The love of horror is like a virus.It gets into your bloodstream, causing an insatiable hunger for more. There is no cure, only the ability to soothe the craving until the need-once again-grows too great. And you crave: Urban legends that are sickeningly real.Attempts to cheat death that don't quite succeed.Creatures with power over this world and the next.Twisted desires of the flesh that must be met no matter what the cost.Just in time for Halloween and all its thrills, "In the Bloodstream" brings together some of horror's most imaginative new writers.

These thirty-one short stories will infiltrate your system and leave you wondering about that creaking outside the door, while satisfying your need for the darkly disturbing.At least for now.