Where the Pretty Things Rot

“Stow it and keep moving. We need to get the Rialto boy and find some backup.”

Tulls looked at the pawn shop as they passed. Layers of dust covered the multitude of display items in the window.

…at the dozen guitars masked in shadow….

…each with a neatly severed arm wired to it.

- from “The Lost”

Wherever light exists, shadows wait just out of sight. In those dark places Polymath Press brings you sixteen tales of terror by author Henry Snider.

Within this collection…

Honeymooners travel across Utah only to discover something ancient awakening, addiction separates a couple when one dark vice replaces another, a woman wakes in a serial killer’s cage, a dimensional doorway to another world bleeds into our reality, Union soldiers find themselves hunted in the fields surrounding a Virginia plantation, Chicago firefighters are at ground-zero for a biblical apocalypse, and ten other tales to send your dreams to a darker place.

Also includes a special preview of Henry Snider’s forthcoming novel, Drive-In Feature.

Author Biography

For over 30 years, Henry Snider has dedicated time to helping others tighten their writing through critique groups, classes, lectures, prison prose programs, and high school fiction contests. He co-founded Fiction Foundry (est. 2012) and the award-winning Colorado Springs Fiction Writer’s Group (1996-2013). Henry lives in Colorado with his wife, fellow author and editor Hollie Snider, son-poet Josh Snider-and numerous neurotic animals.