Stained
Bram Stoker Award winner 2004.
A madman. A secret, generations old. Another missing boy. They called the sadistic killer The River Rat, and he'd struck again. In a desperate search for his neighbour's son, Ted Lewis came face to face with the killer and survived, but his life was irrevocably altered. The residents of Marchand, Louisiana believed they were safe. The murderer had been captured and was behind bars. But the nightmare wasn't over yet. Because on that summer night, something passed between the two men. Memories of brutality and phantoms of countless victims torment Ted. His normal life is shattered, and he struggles to fight a growing presence that threatens to leave his soul stained forever.
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Lee Thomas
Lee Thomas is the award-winning author of Stained, Parish Damned, Damage, and The Dust of Wonderland (Alyson). In addition to numerous magazines, his short fiction has appeared in the anthologies A Walk on the Darkside (Roc), Unspeakable Horror (Dark Scribe), and Inferno (Tor), among others. His short story collection In the Closet, Under the Bed (Dark Scribe) was released in December of 2009.
He has won both the Bram Stoker Award and the Lambda Literary Award.
Writing as Thomas Pendleton and Dallas Reed, he is the author of the Wicked Dead series, Mason, and Shimmer from HarperTeen.
Lee currently lives in Austin, TX, where he's working on a number of projects.
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