"DEPRAVED lives up to its name in the most brutal and visceral way. Sort of like a roller-coaster ride... but with battery acid and razor blades on the handlebars. Smith's most effective and merciless work to date!" --Ronald Kelly, author of FEAR, HELL HOLLOW

NAMED ONE OF BRIAN KEENE’S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR 2009.

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 town’s sinister web. Some are held captive and tortured while others face even more gruesome fates. And beneath it all is the town’s darkest secret, the curse of the depraved and mutated Kincher clan.

BONUS CONTENT: This digital edition of Depraved includes a 7,700 word short story that reveals the grisly fate of two secondary characters from the novel. The story is as spectacularly gory as the novel itself.