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Born Bad: Collected Stories

From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories — some never before published — that distill dread back down to its essence — and inject it straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his characters from today's headlines: a stalker prowling around an anonymous high-rise; a serial killer whose transgressions reflect a childhood of hideous abuse; an inner-city gunman who is willing to take out a blockful of victims in order to win a moment of acceptance.

Tautly written and endowed with murderous ironic spin, Born Bad plunges us into the hell that lies just outside our bedroom windows.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780679753360
  • Genres
  • crime, fiction, mystery, noir, thriller, suspense, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1994