Appalachia, 1943. Raised in a world of abuse, fraternal twins Ward and Althea, on the cusp of adulthood, are torn asunder by preternatural forces in the form of a trio of werewolves in search of a new breeder. Young, naive, simpleminded and unprotected: Althea meets every one of their criteria. Thus cast into the greater world alone and wandering through landscapes of stone and steel and smoke the likes of which he’s never known, Ward discovers his own inner darkness, unleashing a wave of needless brutality. While one twin rages against the monster she’s becoming, the other longs to become the monster he was meant to be. And when at last they are reunited, in a remote mining colony deep within the Ozarks, they swiftly realize that their colliding worlds can only accommodate one Apex Predator. A phantasmagoric fable populated by sinners, rogues, the hapless and hopeless, scoundrels, and killers all kinds, Don’t Let The Darkness Eat You Up is a nightmare of the human condition under an inhuman curse.