Split Scream Volume Seven

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Volume Seven of our ongoing series of paired New Weird Horror novelettes takes readers on nightmare excursions to lonely locales.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Íde Hennessy - Sequoia Point</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>California's rugged Lost Coast has long been a treacherous place where dreams-and people-go to die. Meg's adrenaline junkie husband had been so drawn to Sequoia Point's beaches that he'd requested his ashes be scattered on their black sands. Reeling after his death and a miscarriage Meg decides to put down new roots in this strange place.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What she finds is a van-life conspiracy theorist seeking refuge from 5G radiation; mysterious packs of roving dogs; cryptic talismans on doors; and a mute woman who looks exactly like her. When a mudslide cuts the town off from civilization Meg must overcome her debilitating fears to unravel the mysteries of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sequoia Point</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>John K. Peck & L. Mahler - Evergreen</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Wrapping up the loose ends of her mother's death Deirdre makes a startling discovery: a tree growing in the closet of her childhood home and a bizarre collection of knick-knacks buried in its soil. She soon learns that her mother had a hand in her hometown's long history of odd disappearances and misfortune and that this ominous tree is her legacy. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nurturing the tree's soil with filched mementos Deirdre learns that she can control the vast system of roots thriving beneath the town to a terrifying degree and she soon finds herself fighting her darkest desires to wreak terrible vengeance on the town that wronged her.</span></p><p></p>