BUSTER VOODOO

Fear is no stranger to Dixon Green. Growing up the son of a Voodoo priestess in a poor black neighborhood in New Orleans, Dixon has witnessed pain, violence, desperation, and death. When children start to disappear in the Tremé, people suspect that feral dogs are to blame. But when Dixon's sister goes missing, word spreads that a terrifying legend is to blame: Buster Voodoo is back.

Decades later, Dixon works as a janitor at a theme park where he's biding his time with a bottle in his hand. Downtrodden and lonesome, his life is devoid of the magic and mystery of his childhood. But that all changes when children begin to disappear into the darkness of a ride called Marie Laveau's Zombie Nightmare. Only Dixon seems to realize what's happening and only Dixon knows how to fight it. As he begins to question his sanity - did Buster Voodoo really kidnap all those children? - a deadly force looms on the horizon that is far more powerful than any Voodoo boogeyman: Hurricane Katrina. In a gripping interlaced narrative that builds to a devastating climax, dixon uncovers the terrible realities behind his sister's disappearance in 1948 - his mother's dark secrets - and struggles to survive the dark days that follow in Katrina's wake. RJ Sevin is a lifelong resident of New Orleans, where he lives with his wife and son. He founded Nightmare Magazne with John Joseph Adams in 2012, and has contributed short fiction to various anthologies and magazines. He is currently working on a post-apocalyptic thriller called Eightball Fever.