The Antlered Dead: A Brutal Cryptid Horror Novel

By Edward Kress

The rabbits grew antlers.Then they started killing people.On an empty Wyoming highway, a jackrabbit slams into a pickup truck at seventy-three miles an hour. It should be dead.Instead, it gets back up.It has antlers. Too many teeth. Claws that can open a man to the bone.And it isn't alone.Within hours, thousands of the creatures are moving through the sagebrush. At their head is Bonehorn-a massive, scarred predator with a rack three feet wide and an intelligence no animal should possess.Sheriff Mara Kestrel soon discovers the outbreak is bigger than mutant rabbits.Something ancient is spreading beneath the ground.Black roots move through soil, water, animals, and human bodies. The infected grow antlers. They borrow the voices of the dead. And somewhere deep beneath the continent, something enormous is waking up.Humanity has spent generations laughing at the legend of the jackalope.It should have been paying attention.THE ANTLERED DEAD is a brutal cryptid horror novel packed with graphic violence, body horror, monstrous creatures, apocalyptic survival, and an ancient nightmare buried beneath the earth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPQG3SMM
• ISBN13: 9798166323613
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"