Hellish Beasts

<p>On a colonial village field trip Mike was attacked by a deranged candle-maker and his "buddy" Trent fled to his undying shame. As adults screenwriter Trent runs into professor turned soldier Mike when they stumble upon a preternaturally dead cat in the library. Mike believes there's one sinister force behind this and other strange inexplicable incidents- and he's taking reluctant Trent along for the investigation. Meanwhile Trent begins to wonder if Lilith his alluring and inscrutable new girlfriend may be demonic herself- or if that's just his paranoid Catholic guilt. Dan Wakefield's <em>Going All The Way </em>meets <em>True</em><em> Detective Hellish Beast</em><em>s</em> is an idiosyncratic darkly humorous and introspective Horror Noir. With an insider’s appreciation for the Los Angeles landscape this is a serious examination of the duty of friendship the burden of guilt the uncertainty of a devout Catholic in modern dating and the struggle of leaving your 20s behind.</p>