Gateways to Annihilation

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Keene's collection is quietly magnificent. I can think of few things better than spending your time reading his words.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> -Mercedes M. Yardley two-time Bram Stoker Award-Winner</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A cursed pizzeria. A haunted B-movie legacy. A tycoon's final robotic companion.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Welcome to </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Gateways to Annihilation</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>-a searing collection of horror short stories that seamlessly fuses right-here-and-right-now themes of war trauma pandemic stress religious terrorism political extremism cryptozoological mania and the human hunger for a sudden cleansing apocalypse while encouraging readers to reach for a bag of movie popcorn in the darkness of the night.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Author Jarret Keene conjures 14 twisted tales where monsters lurk in neon shadows and infernal items hold lives hostage. Whether it's a Japanese war vet trapped inside Hollywood rubber suits a Vegas comic shop owner stalked by satanic forces or a billionaire's android nurse with sinister protocols each story spirals into the uncanny with razor precision. In this collection that melds the nostalgic eeriness of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Twilight Zone</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> with the nihilistic bite of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Black Mirror</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> victims and perpetrators dance in blood-spattered loops of fate. Perfect for fans of weird fiction and supernatural thrillers </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Gateways to Annihilation</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is literary horror with a cult heart.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Will these characters escape the horrors they summon-or are they already lost to the darkness within? </span></p><p></p>