A hardboiled horror novel featuring two-fisted occult detective, Cal McDonald—a gumshoe with no love for ghosts and ghouls alike. Featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Ashley Wood, this high-caliber conjuring of classic detective fiction, horror, and comedy finds McDonald (a tough-as-nails private dick in the same vein as Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe) stumbling on a mystery in the nation's capital, where people are dropping dead all over the place—with all the brain matter missing from their skulls! What follows makes this novel a monster read.

Cal McDonald and Mo'Lock are back in the sequel to Savage Membrane, and this time they're in Los Angeles and up to their nostrils in monsters and trouble! It will take more than a bottle of hooch and a loaded .45 to get Cal out of this mess.