Fall River Horrors by Ricardo D. Rebelo
Fall River, Massachusetts has always had a taste for the macabre. This is the city that gave the world Lizzie Borden's axe, a town built on mill sweat and hard luck, where Satanic Panic once stalked the edges of Freetown State Forest and every abandoned building seems to remember something it shouldn't.
In this collection of thirteen original horror stories, Ricardo D. Rebelo turns his hometown's haunted corners — a condemned parochial school's forbidden fourth floor, the murky banks of the Quequechan River, a dumpster behind a Kmart, a mallow-shaped nightmare no one asked for — into a gallery of the strange, the grotesque, and the genuinely unsettling. From cryptids and possessed technology to monsters that are all too human, these tales blend small-town New England grit with old-school creature-feature dread.
Rebelo — author of Neon Werewolves, Swamp Yankee Cryptids, and The Cryptid Omnibus series, and member of the Horror Writers Association — writes with the authority of someone who grew up believing the ghost stories were true. Because in Fall River, some of them were.
Come for the monsters. Stay for the mill town that made them.
