At the Mercy of Beasts [Kurtz, Ed]

From the author of ‚  Bleed ‚  and ‚  The Rib From Which I Remake the World ‚  comes a triptych of historical horror novellas. A pair of Texas oil men strike something more valuable than crude that turns avarice to murder--and summons something that should never have been awakened--in "Black's Red Gold." ‚  In "Kennon Road," a disillusioned American corporal stationed in Baguio in the wake of the Philippine-American War discovers the gruesome truth behind the Filipino legend of the man-eating Manananggal. And on the lonesome desert highways of the American Southwest, a trucker befriends a haunted, hitchhiking Vietnam veteran with whom she confronts the horrors waiting in the hills and caves to feed in ‚  "Deadheader." ‚  Monsters both human and otherworldly converge in Ed Kurtz's ‚  At the Mercy of Beasts.