Book excerpt: Songs of the Dead is a collection of nineteen short stories with varying themes, ranging from creepy to the supernatural. In "The Dinner Guests," a man finds himself experiencing an unusual hunger. In "She Had a Good Heart," a young heart transplant survivor meets her donor's family for the first time. What could go wrong? In "Dobie's Last Ride," a man finds himself at odds with a seemingly harmless black Lab, who turns out to be a bit less harmless as he first thought. This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. "Andy Rausch's tough, hard-hitting prose is married to thought-provoking concepts that make you question your own opinions, your own moral stance, and your own preconceptions of right and wrong." -John A. Russo, author of Night of the Living Dead "The classic horror short story not only lives and breathes. In the imaginative brain of Andy Rausch, it's totally reanimated." - Herschell Gordon Lewis, director of Blood Feast