Steven E. Wedel offers four short stories that run the gamut from pure horror to shocking hilarity. In "The Zombie Whisperer," a young woman living in a secure compound with a few fellow survivors of the zombie apocalypse invites in a man who says he can communicate with the walking dead. In "One Night in Benevolence" a man returns to the home where he suffered so much abuse at the hands of his now-dead father, only to find that some things are never forgotten, and some words mean more than others. "Dead Betty" tells the tale of a scientist who finds a way to reanimate the dead....

In the era of mullets, Reaganomics and Hollywood heavy metal, Josh Cooper and his girlfriend Rana set out from Florida to Tennessee to reunite with an old friend to form a new rockabilly band. What was supposed to be a scenic turnoff from the main highway turns into months of captivity, terror and unorthodox experimentation at the hands of a disgraced professor and his hillbilly followers. Arriving in Nashville months late, Josh finds that his friend has formed a band without him and refuses to change the lineup. Rana is suffering from the trauma of captivity and Josh might have to give up...