From the Master of Southern-Fried Horror comes a collection of stories that could only beat in the dark, diseased heart of Dixie…

- An abandoned furnace, choked with shadow and haunted by tormented ghosts, stands as a grim testament to a time when cruelty and the abuse of human flesh was woefully commonplace…

- A man’s obsession with mysterious roadkill on a lonesome country avenue awakens a horrifying hunger that can not be satisfied…

- Two boys let curiosity get the better of them and discover that a collector of monster movie memorabilia is something more than a retired master of greasepaint and latex…

- A dimwitted projectionist at a small-town drive-in theatre upsets a Saturday night crowd when he unwilling releases a dark secret from a dusty and forgotten film can…

- A grandfather’s Christmas Eve story of a unfinished journey by a drunken peddler captivates a young boy and brings about the delivery of a yuletide gift once thought to be forever lost…

- It started out as nothing more than a shortcut home… a detour through a shadowy stretch of forest known as Tanglewood. But what awaited an unsuspecting driver, amid the brush and bramble, made a simple flat tire seem like a horrifying journey into madness…

22 terrifying tales of Southern darkness and depravity from Ronald Kelly, the acclaimed author of Fear, Blood Kin, Hell Hollow, and Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Terrors.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Cumberland Furnace
Grandma’s Favorite Recipe
The Thing at the Side of the Road
Then Came a Woodsman
Uncle Cyrus
Forget Me Not
Little Bastard
Diary
The Dawning
Better Than Breadcrumbs
The Abduction
Peacemaker
Pelingrad’s Pit
The Final Feature
Housewarming
The Skating Pond
Mister Mack & the Monster Mobile
Mojo Mama
King Cong
Fluid
The Peddler’s Journey
Tanglewood
Story Notes