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DEAD BAIT 4

severed_press_ — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:01:24 +0000

Beneath the surface, no one can hear you scream. By turns terrifying and hilarious, Dead Bait 4 is an anthology about the fears that dwell beneath the surface — and within the human heart. Lake monsters, lamprey invasions, and humanoid fish from the deep are only some of the strange encounters in this collection of twenty-two stories of aquatic horror. From splatterpunk to horror comedy to literary surrealism, Dead Bait 4 is as wide-ranging as the bodies of water that encompass this planet. When the fish come out, you’d better believe there will be consequences.

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CRAWLING DARKNESS

severed_press_ — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 09:34:21 +0000

The Schuylkill River runs through the heart of Philadelphia. You can’t eat most of the fish you pull out of it, but now some of them want to eat you. Seemingly overnight the eels of northeastern America have become larger, more cunning, and are swarming downriver looking for a new food source. Their veins pulse with an unnatural electric-blue blood and they wait for the rain storm that will allow them to spill forth from the banks of the Schuylkill. A biologist, a down-on-his-luck student, a would-be FBI agent, and a mental patient are drawn together to confront the slithering menace that’s arrived in the City of Brotherly Love. But how can they expect to fight these creatures when it was a web of government conspiracy that brought the eels to Philly in the first place?

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LIVE BAIT

severed_press_ — Tue, 26 May 2015 10:25:18 +0000

Hard-living, hard-drinking former drug dealer Gordon West has spent most of his years alone, fishing the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Then one day, fishing for sturgeon, he meets Bob, a man not unlike himself, but the river monster that brings them together is unlike anything they’ve ever seen. The beginning of their friendship marks the end of Portland as giant crayfish, blood bass, and disembodied tentacles rip apart their city. Gordon has no choice but to follow Bob as he sinks deeper into the apocalyptic madness. Live Bait is the story of Gordon West in his own words, written from his prison cell at the end of the world.

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