{"product_id":"wetbones-9781504021784","title":"Wetbones","description":"\u003cb\u003eA flesh-and-soul-devouring addiction runs rampant through the dark playground of the Hollywood elite in this tale of horror from a Bram Stoker Award winner.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Welcome to Los Angeles, where\u003ci\u003e every\u003c\/i\u003e addiction is encouraged. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Struggling Hollywood screenwriter Tom Prentice can hardly believe that the emaciated and mutilated corpse lying on the morgue slab was once his ex-wife. Then his roommate's missing brother turns up in a local hospital having sliced open his own chest and legs for some sick, inexplicable reason. In Oakland, the Reverend Garner, a recovering addict, leaves his ministry in search of his teenage daughter, who was last seen in the company of her ghoulish kidnapper. And the Los Angeles police are meanwhile baffled in their hunt for the elusive \"Wetbones\" serial killer who leaves nothing of his victims behind except a damp, grisly pile of bones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though Tom, the reverend, and the LAPD are on separate quests for answers, they are all being led into the darkest shadows of Hollywood, where the debauchery never ceases and pleasure is a drug that devours human flesh, blood, and sanity. But the true source of the all-consuming addiction is the most horrifying revelation of all, for it is not of this rational Earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From International Horror Guild Award-winning author John Shirley, the acclaimed \"splatterpunk\" classic \u003ci\u003eWetbones \u003c\/i\u003ecombines the monstrous inventiveness of H. P. Lovecraft with the exquisite excess of Clive Barker\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eA true masterwork of modern terror, it's decidedly \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e for the faint of heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Shirley is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCrawlers\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCity Come A-Walkin'\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eReally, Really, Really, Really, Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and the classic cyberpunk trilogy A Song Called Youth: \u003ci\u003eEclipse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEclipse Penumbra\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEclipse Corona\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award and won the International Horror Guild Award for his collection \u003ci\u003eBlack Butterflies\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShirley has fronted punk bands and written lyrics for his own music, as well as for Blue Oyster Cult and other groups. A principal screenwriter for \u003ci\u003eThe Crow\u003c\/i\u003e, Shirley now devotes most of his time to writing for television and film. Visit the author's website at www.darkecho.com\/JohnShirley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50416498802962,"sku":"9781504021784","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3be1580b-24e6-4fdc-a6ea-5401c7801e5d.jpg?v=1729423144","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wetbones-9781504021784","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}