Small Town Secrets

Small Town Secrets gathers 28 original stories of creeping dread, rural darkness and the particular horror that only close-knit communities can breed. These are the places where everyone knows everyone… and where terrible secrets are not buried deep enough. From a preacher who turns a dying congregation into a vigilante army, to a cursed hill that absorbs the hearing of the village, to a quiet lake house that literally eats a family alive, every story is rooted in a place that feels achingly, uncomfortably real. There is a particular kind of dread that belongs to small towns. It hides behind lace curtains and behind the eyes of neighbors who smile just a little too knowingly. Watch as a small town Halloween ritual goes horribly wrong, a photography trip traps a woman in a surreal family of monsters and a gated community hides a literal Minotaur. Small Town Secrets collects twenty-eight of the finest voices in contemporary horror, each one pulling back the picket fence to reveal what festers underneath. Featuring the works of Alondra Sanchez, Brian J. Smith, BW Bloodlust, Celeste Kerspuy, Charlotte Poitras, Christopher Woods, Elijah Frost, Greg Patrick, Heddy Johannesen, J. Rocky Colavito, John Reti, Joshua Dyer, Katarina Fiamengo, Keith Hoerner, Marc Phillips, Mark Nuzzi, Michael Sawecki, Mike Taylor, Nenad Kojčić, Nick Young, Ria Cabral, Robb T. White, Rodney Hatfield Jr., Sheri White, Simon Mohsin, Soter Lucio, Val Roberts AND Vanya Schroeder