To Zando, thank you for seeing this book like I see it. Thank you for making my dream of becoming an author come true.
Thank you to Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, R. L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Edward Gorey, Alvin Schwartz, and Stephen Gammell. You helped me accept the dark, spooky, scary, and odd parts of myself that I tried to fight for so long. Thank you for inspiring weirdos everywhere to create with their strangeness.
To New Orleans. I hope the spirit of your city is felt in this book. Thank you for giving me such an inspiring place to inhabit in my head.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALAINA URQUHART is the science-loving co-host of the chart-topping show Morbid: A True Crime Podcast. As an autopsy technician by trade, she offers a unique perspective from deep inside the morgue. Alaina hails from Boston, where she lives with her wonderful husband, John, their three amazing daughters, and a ghost puggle named Bailey. She is about 75 percent coffee, and truly believes she and Agent Clarice Starling could be friends.
Before writing her first psychological horror novel, she received degrees in criminal justice, psychology, and biology. When she isn’t hosting Morbid, she hosts the Parcast original show Crime Countdown, and a horror movie podcast called Scream! Her days are usually spent either recording or eviscerating. The way she sees it, when she hangs up her microphone for the day, it’s time to let the dead speak.