Depraved

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town's traps. Some will be held for their captors' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED. "Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices--and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town's traps. Some will be held for their captors' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly--Depraved"--Page 4 of cover. Welcome to Hopkins Bend, the remote little Tennessee town where the backwoods inhabitants are cannibals and the local law operates a sex-trafficking ring. Unlucky travelers are frequently ensnared in the towns sinister web. Some are held captive and tortured while others face even more gruesome fates. And beneath it all is the towns darkest secret, the curse of the depraved and mutated Kincher clan. When a group of young travelers stop in the backwater town of Hopkins Bend, they, after being captured and tortured, discover that they are the sacrifices for the annual feast to appease the half-human demon who has placed a curse on the town and its people. Original. 200,000 first printing.