reported by Libby Jordan, FictionFanatic.com

Active Bladder, the small press that "publishes the kind of crap your mother warned you about(TM)," will release EK CHUAH by James Cain on August 29.

EK CHUAH is set in Australia. This horror novel features Al Kurk, an overweight, 29-year-old virgin. Al meets Amber, an exotic-looking woman who seduces him, but the morning after, she is gone and blood stains the room.

Author James Cain says, "EK CHUAH examines the dark influences that stalk us all in this twenty-first century sexual society. It looks at love, friendship and basically what makes a man a man, in a story touched with horror and gun smoke, empowered by the metaphor of an AIDS-haunted Mayan god."

About James Cain

James Cain lives in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia and has had stories and poems published in more than 100 publications, including Red Scream and the anthologies Cold Flesh, Lurking Fear, and Cloaked in Shadows. Since 2002, he has edited and published Dark Animus magazine. His Web site is www.darkanimus.com/cain.html