For fans of STEPHEN KING and DEAN KOONTZ ... author TODD TRAVIS (Creatures of Appetite) has gathered a haunting collection of suspense stories exploring the monsters, both living and dead, roaming our world. - A brilliant biophysicist on the verge of proving there is no life after death discovers, to his horror, that the dead are determined to stop him ... - An abused small town boy finds a special friend in the woods next to his trailer, but his friend isn't like other children and cannot leave the woods, not ever ... - A group of determined graduate students seek Bigfoot on a remote Alaskan range seek but discover a monster far more deadly than they ever imagined ... - An elderly store manager, disturbed by a stranger eyeing the armored truck deliveries to his store, decides to take matters into his own hands ... - A beautiful young woman walks the streets of Manhattan at night seeking men, but for her own dark purposes, because for her, night is for hunting ... - A mysterious little girl somehow "invites" herself along on an abduction, leading her captors to wonder who really is in charge ... Five stories of suspense and terror and a short novel exploring the darkness everyone eventually faces when it's their time to die, THE LIVING AND THE DEAD is a collection one may want to read with all the lights in the house on ... Foreword by James Schannep (INFECTED - Click Your Poison). THE LIVING AND THE DEAD is registered in the Kindle Matchbook program - buy the paperback and get the ebook version for free!