Rabid Child

Desmond Cray just wants to be left alone. Homeless and friendless, he skulks around town scavenging for food and peeping on unsuspecting women. But his life of anonymity is threatened when a foster mother from his past sees him huddled in the rain and insists he return to her house. There, Desmond enters into a nightmarish world of sin and depravity. Through his dealings with the strangely obsessive mother, an unpredictable nymphette, and a hyper-religious cripple, Desmond discovers a series of terrible secrets, the worst of which just might involve him.

PETE RISLEY lives alone in a tiny, cluttered house in a deteriorating neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. All his home’s windows are haphazardly boarded, for he greatly dreads human contact. He is painfully thin, nearly hairless, and sensitive to high-pitched sounds; he trembles frequently, sleeps fitfully and believes he is slowly losing his sight. This is his first, and perhaps his last, novel.