Description Everything That\'s Underneath , Kristi DeMeester\'s debut powerful horror collection, is full of weird, unsettling tales that recall the styles of such accomplished storytellers as Laird Barron and Tom Piccirilli.
A dark, intelligent, relentless collection." - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil\'s Rock TABLE OF CONTENTS Everything That\'s Underneath The Wicked Shall Come Upon Him To Sleep Long, To Sleep Deep The Fleshtival The Beautiful Nature of Venom Like Feather, Like Bone Worship Only What She Bleeds (short story original to collection) The Tying of Tongues The Marking The Long Road The Lightning Bird (short story original to collection) The Dream Eater Daughters of Hecate Birthright (novelette original to collection) All That Is Refracted, Broken December Skin Split Tongues To Sleep in the Dust of the Earth.
DeMeester\'s mothers and daughters, struggling at the edges of a society/economy as cold and uncaring as the universe, succumb in the face of horrors made even more terrifying by their nagging sense of familiarity. "Kristi DeMeester\'s wonderfully disturbing Everything That\'s Underneath features a cast of characters who are as emotionally raw and authentic as they are haunted.
They must make a choice: accept it and become part of what terrifies them the most or allow it to consume them and live in fear forever.
In these 18 stories the characters cannot escape the evil that is haunting them.
A hole in an abandoned lot, an illness twisting your loved one into someone you don\'t recognize, lust that pushes you further and further until no one can hear your cry for help.
In Everything That\'s Underneath , Kristi Demeester explores the dark places most people avoid.
For there you will find the voices that have called from the shadows, the ones that promise to cherish you only to rip your body to shreds.
Consume it until it has consumed you.
Tearing at your nails, gritty between your teeth, filling your nostrils.
Feel it.
Crawl across the earth and dig in the dirt.
Description Everything That\'s Underneath , Kristi DeMeester\'s debut powerful horror collection, is full of weird, unsettling tales that recall the styles of such accomplished storytellers as Laird Barron and Tom Piccirilli
