"In Gateways to Abomination, Bartlett introduced us to Leeds, Massachusetts, a town under the thrall of a witch cult broadcasting from a radio station - WXXT -- found onthe far left regions of the dial. Those call letters, I am confident, will echo through the years in discussions of great early Twenty-First Century horror fiction, sending a glad shiver through theblood of anyone who's read it...(a)nd so now we come to Creeping Waves...one of the purest and most audacious expressions of horror in the modern day. There are moretantalizing ideas per page than you'll find in most full-length novels.Here you will encounter faded cult leaders returned to prominence andinfused with bloody purpose; old grimoires,diaries, and cookbooks of unsavory provenance catalogued and priced for thecorrupted bibliophile; passage to the Night of Black Tents and to the blood-drenched carnival at the rancid heart of the dream...This is Hell's beautiful, bleeding face." -Nathan Ballingrud, from the Introduction