Author Description

From Dust Bowl freakshows to modern day existential horror, Deathtripping collects thirty-five short stories written over a twenty-year period. Disturbing, provoking, surreal, absurd, and bitingly morbid, these stories are invitations to a world that wants to swallow the reader whole. Contains the following stories: ROOM 19 - MARKET ADJUSTMENT - THE DUST SEASON - THE MAN WITH THE FACE LIKE A BRUISE - THE PHOTOGRAPHER - THE FUNERALGOER - THE NIGHT THE MOON MADE A SOUND - THE JACKTHIEF - THE SCREAMING ORCHARD - GLOWERS POINT - CRUEL WOMEN WITH WHIPLIKE SMILES - THE SMOKE OF SAMUEL - SAD CLOWN, KENTUCKY - SUNRUINED - THE SUMMER OF FLIES - DEATHTRIPPING IN NEW ORLEANS - DURNING - AIR CATHEDRAL - THE NOWHERE ROOM - BLACK ROSITA'S MAN - RAYLES - THE LIBRARY OF TRESPASS - MUSIC FROM THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE - A BUTTERFLY IN ICE - THE SPOT - LAUNDRYMEN - THE WARM HOUSE - BURY THE CHILDREN IN THE YARD - THE CALMING WOOD - MAY TO MAY - CANDY HEART - RUNNING FROM THE ROSES - THE MAN WHO HATED STEPHEN KING - THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF COMPLACENCY - KING CREEP