The bogs and sloughs of Moon County used to be stuffed with the corpses of moonshiners, gunrunners, and nosy Feds, but now they’re all crawling up and walking around with smiles on their faces and laughter in their throats. Settling grudges. Mal got out. For ten years now, he’s been on his own—a fry cook at a dive bar, he no longer has to deal with bull gators, meth cookers, and black magic. He’s through with Moon County. But Moon County is not through with Mal. Home never really lets go, and Mal is not surprised to find the note pinned to the door of his one-room shack. His Gramma Callie is dead, and he needs to get there quick. Mal is reunited with Wrong-Eyed Floyd and Fishboy Lenny, his demented and deformed cousins. With Lulabelle, his childhood love, now head swamp witchy woman. Together, they try to solve the mystery of the stumbling, laughing dead before whatever is taking place in this godforsaken backwater hellhole spreads beyond the county line. And then there’s the unfinished business with the serial killer. He just might make things worse. Far worse. In the swampy shallows of Moon County, escape is unheard of, and nothing stays buried. Award-winning suspense master Tom Piccirilli returns to the horror genre with wry, action-packed descent into horror sure to please his longtime fans… and certain to guthook new readers. Tom Piccirilli is the author of more than twenty novels including SHADOW SEASON, THE COLD SPOT, THE COLDEST MILE, and A CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN. He's won two International Thriller Awards and four Bram Stoker Awards, as well as having been nominated for the Edgar, the World Fantasy Award, the Macavity, and Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.