Madhouse

This shared world psychological horror anthology features over 30 original full page interior illustrations by Aeron Alfrey with fiction by Jeff Strand, Scott Nicholson, Mercedes M. Yardley, John Skipp, Lisa Morton and many more. It is the first book in the new Dark Regions Horror imprint and begins the numbering sequence in the imprint as #1.

In the middle ages, it was thought that insanity was contagious. Centuries on, we label such ideas as superstitious ignorance. But when John Doe begins to speak after decades of silence, the staff and patients at the Golden Canyon Behavioral Health center begin to realize that behind every superstition lies a horrid truth.

On the night that a vicious sandstorm closes the roads and seals the doors, a plague of madness spreads through the hospital. Two staff members try desperately to hold onto their sanity while searching for the cause – and, hopefully, the cure – of the outbreak.

But they’re not alone. In this shared world anthology edited by Brad C. Hodson and Bram Stoker Award® winner Benjamin Kane Ethridge, some of the genre’s most talented authors present their own sanity shattering tales. With fiction by John Skipp, Jeff Strand, Scott Nicholson, Lisa Morton, John Palisano, and many others, the horrible truth is revealed bit by awful bit. Step inside and find out what it’s truly like in the MADHOUSE.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
  “Release” by John Palisano
• Chapter 4
  “Skating the Shattered Glass Sea” by Christopher Conlon
• Chapter 5, Chapter 6
  “Heal Thyself” by Scott Nicholson
• Chapter 7, Chapter 8
  “The Yellow Bug” by Erik Williams
• Chapter 9, Chapter 10
  “Jen-Jen Is My Friend-Friend” by Thersa Matsuura
• Chapter 11
  “Enter the Sandman” by Sheldon Higdon
  “Where Immortals Sing In Key” by Anthony J. Rapino
  “Howl For What Was Yours” by Mercedes Yardley
• Chapter 12
  “Bathroom” by Sara Brooke
  “Birdman” by R. B. Payne
• Chapter 13, Chapter 14
  “The Champion of Roshambo” by Max Xavier and Sam W. Anderson
  “Drake’s Cake by Meghan Arcuri”
• Chapter 15
  “Cognition” by Lisa Morton
  “My Dearest Gwendolyn” by G Daniel Gunn
  “Saving Dollie” by Kim Despins
• Chapter 16
  “The Writing on the Wall” by Robin Spriggs
• Chapter 17
  “Sky Is Falling” by Rena Mason
  “The Fraud” by Jeff Strand
• Chapter 18
  “Appetite” by Megan Hart
• Chapter 19
  “Foodfight” by John Skipp
• Chapter 20
  Epilogue

Deluxe specifications

• signed by all contributors
• limited to 77 signed and numbered copies
• bound in black leather
• front cover and spine stamped with title
• features a full wraparound dust jacket
• housed in a black slipcase