Where the Pretty Things Rot
Released Oct. 13, 2025
“Stow it and keep moving. We need to get the Rialto boy and find some backup.”
Tulls looked at the pawn shop as they passed. Layers of dust covered the multitude of display items in the window.
…at the dozen guitars masked in shadow….
…each with a neatly severed arm wired to it.
– from “The Lost”
Wherever light exists, shadows wait just out of sight. In those dark places Polymath Press brings you sixteen tales of terror by author Henry Snider.
Within this collection…
Honeymooners travel across Utah only to discover something ancient awakening, addiction separates a couple when one dark vice replaces another, a woman wakes in a serial killer’s cage, a dimensional doorway to another world bleeds into our reality, Union soldiers find themselves hunted in the fields surrounding a Virginia plantation, Chicago firefighters are at ground-zero for a biblical apocalypse, and ten other tales to send your dreams to a darker place.
(Also includes a special preview of Henry Snider’s forthcoming novel, Drive-In Feature)
ALT VEGAS: VISITATIONS
“Downwinders”
Travel to exciting and dangerous dimensions with us.
The Reynolds family sets out on what should be an ordinary road trip, but their journey twists into a nightmare. In the shadow of a nuclear test site, they face bloodthirsty monsters and a relentless desert that threatens to consume them whole. Survival is anything but guaranteed.
IN THE WOODS
“Olden’s Wood”
This anthology brings us out of urban life and shows a world of forest spirits, haints, mental illness, parasitic spiders, werewolves, out of control plants, evil forces, reincarnation, humans with animal ears, witches, and Lovecraftian horrors.
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“Thursday Night”
Jenna Mckee downshifted her green ‘75 Beetle attempting to gain better control on the icy road. The rear slipped and, for an instant, fence posts were brought to false daylight before returning to night’s embrace.
“Damned bastard.”
Trevor, her first date in five months, had offered such kindness as deciding she should only eat salad at the restaurant in lieu of anything “substantial considering her weight.” After catching him ogling the waitress for the third time in as many minutes, Jenna excused herself from the table, and, once out of his sight, from the date itself.