Three friends do some slightly illegal night-time archaeology at an old house and find a strange disfigured skeleton of a baby. Weird stuff starts to happen, including a few random dismemberments. What, exactly have they stumbled on? The Twilight Pariah is a sort of slacker horror. The three friends are college students still stuck in their home town for the summers with dead-end jobs and there isn't much going on except hanging out and drinking and smoking pot, so this novella feels like a twilight world all its own, just within waving distance of YA and pulp but wandering through a more literary and listless coming-of-age story. I thought it lost this twilight charm a bit as it went full pulp in order to tie up the plot and execute the showdown, and the horrible murders seemed a little distant, as if they should have been a more visceral part of the story but wouldn;t have suited the tone. So not entirely successful but a quick fun read.