C is for Chainsaw and Other Dark Tales - Paperback

by John Opalenik (Author)

Nine dark stories, set in places ranging from the depths of a corporate office in Hell, to a backwoods cabin that visitors never return from, and even a diner where the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse meet for breakfast.

In C is for Chainsaw, the son of a backwoods cannibal family finds unexpected friendship in the form of a doomed children's book author.

Seven Lifetimes of Suffering takes us into the depths of Hell to witness the end-of-century progress report for Jacob Renderman, a lowly entry-level intern demon.

In Haunt Me Forever, a young widower goes to an occult shop to buy every means of speaking with the dead available, and he breaks every rule to open every door to contact his lost love... and whatever else may have entered through the doors he left open.

Every cul-de-sac has a secret, and the one featured in The Midnight Staircase reveals the dark reason that items, pets, and even neighbors have been going missing from a suburban neighborhood each night.

Hooves, features a poker game in the Old West where all Hell breaks loose.

I Saw the Devil in the West follows one of the survivors of the poker game from Hooves. He's seen evil up close and now he recognizes it in his ancestral New England home.

The Primeval: Meatwagon, is a prequel to The Primeval duology and features prohibition era bootleggers smuggling booze down in an old ambulance. Their overnight drive is interrupted when they break down on a dirt road running through a very hungry forest.

The Primeval: New Beginnings picks up years after the events of The Primeval Duology when the terrible things that happened in the forests of Hopeville, Massachusetts, have been reduced to local urban legends. A few kids dare one another to spend the night in the infamous forest and discover that the stories they've heard may have been more than just legends.

Even eternal apocalyptic beings need to eat, and so the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse meet in an American diner where they share breakfast, as well as strategies to gain power through apocalypses, big and small.