It's difficult to ignore a skeleton driving a pickup truck. It's even tougher to outrun him.

But that's only the beginning of screenwriter Jed Ackenberry's troubles...

Driving back to L.A. after a visit to his childhood home in Needles, California, Jed realizes that someone -- or something -- doesn't want him to get home... But why not?

Nothing makes sense. But as the day slips into night, Jed is finally forced to confront an event so terrifying it makes him fear not only for his safety -- but also his sanity.

In the vein of the horror tales of Ramsey Campbell, the brooding, paranoid stories of Cornell Woolrich, and told in the masterly style of Shirley Jackson, John Stewart Wynne takes you into the dark heart of one man's journey.

Best known for his Lambda Literary Award-nominated novel THE RED SHOES, his unsettling collection of short stories THE OTHER WORLD (hailed by The James White Review as one of the best books of the decade), and his noir-tinged novel CRIME WAVE (John Calder Publishers), THE NEEDLES HIGHWAY is the third of Wynne's supernatural/horror stories to be published in ebook by Tree Line Books in its Tree Line Story Book Series. It was preceded by LOUISE, DON'T GO, about two retired American schoolteachers in 1953 who meet by chance while on vacation in the Scottish Highlands. In the tradition of the classic British ghost story, Wynne creates a poignant tale of a new friendship interrupted by an unexpected, otherworldly turn of events. His horror story A NIGHT IN THE PAMPAS recounts a reunion of Argentine Air Force Squadron members on a hunting trip to the Argentine Pampas where they discover a sinister creature hiding in the tall grasses, waiting to strike...

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