Nefarious Nature

Mother Nature is not all sunshine and rainbows…she can have quite the evil and horrific side when unleashed. From films like Jaws, Cujo, The Birds, and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to short stories such as “The Wendigo” and “The Black Vein Runs Deep” to novels like The Bridge, After London, and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, when nature’s fury is felt there is much hell paid by all those in the way. Collected here, in volume four of the HOWLERS series, are several stories which seek to find an answer to an ageless question: man vs. nature, who will win? Plants, animals, earth, air, fire, and water are looked at through the horror lens, whether it be acts of magic and menace, an ageless horror sleeping unsoundly, giant shapeless masses squirming in a bed, or the motion of the world itself all in the palm of an unlikely subject. These stories are meant to take you beyond the sunny, tropical veil of the normal and into the cold, grim dark of the weird…