In these seven vivid tales of the macabre, W.J. Renehan artfully depicts roads less traveled - vacant spaces in both terrain and time where light yields to darkness, order to chaos, and reason to its reverse image. Renehan's artfully-rendered stories steer us down infernal off-ramps to unhallowed places where tortured souls dwell forever, and malevolent corruption thrives in abundance: dark blossoms on a withered bough.