Melissa Szydlek: 12 books

The five tales in this collection include:"You're the Cancer": What happens when cancer comes "alive?"In "Tapping" a young woman fights something unknown, something that is tapping on her window, waiting for her to come out."The Witch" deals out appropriate punishment to...

In this collection you will find 10 short horror stories crossing many genres to give you a scare as you read late into the night..."The Bodies In the Well" takes you back to the Kamakura Period of Japan and introduces you to some early detective and CSI-type work when the bodies start piling...

More Wicked Things is a collection of 12 stories of horror, the bizarre, and the strange. The stories traverse the gamut of personal pain and internal demons to literal creatures such as ghosts, the devil, demons, and local legends roaming the human landscape. In Every Wednesday a young couple learns...

"And here you enter my darkness. Are you ready?"These 10 short horror stories highlight the moments people entered into darkness - voluntarily or not.Fans of dark fiction and horrors both real and imagined will find something to occupy your time in your own darkness.

Prisoners have a choice in the future: extermination or space. The Earth-based Government of Nations turns once violent offenders into scouts, searching planets that are mere hundreds of years old. Government scientists keep pushing the scout ships to collect and transmit data but are vague about...

Meet Bazu, a young girl who lives in Ghosthadow. The town is built high on a hill and is surrounded by a tall fence that separates it from the rest of the world. The people of Ghostshadow believe in creatures said to live throughout the Pumpkin Woods, but Bazu scoffs at such stories. Bazu tells her...

Ten-year-old William meets a peculiar flying boy one night and is plunged into a dark world that leaves him with a lifelong fear of Peter Pan.Adult William has two boys of his own now, but the shadow of Peter Pan falls over his happiness. Something was left unfinished when William was ten.Leave...

Zombies aren't just zombies anymore. Two tales of the Exsanguinous, beings who have risen from the grave, are offered here. The Ex-Sangs, as the world calls them, are integrating into society, hiding what they are with makeup and latex. Many of them speak, have memories, and hold down jobs.In...

Everyone has a secret fear. Something that envelopes you in terror. In this collection, nine short horror stories explore those fears. Read these stories if......you are afraid of aliens...or your mother...or the dead...or are afraid of clowns...the back roads, perhaps?...how about cemeteries?...or are you afraid of cannibals?...the old gods?

Story 1: Discordant - a woman seeks the help of a demon to fight a serial killer.Story 2: Night Secretary - The Night Secretary directs the thoughts and actions of serial killers. She wants to create a truly horrific human monster whose deeds will be remembered forever.

Snow: Two Winter Stories: The Good Death: Arthur is tired, old, and sick. He and his dog, Ashe, are dying. Arthur decides that they won't suffer anymore and seeks the solace of The Good Death.Krampusnacht: The demon, Krampus, eagerly awaits his annual December 5th offering from a small town. The townspeople can choose the offering, or Krampus will choose for them.

Katie and Sissy lost their mother to cancer 20 years ago. Since her death, Katie has been endowed with a special gift to help earth bound ghosts pass on to the next life. Katie hear's strange screams when the ghosts pass on - is it the sounds of the dead or is she hearing her mother's voice?