The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God

A drunk widower wanders through an endless, abandoned mall while the war machine marches.

90s queer metalheads repeatedly try to burn down a regenerating church.

Denizens of a punk house are confronted with the reality of what happened to their missing roommate.

An artist with acidic bodily fluids finds another like him.

With The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God Award-Winning author Sam Richard returns with eleven new stories exploring the raw honesty of grief, isolation, brokenness, and desperation through weird horrors ranging from body to cosmic to existential and beyond.