Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness

From Mia Dalia, the author of Estate Sale, Haven, and other literary nightmares, comes a uniquely terrifying collection of dark psychological fiction, featuring novelettes and short stories that range from horror to suspense to mystery to coming-of-age to thrillers. SMILE SO RED - a man finds a strange graffitied house in the woods and a smiling darkness that follows him home. SPINDEL - a twelve-year-old boy suspects that one of the neighbors on his paper route might be a local serial killer and sets off to investigate. BLUES FOR THE SOUL- a library worker tries to help a troubled young boy and uncovers a terrible truth about his family. DEVIL'S CHORD - return to the world of Smile So Red with a meta journey set to the earworm tune of your worst nightmares. STUMP - a bullied young boy and a downtrodden family man from the same apartment complex unwittingly entrust their secrets to the same remnant of an old tree in the local woods. FLAMINGOS - two sisters must confront their troubled past when a buried memory is triggered by the seemingly innocuous plastic lawn birds. THE TRUNK - striving to achieve the American Dream, a first-generation immigrant from a war-torn country buys a new home and finds something in the basement that has other ideas for him. REDDEST - another return to the world of Smile So Red, albeit from a very different perspective. Go on. Turn the page. Pick a nightmare. I dare you.