Burlap

They created a monster. Twenty years later, he came home.Halloween, 1975.Eight-year-old Drayton Grieves watches his world disappear in blood.His mother is murdered. His childhood is stolen. And the man responsible, a sadistic killer hiding behind an Easter Bunny mask known as Cottontail takes Drayton to Druitt House, a place where frightened children are broken, rebuilt, and taught how to become monsters.Drayton survives.But survival has a price.Years of violence, manipulation, loss, and a supernatural bond with the dead transform the missing child into something Wormwood Heights will one day fear by another name: Burlap.Twenty years after the nightmare began, a brutal Halloween massacre draws Drayton back to the streets where his mother died. Cottontail and the surviving members of the Depraved are still killing. Old enemies are waiting. Old friends have become strangers. And the ghosts inside Drayton are demanding blood.What begins as a hunt for revenge becomes something far more dangerous as Drayton discovers that destroying the monsters who made him may require confronting the monster he has become.For readers who love dark supernatural horror, ruthless antiheroes, Halloween slashers, revenge thrillers, elaborate killer mythology, and horror stories where monsters hunt monsters, Burlap opens the door to a nightmare that is only beginning.Enter Wormwood Heights. Meet the Depraved. And discover what happens when the victim finally comes home to hunt his monsters.