Sinister Purposes

*Newly Revised and Expanded Edition* Mr. Sprinkles is a teddy bear, a child's plaything. Mr. Sprinkles has a missing button eye, and it makes him look like he's winking. It's not a friendly wink, no sir, not at all. Mr. Sprinkles looks like he's done something bad, something he doesn't want you to tell on him.Hell has come to the secluded, Kudzu-covered town of Eden Pointe, Georgia. It slid in on a train late one night, bearing shadows of the damned, and the most unlikely of demons—a teddy bear—Mr. Sprinkles. The bear, monstrous as it is, works for something even more horrible. Something hungry that's marked the town for its own. Only a few people, including a drug-addicted priest, know what they're up against. As shadows gather in Eden Pointe, the death toll mounts. Burnings, decapitations, crucifixions, impalings, and the occasional premature burial. Each death brings the Hell train closer. Only problem is, its thunder can only be heard by a few troubled souls. The priest, along with his ex-marine uncle, both fighting their own private demons, have to decide just how far they will go to get their loved ones off the train. Demons are about to learn that when a man has nothing to lose, there's no telling how far he'll go. He might even go to Hell and back.Heavily re-worked, with a brand new novel leading off, this is a hefty collection of connected stories that form a unified, terrifying tale from Gary Raisor, the author of Less Than Human. This one is something special, folks! And now, it's even more special!

From Publishers Weekly

Despite the uniform Southern gothic setting (remote Eden, Ga.), the "mosaic" novel that Raisor (Less Than Human) has assembled from six of his horror tales varies too much in tone to make a successful whole, though its individual parts display the author's skill as a storyteller. Notable are "The Right Thing," about two brothers who discover something nastier than usual at their swimming hole; "If I Should Die Before I Wake...," in which a grade school teacher becomes the object of crushes and cruel pranks; and "Stigmata," about a man in the depths of depression who takes the cab ride to end all cab rides. Providing continuity and commentary is an old priest, Father Aron, who walks among the living and the unliving (not easy to distinguish in Eden), confused, suspicious and troubled. Those with a taste for the gruesome (flies and eyeballs are common motifs) will be rewarded. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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