Welcome to the weird and wild world of DARK CITIES. You won't find it on any map, but you will find it between the covers of this book.DARK CITIES: DARK TALES is the realm of Michael McCarty's three novellas and four short stories. Inside you will find out why zombies stumble across the state of Illinois in the snow; what happens when an aspiring novelist has an affair with a sexy vampire from Florida; who will win -- four teenagers from Texas or giant spiders trying to rule the world in a prequel to Ed Wood's Plan Nine From Outer Space; the truth about alien sludge creatures that live in the New York sewers; why trolls dwell beneath a stone bridge in a small Midwestern town; and why an Iowa truck driver is delivering a demon south.Welcome to DARK CITIES, but be warned . you'll enjoy it so much, you may never want to leave!.