Tree of Souls: A Collection of Dark Tales

Includes the 2018 Crypticon winner "Ol' Betsy".These eleven stories of horror, dark fiction, and fantasy that will take the reader into worlds where a centuries-old hanging tree feeds on the living, and a Lovecraft inspired tale of a mad genius opens a portal to another world filled with hideous creatures, and a pretentious traveling salesman is haunted by ghosts who have come to make him pay for the sins of his past.In "Broken City", a young man living life on the dangerous edge of drugs and violence is tracked by demons with a hideous agenda. In "The Lake", a widowed man seeks solace during a two-week retreat in a cabin, but what lies hidden in the lake is about to wash ashore, and propel him into solving a mystery that will unearth unimaginable horrors.Finally, "Deadman's Pass" plunges you into an old western town, where a sheriff is tasked with rescuing a carriage of innocent people trapped in a winter blizzard, but the cold is the least of his worries. The beasts waiting in the dark and howling at the moon are hungry.

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