The Road to Marah and Other Stories - Paperback

In the 1970s, a thriving underground existed beneath the surface of mainstream publishing -- a world of indie magazines, home-brewed comix, and promotional material for horror films that barely saw theatrical release.

For fifty years, these short stories have been lost. Tucked into press kits for forgotten exploitation films. Distributed through classified ads in monster magazines. Published in chapbooks with names like Strychnine and Midnight Celluloid -- publications that existed for a few glorious years before the scene collapsed in the early 1980s.

Now, from a meticulously preserved archive, twenty-three stories emerge. Victorian detective mysteries and ghost tales. Urban legends and chilling domestic nightmares. Maritime hauntings, occult film essays, Christmas legends, alien encounters, and folklore brought to terrible life.

The writers behind them led extraordinary lives. Some went on to careers in television and film. Others published a single story or two and vanished. A few met mysterious ends that echo the horrors they wrote about.

Collected here for the first time, The Road to Marah and Other Stories resurrects the horror underground of the 1970s. These are the tales that slipped through the cracks of history -- until now.