Tales of Blood and Squalor: 14 Stories of Squalid Horror

We all know what blood is. It’s spilled accidentally. Or worse, on purpose—often ending in death. But squalor… a quality or state marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty. Sordid, wretched, seamy, seedy.

A short fiction anthology of horror and psychological thrillers, Tales of Blood and Squalor depicts wretched, low-class characters living in filth and poverty. With misery and blood.

A novelist a tad too committed to realism in her craft, a tourist thirsting for blood, the king of a trailer park dungeon... These fourteen stories from Dark Cloud Press will scare you, shock you, and make you reel.

From Sarah Gribble's "Muse":

I’d never kidnapped anyone before, but what I had done was spend two decades of my life reading crime novels. While no expert, I was no dummy, either.