It's difficult to ignore a skeleton driving a pickup truck. It's even tougher to outrun him...
But that's only the beginning of screenwriter Jed Ackenberry's troubles as he heads back to L.A. after a visit to his childhood home in Needles, California.

Someone -- or something -- doesn't want him to get home...But why not?

Nothing makes sense. Just a typical day along the Needles Highway, cloudless, hot, purple mountains in the distance. Same as it always was...But as the day slips into night, Jed is finally forced to confront an event so terrifying it makes him fear not only for his safety -- but his sanity.

In the tradition of the horror tales of Ramsey Campbell, the brooding, paranoid stories of Cornell Woolrich, and told in the classic style of Shirley Jackson, John Stewart Wynne takes you into the heart of one man's journey.

Wynne is the author of the horror story A NIGHT IN THE PAMPAS about a reunion of Argentine Air Force Squadron members on a hunting trip to the Argentine pampas where they discover a sinister creature hiding in the tall grasses, waiting to strike...

He is also the author of two unsettling collections of short stories, THE OTHER WORLD and CONSEQUENCES OF ATTRACTION, the noir-tinged novel CRIME WAVE, and the Lambda Literary Award nominee for Best Gay Fiction, THE RED SHOES.