David Busboom

Every Crawling, Putrid Thing David Busboom

In his debut collection, David Busboom presents fifteen tales of dark fantasy and horror, populated by bizarre reptiles, occult serial killers, carnivorous protoplasms, and parasitic worms. A child faces down the giant ape destroying his parents' marriage. A cheating husband wakes up to find his hand replaced by a mucous-covered tentacle. A Midwestern office complex becomes the setting for a ghastly, apocalyptic nightmare.



Within these pages you'll find strange creatures sliding over dark country roads and twilit train tracks, detectives and swordsmen fighting through occult mysteries and marauding fish-men, a shunned filmmaking prodigy's deadly magnum opus, and the seductive death of innocence. You'll find regret, self-destruction, and relationships gone bad.




Here, where weird pulp horror meets the darker sides of love and disillusion, you'll find slime, and stink, and Every Crawling, Putrid Thing.