When the Lights Go Out

When the lights go out...that's when things change. When masks are put aside, and eerie truths are laid bare. It's when towns grow extra streets and cul-de-sacs which don't exist in daytime. When whispered wishes and fantasies become reality. When our deepest fears and most powerful longings become flesh. When ambitions become obsessions which overpower us, and leads us to our ends. But it's also when our imaginations run free, unfettered by the trappings of mundane living. Just as the dark unleashes despair, it also fuels fantastical leaps impossible to take during the day. It's the canvas upon which we paint worlds and universes which take the darkness and create something out of nothing. In his new collection, one of the leading voices in small press horror offers up and eclectic collection of strange tales - the kind which can only happen when the lights go out, and we close our eyes. "Kevin Lucia is this generation's answer to Charles L. Grant." - Horror Grandmaster, Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author, Brian Keene "Kevin Lucia's writing is both scary and smart, a lethal cocktail that makes for mesmerizing storytelling." - Tosca Lee, New York Times Bestselling Author of Demon: A Memoir "Lucia is a true craftsman of the horror story, with a fine sense of the genre's best traditions." - Norman Prentiss, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Invisible Fences and The Fleshless Man "Kevin Lucia writes my favorite kind of horror...the subtle breed, the sort you don't see coming until they're already upon you and you realize it's too late to catch a breath." - Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy and Kin. "Kevin Lucia is a major new voice in the horror genre." - Jonathan Janz, author of The Nightmare Girl