Heart-Shaped Box,” “Horns” and “The Fireman,” knows the weather and everything else will have a touch of the strange about it.

Here, Hill introduces:

— A boy who encounters a nasty man with a Polaroid-style camera that steals the souls and memories of the people whose photos he takes.

— A particularly intriguing character study based on gun violence where a man who wishes to be the hero kills the wrong people while a reporter who witnessed the wrongful shooting death of her brother years earlier attempts to uncover the truth. A powerful tale, arguably the centerpiece narrative marred by a gotcha ending.

— A frightened man’s initial parachute jump lands him on a cloud that has both style and substance … but it won’t let him go. He’s trapped 10,000 feet above the world.

— The final story, “Rain,” is truly strange weather. A storm breaks loose in the Midwest. Instead of traditional rain fall, the precipitation is deadly sharp falling objects. People are killed. A mass-murder mystery wrapped in an onslaught of science-fiction meteorology.

“Strange Weather” is a forecast worth heeding.