The Hillside Butcher - Paperback

From the author of the punk-rock horror novel, Scyphozoa, comes a blood-soaked cross between American Psycho and The Dead Zone.

For the past decade, in a small town an hour southwest of Little Rock, Mark Smith-the notorious Hillside Butcher-has brutally murdered over 200 residents of Bernard, Arkansas. Men, women, and children. His axe knows no discrimination. Mark kills without remorse, leaving two pennies at his crime scenes as payment for his victims' lives. He kills so frequently that the people of his hometown grow tired of the senseless violence and begin to ignore his plight.

Mark begins to spiral until one night, he murders the wrong person. After being caught by the victim's daughter, U.S. House Representative Ashley Guthrie, Mark lands himself in a car wreck that somehow paints him as a hometown hero. Three congressmen in the nation's capital hear the news, check Mark's files, and believe they have found their worthy successor to the ailing president of the United States.

Three stories about a serial killer running for president, a congresswoman grappling with her guilt and grief, and a blossoming contract killer following in his murderous idol's footsteps intertwine in The Hillside Butcher, a vivid, unsettling horror satire exploring the cognitive dissonance of modern America. The fate of the country hangs in the balance of the 2028 presidential election. Heads will fly, cities will burn, and we may not survive.