Red Piccirilli is a runt, a dreamer, a naive boy with an imaginary friend and little else. But right before summer vacation starts he finds an albino girl trapped in a shed behind a local house. After Red frees her, the world he knew quickly unravels into something more mysterious—an unsteady reality where a man with silver teeth and buzz saw voice points him toward the true meaning of sacrifice. Author Lee Thompson started selling work in early 2010. His novel NURSERY RHYMES 4 DEAD CHILDREN, and his novella IRON BUTTERFLIES RUST, are being released in 2011 by Delirium Books. You can find his short stories in Dark Discoveries, Darkside Digital, Sideshow Press, Shock Totem, Apex’s Zombie Feed anthology, Tasmaniac Publications, and other neat places. He's worked a lot, sweated a lot, and continues to take up space the best he can. The best place to keep track of what he's up to is his

People have their own hidden worlds inside them as young Red Piccirilli has learned through the tragic events of his past. His parents try to protect him by moving the family to a dead-end road out of town, but their plan is short-lived when a mysterious old man who seems to have a history with Red's mother comes knocking at their door. Red is quickly thrust into a crossroads between worlds, where he will soon learn from a broken god how to harness his true power...

In this Division Mythos novel, which is being serialized on Darkfuse's website, Red Piccirilli has known madness and magic. They’re in his blood and bound to his soul as much as love and loss are. But when his family moves to the town of Division, Pennsylvania, his father grows distant, his mother troubled, and a murderer roams the countryside. He searches for meaning and truth while battling his own darkness and rage and despair, but corpses whisper answers the dead only share with one another. http://www.darkfuse.com/lee-thompsons...

In this creepy Division Mythos novel phantoms from the past mingle with those of the present, all swirling in a dark maelstrom over Division. Haunted by the part he played in his brother Mark’s death, John McDonnell takes a midnight hike and stumbles across four dead girls upon the forest floor. Their severed limbs spell Repent. The coroner finds Mark’s onyx skeleton key inside one of the victims, right where her heart used to be. The last time John had seen the key it was clasped in his brother’s hand before they lowered him into his grave. Torn between protecting his family’s name and giving the girls a proper burial, John digs into Division’s past. As lives shatter around them, and a strange woman tries to steal the key, John and his best friend, Michael Johnston, must find the tools to set things right or break beneath the pressure of these ghosts’ sudden weight.

In this Division Mythos novella it's been three years since Frank Gunn's wife pulled his service pistol at the local carnival and set events in motion that stained everyone involved with an eight-year-old boy's blood. Meanwhile Frank's life has fallen apart around him—he is on voluntary leave from the police department, the media has made him look like a fool, and his marriage has gone to hell. Worst of all, the boy, Jeremy Chambers, lies in a coma and Frank is the only person who feels a responsibility to visit him. Haunted by nightmares that increasingly bleed into his waking life, Frank finds himself once more on a collision course with the boy's murderous father, not to mention a phantom he feels he should somehow know. Whether this trail of blood and tears will redeem him, or end in his damnation, Frank cannot know until the last mile has been traveled.

A diverse collection of Dark Fantasy stories focused on the horrors of family, loss, tragedy and failed beauty. TOC: 1. We Run Races with Goblin Troopers 2. Beneath the Weeping Willow (A Division Mythos Story) 3. Daddy Screamed with Us (A Division Mythos Story) 4. Crooked Stick Figures (A Division Mythos Story) 5. When Crows Sing Sweetly Bitter Music 6. Crawl 7. A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky 8. Sorrow's Breast 9. The Weight of All These Years (A Division Mythos Story) 10. Boys without Faces 11. As I Embrace My Jagged Edges (A Division Mythos Story)

In this Division Mythos novel a ringleader of phantoms and collector of souls, he played rhythms on bare flesh, hellish melodies on bone. Fifty years ago he disappeared as quickly as he came and the town of Division gladly swept his tortured acts from memory. But John McDonnell and Michael Johnston have drawn him home—he hears their names in his sleep, tastes their blood on his tongue, and fantasizes about the rapture birthed of their mourning.

Taking place only a week after the events in IRON BUTTERFLIES RUST, this Division Mythos novella finds Frank Gunn breaking down. His ex-wife's family has him committed to New Wave Hospital. While fighting to feel again, to remember his son's face and the life he had before, people mysteriously begin to disappear around him. What remains of his life is plunged into the dark, the fading line between reality and nightmare. He meets a Jewish kid with haunted eyes who has a demon shadowing him. There is a girl carrying a fistful of razorblades. And a band of ghouls play a song that sounds like freshly turned earth. In order to regain what he has lost, he must first survive existing down here in the dark.