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‘On Animals’ collects decades of the Los Angeles journalist’s pieces on the human-animal bond, melding cool reporting with warmth that breaks through.

“Horror movies are a form of adrenaline-pumping escapism and so is exercise,” says Decker, when asked how the idea of melding horror and fitness came to be.

A fusion of body horror and couples therapy, it centers on a sunken cave with a pool of water that, when sipped, makes cells thirst to meld with the nearest mammal.

This far-right movement melds its grassroots activity in south-central Pennsylvania with a broader campaign to influence a new generation of county and state politicians, law enforcement officials, businesspeople and educators.

But for Petrini — for reasons both emotional and financial, a melding of head and heart — staying is the only realistic option.