The Backwoods

Just outside the small town of Raven Springs there's a curious little inn. Is it just a coincidence that a number of missing people spent their last night there? That's what Jimmy Clevis aims to find out. He's tracking down a man who seems to have vanished into thin air and his trail stops dead at Raven Springs. Jimmy has no choice but to check into the inn and find out for himself what mysteries are waiting behind its doors. But will he be able to do what others before him couldn't? Will he survive his stay?

Edward Lee has been published at Zebra, Berkley, Cemetery Dance, and Necro Publications. Dorchester is now his exclusive paperback publisher. Lee was one of the co-founders of the Splatterpunk movement in horror and is one of the most influential writers in the genre today. Several of his short stories have been nominated for HWA's Bram Stoker Award, such as 1994's Mr. Torso. He has also received many preliminary nominations for HWA's Best Novel Stoker, including both Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman (1998) and Sacrifice (1995).