A predator finds his newest prey is much more than he imagined; aging stars do verbal battle in an broken elevator; flocks of demonic birds hold a colonial town in the grip of a vengeful curse; a jilted make-up artist plots to take out his reality-starlet nemesis; Brian Bolin's shocking and funny debut short story collection will take you to these worlds and more. THE WHOLE PRICE OF BLOOD contains ten stories of the macabre, the terrifying, and the hysterical.