WARNING: Triggers include harm to animals (in both novellas) and to children (in Dogs).

If you love animals, read no further. If you love horror, read on. If you love both, you decide.

Cats and Dogs, two novellas steeped in obsession, revenge, and survival where the greatest threat may not be what waits in the shadows, but what already lives inside us. In Montana, retired FBI agent Alston Waters accepts what should be a routine assignment: training a small-town sheriff’s department at the abandoned Sweet Grass Psychiatric Hospital. Isolated from the outside world, the exercise quickly turns into a nightmare when doors lock, windows refuse to break, and something in the darkness begins to stir.

Hundreds of miles away on a remote island off the coast of Maine, Trent Aress is fighting a different battle. Determined to build a future for his family, he finds himself locked in an escalating feud with his hostile neighbor, Abe Carver. As the worst winter storm in memory cuts the island off from the mainland, man turns against man, dog against dog, and the line between vengeance and madness begins to disappear.

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