"Brian Keene is the next Stephen King!"

--The Horror Review

"One of horror’s most impressive new literary talents"

--Rue Morgue

"Post-apocalyptic...blunt and visceral"

--The New York Times Book Review on The Rising

June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead his summer will be filled with terror and a lifeand-death battle against a nightmarish creature that few will believe even exists. Timmy has learned that the person who’s been unearthing flesh graves in the cemetery isn’t a person at all. It’s a thing. And it’s after Timmy and his friends. If Timmy hopes to live to see September, he’ll have to escape the...