Everything That's Underneath

In Kristi DeMeester's transformative dark fantasy collection, Everything That's Underneath, the author explores the places most people avoid. A hole in an abandoned lot, an illness twisting your loved one into someone you don't recognize, lust that pushes you further and further until no one can hear your cry for help. In these 18 stories, the characters cannot escape the evil that is haunting them.
They must make a choice: accept it and become part of what terrifies them the most or allow it to consume them and live in fear forever. Crawl across the earth and dig in the dirt. Feel it. Tearing at your nails, gritty between your teeth, filling your nostrils. Consume it until it has consumed you. For there you will find the voices that have called from the shadows, the ones that promise to cherish you only to rip your body to shreds. Contains the following stories:Everything That's UnderneathThe Wicked Shall Come Upon HimTo Sleep Long, To Sleep DeepThe FleshtivalThe Beautiful Nature of VenomLike Feather, Like Bone WorshipOnly What She Bleeds (short story original to collection)The Tying of TonguesThe MarkingThe Long RoadThe Lightning BirdThe Dream EaterDaughters of HecateBirthright (novelette original to collection)All That Is Refracted, BrokenDecember SkinSplit TonguesTo Sleep in the Dust of the Earth