"What were their names? Every victim deserves to have a name."When journalist Frank Popper happens upon the story of a dead man who no-one seemed to know or care about, he takes it upon himself to seek out justice for the voiceless, to finally shine a spotlight on the deprivation and squalor that have dogged the city that he calls home for so long.However, once similar deaths follow and a pattern emerges, Frank Popper soon realises that he may have bitten off more ...

"I used to say that people were little more than meat, something disposable. I found out the hard way just how true that can be."Two years after an event that finally drove Frank Popper from The Reds, he has spent most of his time questioning his own beliefs, his worth, his reason for being. When the place he once called home falls victim to a brutal serial killer, he seizes the chance to reclaim his sense of self, as he once again takes on the challenge of showing people ...

Imagine you had the chance to get back at anyone who wronged you, a way of making them suffer without ever being caught.Danny Boyd has always been an outsider, ridiculed by children and teachers alike, disregarded even by his own stepfather…until he learns a way to get his own back. Danny has an imaginary friend, a friend who tells him things. A friend who teaches him how to make everyone pay.It's all a matter of focus.From Lee Glenwright, the author of Meat Pup...

A young boy is kept in isolation in the cellar of his parents' house. His only contact with the outside world being with his mother, he yearns for change.A girl who spends her evenings inventing an entire persona for herself through internet chatrooms forgets one thing; that other people can be who - or whatever - they want to be on the web, too.A man rescued from a car accident comes to realise that true love really is forever.A collection of twelve short ...

A young man finds himself hemmed in on his regular morning commute...a commute that becomes a little too regular.A hedonistic night of sex and drugs has unexpected - and unwanted - consequences.A down on his luck aspiring author finds that sometimes, it really is best to write what you know.More dark tales of loss from Lee Glenwright, author of Mutt, Insatiable, Meat Puppets, and Little Wounds and Other Dark Tales.

In a world of shadows, joyful colours are an act of heroism.Modern tales are filled with clowns who invoke fear not laughter: painted grins covering fanged maws; baggy costumes concealing unspeakable horrors; malevolent parodies of nature.But the tools of a clown work for good as well as ill: only a trickster could tweak a monster’s nose; make-up is war paint for the modern age; the devil cannot tempt a happy soul.What if, instead of being the demon...

Matthew Locke lives in a place that he has hated for far too long. A sprawling, violent, dirty city where no one cares, and most people would sooner beat you to a pulp as look at you. He exists day to day, getting by in the shadow of his ex-girlfriend and her possessive new partner.At least the city provides a cover of sorts.He has no love for what he is, either, whatever that might be. He does what he does because he needs to, not because he likes or wants to. So, when it ...

"Darkness is more than absence of light. Much more."For Darrick Stoker, setting up in a small American town barely on the map seemed like the only answer; a last ditch opportunity to put his past behind him. A chance to push his demons aside and focus on his career as an up-and-coming author.What he finds instead is a secret. Something that the town would rather forget. Something to which he feels inexplicably drawn. Something that some people would rather have remain burie...

"Has it never occurred to you to wonder just why a child would learn to be afraid of the darkness?"From Lee Glenwright, author of Insatiable, Meat Puppets, and Little Wounds and Other Dark Tales. This volume collects three short stories of cosmic-themed horror, originally published in Lovecraftiana magazine between 2018 and 2020.Three examples of why the darkness is something of which to be afraid.Bring a torch...

"Hell, I'll tell you what Hell is. It's doing the thing that you love over and over again, for all eternity, until that thing you love becomes something that you hate."A pair of evangelical ministers roll up to a backwater town, only to realise far too late that they're way out of their depth.A petty thief desperate for his next fix gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into the wrong house.The last girl standing prepares to face off against a seem...

There are stories in the city, many stories. Stories of life and death, of joy and misery, of people.Frank Popper knows the stories, the secrets of the city, the things to which most people prefer to turn a blind eye. Now, with alcohol and cigarettes at hand, he's going to share a few of them."Most people are like meat, some disposable commodity, Meat Puppets, I think you called them."It's always been Frank's outlook, but even he never rea...