State of the Dark

The best of Brian Barnett's first year of horror fiction. 61 stories, many of which have never before been published, collected in one book.

Contents:

• My Humble Beginnings: An Introduction
• We All Have Our Demons
• Business is Murder
• Volunteer Road Rager
• You May Already Be a Winner
• Worms
• Joseph's Favorite Game
• Muffled Heartbeats and Haphazard Greasepaint
• Dead Man's Hand
• The Syringe
• Dog Eat Dog
• Sleepy Head
• Awaken to a Nightmare
• Mr. Black
• Practice Makes Perfect
• Kids These Days and Their Stupid Games
• New Nurse, New Nurse
• Dill Weed
• The Sound of Tree Frogs
• Fluttering Parasites
• Agoraphobia
• Curbside Service
• Fun and Games
• The Good Samaritan
• Don't Lose Your Head
• Never Leave Home Without Them
• Dia de Los Muertos
• The Kentucky Taxidermist
• Elmwood Hollow
• The Power of Man
• Vincent Price's Gallery
• Summer Wind
• A Vampire Scorned
• The Penguins Revolt!
• The Colony
• Sunday Drive
• The Box
• Food on the Run
• BASE Jumping Gargoyle
• The South Will Rise Again
• You Can Never Quite Get Them All
• What Comes Around Goes Around
• Undying Devotion
• Creature Chivalry
• The Man Who Held Hands
• Dead Demon Hooker
• Plight of the Werewolf
• Frustrated with Coffin-Hair
• Futile Effort
• Get Some Floss
• Remorseful Vampire
• Pull Your Heart Strings
• Next Time, Wrap the Legs Individually
• Backwoods Cannibal Thanksgiving
• Dracula's Lament
• Pet Werewolf
• Ugly Skinny-Dippers
• Stuck in the Labyrinth
• The Witches Go Green
• Werewolf Date
• Boris Karloff
• Funny-Looking Stinger-Chick