For fans of Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Bryan Smith, and Edward Lee comes a brutal prequel where monsters aren't born... they're made. He was more than a killer. He was a legacy. Before the nightmare of Aberdeen Manor... There was Eric Stephenson. A respected mechanic by day. A ruthless butcher by night. Eric doesn't kill for survival or pleasure alone-he kills to build something that will outlive him. A dynasty founded on fear, obedience, and blood. But every empire begins with a single choice. Step inside the twisted mind of the man whose signature became a rusted hook, a weathered fedora, and a promise that death would never be the end. Witness how Alexander Clay Stephenson and Justin Shawn Smith were forged into reflections of their father's darkness... and how one unsuspecting girl, Maeve Adams, unknowingly became the final piece of a legacy decades in the making. Because blood isn't inherited. It's demanded. Dark, brutal, and relentlessly unforgiving, Eric Stephenson: Bloodlines is an extreme horror novel filled with serial killers, family betrayal, psychological terror, and graphic violence that explores how evil is created-and how it survives. Begin the nightmare with Eric Stephenson: Bloodlines , continue through The Haunting of Aberdeen Manor and Return to Aberdeen Manor , and prepare for the epic conclusion in The End to Aberdeen Manor , coming this September.