Bedtime Stories for Carrion Beetles

By Adrian Ludens

A horde of insects invade one unfortunate man's stomach and make it their home, a blind woman guards a cavern full of Civil War-era zombies, and a troubled teen digs up her father's corpse, hoping to get some closure. Visit a macabre secret museum where taxidermy and classic literature combine, discover what a desperate mortuary assistant will do for love, and learn the sympathetic 'true' story of one of the most infamous assassinations in the Old West.

"Adrian Ludens...will scare the hell outta you in Bedtime Stories for Carrion Beetles. I highly recommend anything Ludens writes!" -Ty Schwamberger (The Fields, Deep Dark Woods).

"Bedtime Stories for Carrion Beetles was a creepy pleasant surprise, and I am looking forward to seeing more of his work." - K. H. Vaughan, reviewing for Hellnotes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adrian Ludens
• Release date: Apr 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310047909

Adrian Ludens

Adrian Ludens is the author of Bedtime Stories for Carrion Beetles. He has contributed to several anthologies, including: Blood Lite III: Aftertaste, Darker Edge of Desire (upcoming), Blood Rites, Zombie Kong, Diabolic Tales III, the Stoker-nominated Slices of Flesh and others. Adrian won the "Mysterious Photograph" flash fiction writing contest in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine two consecutive months (May and June 2008). He has also contributed to Morpheus Tales, Big Pulp and Woman's World. He lives in the historic Black Hills of South Dakota with his family where he works as a program director and radio announcer.

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