While investigating the possible exploitation of a friend's father with Alzheimer's, small-town amateur sleuth Ruth Torgesson runs afoul of the violent local militia movement and remnants of the Ku Klux Klan.
Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Robert E. Howard, Jay O'Connell, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock, Eric Stenbock, E. F. Benson, Darrell Schweitzer, Warren Lapine, Alledria Hurt, Lillian Csernica, J. A. Campbell, Darin Kennedy, Joann Verostko, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Melanie Tem, F. G. Loring, Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg, Hume Nisbet, Stephen Woodworth, Gerri Leen, Charles S. Ramsburg, Jr., Linda Tiernan Kepner, Stephen Antczak, Mary E. Braddon, Victoria Glad, Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Jan Neruda, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Augustus Hare, T. F. Ridgwell & Theophile Gautier
Roberta Lannes, Peter Straub, Elizabeth Massie, K.W. Jetter, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Ray Garton, Michael Marshall Smith, Melanie Tem, Nicholas Royle, Ian R. MacLeod, Karl Edward Wagner, Kim Antieau, Gary Kilworth, Jean-Daniel Brèque, J. L. Comeau, David J. Schow, Poppy Z. Brite, Kim Newman, D F Lewis, Cherry Wilder, Gregory Frost, F. Paul Wilson, David A Sutton, Gene Wolfe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gahan Wilson, Elizabeth Hand, Thomas Ligotti & Stephen Jones
