Jeffrey Thomas is the author of such novels as Deadstock, Blue War, Letters from Hades and The Fall of Hades, and such short story collections as Punktown, Nocturnal Emissions, Thirteen Specimens and Unholy Dimensions. Several of his books have been translated into German, Russian, Greek, Polish and Taiwanese editions. His stories have appeared in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Year's Best Horror Stories, Leviathan 3, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases and The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Thomas lives in Massachusetts. His blog can be found at http://punktalk.punktowner.com.
One gray morning, the words appear everywhere: on the lips of the men shooting up an inner city burger joint, scrawled across a bloody crime scene, and written on the wall of the only occupied apartment in a downtown slum. In the space of a single day, they infected Los Angeles.
A limited edition hardcover collection of horror, signed and numbered by all, featuring 13 tales with an introduction by Mark McLaughlin and artwork by Jamie Oberschlake.
Ray is a lonely young worker in a leather goods factory, whose parents were murdered by unknown assailants when he was just a child. Now, years later, having moved into the same remote house in which the murders occurred, Ray becomes increasingly harassed by enigmatic robed figures who may be con...