Dead Endings, from Finnish author Henry Ben Edom, is a chilling collection that delves deep into realms of darkness and misery, blighted landscapes of macabre malaise and moral terror, black forests of primordial fear where carrion birds cavort with killers by the freshly-churned soil of violated graves where the rotting bodies of teenage suicides languish in Purgatory eternal. These stories are not merely eerie: they are steeped in the pure essence of darkness and evil and are sure to leave an indelible mark on the psyche of their readers. BEWARE For once the spine is cracked, and these tales are experienced, the act of reading them cannot be undone, and the stain of their horror will forever remain.