Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

<p>In this vast collection of forty-eight stories rooted deep in the ominous and frightening world of contemporary horror there are things unimagined almost unspeakable working and happening in the shadows of everyday life:</p><p></p><p><em>The lovely prize-winning garden where the flowers bloom too perfectly and the earth beneath them shifts and whispers at night . . .</em></p><p></p><p><em>A Sicilian mob wife must survive being hunted by her own husband and his crew to truly earn her divorce . . .</em></p><p></p><p><em>The creature that inhabits a town's drainage system extending its tentacles through every pipe its many eyes watching the children . . .</em></p><p></p><p><em>Somewhere along the banks of the Willowbrook River an abused woman will learn to call upon an ancestral spirit to deliver brutal justice to her abusive husband . . .</em></p><p></p><p>Also within these pages are stories of cosmic bargains cursed heirlooms and the quiet desperation that can drive ordinary people to extraordinary ends. </p><p></p><p>Stories that explore the darkness that waits in familiar places heard in the whispers from the land and seen in the glitches of our own perceived reality.</p><p></p><p>Of course you will also be reminded that the most terrifying monsters are often us-like the trusted office confidante whose helpful advice is a carefully administered poison.</p><p></p><p>DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP is a relentless journey into the shadows of the human heart and the universe a book that proves the most frightening stories may be born in the darkness but they don't always stay there.</p>