In Kristi DeMeester's transformative dark fantasy collection, Everything That’s Underneath, the author explores the places most people avoid. Description A hole in an abandoned lot, an illness twisting your loved one into someone you don’t recognize, lust that pushes you further and further until no one can hear your cry for help. In these 18 stories, the characters cannot escape the evil that is haunting them. They must make a choice: accept it and become part of what terrifies them the most or allow it to consume them and live in fear forever. Crawl across the earth and dig in the dirt. Feel it. Tearing at your nails, gritty between your teeth, filling your nostrils. Consume it until it has consumed you. For there you will find the voices that have called from the shadows, the ones that promise to cherish you only to rip your body to shreds. TABLE OF CONTENTS"Everything That’s Underneath""The Wicked Shall Come Upon Him""To Sleep Long, To Sleep Deep""The Fleshtival""The Beautiful Nature of Venom""Like Feather, Like Bone Worship""Only What She Bleeds" (short story original to collection)"The Tying of Tongues""The Marking""The Long Road""The Lightning Bird""The Dream Eater""Daughters of Hecate"Birthright (novelette original to collection)"All That Is Refracted, Broken""December Skin""Split Tongues""To Sleep in the Dust of the Earth" About the Author Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, a novel published by Word Horde. Her short fiction has been reprinted or appeared in Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year Volume 9, Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1 and 3, in addition to publications such as Black Static, Apex Magazine, and several others. In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first. This is her first short fiction collection.
