Suburban Monsters

<p>The house at the end of the block with the overgrown lawn. The darkened store window in a forgotten corner of the shopping mall. The colorful characters of a children's TV show. What dark secrets do they hide?</p><p>From award-winning author Christopher Hawkins come thirteen tales of the horrors lurking right next door.</p><ul><li>A shut-in sets out to make a new life for himself by losing weight at the point of a scalpel.</li><li>A store clerk with a mannequin obsession hides a macabre and tragic secret.</li><li>A master thief tries for one last score in a house that doesn't want him to leave.</li><li>Two friends learn the hard way that having superpowers doesn't always make you a hero. It might just make you a monster.</li><li>A lonely painter finds freedom with the help of something lurking beneath the ocean waves.</li></ul><p>At turns whimsical and somber but always unsettling this debut collection of short horror stories is essential reading from a rising voice in dark literary fiction.</p>