Sawney Hatton

WHITE HOT THRILLS PITCH BLACK DEEDS 3 TALES OF TEENS TACKLING THEIR DARKEST RITES OF PASSAGE Acclaimed storytellers Russ Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, and Patrick Thomas each present an original novella brimming with enough danger, intrigue, and murder to get readers' blood pounding and hearts racing. In Colchamiro's RED INK, a paperboy with an overactive imagination witnesses a brutal killing on his route-or has he taken his fantasy spy games a step too far? In Hatton's THE DEVIL'S DELINQUENTS, a trio of teenage misfits in pursuit of success, power, and revenge practice amateurish occult rituals... with deadly consequences. In Thomas's A MANY SPLENDID THING, a sultry high school teacher enrolls one of her students to get rid of her husband. But will the young man really graduate to murder?

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -Mark TwainFrom Sawney Hatton, the devilishly inventive mind who brought you the acclaimed Dark Comedy novel DEAD SIZE and the YA Noir novella UGLYVILLE, comes this twisted collection of 13 Dark Fiction tales featuring a magical finger, a cannibalistic memorial, an extreme piercing parlor, a Space Age monastery, a budding serial killer, and more. Presenting three new, never-before-published stories, as well as re-mastered versions of earlier works, this collection is sure to disturb and delight readers who like to play in the dark. Stories: The Good TouchCutting RemarksThe Boy Who Cried Alien*PetIn Memoriam the OstrichThe Mortality MachineWhite SpaceThe Lord Is My Rocket*The BeholderMr. Gregori*FYVPThe Dark at the Deep EndSuitable for Framing*First time publishe

Reviewers are raving about DEAD SIZE: "A modern re-telling of Gulliver's Travels... on acid" "A thrilling and entertaining read" "What a refreshing blend of twisted fairy tale, surrealism, and wit" "The Second Coming of Christopher Moore" "You will have so much fun reading this" This is no fairy tale. Gulliver Huggens has issues. He watched his family perish in a tragic car accident as a child. He doesn't know how to win the heart of the girl at the coffee shop. And he shares his home with a clan of mischievous tiny people. Yet these all turn out to be the least of his troubles. A secret race of Giants dwelling in the neighboring mountains wants Gulliver to exterminate all the Little People... or else. When folks in his hometown begin brutally dying, Gulliver must make a hard choice. But choices have consequences. And consequences, he'll learn, come in all terrible sizes. With larger-than-life characters, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a bit of quirky kinkiness, DEAD SIZE is a comical psychological fantasy mystery thriller for fans of Christopher Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, and Terry Gilliam.