Rick Hautala: 24 books

From the subway tunnels of Boston to the rain-swept streets of Quebec City to the deepest snow-filled forests of Hilton, Maine, no one in these chilling stories by horror master Rick Hautala is safe from the darkness or the dangerous things that lurk in the shadows. Waiting for us. Reaching for us... Over...

But be warned, fellow traveler… this is not just a book—it is a journey into the very life of Death. Listen to the tales of the afterlife: Halloween, vampires, Heaven, Hell, Armageddon, zombies, death-bringing angels, ghosts, cults, ritual killings, nightmares from Vietnam... The lists...

The days are getting shorter, and the wind blows cold from the north. After the maple and oak leaves turn from green to bright reds, golds, and oranges, they wither, fall, and die, clattering like old bones as they blow down the street in the twilight. The sun isn't as bright as it used to be, and...

Fiction: "March of the Marionettes" by Al Sarrantonio "Vines" by Al Sarrantonio (poetry) "Torching the Escalade" by Thomas Tessier "Goblin Boy" by Rick Hautala "Peligrad’s Pit" by Ronald Kelly "The Devil’s Yo-Yo" by Elizabeth Massie "A Vampyrrhic Samhain" by Simon Clark "Memories" by Peter Crowther...

This collection, from an acclaimed Master of Dark Fiction, consists of twenty-one tales with some being straight genre entries, others psychological terror and finally a few shorts that include science fiction elements. The first eighteen are short stories written solely by Rick and the final three are...

Fiction: "The Glass Floor" by Stephen King "Shadow Pond" by Glenn Chadbourne & Holly Newstein "Aisle Seat" by Rick Hautala "The Bleeding Child" by Bruce McAllister "Electric Mist Confidential" by Weston Ochse "The Ghosts of Famous Men" by Rick Koster "Hawkin Rhone" by Elizabeth Voss ...

Available for the first time, The Horror... The Horror provides a look into the life and mind of author Rick Hautala. From his days as a child in Massachusetts, to his days in college at the University of Maine in Orono, to the early days of his writing career along with Stephen King's involvement, and ultimately to where his life and career stood in 2009, his autobiography is a compelling read.

In the halls... of the Mountain King... There are many legends and ancient tales concerning Mount Agiochook, the second tallest mountain in Maine. Some of these tales speak of a demon that resides on the rocky slopes near the mountain's snow-crested summit. Legend has it that a force of supernatural...

Kiera David is haunted by dark memories and terrible headaches. Her friends—and enemies—are dying. At each murder scene, witnesses report seeing a woman resembling her. She can't possibly be responsible. But if she isn't—who is?

A rebel and an outlaw lead an unsuspecting group of adventurers on a secret mission across the vastness of space, in Matthew Costello's Star Road Ivan Delgato, a former leader of a rebel group called the Runners, is released from jail on the condition that he carry out a secret mission for...

Tully. He made Sarah's every wish come true. He appeared to her eyes alone and spoke so that only she could hear. Sometimes Sarah wondered if it was all her imagination. But the things that Tully made happen were all too real. And, as Sarah grew up, they were all too horrible. Now Sarah, a college...

HIDDEN TOYS The old house in Maine gave Beth the creeps. She couldn't believe they were really moving in. If it weren't for the wooden doll she had found in the closet of her new bedroom, she would have been miserable. But the strange hand-carved figure fascinated her, and she sensed with a child's...

The old Harris house has been vacant for years. A summer vacation in Milton, Maine, would he the best thing for Tim Harris, his wife, Polly, and their young son, Brian. Restoring Tim’s childhood home to its original splendor would help Polly restore her own life after a breakdown that left...

EARLY GRAVE Glooscap Island, off the coast of Maine … shrouded in fog … ringed by icy gray water. Here the Carlson family comes home to a tortuously intensifying nightmare—first in the guise of a beautiful but calculating woman, then in the shape of a vengeful wraith with glistening bones...