"Sometimes it's best to stay out where you're not welcome." Demented will chill you to the bone, for these are not your usual bedtime stories. From a son who wants to teach his mother a lesson, a deadly myth on Kingly Road, people who have a certain bizarre diet, to some of the most terrifying things your head could barely even conceive-these stories will give you goosebumps, shivers, and more. There are also stories about a vengeful unborn baby, a psychotic babysitter, and a creepy bus that leads you to hell. These tales will torment your head with eerie echoes and haunting screams, and compel you to turn and check what's lurking behind... every few minutes. With twisted scenarios that will make you second-guess who you can and cannot trust, these are stories that may tell you what could actually be hiding under your bed... or perhaps make you realize that they're not under the bed... and that maybe you're the monster.

'It's almost like the beginning to a joke or something, I thought as I munched on my burger. A priest, a teenage girl in a moomoo and professor Trelawney from Harry Potter pull up at the McDonald's drive-in just past midnight. And then I thought: great, my life is a joke.' The child of an eccentric mother and a nameless, faceless father, Angie has her hands full with schoolwork and unsatisfactory friendships, not to mention college applications and important plans for the future looming over her shoulder. When an old family secret is revealed to her, she's reluctantly drawn into a series of events that could potentially change her life.

A series of twice-told tales from Canadian author Shane Joseph. These newly re-published works include stories of losing home, wandering abroad, and finding home, always beginning from scratch. Similar to Joseph's own life path, each story has a silver lining and each story deserves to be heard once more.