"Sick and sardonic and just plain brilliant." -Duane Swierczynski, author of Fun & Games and Expiration Date
"A cunning, cinematic redmeat feast for weird film lovers and horror freaks, Adam Cesare's Tribesmen is a first-rate literary midnight movie, and a blistering debut. BRING YOUR FRIENDS!" - John Skipp, from his introduction.
In the early 80's - at the height of the ultra-violent "Italian cannibal" grindhouse film craze - a small international cast and crew descend on an isolated Caribbean island, hoping to crassly exploit the native talent.
But the angry, undead spirits of the island have a different, more original script in mind. And as horror after staggering horror unfolds, the camera keeps rolling. To the blood-spattered end...
WELCOME TO RAVENOUS SHADOWS: a new line of startling, provocative genre fiction, dedicated to the proposition that short, powerful novels and novellas can pack as much punch, personality, and plot as books three times their size. Check out more Ravenous Shadows:
MYSTERY:
THE HOUSE OF QUIET MADNESS - Mikita Brottman
When Ruth's empty-nest depression hits perilous depths, her pastor husband suggests Windfall Lodge: a lovely rustic estate/ house of rest, where she and other emotionally troubled wives and mothers might find the treatment they need, the peace and purpose they crave. But there is something unsettling in Windfall's cryptic therapy and isolating rules. And slowly, suspicion turns to dread, as Ruth begins to discover the terrible fate that she and the rest are actually being prepared for...
SUSPENSE:
THE DEVOTED - Eric Shapiro
They wanted to find themselves. He told them to free themselves. They peeled away their lives, their jobs, their families, their inhibitions and attachments to the world. Devoted only to Him. Mind, body, and soul. Now He has determined that it's time to let go. Erase the mind. Release the body. Unleash the soul. Ultimate freedom, or ultimate insanity? Today, at last, they will know...
CRIME:
DIE, YOU BASTARD! DIE! - Jan Koslowski
Claire is a first-rate paramedic, with a heroic devotion to saving lives. She is also a survivor of unspeakable abuse, who has rebuilt herself entirely, as far from home as she could get. But when her aged father is hospitalized, after a crippling fall, Claire is dragged back into a brutal nightmare of sexual depravity, and deepest betrayal. Where the only question left is, "How can I possibly survive?" And the only answer is, "DIE, YOU BASTARD! DIE!"
