The
Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight
by Rebecca Rowland
Genre: Psychological Horror, Transgressive
Dark Fiction, Short Stories
Three adolescent bullies discover that the
vicious crime for which they were never charged will haunt them in unimaginably
horrific ways; a dominatrix and a bondage fetishist befriend one another as
one’s preoccupation grows to consume his life. A man persuades his wife to
start a family, but her reluctant pregnancy comes with a dreadful side effect.
A substitute teacher’s curiosity about a veteran teacher’s methodology provides
her with a lesson she won’t soon forget. An affluent, xenophobic lawyer
callously kills two immigrants with her car with seeming impunity; a childless
couple plays a sadistic game with a neglected juvenile each Halloween. An abusive
father, a dating site predator, a neglected concierge, and an obsessed
co-worker: they are all among the residents of Rebecca Rowland’s universe, and
they dwell in the everyday realm of crime and punishment tempered with fixation
and madness. There are no vampires, zombies, or magical beings here; no, what
lurk in this world are even more terrifying. Once you meet them, you will think
twice before turning your back on that seemingly innocuous neighbor or coming
to the aid of the helpless damsel in the dark parking lot. These monsters don’t
lurk under your bed or in the shadows: they are the people you see every day at
work, in the supermarket, and in broad daylight. They are the horrors that hide
in plain sight, and they will unsettle you more than any supernatural being
ever could.
Trigger Warning:
Contains graphic violence (though not
continually) including accidental death, murder, and suicide; sexual content,
and occasional graphic language. Sexual assault is implied but not described in
a graphic nature. No animals are harmed.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Rowland is the transgressive dark
fiction author of the short story collection The Horrors Hiding in Plain
Sight, co-author of the novel Pieces, and curator of the horror
anthologies Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness; Shadowy
Natures, and the upcoming The Half That You
See and Unburied. Her writing has appeared in venues such
as Coffin Bell, Waxing & Waning, and the
WiHM online collections The Ones You
Don’t Bring Home to Mama and Final Girls with 20/20 Vision and
has been anthologized in collections by Red Room Press, Transmundane Press,
Forty-Two Books, Emerald Bay Books, Twisted Wing Productions, Thurston Howl
Publications, J. Ellington Ashton Press, and Dark Ink. To surreptitiously stalk
her, visit RowlandBooks.com.
Author
Links
Website: http://rowlandbooks.com/
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