Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated publisher, Crystal Lake Publishing, and the editing duo who brought you the best-selling and critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian horror anthology Shadows Over Main Street, comes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories—a disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness.

Terror becomes transcendence.
Regret gives way to rebirth.

Fifteen short stories and one poem span nearly every twisted corner of the horror and dark fiction genres:

• A woman experiences an emotional reckoning inside a haunted house.


• A father sees his daughter rescued after a cold case is solved, only to learn the tragic limits of his love.


• A man awakens a vengeful spirit and learns the terrible price of settling scores.


• A boy comes of age into awareness of a secret universe of Lovecraftian scale.


• A young woman confronts the deathly price of existence inside a German concentration camp during the Holocaust.


• And much, much more…