Ill and Sordid Paths is a series of collections that take the average paths of life and takes them to the dark extreme. We each live through situations that could easily go beyond the calm and peace and devolve to the horrific and tragic. Ill and Sordid Paths: Nightmares of Negligence is a collection of stories that not only introduces new author A.P-Hooten to the horror community, but it also introduces a new perspective to the genre. Ill and Sordid Paths: Nightmares of Negligence, even with its supernatural elements takes normal life and it highlights the growing darkness that surrounds all of our lives. These stories are crafted with life in mind because, though zombies and werwolves have their appeal there is nothing more frightening than the darkness we bring about ourselves. The idea of a lover loving us too much, that a child is so lonely that he would befriend any entity that should them interest, Ignoring the warnings of our elders only to suffer the very consequences that the told us about. These types of situations are what opens our individual paths to potentially tragic result and this book is how tragic those results can be.