American Appetites : and Other Stories

"Kristen Reid is a summoner of evils delicious and unsettling and always just a turn down the wrong road close to home. These are the stories of the woman cast out, the woman who lives on, the woman standing and not running before plain terror. An exciting debut that will thrill readers of the macabre!"

- Ted Pelton, author of Bartleby, the Sportscaster

America, in its early years, is a monster in and of itself, with bloody wars in its midst, expansions into a new, unknown land, battles of survival against nature and fellow men, and attempts at taming the wild foundation on which "civilization" is beginning to be built. But what about the living, breathing monsters that exist in the dark crevices of America's existence and in the breast of men themselves?

American Appetites and Other Stories brings the monstrousness of humanity to life with tales of werewolves on the prairie, specters haunting the dark tunnels of a mine, man-eating animals hypnotized by an ancient tree, cannibalistic beings hiding from the Confederate Home Guard, and many more haunting creatures. Is America a refined civilization of good morals? Or, has the country always been, and will continue to be, black with sins that have been pushed under the floorboards in the hopes of hiding them?