Try the New Candy

Try the New Candy is a horror collection of ten short stories, each pitched somewhere between torment and the otherworldly. The stories draw on extreme and disturbing material, so the book suits readers who want their horror graphic and bleak.

Several premises are laid out. A man with little sense is used by others for decades before he considers a sweet act of revenge. A single woman expecting her first child goes through a bizarre run of events set off by her artificial insemination.

A wide-eyed boy goes along when his poor excuse for a father takes a housesitting job. The property turns out to hold disturbing secrets. A newly married couple who like to push their limits are given access to a museum exhibit that is not quite finished.

Other stories follow a pervert who kills his mistress by accident during an outlandish sex act. Whether she deserved it stays open. Two girls go out clubbing to mark their legal drinking age and meet the most hellish nightlife imaginable.

The narrators and central figures come from the disturbed fringe of society. Each story is a separate dose of cruelty, and the collection can be sampled one tale at a time.