STORYSLAVE Three novelettes and a memoir from Splatterpunk Award-nominated and Godless Award-winning horror author Brian Bowyer. SCARLETT A serial killer uses the blood of his victims to make art—while a haunted painting made with the blood of a murdered child tells its owner that the artist is planning another painting. COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION An alcoholic father, out to rescue his daughter from a psychopath, finds himself in the middle of an extinction event. BLACK CAT BONES A young girl and her mother escape the mother’s abusive lover to the safety of a remote cabin—where life descends further and unravels around them, as addiction and starvation lead to drastic measures that challenge both their stomachs and their minds.