Forget King, Barker, Straub, Koontz. The greatest writer of horror in the world is a young author named Hugh Helton-Huff. After only his fifth published novel, American Darkness: Code Red for Horror, Hugh Helton-Huff is crowned the new "master of horror" and literary successor to, bar none, such luminaries as Stephen King, Clive Barker and Dean Koontz. The sudden exposure and universal acclaim, however, has its perks as well as its drawbacks. It attracts not only the adulation of the general reading public, his "wise and compassionate readers," but also something dark and sinister as well.
It is a force which will obligate him to make a life-or-death decision, a decision which will involve not only his future and the future of the woman he loves, but also the future of the whole of humanity. Think Faust, on steroids.