" Mike Thorn brings his masterful skill with immersive language and style to this beautiful and disturbing collection." - Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and Whispers in the Dark "With Peel Back and See , Mike Thorn plants one bloody foot in the history of horror and the other firmly in its future." - Sam Richard, author of Sabbath of the Fox-Devils and To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows In spaces both familiar and strange, unknowable horrors lurk. From the recesses of the Internet, where cosmic terror shows its face on an endless live feed, to a museum celebrating the sordid legacy of an occultist painter, this chilling collection of sixteen short stories will plunge you into the eerie, pessimistic imagination of Mike Thorn . Peel Back and See urges its readers to look closer, to push past surface-level appearances and face the things that stir below. " Mike Thorn 's Peel Back and See is a stunning show-stopper of a fiction collection." - Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke