Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness

"From Mia Dalia, the author of Estate Sale, Haven, and other literary nightmares, comes a uniquely terrifying collection of dark psychological fiction, featuring novelettes and short stories that range from horror to suspense to mystery to coming-of-age to thrillers. Smile so red - a man finds a strange graffitied house in the woods and a smiling darkness that follows him home. Spindel - a twelve-year-old boy suspects that one of the neighbors on his paper route might be a local serial killer and sets off to investigate. Blues for the soul- a library worker tries to help a troubled young boy and uncovers a terrible truth about his family. Devil's chord - return to the world of Smile so red with a meta journey set to the earworm tune of your worst nightmares. Stump - a bullied young boy and a downtrodden family man from the same apartment complex unwittingly entrust their secrets to the same remnant of an old tree in the local woods. Flamingos - two sisters must confront their troubled past when a buried memory is triggered by the seemingly innocuous plastic lawn birds. The trunk - striving to achieve the American Dream, a first-generation immigrant from a war-torn country buys a new home and finds something in the basement that has other ideas for him. Reddest - another return to the world of Smile So Red, albeit from a very different perspective. Go on. Turn the page. Pick a nightmare. I dare you"--