Burning the Middle Ground

(BlackWyrm) This dark fantasy begins with journalist Ronald Glassner’s investigation into a murder that occurred five years earlier, when 17-year-old Brian McCullough returned home to find his parents dead, and his sister in her room, where she shoots herself. What Glassner finds is a struggle between two local churches, pets going berserk, and the appearance of dead bodies with no eyes or tongues. Cooper’s dissertation became the basis for his first book, Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture. He teaches at the University of Louisville.