Toadstones

<p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscript. Ghosts haunting atomic test sites of the American west. The dangers facing podcasters mud loggers and rural veterinarians. Landlords and gods and rocks and monsters.</p><p><br></p><p>Toadstones </em>is a collection of short stories firmly in the tradition of the weird tale. They evoke the sensation of catching an unnerving movement out of the corner of your eye of hearing a sudden and unidentifiable skittering in the walls of dreaming about a strange city where you meet someone you would have sworn died long ago. Explore the uncanny shadows occluding what we thought was a mundane world in these sixteen (that's twice eight or four fours; are you tracking the numerology?) stories.</p><p><br></p><p>Destined to be an underworld classic these stories by everyone's favorite anarchocommunist calling upon the aid of Hell will have you believing in the unbelievable-and thinking twice before you let another repair guy in your house.</p>