Twenty haunting stories from the Bram Stoker Award nominated, and bestselling author of Come With Me. A man leaves rehab and tries to make a new life for himself, only to find the past closing in on him. A married couple on holiday have a bizarre encounter with a shiver of sharks. And, on Halloween night, a young boy learns the truth of the world from the strange and unsettling Mr Trueheart. From London to Baltimore and many places in between, these stories claw through reality to find the horror deep within. In Ronald Malfi’s debut short story collection, the shadows in the dark are ever moving, ever hungry, and the darkness that lurks beneath the surface is never too far away… PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR Senseless is a haunting, bloody noir epic that sent me back to Matheson and other old kings of the genre. A slick, fascinating saga I couldn't inhale fast enough. —Sam Rebelein, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Edenville & The Poorly Made and Other Things Ronald Malfi’s Senseless is a stunning, yet grim, puzzle box to solve. Each twist and turn of captivating prose draws us closer to a mesmerizing conclusion. An absolutely exquisite horror thriller.—Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters In this gripping LA noir, Malfi triangulates a city rife with monsters of every kind to highlight a chilling truth: it's often the subtlest evils that have the most horrific impact.—Jennifer Thorne, bestselling author of Diavola Sensational! A spellbinding dive into the devil's playground that is Los Angeles, where everybody is simultaneously hunter and hunted. Ronald Malfi is the real deal—you don't read this book, you live it.—Josh Winning, author of Burn the Negative and Heads Will Roll To read Ronald Malfi is to find yourself in your favorite bar, drink in hand, music you love coming out of the speakers, the comforting babble of the crowd around you. An intriguing stranger sidles up to you and begins to tell you a story. Before you know it, all those other noises fall away and you're enrapt. You barely even notice the glint of the blade as it slides into your gut. Malfi is just that bewitching, just that sneaky, just that brutal, just that good at what he does.—Nat Cassidy, author of Mary and When the Wolf Comes Home A brutal Rubik's Cube of a book covered in blood... This vamped out, sun-bleached mobius strip is a masterclass in horror noir.—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes A stark look at a haunted world, filled with ghosts of once-people.—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth and All the Hearts You Eat A neon-lit pilgrimage to the worst parts of LA and the filthiest parts of the human soul, this intricate braid of horror, thriller, and procedural slowly tightens like a snare, holding you captive, forcing you to watch as the knife parts flesh. Brutal, clever, surprising, and as dark as the desert on a moonless night.—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestseller, and author of Bloom and Guillotine The perfect beach read...except it’s not the beach, it’s the unforgiving desert, sand grits in your teeth, unspeakable things are approaching, and no one will save you. That lulling horror is the beauty of a Ronald Malfi novel, and Senseless delivers even more of the thoughtfully blood-soaked ingenuity he might as well get a patent on. Malfi layers noir, things that go bump in the night, serial killers, and buried secrets in an expertly crafted feast you’ll devour.—Michael Wehunt, author of THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT and GREENER PASTURES A crackling procedural dipped in psychedelics, Senseless drags you along on a thrill ride through Los Angeles’s neon-lit underworld, where nothing is what it seems. Weaving merciless storytelling with prose that’s equal parts luminous and queasy, Ronald Malfi’s got you trapped—and he never lets up. By the end, you’ll find yourself as transfigured as this book’s perfectly realized characters.—Andy Marino, author of The Swarm and It Rides a Pale Horse If stories about LA are like visits to a theme park, Ronald Malfi's Senseless is the wildest dark ride you've ever dreamed of, whirling and shrieking at Tinseltown's throbbing neon-veined heart. A consummate storyteller, Malfi is a master of shadowy noir, nerve-wracking suspense and balls-out horror, drawing the reader deep into a winding web of terror from which there is no escape. Senseless may be his best work yet--a breathlessly compulsive thriller that twists and turns on itself and tightens like the knot of a noose. Don't miss it!—David Demchuk, author of The Butcher's Daughter and RED X In this thought-provoking new thriller, Ronald Malfi burrows into the human heart and carves out its darkest beats. Set against the background of Hollywood's magic and L.A.’s worst streets, Senseless is a gripping meditation on the nature of violence and the origin of evil. You’ll want to read it again and again—but you might be too scared to.—Wendy