Fear

Legends exist in Beelzebub County of a flesh-eating creature that lives in backwoods Tennessee and preys on innocent children, but no one has ever tried to stop the monster, until ten-year-old Jeb Sweeney works up the courage to end the reign of terror. Original.

Born and bred in Tennessee, Ronald Kelly is an author of Southern-fried horror fiction with thirteen novels, seven short story collections, and a Grammy-nominated audio collection to his credit. Influenced by such writers as Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, and Manly Wade Wellman, Kelly sets his tales of rural darkness in the hills and hollows of his native state. His published works include Undertaker’s Moon, Fear, Blood Kin, Hell Hollow, The Dark’Un, Hindsight, Restless Shadows, After the Burn, Timber Gray, Mr. Glow-Bones & Other Halloween Tales, Dark Dixie, Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Terrors, The Sick Stuff, and Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear-forged Fables. He lives in a backwoods hollow in Brush Creek, Tennessee with his wife, Joyce, and his three young’uns, Reilly, Makenna, & Ryan (aka Bubba).