Bad Connections: Horror Stories

Cut through the static...

Relationships go wrong in Ryan C. Bradley’s debut story collection Bad Connections. A musician escapes a haunted rental house but not the ghost he found there. A warden struggles against the psychic monster imprisoning her. A couple finds their relationship put to the ultimate test.

Without connection, we drift untethered, unmoored… unsafe. But sometimes connections decay without dying. These stories filter through the rust and detritus and ask what happens when it's missing or just wrong, if life is just yelling into a phone while going through a tunnel. What if the static isn't interference, but something altogether less... human.

Featuring a cover and 5 illustrations by the incredible Eva Mout.

Praise:

"From the absurd to the grotesque to the downright eerie, Ryan C. Bradley demonstrates that he's an author who knows how to scare us. He knows why things are scary and what the scary things are under their masks and beyond the smoke and mirrors. You don't want to miss his work." - Lucas Mangum, author of Barn Door to Hell and Saint Sadist

"Bizarre, creepy, but always fun, Bad Connections explores territory seldom accessed in horror. Living shadows, juiced wrestlers, and...milk cartons! A pleasure to read an author in love with what he does and expanding the borders of the genre." L.P. Hernandez, author of Stargazers and No Gods Only Chaos

Ships September 2024