Crossroad Press: 1447 books

RAMROD JUSTICE!All Marshal Joshua Creed really wanted was a nice vacation down in Mexico, but what he got was a battle! Thornton and his vicious gang of thieves figured that they owned all of the small Texas town where Creed had stopped to rest, and that they owned Creed’s reward money too! At the urgings of harassed local ranchers, Creed declared war on the outlaws, to the death!

The sun was at high noon and, more than just merely hot, it burned right through their clothes, sapping the very strength out of them. Creed heard a scraping sound off to the right and instinctively shoved the two indefensible women behind a large red rock. He crouched at the same time, his gun drawn...

A PLEA FOR HELPMartha Reed begged Lawman Joshua Creed to help her recover a fortune in gold left hidden by her dead outlaw husband. He readily agreed to help, since the gold had been stolen from the railroad. She told him that she wanted to return the gold to its rightful owner, but was she telling the...

In the near future Emotional Transference is the drug of choice. Garrick is a Drone, going to ever-increasing extremes in order to sell the emotions. But he does it for a reason—because some memories are just too painful to bear. When his dealer is murdered, Garrick must search for...

Is your faith real if it’s never tested? When Rev. Milton Agnew learns that his church’s Brazilian mission has been mysteriously destroyed, he rushes to the rainforest to see for himself. His friends and the natives they went to convert are all dead or gone. But the village isn’t empty. What he...

A story of coming home to a place you never knew existed. The genius half Elve, half Dwarve inventor Joseph Tindermaker has died, leaving his inheritance inside his unbreakable Vault, which only his true heir can open. Iggy Sinclair, a punk bounty hunter unaware of his heritage, is approached...

Former Air Force Major Trent Calloway just wants to forget about his past, especially the tragedy that changed his life when he was involved in a government remote viewing project. With his marriage ruined in the aftermath of his psychic spying, he wanders the Southwest, occasionally guiding river...

There is nothing to fear but fear itself... Twenty six original tales of horror by established masters of terror and talented new voices lie within this Lexicon of Fear. Beware the dark power of words in BIBLIOPHOBIA...a carnival double act made in Hell can be found in the clown cemetery in COULROPHOBIA...an...

A new season, and the Grim Reaper smiles in anticipation of the harvest to come. No one is safe, no one can be trusted. The lovestruck office boy, the beautiful little girl clutching a posy of violets, the faceless motorcycle gang all seem harmless enough, and yet. Nameless fears stir uneasily, terror...

The Golem, was a legend—unstoppable, relentless, undying. He was always there, silent, menacing, and except in times of danger, unnoticed. No one dared challenge the Pampas family, only betrayal from within could bring them down. Two brothers fight for the loyalty of Jacob Mann, but over...

The REAL Pink PcGee lives on Katie's desk. He's a stuffed pig that came to live with her one Valentine's day. She also has the Arrrrbor seal, but she's still looking for Flounder. This is a tale of pirates and gold, dreams and magic. She wrote it with help from her Daddy, who loves Pink PcGee almost...

Kristen always wanted to be part of the “in crowd.” Her social worries intensified after transferring from a small, public school to a private, upscale school in the middle of her high school career. What ensues is a group of popular high school girls practicing in the occult, Kristen going over...

Meet Alan Dyson, a pharmaceutical scientist who lives for his work. He thinks someone has been watching him, following him. He's right. He shouldn't have told a woman pretending to be interested in him on the internet his secret: that he's developed an experimental drug which may extend life by decades. Now that he's in the crosshairs, he's about to learn it wasn't a woman after all.

FOR THE LOVE OF HORROR is Stoker-nominated author Michael Arruda's first short story collection. It contains fifteen short stories, seven reprints and eight original stories, plus a wraparound story that ties everything together. It's written with the old Amicus anthology horror movies in mind, films...