A Darkness Inbred

If God came from the grave. . .In 1993, the year of the Great Missouri Flood, a small town called Hardin was completely submerged. Buildings, cars, people. . .entire lives and family histories erased in a matter of days. However, it wasn't just the living that suffered, but also the dead, as the cemetery's occupants were washed free from their graves as well. . .along with something else, long forgotten, from an older cemetery underneath the newer one. Victor Heck's novel A Darkness Inbred appeared in 2001, entering an otherwise quiet horror scene like a hurricane. Praised heavily by readers and critics alike as an incredibly strong debut appearance, it was reviewed everywhere from Dark Realms to Fangoria with words such as 'brilliant', 'sinister', 'twisted', and 'ghoulish'. A bizarre 'what-if' story where one of H.P. Lovecraft's immortal creations is updated to present day and finds itself worshipped as Christ's second-coming by a deformed family of ignorant hill people.