Unnatural Selection

By Mark Wheaton

Bestselling indie horror author Mark Wheaton returns with a new collection of short stories and novellas guaranteed to make your skin crawl. UNNATURAL SELECTION brings together eight stories related by themes of instinct and evolution. MEAT tells of a thief stuck in a restaurant's exhaust vent who runs afoul of a surprisingly tenacious nighttime visitor. In STUTTERING HUNTER, a man in the not-so-distant future decides to commit suicide by handing his soul over to a cartoon show. SHEPHERD follows the continuing adventures of Pittsburgh police dog Bones, this time following him to Los Angeles after a devastating earthquake. SPIDER concerns an indie film director who transfers his feelings about his actress wife's sudden rise to stardom into an obsession with a house spider. DISEMBODIED follows two Los Angeles homicide detectives as they try to stop a spree killer who seems to have the ability to appear anywhere in the city, only to die and regenerate elsewhere. THE POSTHUMOUS MIND; OR, PLEASE DON'T TOUCH ME finds a man with a profound fear of being touched still conscious after death and made to suffer the agony of all those who would handle him post-mortem. GARE DU NORD relates the story of a Parisian cab driver who may or may not be privy to a terrorist attack in the planning stages. THE ENEMIES LIST is about a veteran sportswriter who feels wronged by two men and sets them up with motives to murder each other.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1453897089
• ISBN13: 9781453897089
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 1.0" x 6.1"