The Nut House

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Crime! Cosmic Horror! Squirrels?!</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Asher Black is one of-if not </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the best</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> thieves in the town of Majestic Forest. He's also a squirrel. Compelled to lead a group of hench-critters to an old house said to contain a vast store of acorns in the attic Asher discovers the job isn't as simple as he thought. The heist quickly goes wrong as they learn that the owner was a hoarder and soon towering piles of old newspapers puddles of sewage and the house's animal inhabitants-a mix of pets strays and wildlife-who all worship a Death God all stand in the way Asher's bushy-tailed crew and freedom. Will Asher and the others escape with their tails-and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>minds</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-intact?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Originally serialized in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cosmic Horror Monthly</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Patrick Barb's talking animal-crime-cosmic horror novella is collected here for the first time in a revised and updated edition with illustrations by J.C. Amberlyn. In addition a brand-new prequel novelette The Acorn Run presents a down-and-dirty squirrel crime origin for the nuts that give the infamous </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nut House</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> its name.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Nut House</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is probably the best (and most surprising) addition to the pantheon of cosmic horror that I've read in a long time.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Paul Michael Anderson author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Standalone</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You Can't Save What Isn't There</em></p><p></p>