Slander Hall — Matthew Tait

Fifteen years ago the affluent gated-community of Slander Hall was the setting of the largest mass suicide in U.S. history; dozens of men and women committing the ultimate sacrifice and embracing the covenant of their leader to shed their bodies for a life in outer space. Now a modern ghost town, it boasts only the decaying and derelict phantoms of a withered populace. Cedar Jarrell, sole survivor of the holocaust that claimed so many, returns to the dark heart of Slander Hall on a final pilgrimage where not all who take the journey will survive...

Also included in this second edition are two more tales - stories that put the reader into a disturbing world of lunacy and paranoia that could be just around the corner for any of us. In "Doll Steak," an average man is trapped within a room of sinister dolls and quickly learns that staring into the abyss only amplifies his worst fears. With "Terrica," Matthew Tait invites you to a small town where vehicular manslaughter is a way of life ... and highways are a preying ground for monsters.