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Malfi is horror's Faulkner, and Small Town Horror might be his best novel yet. Stylish, dark, and with a haunting, salty atmosphere, this is a superb novel about how the ghosts of the past always dance with those of the present.
-Gabino Iglesias, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson award-winning author of The Devil Takes You Home

This is bedrock American horror fiction, sure to be a classic. Malfi deftly draws you down into the darkness of a group of friends in a small town (natch) who find themselves literally haunted by the secrets and mistakes of their shared past.
-Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers

Ronald Malfi is a talented storyteller known for the quality of his writing and the way he brings an element of elegance to the genre, and Small Town Horror-relentlessly creepy, unapologetically dark, and surprisingly heartfelt-might just be his best novel yet-Locus Magazine

I was blown away.
--Sharon Virts, People Magazine

Small Town Horror blends the sunburnt southern noir of S.A. Cosby with the homespun haunts of Raymond Bradbury, creating a brackish blend of sin-ridden horror unlike anything else scuttling across bookshelves today. Ronald Malfi is the Bard of Chesapeake Bay gothic and the outright brine of this beautifully terrifying book will be steeped into your subconscious forever.
-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

An eerie and deeply unsettling horror epic with faint shadows of Peter Straub and Robert R. McCammon flickering at the periphery . . . Small Town Horror is the kind of masterful and deftly written horror fiction that makes me fall in love with the genre all over again.
-Eric LaRocca, Bram Stoker Award finalist, and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

This isn't only Malfi's masterpiece, it's a heroic swing at the Great American Novel, and will be nakedly terrifying to anyone who's been a kid-and to anyone who's grown up with regret. This is heavyweight horror, a total knockout.
-Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestseller and author of Whalefall

Malfi does what he does best: He creates fully fleshed-out characters and pitches them into uncomfortable and very realistic situations. Small Town Horror defies assumption.
-Esquire

Malfi refreshes a familiar horror trope-the surfacing of a long-hidden secret-with nuanced characterizations and a genuinely surprising reveal. Christopher Golden fans will be especially pleased.
-Publishers Weekly

With strokes of King and shades of Jackson, Malfi burns bright in Small Town Horror.
-Lindy Ryan, Bram Stoker Award-nominee and author of Cold Snap and Bless Your Heart

Ronald Malfi is a gifted writer. You fear for his characters because they feel like people you know, ordinary people with dire secrets. Small Town Horror gives us broken people wrapped up in a past that won't set them free, the kind of story Malfi has truly mastered. Nobody else can weave the kind of chilling, small-town horror story I grew up reading the way Malfi does. His writing is so strong and so of-the-moment that these horrors and fears tap into horror nostalgia while also feeling brand new. It's some kind of magic trick, which makes Malfi one hell of a magician.
-Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and Road of Bones

Damaged characters, dark secrets, and traumatic histories swirl in this haunting and beautifully written tale of a grim past that refuses to stay buried. Ronald Malfi is fast becoming one of my favourite writers, and Small Town Horror cements his reputation as one of the best horror writers working today.
-Tim Lebbon, Among The Living

As the Peter Straub of his generation, Ronald Malfi shines a poetic iridescence into the darkest corners of a speculative thriller, and Small Town Horror showcases the full range of his talent. Haunting, suspenseful, and just plain damn smart, it is everything Malfi fans have come to expect, cranked to full volume. People will be talking about this book all year. Rebecca Rowland, author of White Trash & Recycled Nightmares

Praise for Ghostwritten:

It's no coincidence that there are four chambers to the human heart and Ronald Malfi's 'Ghostwritten', both bound by muscle and full of blood, but once this quartet of nightmarish novellas gets pumping, your own ticker is sure to stop.
-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of 'Whisper Down the Lane'