Think carefully about whether you really want to open the door to Edward Lee's world. Phil Straker once left the town of Crick City to pursue a career as a police officer. Now he returns, branded as the murderer of a child he accidentally shot while on duty. Phil soon realizes that something horrifying is happening in the town he thought he knew. In search of a missing girl, his investigations lead him to the Creekers, a repulsive clan living under the most primitive conditions in the woods and multiplying through inbreeding for centuries. There have always been mysterious rumors about the Creekers, which Phil knows all too well: demonic rituals, sexual excesses, murder, and cannibalism. But those were just harmless fantasies. Horror Reader: a perverse genius. The publisher explicitly warns: Edward Lee is the leading author of Extreme Horror.