A knife in the back

the long version

"You are about to enter a world of terror and pain! In "Beta," a monster terrorizes an isolated village in the mountains of Eastern Europe, draining the blood of all of its victims, leaving them frozen in the snow. The villagers hunt wolves, decapitate "vampires," but the murders continue. The killer, it turns out, is closer to home. In "City of Salt," a desperate man searches for salt in a post-apocalyptic city, despite the mutants that lurk the streets, hunting for human flesh. In "Prey," an old man with discovers a gruesome new fertilizer for his beloved flowers. And in Raleigh's Prep., a novel, Topher, Michael, and Kenneth find a mangled body on the rugby field of their new school. They decide to investigate, inadvertently unleashing the horror that lurks in the woods that surrounds the campus"--Page 4 of cover.