A drunk widower wanders through an endless, abandoned mall while the war machine marches. 90s queer metalheads repeatedly try to burn down a regenerating church. Denizens of a punk house are confronted with the reality of what happened to their missing peer. An artist with acidic bodily fluids finds another like him. Award-Winning author Sam Richard returns with eleven weird horror stories ranging from body to cosmic to existential and beyond. The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God explores the raw honesty of grief, isolation, brokenness, and desperation.