If you’re familiar with horror, chances are you’re familiar with a certain infamous “haunted house” that claims to offer a large cash prize for anyone who can survive the experience without breaking certain rules. You’re also familiar, I suspect, with the reality that this is not a haunted house by any stretch of the imagination, but rather a torture porn extravaganza during which the participants are beaten, battered, bruised, and otherwise abused.

This is precisely the sort of environment at the core of Max Booth III’s THE LAST HAUNT.

A young boy, fixated on horror and the discomfort of others, grows into a man who takes that obsession and runs with it, transforming his own property into a grueling boot camp designed for the purpose of torturing and horrifying anyone foolish enough to sign the daunting contract required for admission.

When everything goes wrong one Halloween night, that barrage of cruelty leads to the death of a participant…an event that ultimately leads to far more death and a revenge that’s either supernatural or the product of a severely damaged psyche and a feverish imagination—that’s up to you to decide.

Related in a pseudo-epistolary method, the story is revealed through interviews with people close to the events that took place.

Readers are likely to recognize some familiar names throughout the novella, particularly those who are fans of indie horror.