From the Heart of Darkness

A collection of short stories.

• Men Like Us
• Something Had to be Done
• The Automatic Rifleman
• Than Curse the Darkness
• Firefight
• The Red Leer
• The Shortest Way
• Best of Luck
• Dragons' Teeth
• Out of Africa
• The Dancer in the Flames
• Smokie Joe
• Children of the Forest
• Blood Debt
• The Barrow Troll
• The Hunting Ground

IT WADDLES FORM A REED-CHOKED SWAMP OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS…

IT SNARLS FROM THE SHOT-SPLIT DARKNESS OF VIET NAM…

IT STALKS THE GLOWING SLAG IN WHICH A CIVILIZATION DIED…

FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS come no gentle wraiths, no pastel fantasies of bittersweet, seductive evil. This horror slams like a muzzle blast into its victim's awareness, carves its image with razor claws of violence as vivid and graphic as uncensored imagination. This horror comes from the center of the human soul, FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS.