S. K. Epperson, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-1-55611-317-8
Abduction, murder, rape, pederasty and cannibalism are a way of life in the rural Kansas town of Denke, a way of life the town's elders hold sacred. These outwardly folksy country people are fighting to preserve a tradition of bloody plunder that...
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S. K. Epperson, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-312-04580-7
Misogyny motivates the characters in Epperson's melodramatic and psychologically pat first novel. A cop and a killer, both abused as children by their respective mothers, meet on a Wichita, Kans., street and instinctively recognize each other as...
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S. K. Epperson, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-312-06342-9
This chilling follow-up to Brother Lowdown reveals many sordid secrets in the small Kansas town of Dumford, where a series of grisly killings involving infants and baby animals terrifies the residents. A prime suspect is Luraok Taylor, whose family...
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S. K. Epperson, Author Dutton Books $20 (284p) ISBN 978-1-55611-338-3
Epperson's second novel, Dumford Blood , was dubbed ``Kansas Gothic''--a term that also nicely describes her newest entry in the horror genre. Dr. Bryant Raleigh comes to a clinic in Flint Hills, Kans., to study and treat women with multiple...
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S. K. Epperson, Author Dutton Books $20.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55611-382-6
Set in the small town of Colson, Kans., Epperson's ( Borderland ) tale of a loony town mortician who systematically murders people in order to keep his business afloat is more funny than horrifying. Hoping to spend more time with his troubled,...
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S. K. Epperson, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55611-466-3
In books like Nightmare and Borderland, Epperson has shown a talent for non-supernatural horror that is involving and often psychologically insightful. Here, she turns that talent toward painting a macabre picture of an all-American neighborhood...
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S. K. Epperson, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55611-493-9
Rural Kansas is to Epperson (The Neighborhood) what rural Maine is to Stephen King: an outback where outlandish terror lurks. The setting in this curious, fractured novel is the isolated Kansas village of Green Lake, where anthropology professor...
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