Sinister Societies

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We all have secrets. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That's one truth. Another is that secrets are tricky to keep: They want to be shared. In the company of these secrets societies emerge. They fester and spread. From the esoteric to the pragmatic history is built on these societies made as much of myth and rumor as blood and bone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Some societies are real organizations with documented histories. The Freemasons. The Molly Maguires.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Some are patchwork figments of speculation conspiracy theory and perhaps even the delicious specter of world domination. The Illuminati.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And some take other forms: from cults to covens to covert operations secrets can bind us to the society of others or split us apart with sinister intent.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Sinister Societies six acclaimed horror writers explore these darker implications:</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A foster kid finally feels as though she's a part of something much bigger than the hellish life she was living when a new home brings her old life into fractious focus.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A secret agent-a dancer singer assassin-investigates a series of mysterious murders in Europe that point to an invisible killer with inhuman characteristics.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a dark dreamy town a line of otherworldly women is tasked with keeping the carnivorous landscape at bay.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An accidental murder in a Cleveland Ohio alleyway during the height of Prohibition-and the discovery of a mysterious book-sparks a series of events that threaten to engulf the entire world.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In a late-1800s mining town the Molly Maguires arrive to help workers fight for better working conditions-but even they can't save the ones sent to work in Tunnel 17.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Rat King controls the underground and the Coin King controls the overstreets but when a pickpocket proves that power can be stolen chaos reigns.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Join </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mercedes M. Yardley Tom Deady Sarah Read Errick Nunnally Cindy O'Quinn </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Michael Burke</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> as they uncover the darkness that infests the hidden corners of the mind and the soul.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With a foreword by </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>John Skipp</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Edited by L</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>inda Hartley.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p></p>