“With a unique style all his own, Richard Beauchamp is a name that should most definitely be on the radar of any folk horror fan.” - Tony Evans, author of Wicked Appalachia and Sour "A trio of fantastically deep, dark fear-enducing stories. Beauchamp touches on extremely uncomfortable yet important historical social issues while sending shivers down spines. Cerebral but engaging. As I've heard authors like Brian Keene and Joe Hill say about other up and coming horror authors, 'this guy's got chops!'" Joshua Loyd Fox, author of In the Shadows They Wait, I Won't Be Shaken, The ArchAngel Missions and owner of Watertower Hill Publishing. Randol Scroggins is a man trying to get out from the shadow of his past. Fleeing from the Mississippi lowlands to the foothills of Madison County, he’s trying his best to start over. But darkness comes in many forms, and Randol is about to find out how hungry it can be… Deep in the Missouri Ozarks lies the seemingly bucolic town of Buck’s Point, which disgraced union colonel Arnold Mayhew has been tasked with occupying to help clear the way for the railroad. It soon becomes clear however, that there is a good reason why no army holds sway here… Arkansas State Police detective Arden Colefield was born with a special gift, though if you ask him, it’s more of a curse. Dispatched to northwest Arkansas to investigate a string of strange kidnappings, Arden must rely on every shred of cop instinct, plus his extrasensory perceptions, to uncover a horrifying conspiracy that goes beyond not just the limits of the law, but time and space itself... Three stories. Three unique locales bound only by the ancient mountains that stretch across state lines. From the author that brought you Horror In The Collected tales of Ozark Horror, and Thrall, Richard Beauchamp once again thrusts the reader into his nightmarish reimagining of the pristine, bucolic foothills of the Ozarks, told with the authority that only a lifelong native of the hills could muster...