Death is a declaration waiting to broadcast its haunting awareness to our own deterrence. Beyond these pages is its proclamation. Eighteen tales based on: American urban legends yarned from twisted tales of corrupt small towns where all is not what it seems, to families ruined by childhood ghost stories, the following spiels are bold pronounces from unrelenting terror and the bone-chilling agent of death. The following pages reveal testimonies of massacres from the POV of a zombie, the game of chance offered by devils, the premonitions of ghosts forgotten that could either save a life or end it, a case of mistaken identity, conducting unholy proceedings that turn children into mass murderers, and a test of faith in the last haunted house in America. In a world were happy endings are few and sparse, death reigns with an ironed grip.