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This is the best book ever written, a rollicking work of satire hopping literary genres every few minutes to deliver loving literary barbs. Romance, literary fiction, zombies, fantasy, vampires, mystery, thrillers, nothing is safe! Framed by a narrator gradually losing his mind as he strives to write the Definitive American Best-Seller, this book is as much fun as the law allows.

In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, behind the paper-thin curtains of reality, lurk monsters both human and ancient: selkies and avenging revenants, voodoo priestesses and pirate sorcerers, ghosts and vampires, and the most famous murderer of all time.

So what do we have? A husband who glimpses his sinister future; a man haunted by his vivid nightmares; homicidal maniacs; creatures from the deep depths of the ocean, and a bullied child who fights back. We also drop in on an auditor on the brink of insanity; a young girl haunted by her dead best friend; a surgeon on a bloody, vengeful mission; a tale of the undead, and a vengeful clown.

You can always rely on your father to protect you. Who do you turn to when you need protecting from him?

Dr. Harrison loved his daughter more than anything in the world. His life fell apart when she was taken away from him by reckless and unforgivable actions by her boyfriend. Now Dr. Harrison wants revenge. How will he do this?