A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the first—and she may not be the last. . . . It’s watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she can handle whatever awaits her. But on the day of the wedding, somewhere between dancing and dessert, the bride’s daughter, Caroline, goes missing—and the only thing left behind is a piece of white fabric covered in blood. It’s taking. As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: a summer night. A missing girl. A party in the woods. She’s seen this before. Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in school, walked into the woods with a mysterious man and was later found with her chest cavity ripped open and her heart missing. Liz shudders at the thought that it could have been her, and now, with Caroline missing, it can’t be a coincidence. As Liz starts to dig through the town’s history, she uncovers a horrifying secret about the place she once called home. Children have been going missing in these woods for years. All of them Black. All of them girls. It’s your turn. With the evil in the forest creeping closer, Liz knows what she must do: find Caroline, or be entirely consumed by the darkness.

From the Author of A Frightful Harvest comes a collection of four tales that will terrify and delight the imagination. In its pages we find a boy struggling with the horrors of his own identity as he fights for his life against a madness he can barely comprehend; a haunted book whose deadly tales are written anew as it passes from owner to owner with deadly consequences; a young woman whose infatuation with a rare and beautiful flower spells doom for her hometown and, quite possibly, the world; and a desperate old man whose deadly secret from a night on the open sea comes back to haunt him and his son during the twilight of his life. A dreamscape of terror designed to chill the heart and confound the mind, The Pallbearer's Rose and Other Stories is sure to become an instant Horror classic. You won't be able to put it down.