Sawney Bone: Book Two in the 101 Ways to Hell Series by Leo Darke
From the 17th century and Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean’s reign of terror to the 20th century and a runaway child hiding in an ominous cave, two destinies become entwined and an evil course is set.
Mild-mannered Jack Breen works in a video shop in Bristol, living out a dull, uncomplicated existence. But Jack has no clue as to how com-plicated his life is about to become when a menacing figure walks in asking for “the sickest film you’ve got.”
Bane, proprietor of the horror-themed pub The Slaughter Inn, has an obsession with darkness, death—and Jack himself.
As their lives become intertwined, Bane’s tormenting of Jack becomes increasingly dangerous. When the evil reaches out to touch his friends with horrific results, he’s determined to put a stop to it, no matter the cost.
Jack’s final conflict with Bane results in a disturbing journey deeper into the darkness within himself as he takes a bus ride down the Saw-ney Bean trail right into hell. You’ve got your ticket, now take your seat, the Maniacal Mystery Tour’s about to begin. A 101 Ways to Hell novel set in the 1990s, Sawney Bone is by Leo Darke, the infamous author of Lucifer Sam and Pandemonium.
Zombies! by Paul Kane
“Paul Kane is disturbing and very creepy.”
–Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestselling author of The Silence and The Last Storm
“Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out, and serves them up in
these deliciously dark tales.”
–Kelley Armstrong, Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Spell Bound, and
A Turn of the Tide)
A group of teenage friends think it’s a good idea to hang around in a graveyard, while a young thief gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a local property. We’re given a first-hand account of struggles in the aftermath of a post-apocalyptic event and the reminiscences of a musician with a very unusual talent. A woman wakes with no memory of who or where she is… and also no pulse, then we’re flung through space to a planet where a grave discovery is made—one which has deadly repercussions… Ladies and gentlemen, these are the Zombies!, a collection of stories by award-winning and #1 bestselling author Paul Kane (Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Before, Arcana, The Storm), including a brand new short novel, one of his popular Dalton Quayle novelettes, and a steampunk poem. With an introduction by award-winning and bestselling author Brian Keene (The Rising, City of the Dead) and cover art by Dominic Harman (The Hellbound Heart, Cabal), this is one book that simply refuses to lay down and die!
Containment Room 7 by Bryan Hall
“SCARY GOOD”
—Joe McKinney, author of Apocalypse of the Dead
In a far corner of space, orbiting a massive black hole, the research ship DARC12 discovers a strange asteroid—one that seems to be alive. After loading the rock on board for study, the ship quickly descends into madness. It begins with voices, whispers filling the shadows and the minds of the crew. A once-sane man declares that their discovery is not just a rock, but a god. Then the killing begins, and a cult rises, swearing allegiance to their newfound deity.
As the murders mount and the dead themselves begin to rise, a small group of survivors clings to the hope that they can somehow escape the hell they’ve been plunged into. But their problems escalate as they face an army of undead crewmembers, the reanimated corpses of hundreds of failed genetic experiments, the murderous cult, and—worst of all—the rapidly evolving creature in…
‘Twas the fright before Christmas,
nightmares fill my head,
the creatures, they’re a-prowling
’til everyone is dead…
Welcome back to Deathlehem, where…
…a stranger grants a grieving father’s Christmas wish…
…charitable acts are purely self-serving…
…a man plans his last Christmas in a post-apocalyptic world…
…a serial killer targets the wrong victim…
…sometimes it’s better not to go home for the holidays…
…and more! Seventeen more tales of holiday horrors to benefit
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
‘Twas the Fright Before Christmas in Deathlehem
“Heavily steeped in old-school horror aesthetics, from abandoned graveyards to derelict carnivals to hand-carved jack-o’-lanterns all in a row, Night Sounds offers up the sorts of chills and thrills that reads like a mug of hot apple cider and a warm blanket. Filled with spiders.”
-Brian Asman, author of Man, Fuck This House
Frantic, hungry claws scraping against wood…
The whining of a drill as it grinds through bone…
The ravings of a lunatic amid the honking of gridlocked cars…
Agonized shrieks through the phone line, followed by the rending of flesh…
The hypnotic, deadly tones of a calliope on a warm summer night…
When the sun goes down and darkness claims the land…
When the silence descends, isolating the lonely, the desperate, the weak…
These are the
NIGHT SOUNDS
you would hear, should you care to listen.
And just below it, if you strain your ears, you will hear
what the night sounds mask…
The sounds of human suffering,
the music of the night.
NIGHT SOUNDS: From Podcast to Print is a collection of scary, sometimes humorous stories, mostly written for popular fiction podcasts. The book is a throwback to Anderson’s earliest fiction influences, what we now call Old Time Radio.
Night Sounds: From Podcast to Print by Kevin David Anderson
Martin “Wags” Wagner, an aging catcher relegated to a minor-league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, is offered a new assignment—take a promising young pitcher under his wing and show him the ropes. Martin’s manager is cagey about the new player, giving only his name, Andrei Dinescu, and his country of origin, Moldova. Despite the mysterious circumstances, Martin accepts the assignment, hoping to earn a return to the big leagues.
After his first bullpen session with the new pitcher, Martin is stunned by Andrei’s lack of physical ability and his unfamiliarity with baseball. However, with each passing week, Andrei’s strength and skill grow exponentially, and his miraculous leaps in both ability and pitch velocity frighten Martin. His fear is compounded by the organization’s obvious attempts to keep Andrei separated from the rest of the team. When Martin discovers the shocking truth about Andrei Dinescu, he realizes his path back to the big leagues is one stained with horror and blood.
This tiles releases on October 15, 2022.
Effectively Wild by Aeryn Rudel
Under the burning sun of Cold Currant, Mississippi, right on the banks of the Mississippi River, sits an old antebellum farmhouse that has been passed down through the generations. The farm’s current occupants, the Tucker clan, are on the brink of losing their family’s legacy. Only, the Tuckers have been hiding a depraved, murderous secret under the very soil of the farmland they continue to work. When the vice-president of Cold Currant Savings and Loan shows up one sweltering summer afternoon to deliver their foreclosure papers, all hell breaks loose.
In the race to save their farm, Lee Tucker and his two inbred sons, Tobias and Mathias, are forced to make some terrible decisions and spill a lot of blood. But as the sun sets and the moon rises over the crops, and as their latest victim lies naked and screaming in the barn, a nightmarish chain of events begins to unfold. Will it be the end of the Tucker Blood Cult, or will their redneck living be enough to save the family farm?
Find out in…
BLOOD CULT OF THE BOOBY FARMERS!
Under the burning sun of Cold Currant, Mississippi, right on the banks of the Mississippi River, sits an old antebellum farmhouse that has been passed down through the generations. The farm’s current occupants, the Tucker clan, are on the brink of losing their family’s legacy. Only, the Tuckers have been hiding a depraved, murderous secret under the very soil of the farmland they continue to work. When the vice-president of Cold Currant Savings and Loan shows up one sweltering summer afternoon to deliver their foreclosure papers, all hell breaks loose.
In the race to save their farm, Lee Tucker and his two inbred sons, Tobias and Mathias, are forced to make some terrible decisions and spill a lot of blood. But as the sun sets and the moon rises over the crops, and as their latest victim lies naked and screaming in the barn, a nightmarish chain of events begins to unfold. Will it be the end of the Tucker Blood Cult, or will their redneck living be enough to save the family farm?
Find out in…
BLOOD CULT OF THE BOOBY FARMERS!
The Caribbean Sea, 1708 AD.
In Port Royal many have heard the legend of the Black Brig, a ship of the damned bringing a fate worse than death to the isolated colonies of the Caribbean Sea.
But few know the true story behind the tavern tales.
As the war between the Northern Alliance and the League of the Antilles looms on the horizon, an old captain is ready to embark on a venture to cease the blight of the Black Brig once for all and have his revenge.
Set in an alternate historical setting, where a supernatural plague caused the fall of the European powers and where what was left of humanity struggles to survive in the New World, DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES narrates the ghastly voyage pirate captain Daniel Drake Davies underwent in 1676, and the events that will force him to confront those same horrors thirty years later. For the dead do not rest peacefully in the Devil’s Sea.
Pirates, voodoo, and seagoing undead await you in this fantastic journey in a land that never was.
Peculiar County by Stuart R. West
Life is different in Peculiar County.
So is death, as Dibby Caldwell, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Hangwell’s mortician, is about to find out.
Witches lurk in the shadows.
A menacing creature haunts the skies.
And the dead refuse to stay dead.
A cry for help in the middle of the night finds Dibby in the neighbor’s cornfield, where the ghost of a young boy manifests, clings to her, and pleads with her to help him. Aided by the new kid in town, James Mackleby, the teenager launches her investigation, much to the consternation of some of the townsfolk. She’s told not to stir up old memories, and she soon learns that some folks will do anything to keep her from learning the truth. Her world crumbles when she discovers her own father knows more than he’s saying, and now she doesn’t know who to trust.
As if her life needs any further complications, she has to deal with her growing feelings for the town’s bad boy, who has proven himself unreliable and not very trustworthy, but she needs to trust someone. In her search for the truth, she unearths the supernatural roots of her hometown and finds allies in the least likely characters, people she had at one time considered prime suspects. But will her kind heart and the search for justice prove to be the death of her?
Always Beside You by Damir Salkovic
Help her open the door. It wants to come through…
First, the dream. Now this message from the mouth of a stranger. It was too much of a coincidence for Nate Carver, and has him dropping everything to help a woman he hasn’t even thought about in eight years, not since the overdose that almost took Cathy Deveraux’s life.
The prison escape of Thomas Elbert stirs up memories for Detective Alec Palmer, and the man’s death raises questions. Why would a catatonic convicted killer suddenly wake up and escape, only to commit suicide days later? Or was it murder? And what connection did he have to Nate Carver, a man on the run with a daughter he never knew he had?
All roads lead to Boston, where, in their search for answers, they will be drawn into the dark world of the occult and mysticism. Of parallel worlds and alternate realities. Of doors that open onto other times and other worlds. Of dreams that won’t be denied. By the time they realize they are merely pawns in a much bigger game, a game where the fate of the world is at stake, will it be too late?
Santa Claws is Coming to Deathlehem edited by Michael J. Evans and Harrison Graves
Hark hear the howls
Blood-chilling howls
Tear heads away
Eviscerate
The Claws is here
Relishing fear
Rends young and old
Weak and the bold
Welcome back to Deathlehem…
…where the holiday is exceptionally kind to an ancient witch…
…where the office Secret Santa takes a deadly twist…
…where a serial killer paints the town red with his countdown to Christmas…
…where children confront Santa after years of disappointment…
…and many more!
Twenty-five more tales of holiday horrors to benefit
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Frankenstein’s Mistress: Tales of Love & Monsters by Michael McCarty et al.
“Michael McCarty is given full rein, and off he goes on a bizarre trip of the imagination, all stops out, no limits, hell-for-leather,” – William Nolan author of Logan’s Run
This collection of horror and science fiction stories includes a sequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – with Victor Frankenstein, the monster, and a blind fortune teller named Rose Blackthorn. In other tales… even the apocalypse won’t stop Leonard Cartwright from searching for his wife in the ruins; after getting struck by lightning that left him in a coma for twenty years, Jackson Heyward awakens with the ability to talk to the dead; will the discovery of the power of invisibility help save Dr. Nick’s failing relationship with his soulmate, or will it aid in its destruction? And many more twisted tales.
Sometimes love is a monster …
And there is no escape from Frankenstein’s Mistress: Tales of Love & Monsters.
Prepare to Meet Thy God by Matt Starr
Almost Heaven
That’s what the voice on the radio promised, and as Heath and his friends drove through the snow-capped mountains of West Virginia, they could almost believe it. Their destination? Blue Brier and the neighboring ski resort.
More Like Hell
The signs were there—becoming more evident as they drove deeper into the mountains of West Virginia—that something wasn’t right. And nowhere was it more obvious than in Blue Brier itself, with its warning of “Prepare to Meet Thy God” painted on the side of a shed. Nor did the group heed the subtle warning issued by the local sheriff.
Ask, So That Your Sins May be Forgiven
The Harrowing is upon them, and it’s too late to repent. Now they’re running scared, running as though the very hounds of Hell are nipping at their heels.
Emily in the Wall: Twelve Chilling Tales of Horror and Suspense by Neil Davies
It’s not only houses that are haunted. People can be haunted too. In fact, we’re all haunted. By the past. By the truth. By our own failures. By ghosts. From the warped mind of Neil Davies comes a collection of chilling tales that will follow you into sleep, twist your dreams into nightmares, and haunt your waking hours. Be prepared to meet…
A war hero haunted by a past he can’t remember… A widower caught in a nightmare caused by his wife’s desire for a child… A wheelchair-bound woman taunted by a handicapped girl living in the walls… A young girl drawn in to an evil plot after witnessing an old woman’s suicide… A man who returns home to confront the nightmares of his youth… A bullied teen who teaches her tormentors a lesson they won’t soon forget… and many more!
The Midnight Lullaby by Cheryl Low
“Tragic story of a young man from a family of ghost hunters, involved with the spirit of a murdered girl…the ending will haunt you. Cheryl Low redefines horror with this lullaby of the dead.”
—AstraDaemon’s Lair
Everybody has secrets…
For years, Benedict Lyon has been living a lie. Not even his family knows the truth
he’s been keeping from the world. Only Emmeline knows his secret—and she’s dead.
…some are darker than others…
When the matriarch of the Lyon family passes away, Benedict is summoned home for the funeral. Emmeline urges Benedict not to go, certain that if he returns to that house,
neither one of them will escape.
…but are they worth dying for?
Their presence in the family home causes the spirit of Gloria Lyon to become restless,
and as the remaining members of the Lyon family attempt to put their mother to rest, long buried
secrets, some deadlier than others, are unearthed. Who will survive…
The Midnight Lullaby
Pandemonium by Leo Darke
“History and present day collide, and in the pandemonium that follows, Darke has crafted a quality narrative that is both comedic and dripping with tension. An entertaining folk horror tale a thousand years in the making.”
–Dave Jeffery, author of Tooth & Claw and A Quiet Apocalypse
“Darke lures you in to a tale about a gentle, but ultimately doomed relationship, then slaps you upside the head with shock after shock, extreme gore, surrealistically nightmarish sequences, all building toward a breathless, horrific finale.”
–Stuart R. West, author of Corporate Wolf and Ghosts of Gannaway
From the moment their eyes met across the crowded sales floor, Billy knew he had met his soulmate, the woman he was meant to be with. While on a date, the appearance of three hooded figures in a field spooks Aura, and she tells Billy he needs to put her from his mind, forget she ever existed. Then she was gone.
But how do you forget the one you are destined to be with?
The only clue to his girlfriend’s disappearance is an old and very strange guide to country walks that Aura had shown great interest in—particularly Walk No. 21, which would take the traveler through “deepest, darkest Somerset.”
What is it about Walk No. 21 that had Aura so fascinated? And why has it become an obsession, not only of Billy’s, but of anyone who has come in contact with the book?
Horrorfrost by Edward Newton
Twenty years ago, Roman Carver turned his back on civilization and retreated to the mountains for a simpler, albeit more rugged existence. During that time, he’s had to face a number of predators that threatened his new way of life, but nothing that he’s encountered in the past could have prepared him for this new threat.
There’s something in the white…
It came with the snow, perfectly camouflaged. It destroyed Roman’s cabin, forcing him to seek aid at the nearby Enchanted Points Ski Resort. But then it razed the resort, leaving behind a rag-tag band of survivors.
…and it’s hungry.
Now, in white-out conditions and a temperature that continues to drop, it’s up to Roman to lead them all to safety. But the weather isn’t their only obstacle. First, there’s the creature. Then there’s the wall around town that the creature has been building. And then there’s what’s on the other side of the wall…
A Tree Lighting in Deathlehem: An Anthology of Holiday Horrors for Charity
In Deathlehem, the masses hail
The Blessed one was born
They gathered in a manger
On that black December morn
Among the screams of Mother Mary
The Babe from her torn
Dark tidings corrupting hope and joy
So rest merry gentlemen
Let Satan’s child play
Burning bodies light this Christmas tree
In Deathlehem today
Welcome back, folks. And for you newbies wondering where you are, that would be Deathlehem…
…where enemies meet on the battlefield to set aside their differences on this holiest of nights—only to be tormented by a legendary she-demon…
…where irons bars won’t keep brothers from spending Christmas with their mother—much to her dismay…
…where the search for the perfect tree turns into a bloody nightmare…
…where an imprisoned evil has a young couple and their daughter wishing they’d stayed at home for the holidays…
Twenty-five more tales of holiday horror to benefit The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Midnight.
The Witching Hour.
But the creatures of darkness are not
confined to the shadows of the night.
Lonely stretches of highways…
Bustling college campuses…
Quiet suburban neighborhoods…
Pricey, upscale day spas…
They’re everywhere.
Earl and Dale, a pair of burly truckers,
seem to be drawn to those that dwell in the darkness.
Monster hunters by default, they
confront the evil fearlessly—and with just a bit of humor.
Vampires, werewolves, half-human spider demons,
and those that prey on the innocent…
All will realize they’ve met their match
when they go head to head with…
The Midnight Men
Sins of the Fathers by S. Gepp
They called themselves The Round Table. Seven friends, a bunch of nobodies in high school—until they learned the art of manipulation and how much influence they could wield with the right bit of knowledge. After years of being bullied, they had their first taste of power…and they wanted more.
In college, they found their power had faded. Their petty blackmail schemes no longer made others eager to do their bidding…and that just wasn’t acceptable. But the Darkness offered them everything they could possibly want—for a price.
A price they were all too willing to pay.
And now, twenty-one years later, married with children and successful careers, their past is coming back to haunt them and threatening to take everything they hold dear. How much will they lose before they can placate the spirit of the dead?
Corporate Wolf by Stuart R. West
“Brilliant. Unique horror humor that still ratchets up the tension and manages to shock. Alternately terrifying, hilarious, and ultimately poignant…”
–Catherine Cavendish, author of The Haunting of Henderson Close and The Devil’s Serenade
If you can’t run with the big dogs…
It was supposed to be a corporate retreat and a series of morale-boosting exercises. It was a weekend Shawn Biltmore nearly didn’t survive.
There was something else playing in the woods that night,
something other than a bunch of corporate drones with paintball guns.
And it had chosen Shawn as its new chew toy.
…rip ’em to shreds.
The local authorities chalked it up to a bear attack.
So did the doctors.
Shawn knew the truth, however, as much as he wanted to deny it.
But when one of his coworkers is viciously killed,
Shawn must face the truth…
He’s a killer who needs to be put down.
Or is he?
The Memoir of Darius Fischer (Grave Marker, No. 18)
For as long as Darius Fischer can remember, his grandfather had an air of mystery about him, and he harbored many secrets, secrets he kept hidden from his own family. Now that the old man has passed away, Darius is free to explore those secrets and dispel the mystery surrounding the man. But what he hinds only deepens the mystery.
He finds, locked away inside a chest, strands of grayish white hair secured by a leather band. What was so important about these strands of hair, and why did the old man keep them under lock and key?
From the moment he arrives home, Darius begins to witness some strange events, and a menacing shadowy figure pursues him. When he starts experiencing blackouts and waking in strange places, covered in blood, he questions his sanity. He seeks out help, first spiritual, then psychological. But has he put it off too long? Is he too late to save himself from the demons he inadvertently released?
Find out in Ezekiel Kincaid’s The Memoir of Darius Fischer.
Red Blood, White Wood (Grave Marker, No. 17)
Timothy Carpenter was the lone survivor of the pirate ship Ravager. In custody, the tale he had to tell was too outlandish to believe — native curses, a deadly fog, and something within the fog. Admiral Buchanan of the HMS Lionheart read the pirate’s account of the things that transpired with mounting disbelief. But now the fog is rolling in, and he’s about to realize just how much truth is in the man’s words.
Jonah Buck’s Cesspool
With barely a moment to rest after wrapping up his last case, Jasper O’Malley is handed another assignment that sends him and his partner, Amelia Rio, to the Big Apple. This time around Jasper’s been hired to find a missing person, one Ray Armstrong, a former associate of his.
The trail eventually leads Jasper and Amelia into the tunnels beneath the city, where the case takes an unexpected turn when they stumble upon a desiccated corpse. As much as Jasper would like to believe there’s a logical explanation for the condition of the body, all evidence points to one thing…
There’s a vampire prowling the city and preying on its citizens.
Now, in addition to locating Armstrong, Jasper needs to track down and destroy the creature sucking the city dry in typical O’Malley style. God help New York City.
Tooth & Claw by Dave Jeffery
There’s no place quite like Cofton Grange. Set in twelve-hundred acres of hills and woodland, it is a playground for the wealthy where, for the right price, every desire is made a reality.
Tonight is special; a group of hunters have bought into the most exclusive contest, the opportunity to track and kill a fantastic and terrifying creature not of this Earth. The stakes are high, each competitor determined to claim the kudos that will come from taking down their incredible prey.
But as the moon rises and the pursuit begins, each hunter is about to find out that sometimes there are fiercer things than the competition.
Tooth and Claw—The hunt is on!
Grave Markers, Volume 5
The Source by W.C. Jones
Have you ever wondered why people do bad things?
One man’s desire to find out why turns into an obsession after his wife and unborn child are killed in a drive-by shooting. What Josh discovers defies all logic and reason. But now that he knows the truth, is he about to become the next victim of a random act of violence?
Brain Attack by A.P. Sessler
DANIEL REGINALD LEWIS.
For years he had been known only as Head-Explode Guy because of his iconic death in the cult scifi/horror film Brain Attack. But a convention organizer has finally succeeded where all others failed, tracking down the elusive actor and securing his appearance at this year’s Horr-Onto Con, surely to go down as one of the greatest cons in history.
But someone doesn’t want Lewis to make that appearance. Someone afraid of what he might expose. Secrets a shadow organization never meant to go public and will go to any length to make certain they stay buried. Will this mysterious actor be able to expose the truth behind Brain Attack, or will he be silenced—again?
The Bathtub by Andrew Richardson
Elizabeth had always fantasized about two of her handsome co-workers, but she knew better than to start anything while she worked side by side with them. Now that she’s about to leave the bank for a new job, her wildest, naughtiest fantasies are about to become a reality. But a home invasion wasn’t part of what the threesome had planned, and now her wildest dreams are about to become her worst nightmare—in more ways than one.
Lucifer Sam by Leo Darke
The Day the Music Died
When a private jet carrying internationally acclaimed rock band Cat O’ Nine Tails vanishes over the Indian Ocean, the shockwaves were felt around the world. There was no wreckage, no bodies, no black box recordings to provide clues as to what happened to the musicians. They were simply gone.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die
Just as the world is recovering from the loss of Cat O’ Nine Tails comes news that the jet carrying the band has mysteriously re-appeared in the same air space from which it had vanished six months ago. Was it a publicity stunt? The band is unable—or unwilling—to answer that question. They were “lost. But now we’re back…” with the promise of a new album with a killer new sound coming soon.
There’s something definitely not right with the band, but the nation is too firmly in the grip of Cat O’ Nine Fever to notice. And as the formerly affable, much-loved Cat O’ Nine Tails gears up for a new stadium show, it falls to Cat’s original front man, sacked years before, and the members of a virtually unknown punk band, Lucifer Sam, to uncover the real threat behind the massive publicity drive.
The Grimm Reaper (Grave Marker No. 16)
Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of.
And that’s exactly what Arthur Rosenbaum was looking for — the perfect woman. One who was, like him, a romantic, one who was old-fashioned…one who was pure. That was important because good little girls didn’t do bad things. But Arthur had learned there were plenty of bad girls out there, bad girls who pretended to be good. Those girls needed to be punished. And he needed his faith in love restored.
And then he meets Rowan, a “special” young woman who possesses a child-like innocence. She is perfect in every way, and Arthur feels as though he has finally found the one. But Arthur is about to realize that no fairy tale is complete without its villain, its evil witch… Its big, bad wolf. And to win the hand of princess he must first defeat this adversary. The question is, at 55 years old, is he up to the challenge?
Chilopodophobia by Paul McMahon
You Can’t Outrun Your Past…
…as Cady is about to find out.
Years ago, Cady was involved in an accident, one that claimed the life of a young woman, but due to a technicality, he was cleared of any charges against him. Once free, he fled to the other side of the country, hoping to start fresh.
Nightmares
Now, he’s on his way to meet his girlfriend’s uncle, her only living relative. Nervous doesn’t begin to describe how he feels. He’s terrified his worst nightmare might come true—that they’ll question him about that accident. He’ll soon learn there are worse things to be worried about.
First, there are the centipedes…
Second, there’s the prison cell…
The Bathtub (Grave Marker No. 15)
Elizabeth had always fantasized about two of her handsome co-workers, but she knew better than to start anything while she worked side by side with them. Now that she’s about to leave the bank for a new job, her wildest, naughtiest fantasies are about to become a reality. But a home invasion wasn’t part of what the threesome had planned, and now her wildest dreams are about to become her worst nightmare—in more ways than one.
Said the little child to his mother dear,
do you hear what I hear
Shrieking through the night, father dear,
And do you see what I see
A cry, a scream, blood coloring the snow
And a laugh as evil as sin
And a laugh as evil as sin
Well, folks, looks like we’re back in Deathlehem, where…
…Santa’s gift turns a mindless horde of bargain-hungry shoppers
into…well… a horde of hungry shoppers…
…defective toys aren’t just dangerous; they’re deadly…
…holiday ornaments prove to be absolutely captivating—permanently…
…those ugly Christmas sweaters are to die for…
Twenty-five more tales of holiday horror to benefit
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Brain Attack (Grave Marker No. 14)
DANIEL REGINALD LEWIS.
For years he had been known only as Head-Explode Guy because of his iconic death in the cult scifi/horror film Brain Attack. But a convention organizer has finally succeeded where all others failed, tracking down the elusive actor and securing his appearance at this year’s Horr-Onto Con, surely to go down as one of the greatest cons in history.
But someone doesn’t want Lewis to make that appearance. Someone afraid of what he might expose. Secrets a shadow organization never meant to go public and will go to any length to make certain they stay buried. Will this mysterious actor be able to expose the truth behind Brain Attack, or will he be silenced—again?
The Source (Grave Marker No. 13)
Have you ever wondered why people do bad things?
One man’s desire to find out why turns into an obsession after his wife and unborn child are killed in a drive-by shooting. What Josh discovers defies all logic and reason. But now that he knows the truth, is he about to become the next victim of a random act of violence?
What’s Wrong with the Baby? by Vincent Courtney
THE FEAR IS GROWING
From the moment he saw the ancient castle rising out of the picturesque Scottish countryside, filmmaker Dan Martin knew he’d found the ideal location for his vampire horror movie. And nothing could make him leave. Not the eerie legends of soul-stealing beasts of the night…nor a bizarre series of freak accidents. Not even his pregnant wife’s tragic miscarriage.
THE TERROR IS BORN
Except that now there is another fetus growing in Vicki’s womb. But little Darian is not going to be a normal baby. The Martins’ adopted ten-year-old son Marty will soon find that out. In fact, Marty will soon know exactly what his new brother really is.
Infernal by Cheryl Low
Shrouded in Mystery
The locals call it Isla de los Perdidos.
Island of the Lost.
According to the legends, those who venture onto the shores of this cursed island never return.
Abandoned
Valarie DeNola and her sister Julie have chosen to ignore the legends and the warnings. They have been selected to lead a team of explorers to the island to discover the mystery surrounding it. But once ashore, they become cut off from the outside world, and what they discover is something they could never have prepared for.
Inhabited by Death
Now they must fight against an unknown presence that is picking them off one by one. No one can be trusted, and when even nature rises up against them, all seems lost. Their one hope is the extraction team they know is coming.
But will any of them survive to see it arrive?
Twisted Tales from Tornado Alley: A Collection of Short Fiction by Stuart R. West
Welcome to Tornado Alley, where the tales are as dangerous and as twisted as the storms that ravage the great plains of Kansas.
Here, you’ll meet an arachnophobe whose plans for a romantic weekend become
a nightmare far worse than anything she could ever have imagined.
Holidays are all about food and family, but this year there’s a darkness hovering over
Don Carmelo’s Thanksgiving feast.
A hen-pecked husband finally decides to heed his wife’s advice to man up and become a man, but will she like the changes in her husband?
They say you should never judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. Harv Perkins is about to find out what it’s like to not only walk in another man’s shoes, but to wear his skin as well.
Ding, dong, the witch is dead, that’s what the residents of Beckham County are proclaiming. But down in the morgue, something is stirring.
All these and more! Eleven tales to thrill and chill you!
Ghosts of Gannaway by Stuart R. West
Evil lives deep within the mines of Gannaway.
Born of hate, it preys on the miners, feeds off their superstitions. It gathers strength from the dead and drives the living insane. And it has survived for decades.
It’s up to one man to put an end to the evil and lay the ghosts of Gannaway to rest, but can he allay his own fears and conquer his own demons long enough to get the job done?
The Witching Well by S.D. Hintz (Young Adult)
It’s the end of the world…
…as Murray Macabe knows it. The security of his home life has been ripped out from under him when his mother was brutally murdered. Rejected by his aunt, Murray only has one place left to go, and that’s to live the rest of his life with a woman he barely knows.
To Grandmother’s House He Goes
At first, life with his grandmother doesn’t seem like it’s going to be that bad, but Murray soon learns his grandmother harbors dark secrets.
Double, Double Toil and Trouble; Fire Burn and Caldron Bubble
As bad as Grandma’s secrets might be, they are nothing compared to the secrets held by the neighbors, three elderly women who have set their sights on Murray for their own dastardly purposes. Soon Murray finds himself fighting for his very life, and there’s no one to turn to for help because everyone knows there’s no such thing as witches.
Vampire Worms (Grave Marker No. 12)
When the first body appears drained of blood, Paul Walker automatically thinks the killer is a vampire. But vampires aren’t real, or so he’s been told by the local constabulary. But when he witnesses the murder of his sister by one of the vampires, he realizes the creatures are real; they’re just different from what the books and movies have led him to believe. Now he only needs to convince the local police before the town is overrun. As he races back to town, though, he realizes he might be too late.
Evil Never Dies by Mick Ridgewell
In the Spring of 1912, evil came to the small town of Kings Shore. A creature with a voracious appetite for blood took up residence within the town’s shadows.
Network newsman Roland Millhouse arrived in town to interview Patricia Owens on the occasion of her 120th birthday. He envisioned a feeble old woman in a wheelchair. The woman he met was anything but. She possessed more energy than most people a half-century younger. And her life was far from boring.
Roland expected to leave Kings Shore with a fluff piece full of garden parties and church socials. What he got was a terrifying tale of death and monsters. A tale that would change his life forever.
The Goat Parade by Peter N. Dudar
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME…
AND BE LIKE GOATS IN MY PARADE
The city of Portland, Maine, is preparing for a parade to end all parades, one that will usher in a thousand years of darkness. The only thing is, they don’t know it.
Four strangers will engage each other on the Devil’s battlefield and fight not only for the future of the city, but for the entire world.
Warren Pembroke, Satan’s Chosen One. He has been charged with making sure everything goes according to the Dark Lord’s plan.
Svetlana Barnyk, a gypsy street performer cursed with the Gift of Sight. She lives in fear of the day Zee Doctor will return to reclaim the gift he bestowed on her.
“Tobacco Joe” Walton, an ex-con who served a 43-year term for committing a savage crime in the name of Justice. He is seeking redemption, but Ol’ Scratch has other plans for him.
Erik Marsh, a crime beat reporter driven to the edge by the atrocities man has committed against his fellow man. All he wants is to preserve his sanity and spend time with his son.
Will they be able to defeat the Devil and stop the Goat Parade, or will the world be plunged into an age of darkness and endless suffering?
Lost Girl of the Lake by Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty
Lake Livingston: August, 1961.
Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at the hands of giggling teenage girls.
But the piney woods above Lake Livingston are dark at night, and hold many secrets for an impressionable youngster on the cusp of becoming a man. And one night, after skinny dipping in the lake with a mysterious local girl, Mark Gaitlin’s life takes a crazy turn into the fire and brimstone religion of backwoods snake handlers and abandoned villages haunted by old family secrets. If he can survive the snakes and the ghosts and his own family’s dark history, he just might make it out of the woods alive.
And something else…he just might become a man.
O little town of Deathlehem,
Within you death doth lie!
Beneath thy deep and rutted streets
Tormented souls do cry.
Yet in your dark streets shineth
A cold and ghostly light.
The fears and tears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
Well, here we are again, folks — Deathlehem …
… where Krampus isn’t the only creature to fear
when the holiday draws near…
… where holiday treats aren’t safe to eat …
… where not even the apocalypse will keep
people from celebrating the holiday …
… where even Chanukah isn’t safe to celebrate …
Twenty-five more tales of holiday horror to benefit
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
The First Suitor (Grave Marker No. 11)
Marrying above your station is never easy. The money, the great house, the gorgeous wife, and the mind-blowing sex, they all come with a price tag. That was something Howie didn’t realize when he entered into this relationship. But now it’s time to pay the piper and the price is more than he is willing to pay. Is there an out, or will Howie find out what happens when he refuses to make the expected payment?
Weekend Getaway by Tom Deady
A lost child.
A marriage shattered beyond repair?
John Baxter doesn’t think so, which is why he has planned this weekend getaway with his wife. He expected a lot of shouting, a lot of tears, but in the end, he hoped to have a stronger foundation upon which they could start rebuilding what they had once had.
What he wasn’t expecting was the home invasion…
…and the hell that awaited them beneath the rented cabin.
The Demon Guardian by Neil Davies
It all started with the sibilant, unintelligible whispering and the movement of shadows within shadows. For Dennis Parkes, it was a sign of his worsening mental health. That is, until the day it spoke clearly and told him what it wanted.
Swanhild
When amateur ghost hunters Jake Maxfield and Elton Hoggarth discovered the stone with the letters G and J engraved into it, they suspected they might have made a significant find, but because of the worsening weather, they are forced to abandon their amateur dig. They send their photos to a university contact, who confirms that they have indeed discovered something important.
Gjallarbru
Can this bridge be behind Dennis’s situation? And does it explain the strange darkness that has settled over Ottmor Wood and the surrounding area? Or is something more sinister at work? And are Dennis’s motley group of friends enough to beat back the darkness and save their hometown — and the world?
Northern Frights: An Anthology by the Horror Writers of Maine
Lonely, haunted roads, insanity, ancient curses, and strange creatures that go bump in the night: these are the types of tales that make up the rich tapestry of Maine’s legends and lore, and they are exactly the types of tales you will find within these pages.
Northern Frights is the first anthology from the “Horror Writers of Maine.” There are names in this collection you might recognize, ones you should, and after reading it, ones you’ll never forget. Sit back, keep the lights on, and read some horror from native Mainers.
The Freaks Come Out at Night (Grave Marker No. 10)
The Mole People have long been part of New York City’s mythology. An urban legend, much like the alligators in the sewers. But the Mole People are no myth; they are real, and they are being recruited into an Army of Darkness with one purpose: to claim the city for its own.
Frank Burger, a NYPD homicide detective, and Harvey Goldblum, a paranormal investigator, have both uncovered the plot, but when they reveal the truth, will anybody believe them? Or will the lights of Broadway go forever dark and will the City that Never Sleeps become a playground for the undead?
Grave Markers, Vol. 3
Full Moon in the West by Dominic Stabile
Juan “Tezcat” Medina is about to take the law into his own hands. Having lost his wife and daughter to a gang of outlaws, he’s been given the chance to have them back with him. All he has to do is kill the six men who robbed him of his family. But there’s something different about this gang of outlaws, something Tezcat isn’t aware of until it’s too late and he’s forced into a showdown with evil.
Bottled Spirits by Adrian Ludens
Truman Bonner is used to battling personal demons, but an encounter with a parasitic imp leaves him shaken to the core. He locks the imp in a secret cell beneath Deadwood, hoping never to encounter the evil entity again. Then Truman’s wife disappears from their homestead after a late-night argument, and Truman and his son, Isaac, set out to bring her safely home. Confronted by a series of harrowing supernatural ordeals, the trail leads them back to the imp’s macabre prison. Casualties mount, innocence is lost, and before the family is reunited, more than one person will have made a deal with the devil.
The Dance by S.L. Williams
One wish and Blaze can have anything her heart desires — no strings attached. She knows this is too good to be true, but the temptation proves to be too great for the young woman who only wants to dance. Because of her background, she knows she’ll never be able to afford proper lessons and the opportunities that come with, but all that could change with just one wish. What Blaze is about to learn, however, is that despite what she’s been told, all things have a price. But is it a price she’s willing to pay?
Gypsy by Dan Foley
Tim Ritter is dying. Cancer, the Big C, was eating him alive and he only had a few months left to live. Or did he?
When a gypsy at a country fair offers him a chance for a new, cancer-free life, he has to decide if he is going to live out the death sentence the doctors have handed him or if he is willing to give up the life he has lived to become her instrument of vengeance for a crime that had been committed fifty years in the past.
Does he really have a choice? A chance at a new life versus a slow, painful death …
Tim chooses life … and the consequences that come with it.
The Dance (Grave Marker No. 9)
One wish and Blaze can have anything her heart desires — no strings attached. She knows this is too good to be true, but the temptation proves to be too great for the young woman who only wants to dance. Because of her background, she knows she’ll never be able to afford proper lessons and the opportunities that come with, but all that could change with just one wish.
What Blaze is about to learn, however, is that despite what she’s been told, all things have a price. But is it a price she’s willing to pay?
Bottled Spirits (Grave Marker No. 8)
Truman Bonner is used to battling personal demons, but an encounter with a parasitic imp leaves him shaken to the core. He locks the imp in a secret cell beneath Deadwood, hoping never to encounter the evil entity again. Then Truman’s wife disappears from their homestead after a late-night argument, and Truman and his son, Isaac, set out to bring her safely home. Confronted by a series of harrowing supernatural ordeals, the trail leads them back to the imp’s macabre prison. Casualties mount, innocence is lost, and before the family is reunited, more than one person will have made a deal with the devil.
Grave Markers, Vol. 2
Tolerance: A West Hollywood Vampire Novelette by Hal Bodner
Children are disappearing from the streets of West Hollywood. The police are clueless, but Christopher Driscoll suspects he might know who is responsible. The trail leads to a local new hot spot that has become THE place to eat. Has the owner been serving up finger-licking good baby barbecue, or has there been a HUGE misunderstanding?
Shriek of the Harpy by Sebastian Bendix
Movie theaters are a magical place, and the Downtown Nickelodeon is no exception, as junior film archivist Muriel Sharpe is about to find out. Tasked with the job of going through the old theater’s archives before the building is demolished, Muriel doesn’t hold out much hope of unearthing anything rare, but what she finds is a treasure trove out long-thought-lost films. Acting on instinct, and against her better judgement, she threads up the old movie projector and inadvertently awakens the magic of the old Nick. She’s swept away in a passionate romance, dodges bullets with an infamous gangster, but nothing could prepare her for the horror the theater unleashes with Shriek of the Harpy, and soon she’s in a fight for her very life as she tries to escape the one place she considered to be a safe haven.
The One Who Lies Next to You by Russell Coy
When Angie Berg suspects her husband is having an affair, it has an impact on every aspect of her life. Confiding in her boss, Angie learns Carol’s husband had also been unfaithful, and it was the reason for their divorce. Carol wants to help Angie get to the truth, and she has the means to do so — a handmade Amish quilt. Thinking her boss has gone off the deep end, Angie accepts the gift in the spirit in which it had been intended. Later that night, still plagued with doubts, Angie figures there’s no harm in throwing the quilt on the bed. What does she have to lose? What she discovers is worse than she imagined, and now Angie finds herself in mortal peril as she tries to figure out what to do next.
Full Moon in the West (Grave Marker No. 7)
Juan “Tezcat” Medina is about to take the law into his own hands. Having lost his wife and daughter to a gang of outlaws, he’s been given the chance to have them back with him. All he has to do is kill the six men who robbed him of his family. But there’s something different about this gang of outlaws, something Tezcat isn’t aware of until it’s too late and he’s forced into a showdown with evil.
Dread and Breakfast by Stuart R. West
WELCOME TO THE DANDY DROP INN, WHERE EVERYBODY
IS TREATED LIKE FAMILY!
It’s the worst snowstorm Missouri has ever seen, and nine strangers, each harboring their own secrets, find themselves sharing a roof at the Dandy Drop Inn.
CHECKING IN’S EASY, …
Tommy and Heather Goodenow, the inn’s only scheduled guests, are young newlyweds brought together by God himself. They plan to start their life together by carrying out the Lord’s work, and God help anybody who gets in their way.
Harold Carsten, an accountant for the mob, is on the run with $700,000 stolen from his employer.
Winston Ashford is a man on a mission. His mission? Retrieve the money Carsten stole and make sure the man never does it again.
And then there’s Rebecca Stanchfield and her six-year-old daughter, Kyra; they’re risking their lives running from an abusive past.
… CHECKING OUT’S A BITCH.
Jim and Delores Dandy wouldn’t dream of turning anybody away, especially not on the worst night in Missouri’s history, because that just wouldn’t be neighborly.
Before the storm is over, blood will flow. Who will survive to see the storm finally pass?
Substratum (A Jasper O’Malley Novel) by Jonah Buck
Deep beneath the streets of Detroit, someone — or something — is picking off the miners of the Detroit Salt Combine. The company appears to be more concerned with the protection of their equipment than with the safety of their employees, so the miners take it upon themselves to approach the Attican Detective Agency to find out what’s happening to their co-workers. Jasper O’Malley, an agent with a reputation for getting things done (at great cost), is assigned to the case.
Teamed with Sadie Dupree, a geological expert, and Amelia Rio, an ace driver for one of the Organized Crime families, Jasper ventures underground to investigate the fate of the miners. But there’s another factor operating within the labyrinth of tunnels, a factor that would kill to keep its illegal operations undiscovered. And still another factor has infiltrated the hired detective’s own group. Yes, there’s a Judas working with Jasper, a traitor who knows the secret of the mine, and who will stop at nothing to keep the mine’s secret. Can Jasper track down whom or what is responsible for the miners’ disappearances, or will he and his one true ally suffer the same fate as the unfortunate workers?
The One Who Lies Next to You (Grave Marker No. 6)
When Angie Berg suspects her husband is having an affair, it has an impact on every aspect of her life. Confiding in her boss, Angie learns Carol’s husband had also been unfaithful, and it was the reason for their divorce. Carol wants to help Angie get to the truth, and she has the means to do so — a handmade Amish quilt. Thinking her boss has gone off the deep end, Angie accepts the gift in the spirit in which it had been intended.
Later that night, still plagued with doubts, Angie figures there’s no harm in throwing the quilt on the bed. What does she have to lose? What she discovers is worse than she imagined, and now Angie finds herself in mortal peril as she tries to figure out what to do next.
Cranial Leakage: Tales from the Grinning Skull, Vol. II
A religious order, believing themselves to be entrusted by God with certain secrets, will stop at nothing to keep those secrets safe
A haunted movie theater holds the key to a famous Scream Queen’s return to life
In an attempt to recapture his glory days at the height of the apocalypse, a bitter, insecure security guard commits a desperate act
There is no art without sacrifice, as an aspiring poet is about to discover
A random act of kindness turns into a nightmare for one family
A demon goes out of his way to do good deeds, much to the confusion of his trainee
Three detectives receive an assignment that lands them in an evolutionary nightmare
A night auction that deals in human suffering attracts a clientele out of our worst nightmares
Reunion by Dan Foley
Something lurks beneath the surface of Cooper Lake.
Something hungry. Something intelligent.
Something that preys on those who venture too close to its domain.
The native Indians had a name for it.
ONIARE
In 1939, its victim was a young drifter. Dave Longo fought and killed it then, but it won’t stay dead.
It returned in 1956 to claim the lives of two young men. For Dave, its return was a reunion in Hell.
It’s now 2014 and the creature has returned again, but Dave Longo is not around to face it a third time. The task becomes the responsibility of Ryan Lowell, a child the oniare had terrorized back in ’56, but can he overcome his childhood fears to vanquish the oniare once and for all.
“We come in peace.”
Or do they come to “serve” man?
Are they quiet observers, or are they plotting the annihilation of mankind?
ATTACK! of the B-Movie Monsters: Alien Encounters
Seventeen tales of out of this world thrills and chills!
Grave Markers, Vol. 1
Nikolis Cole: The Low-Rise Saint by Richard Black
When homicide detective Karen Oswalt receives a phone call from a long-thought-dead informant claiming to have information that could help her solve a year-old case, she agrees to meet with him, not knowing at the time that she is about to come face to face with something that can’t possibly exist.
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Sebastian Bendix
During a routine practice session, an up-and-coming grunge rock band inadvertently summons The Tailor, a nightmarish fairy tale creature called upon by parents to help deal with unkempt children. Now, with The Tailor’s help, the Filthy Habits will be cleaning up their act — whether they want to or not.
Coattails by Joshua Rex
Julie thinks she’s found the perfect birthday gift for her boyfriend, not realizing that a sinister force has compelled her to buy the antique waistcoat. But to what purpose? From the moment Ryan put on the jacket, Julie knew something wasn’t right, and now she’s in a race against time to save her boyfriend from a darkness that wants him for its own.
Shriek of the Harpy (Grave Marker No. 4)
Movie theaters are a magical place, and the Downtown Nickelodeon is no exception, as junior film archivist Muriel Sharpe is about to find out.
Tasked with the job of going through the old theater’s archives before the building is demolished, Muriel doesn’t hold out much hope of unearthing anything rare, but what she finds is a treasure trove out long-thought-lost films. Acting on instinct, and against her better judgement, she threads up the old movie projector and inadvertently awakens the magic of the old Nick. She’s swept away in a passionate romance, dodges bullets with an infamous gangster, but nothing could prepare her for the horror the theater unleashes with Shriek of the Harpy, and soon she’s in a fight for her very life as she tries to escape the one place she considered to be a safe haven.
Monsters
“I killed my parents when I was thirteen years old.”
And now, with the murder of Missy Blake twenty-two years later, it’s time for Jack Greene to finish what he started.
When the co-ed’s mutilated body is found, the police are clueless, but Jack knows what killed the pretty college student; he’s been hunting it for years. The hunt has been going on for too long, though, and Jack wants to end it, but he can’t do it alone. The local police aren’t equipped to handle the monster in their midst, so Jack recruits Major Kelly Langston, and together they set out to rid the world of this murdering creature once and for all.
Tolerance: A West Hollywood Vampire Novelette (Grave Marker No. 4)
Children are disappearing from the streets of West Hollywood. The police are clueless, but Christopher Driscoll suspects he might know who is responsible. The trail leads to a local new hot spot that has become THE place to eat. Has the owner been serving up finger-licking good baby barbecue, or has there been a HUGE misunderstanding?
You make this a Christmas to dismember,
Killing feelings in the middle of December,
Strangers meet, one unwillingly surrenders,
Oh, what a Christmas to dismember …
Welcome back to Deathlehem … again!
… where a mutated Christmas tree has a taste for human flesh …
… where a trio of trespassers are terrorized at an abandoned holiday-themed tourist attraction …
… where elves thrive on the torment delivered to others …
… where holiday shopping drives people to commit extreme acts of violence …
… and many more!
Twenty-three more tales of holiday horror to benefit
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Coattails (Grave Marker No. 3)
The antique waist coat was an impulse buy, and at the time it seemed like the perfect birthday gift for Ryan. Little did Julie know, however, there was something else at work that day—something sinister—compelling her to make the purchase. From the moment Ryan slipped on the jacket, Julie realized something wasn’t right. The changes were subtle at first, but as they grew more extreme, Julie knew she needed to find out more about the jacket, and soon she’s pitted against supernatural forces in a race for Ryan’s life. Would she be able to figure things out in time to save him, or was she already too late?
Rock, Paper, Scissors (Grave Marker No. 2)
They call him The Tailor, a nightmarish fairy-tale creature called upon by parents to deal with unkempt children. When it’s inadvertently summoned by an up-and-coming rock band during an all-night jam session, their routine practice turns into a night of terror as The Tailor tries to clean up The Filthy Habits’ act.
Nikolis Cole: The Low-rise Saint (Grave Marker No. 1)
The death of a Drug Lord’s first lieutenant ignites an all-out war between two rival gangs, a war that has raged on for a year. Homicide detective Karen Oswalt realizes she has no chance of bringing peace to the streets unless she can find the murderer, but it appears to have been the perfect crime. No witnesses. At least none have come forward. But all that is about to change. With one phone call from an informant long-thought dead, Karen Oswalt and her partner are about to come face to… uh… well, face with the killer.
There’s something in Troughton’s Moss that speaks to the people of Ellsford, whispers in their ear, burrows into their minds, like a Brainworm, and tells them what to do.
THE MADONNA
Twenty years ago it spoke to Paul Cunningham and set the wheels in motion.
He brutally murdered, then raped a young woman.
A short while later, within the narrow confines of her grave, she gave birth to …
THE CHILD
Grown to young adulthood, it moves undetected among the people of Ellsford with only one purpose.
THE END TIMES
The time has come. The Moss is beginning to give up its dead,
sacrifices made in its name throughout the ages.
THE CHOSEN ONE
Dobson Heather, a child of the Moss himself, has been marked. But is he Ellsford’s salvation, or their damnation?
Slay bells ring,
Kids are screaming,
In the lane, snow is blood stained.
There’s nowhere to hide,
Krampus has arrived,
There’ll be feasting in a winter slaughter land…
Welcome Back to Deathlehem
…where the office Secret Santa proves more dangerous than a game of Russian roulette…
… where trips to Grandma’s house are fraught with danger…
… where a traditional Nutcracker poses a threat to a pair of would-be thieves…
… where ghosts of Christmases past haunt and take vengeance against the living…
… and many more!
Twenty-three tales of holiday horror that benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Conceived in darkness, it feeds off the host. It is poked at and prodded, all the while growing within the confines of the author’s mind until it reaches that point where it will no longer be contained. It forces its way through the porous openings in the skull, insinuates itself into the bloodstream, feeds into the very cells of its host, who has only one desire – to rid itself of this parasite before it is driven insane.
Cranial Leakage
An otherworldly artist finds beauty in man’s depravity…
One woman’s therapy session frees more than just memories…
A fertility ritual delivers more than just an abundant harvest…
The ultimate hot sauce proves to be too much for one man…
An obsession with dreams pushes one woman over the edge…
… and many more!
Twas the fright before Christmas,
And all through the town,
Not a soul stirred,
No one dared make a sound…
Welcome to Deathlehem, where…
… Krampus, not Santa, brings the holiday cheer…
… the lights on the tree, so festive and bright, skitter and crawl and possess a lethal bite…
… malicious little elves, not a jolly one, know if you’ve been naughty—or nice…
and
… family gatherings often turn deadly.
So enter… if you dare.
A collection of 23 holiday horrors benefiting the
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
We survived The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Then came THEM!, It Came from Beneath the Sea, and The Deadly Mantis.
They were merely practice runs.
Now prepare for
ATTACK! of the B-Movie Monsters: Night of the Gigantis
Rampaging Rodents! Terrifying Tentacles! Bone-Crushing Claws!
Scientific experiments gone dreadfully wrong!
For some, death is not the end. There are those who are doomed to walk the earth for all eternity, those who are trapped between one plain of existence and the next, those who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not let go of the lives they left behind. These are the vengeful spirits, the tortured souls, the ghosts that haunt our realm.
Welcome to FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, a collection of 19 original ghost stories.