From the author of Dead Men and Mister White, John C. Foster continues his odyssey through the horror genre with his debut story collection. Within these pages, you will board a train to Detroit on a route littered with the darkest monstrosities the mind can imagine ( Highballing Through Gehenna ); a man avenges his father’s murder in a series of violent mobster slayings ( Burial Suit ); a mute ventriloquist and his chattery dummy seek a therapist ( Talk to Leo ); future soldiers summon forth an ancient evil to battle an alien menace ( The Willing ); body smugglers crash land on a world where sinister trees feed on flesh ( Meat ); an interrogation takes a strange, psychedelic turn ( Girl Six ); a special agent investigates a potential alien invasion ( Red ); the undead infiltrate the Whiskey-A-Go-Go ( Dead on the Sunset Strip ); a man is hired by a nefarious agency to witness prison executions around the country ( A Lamb to Slaughter ); and a pair of paranormal scam artists suffer when they confront true evil ( Baby Powder ).