From the multi-award winning novelist now comes a collection of stories by one of modern horror's most potent voices. Beginning with a ghostly romance (Tableau Vivant) through two wet hanky hauntings (ARMY BRAT and One Little Indian Boy) to downright wickedness (Nice, little old...) and the conscience shocking finale of the title story (Beyond the Pale), Malone once again delivers gripping, edge-of-your seat tension reflected through the prism of his unique brand of character driven, thought provoking spookery. So settle in, readers, put your feet up in your most comfortable chair on a stormy night or by a roaring fire, and be inextricably drawn into the shadowy emotional funhouse of America's Master of the Macabre. But be warned, grab the safety bar and hold on tight, because once the ride begins there will be no turning back until the very last white knuckled word.

Steel yourselves readers, because nothing you have ever read can prepare you for An Unfinished House, K. Patrick Malone's most harrowing and uncompromising foray yet into the darkness of both the natural and supernatural, and New York Book Festival 2009 Fiction First Runner Up. Michael Golden, a hard working, every man builder and family man comes home from work one evening to find that his shy home maker wife has been killed in a car accident leaving him with two small children in the historic old colonial house they'd just bought. But something no one could have ever imagined happens when an outlaw biker arrives on his doorstep with a secret so devastating that it rocks An Unfinished House and those who live there to the very core of their existence; tearing the face off of human emotion and redefining the meaning of the word "love" with a haunting that will peel the paint off your walls and an ending that will leave you . . .shattered.