From Bram Stoker Award- and ITW Thriller Award-nominated author JG Faherty comes The Monster Inside, a collection of disturbing, shiver-inducing nightmares. A collection of 17 pieces of unsettling fiction, many long out of print, some never before published.

Clay Daniels is an outcast among outcasts. Cursed with a terrible birthmark on his face, his life is an endless misery of teasing and physical abuse from his classmates. Things only get worse when his parents die and he's forced to move in with cruel relatives who make the torture of school seem like paradise. Then everything changes when he meets a boy named John in the woods behind his house. John and his friends don't care what Clay looks like, or that he's not strong or particularly smart. That's because they're dead, and the dead don't discriminate. Their acceptance of him helps Clay...