Reviews

"Full of stories that zig-zag back and forth over the genre/lit line, States of Terror Vol. 3 has all the satisfactions of good style, the hooks of genre fiction, and everything you need to know about where the great American monsters are now." - Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses "An assemblage of the writers I'd most like to spend time with in person and the monsters I'd least like to encounter in real life. States of Terror is a blood soaked tour of America, an art-heavy freak out, the darkest horror locking horns with the most transcendent literary fiction." - Bud Smith, author of F 250 "States of Terror Vol.3 had my heart pounding from cover to cover. By the end I wanted to put it in my mouth, but I was already in its mouth." - Lindsay Hunter, author of Ugly Girls "Some of our best contemporary fiction writers, gathered around a campfire with tales of cryptic hominids, teenage legends, eerie apocrypha, and beautifully terrible horrors -- States of Terror is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for adults." - J. Ryan Stradal, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest "States of Terror Vol. 3 is filled with Kum & Go's and junk food and artificial hormones and plastic body parts and drugs and violence and violence and violence, because the only thing more monstrously beautiful than this book is the United States itself." - Juliet Escoria, author of Witch Hunt "States of Terror Vol. 3 is a road trip into nightmare territories. Pure, gut-clenching horror brought to you by some of the best in the business." - Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase "All my favorite writers in a book as beautiful as this, telling stories about monsters I've never even heard of? Sign me up twice, please. I want to go through again." - Stephen Graham Jones "For the third volume of Ayahuasca Publishing's States of Terror series, editors Lewis and McCleary have rounded up seventeen of the most audacious voices in modern dark fiction to spin startling and spine-tingling tales rooted in monster legends from across the USA. By turns harrowing, hallucinatory, and morbidly hilarious, the retellings also boast breathtaking illustrations from two dozen masters. Strap yourself in and turn the first page: it's time for one hell of a road trip!" - David Bowles, author of Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley "States of Terror Vol.3 showcases a wide range of horror, from emerging authors as well as established visionaries. These tales run you through the ringer, too-laughter turning into suspicion morphing into fear. Each place and time is shrouded in mystery-the echo of legend, deafening, the stench of dark myths, sickening. This is an unsettling collection that will bubble to the surface the minute you turn out the lights, paralyzing you, so as not to bring the darkness any closer."-Richard Thomas, author of Breaker and Tribulations