Scattered Ashes (Signed First Limited Edition)

Scott Nicholson's short stories have drifted on the wind, across deserts and dead seas, and now have found a final resting place. In Scattered Ashes, the best of his award-winning work is presented together for the first time. Scott Nicholson is the author of seven novels including The Skull Ring and They Hunger, and has stretched the genre to embrace peculiar pregnancies, supernatural mysteries, unorthodox creatures, and sinister psychology, exploring questions of faith and despair, love and loss. Gather around the campfire. The flames are intense and the ashes are still warm... "Scott Nicholson writeswith a mixture of H.P. Lovecraft, Manly Wade Wellman, and Clive Barker, stirred with a liberal dose of his own originality, to tell an effective and atmospheric tale." -- Kevin J. Anderson, co-author of the Dune series. "Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off." -- JA Konrath, author of Whiskey Sour "In a literary and geographic sense, Scott Nicholson explores the dark legends of the southern end of the Appalachian mountain chain, a nightmare country that ends in Stephen King's yard." -- Sharyn McCrumb, author of The Ballad of novels

Scott Nicholson is the author of seven Apalachian thrillers, including The Skull Ring and They Hunger. He is also a screenwriter and graphic novelist, creating the comic series Grave Conditions. His first novel The Red Church was a Bram Stoker Award finalist and alternate selection of The Mystery Guild. He studied creative writing at the University of North Carolina and Appalachian State University and has been active in Mystery Writers of America. Horror Writers Association, and International Thriller Writers. Nicholson's hobbies include organic gardening, songwriting, guitar playing, fishing, and swimming. He is also a freelance editor and hosts an annual paranormal conference and writing retreats. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.