Placerita

It's 1928 and something strange is afoot in the desert town of Placerita just north of Los Angeles. When young biologist Alexis Crawford discovers an unidentifiable specimen washed up in the wake of a devastating flood it begins a journey that will reveal the dark conspiracies at the heart of California and the secret known only to a few: that beneath the City of Angels is an ancient world of tunnels lined in gold a world that is home to the legendary Lizard People.. . . Lisa Morton is a screenwriter author of non-fiction books and prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark unsettling and frightening.” She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award® the author of four novels and over 150 short stories and a world-class Halloween and paranormal expert. Her latest releases include Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances and Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural (co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger). Recent short stories appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2020 Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles and Classic Monsters Unleashed. Lisa lives in Los Angeles and online at www.lisamorton.com.. John Palisano’s novels include Dust of the Dead Ghost Heart Nerves and Night of 1000 Beasts. His novellas include Glass House and Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales. His first short fiction collection All that Withers celebrates over a decade of short story highlights.. He won the Bram Stoker Award© in short fiction for “Happy Joe’s Rest Stop” and Colorado’s Yog Soggoth award in 2018. More short stories have appeared in anthologies from Weird Tales Cemetery Dance PS Publishing Independent Legions Space & Time Dim Shores Kelp Journal Monstrous Books DarkFuse Crystal Lake Terror Tales Lovecraft eZine Horror Library Bizarro Pulp Written Backwards Dark Continents Big Time Books McFarland Press Darkscribe Dark House Omnium Gatherum and many more.. Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse Online Fangoria and Dark Discoveries magazines and he’s been quoted in Vanity Fair The Writer and the Los Angeles Times.. You can find out more at: www.johnpalisano.com