Gristle & Bone: Seven Delectable Tales of Terror
Monsters lurk among us. Cannibals. Werewolves. Artificial intelligence. The vengeful dead. Some want to harm us. Some to help. Others seek to enslave us. Whatever their motives, we can't ignore them any longer.
They are in our businesses. Our homes. They are our neighbors and families.
They are us.
Short and novella-length fiction from the twisted imagination of Duncan Ralston, author of Salvage. Includes a new Introduction from Chris Hall of DLS Reviews.
Gristle & Bone has sold approx 5000 copies since its launch in 2014, and was critically well-received.
As she approached the nest, the chewing resumed—except that from where she lay, with her butt hunched up like a caterpillar's, it seemed to be coming from behind her.
She rolled onto her back, heart thumping, joist pressed hard against her spine as she shone the light at her toes.
The creature was on her in an instant, trailing a knotted cord like a tail: a purplish thing with four inchoate limbs, a monstrous flat head and beady black eyes, crawling up her leg as she screamed, its tiny, slick fingers with little pink nails grabbing raw hunks of her flesh—and as it wriggled up under her sweatshirt, she noticed two things.
The first was that it was human.
The second, that it had teeth.
