A voyeur becomes the one being watched, terrifying beasts are stitched together, strange new insects appear, ancient sex gods rise, and an island on the brink of madness falls apart. Betty Rocksteady's debut collection blends surrealism and horror, tearing apart tropes as words bleed and transform down unexpected avenues of nightmare logic.
An eclectic collection of dark fiction from eight acclaimed and award-winning authors. Join us as we traverse surreal hospital landscapes, horrific visions of the west, bizarre country noir, tests of faith, and bleak comings of age.Featuring stunning stories from Betty Rocksteady, Matthew Brockmeyer, Eric Reitan, Rachel Cassidy, Chris Kuriata, Rhoads Brazos, Thomas Vaughn and Serena Johe.
The guys following her home are bad enough, but when Jacalyn's Poppa comes to the rescue, things only get worse. After all, he's been dead for six years. There's no time to be relieved, because when she ends up back at Poppa's new apartment, nothing feels right. The food here doesn't taste how food should taste. The doors don't work how doors are supposed to work. And something's not right with Poppa. Guilt and sickness spiral Jacalyn into a nightmarish new reality of Lynchian hallucinations and grotesque body horror."--Back cover.
Hatred and desire collide when the girl next door is a giant spider" Alex's arachnophobia may be old fashioned, but he's able to live a life of relative peace despite it. That all changes when a spider moves in next door. His girlfriend is sick of his attitude and begs him to give the new neighbor a chance. He overcomes his fear, but finds a twisted sexuality in its place. His attraction to the spider affects all areas of his life, and changes everything he thought he knew.
Betty lives in a WWII post depression period. Her family is very poor and lives as outcasts in their small town. At the age of seven, her mother gives her to her grandmother. She leaves a barely supervised home to enter an extremely strict home. Her father passes away when she is nine. Her grandmother gave her backbone. Her life with her grandmother consists of long hours hard work.
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