The Forest Dreams With Teeth

Records burn in strip mall parking lots, a young woman is sacrificed, and something sinister awakens in the woods. Evil finds a scapegoat in Adam Lloyd, a teen delinquent who escapes his troubled home life through horror movies and sword-and-sorcery novels. Falsely accused of murder, Adam is dragged into a dangerous ritual that sees suburban hysteria weaponized, as heavy metal fever dreams feed an ancient beast... (with a cover by Adrian Baldwin)