Some girls just don't know how to die. Jade Daniels is an outcast in a town that wants nothing to do with her. Now, one class away from dropping out of school, she is pouring her life and soul into her last assignment - a personal history of horror films. But Proofrock doesn't rest easy; as Jade dives deep into the history of her hometown - the missing tourists, the drowned church in Indian Lake, the tragic deaths at camp years ago - the town strives to keep her trapped. But outcasts still laugh and fight and cry and love fiercely, and even as the terror descends, and the blood flows, they never, ever give up.

Stephen Graham Jones has been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards, and he's been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. He's also made Bloody Disgusting's Top Ten Horror Novels, and is the guy who wrote Mongrels. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.