Publisher's Synopsis
"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
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?