NOTE: "A Pleasure to Burn" also appears in David Bain's NIGHT WRITING, a collection of short stories including several set in Green River, the same milieu as his crime/horror novel GRAY LAKE.Rafe Johnson, favored target of the tabloids and critical darling of the movies is Green River, Michigan's most famous son - and yet he hides a troubled, secret past. Now, as the media speculates on his latest romantic split, the embattled actor has snuck home to put both the literal and figurative ghosts of the past to rest with the strike of a match. Unbeknownst to him, however, a paparazzi journalist has followed him. As the ghosts rise and the flames rage, Rafe must weigh his private vs. his public persona, his past against his future.David Bain is the author of DEATH SIGHT: A WILL CASTLETON NOVEL, GRAY LAKE: A NOVEL OF CRIME AND SUPERNATURAL HORROR, and several short story collections including SHADOWS, WHISPERS, SHIVERS; NIGHT WRITING; and DARKER CORRIDORS. He is the co-author, with C. Dennis Moore (author of the #1 Amazon Horror bestseller THE THIRD FLOOR) of the short rock n' roll horror novel BAND OF GYPSIES and the collection TERROR IS OUR TRADE. He teaches writing at a community college in Indiana and is the author of the small book TEN SHORT ESSAYS ON WRITING.