{Smile}

by Nic McCool, Sonja Damerval (Editor)

27 short stories. 27 narrators. 1 terrifying puzzle. There’s something disquieting about a town with too many twins, a killer pie, and a man with two different color eyes. When Cain, a devilish stranger with a candle wax smile, moves into a rural southern town people are brutally murdered with alarming rapidity. It’s up to a band of curious high schoolers, a decrepit hermit, and a grieving mortician to solve the riddle and keep the town from being destroyed. That is if they can survive cannibalistic dentists, body-snatching demons, and oftentimes worst of all, each other. {Smile} is a horror novel made up of 27 short stories narrated by 27 unique voices. Each story is told in alphabetical order by title, but when combined they interweave to tell an intense and twisted tale about one man/demon/thing’s quest to become human through manipulation and murder.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Fiction

138 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 4, 2014

About the author

Nic McCool is the author of one novel, a dozen or so short stories, seven plays, and a recipe for double chocolate peanut butter cookies that he refuses to share with anyone. He is also the writer/reader for the podcast "The End of Maxwell Hopes".