All These Steps Lead Down

<p>Nelson Pyles is a one-of-a-kind author. With clever characters and reliably creepy concepts he knows his way around the horror genre. Don't miss out on his stories; you're going to love them. -<strong> </strong>Gwendolyn Kiste Bram Stoker Award-winning author of <em>The Rust Maidens</em> and <em>The Haunting of Velkwood</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Some steps will lead you home </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>While some will lead away. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Some steps will help you sometimes go</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And some will make you stay </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Some steps will make you broadly smile </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And some will make you frown </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Some steps can lift you all the way up but</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>All these steps lead down... </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A man is trapped in a dark place for which there is no escape. A prisoner and a tormentor blur their roles in a dank chamber. A grandmother plays for keeps against Death herself in a test of wills. A flavored protein powder becomes a new Eldritch God in the making. A serial murderer goes home for Christmas for a different kind of carol and there's a very different werewolf love story... </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The second collection from Nelson W Pyles also features previously unreleased essays a radio play and a story co-written with author Scarlett R. Algee in print for the first time. Some steps go up but all these steps lead down...</span></p>