Brett McKay

Tree of Souls Brett McKay

"It is not science that opens doors to other worlds. It is desire." - My Third EyeIncludes the 2018 Crypticon winner "Ol' Betsy". Eleven stories of horror, dark fiction and fantasy that will take the reader into worlds where a centuries old hanging tree feeds on the living, and a Lovecraft inspired tale of a mad genius opens a portal to another world filled with hideous creatures, and a pretentious travelling salesman is haunted by ghosts who have come to make him pay for the sins of his past. In "Broken City", a young man living life on the dangerous edge of drugs and violence is tracked by demons with with a hideous agenda. In "The Lake", a widowed man seeks solace during a two-week retreat in a cabin, but what lies hidden in the lake is about to wash ashore, and propel him into solving a mystery that will unearth unimaginable horrors. Finally, "Deadman's Pass" plunges you into an old western town, where a sheriff is tasked with rescuing a carriage of innocent people trapped in a winter blizzard, but the cold is the least of his worries. The beasts waiting in the dark and howling at the moon are hungry.