This holiday season, give the gift of horror. San Diego writers Keith McCleary and Matt Lewis have collaborated on a terrifying new premise for a horror series called States of Terror: a journal of thrills and chills that explores the famous and not-so-famous monsters from each state in the union. Here’s the jacket copy:

At the intersection of Cryptozoology and folklore, the legendary local monster finds its place in the American landscape: feared and desired, hunters and hunted, unbelievable but believed. In this collection of new fiction, 18 writers and 23 artists have dragged these beasts from the relative safety of remote rural hollows and fetid swamps, re-imagining their mythologies for the 21st century. They believe. And so will you.

My story is called “Flesh Air” is tells the story of The Bunnyman who prowls a mythical village called Galaxy in southwestern Virginia. States of Terror is available now and makes a great gift for the creeps in your life. Put a little horror in your ho-ho-ho…