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Crime. Psychos. Trashed relationships. Tainted love. Murder. Sinister plots. Evil connivances. Men in Suits with a Plan.Bizarre flap copy.Not to mention hustlers, losers, cutthroats, gun fetishists, homicidal hitchhikers, demented road-hogs, serial killer impersonators, government torturers, and a Ripper...

When Cletus J. Diggs gets a visit from his buddy Jasper and learns about the dead man sticking boot-first out of the fishing hole, he has no idea what it will lead to. How could he? Old Mill is famous for a lot of things, good fishing, barbecue, over-sized satellite dishes and disappearing beer; it...

After The Fall … America's Great Dream is over. Centuries ago it was devastated by the ultimate war. The effects still linger. Food is scarce, water even scarcer and human compassion nowhere to be found. Even so, society is slowly rebuilding itself. But is it a society whose thirst for success is...

Winner of the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Fiction Collection A collection of original dark fiction concerning itself with people, cars, and the open road. Contents include "The Ballad of Road Mama and Daddy Bliss," "Congestion," "Merge Right," "The Box Man" and a preview of Prodigal Blues.

DEAD LINES is about a young writer/artist type, Jack Rowan, in NYC, whose career never took off. Hs life is in the toilet. He’s broken up with his girlfriend and crashing on the couch of his more successful photographer friend, Glen’s, loft while Glen is off in LA on a shoot. In the first chapter,...

Zombie Jam is a festival of the living dead, featuring Schow's previously uncollected short fiction from zombie anthologies near and far, including the elusive pseudonymous works of alter ego Chan McConnell. It features the splatterpunk classic “Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy” in its original un-cut form,...

Rare Cuts is a collection of twenty-four short stories and one novella from Michael Laimo, author of Deep in the Darkness and Dark Souls, both which have been made into feature films. Included here are stories about a college student's nightmare come test time, the world's largest potato and its fiendish...

Dark Ride is a collection of short fiction by one of the brightest writers in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. These stories range from the horrific to the surreal, and prove Michael Laimo to be a compelling stylist and relentless storyteller. None have been collected previously and some are original to this volume. It features an introduction by Brian Keene.

The author's first novel! A young couple travel to the girl's hometown and are plunged into a living nightmare of evil -- an evil from deep in the past which appears in a shocking and deadly form. Trapped for long years after being raised by a witch's curse, giant worms are released by the toxic waste from a town dump.

After twelve years, Corrie Phaeder is returning home to Orangefield—the last place in the world he wants to be. Orangefield is a town of nightmares, a town where the impossible and the horrific happen all too often, where ghosts rise screaming from their graves, and where trick-or-treating goblins...

In Orangefield, Halloween is never normal—and this year will be no exception. For Orangefield is now the home of Halloweenland, a bizarre carnival run by the mysterious Mr. Dickens. No one who sees the carnival doubts that it's a very strange place, but its real secrets can hardly be imagined. Orangefield...

First appearance in digital and just in time for Halloween: the two newest Orangefield tales together in one affordable package: ORANGE LAKE, a 9,000 word novelette which has only appeared in Kasey Lansdale's IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS and, as a bonus, "The Pumpkin Smasher," which has only appeared in OCTOBER...

New in digital, a 5000-word collection of macabre holiday-themed short stories from Al Sarrantonio. Spend the Holidays — all the Holidays — with horror master Al Sarrantonio! In this very special little book, Al Sarrantonio presents a battle between Mr. Old and Mr. New Year, a bizarre love poem...

A thousand years ago, something evil made a bold attempt to cross into this world. Now it's ready to try again. She's eternally young, lovely and lethal. Her cry for help is heard by a teenage boy in Bermuda. A confused orphan in Montreal. A political prisoner in Poland. A raging paraplegic on the Pacific coast. And a bloodthirsty psychopath in New York City.