Death Instinct

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Bentley Little explores the unspeakable depths of human nature in this shocking horror novel.Cathy was only six when the man who lived in the house across the street killed his wife and then himself. Cathy heard the screams. She saw the blood and the bodies. Now, twenty years later, the house is no longer vacant. Someone new has moved in. And something dreadful is starting to happen in the neighborhood.The first victim is found skinned alive in his home. The second, in the middle of the street, her spine snapped. And the body count is rising. A killer is on the loose. And the screams are starting again in the house next door. Whatever’s going on inside is a secret no one is supposed to know. But then again, Cathy has secrets of her own....

Stephen King

“The horror poet laureate...a master of the macabre!”

Midwest Book Review

“[Bentley Little is] on par with such greats as Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub.”

Publishers Weekly

“Little possesses the uncanny ability to take everyday situations and turn them into nightmares.”

Horror Reader

“Little has the unparalleled ability to evoke surreal, satiric terror.”

About the Author

Bentley Little is the author of numerous novels, short stories, articles, essays, and reviews. After earning a BA in communications and an MA in English, Little sold his soul and abandoned all artistic integrity, working for eight years as a bureaucrat for a midsized city in Orange County, California. His first novel, The Revelation, won the 1990 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for best first novel.

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