title: The Dark Jests of Lost Ghosts: An Urban Gothic Tale
author: Monique Bos
description: Monique Bos holds a bachelor's degree from Calvin College and a master's degree from the Pennsylvania State University. She has worked as a magazine and newspaper editor, university instructor, and bookseller. After spending seven years in Savannah, she recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest, where she teaches ESL and works as a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. She lives near the woods with a big black dog, three cats, a gargoyle collection, and thousands of books. Writing this novel gave her nightmares. She still sleeps with the light on.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  ![Cover](images/_0.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Urban Gothic
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Brian Keene
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **No one gets out alive!**
  
  
  __
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  When their car broke down in a dangerous inner-city neighborhood, Kerri and
  her friends thought they would find shelter inside an old, dark row home. They
  thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until help
  arrived. They were wrong.
  
  
  
  
  
  The residents who live down in the cellar and the tunnels beneath the city are
  far more dangerous than the streets outside, and they have a very special way
  of dealing with trespassers. Trapped in a world of darkness, populated by
  obscene abominations, they will have to fight back if they ever want to see
  the sun again. Every city has its secrets and urban legends. But nothing can
  prepare them for when they find out the truth about this horrible house. Urban
  Gothic is Brian Keene's blood and body fluid splattered tribute to horror icon
  Edward Lee.
  
  
  
  
  
  "Raw, gritty, and often brilliant 