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From master mystery author John Lutz comes this collection featuring a gripping man-on-the-run novel and four of his best pieces of short fiction. The stories included in this collection are: The Truth of the Matter DNA Image Endless Road S.O.S.

It hasn’t exactly been a banner year for Chicago-based private detective Ron Shade. First, his main ladylove left for a new life in California. Then his faithful old Chevy turned over its second hundred thousand miles and died. Finally, Shade realized that his expensive downtown office was a luxury...

Chaos breaks out when a virulent new strain of biological warfare is unwittingly released into the general population, causing all who are infected with it to turn into flesh-hungry monsters driven by a hive mind that yearns to feed. Gunner, a paranoid war veteran and the head of security at...

After a night of heavy drinking, business traveler Bill Rowe wakes up in his Chicago hotel room with an epic hangover: pounding headache, memory loss and a naked dead woman in his bed. Forced to go on the run, Bill must piece together the sequence of events during his alcohol blackout to prove his...

Race Buckner and his accomplices are robbing banks and trains all over the West. Their ingenious brand of banditry has made them virtually unstoppable-until a legendary lawman is put on their trail...Mister St. John.Irons St. John thought he had put his wild days in the saddle behind him. But when the...

By the laws of nature, it shouldn't be alive. For the sake of mankind, it shouldn't be resurrected from the ocean floor. For the love of God, it shouldn't be worshipped. Unless you want to survive … WURM The infection is spreading. The cult is reborn. The horror is alive and well and ready to transform humanity forever. Wurm is here …

In Matthew Costello’s classic horror novel, Wurm, a life from is raised from the ultimate depths, a creature that exists under near-alien conditions of intense heat, poison gasses, deadly… And when released, humanity learns that this twisted form of "life" is also the ultimate parasite....

What would drive her to such a desolate New York street … down such dark stairs … to do something so dangerous? She was the last of five strangers compelled to the same basement room. None of them had been there before—but they believed it was a place to share their stories, to erase...

TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO, FIVE FRIENDS PLAYED A GAME. But if it was just a game, why is there blood? If it was only in their imagination, why is it crawling toward them? If they thought it was dead, why are they still afraid? DARKBORN To stop it is to believe in it. To believe in...

What … is … it? As long as anyone could remember, the peculiar house in the hills had been sealed off from outsiders by those in power. Over time, the legends surrounding its past grew as numerous as they were disturbing. But they were nowhere near as terrifying as the truth. For inside...

On Sunday night Janna Wade went to sleep and had the dream. The black clouds roiling in the sky… The isolated farmhouse beckoning in the distance… The stairway leading into nothing… The choking sobs coming from behind the door… Open the door Janna. Don't...

Meet Matt Richter. Private eye. Zombie.His mean streets are the city of the dead, the shadowy realm known as Nekropolis. And in this first case, Richter must help a delectable half-vampire named Devona recover a legendary artifact known as the Dawnstone, before it’s used to destroy Nekropolis itself. That is, if he can survive the myriad horrors that infest the city itself.

Matt Richter won't let a little thing like death keep him from cracking his latest case.But there's a new evil power rampaging through the streets of Nekropolis. The last battle has begun.

20 years ago four friends awoke an ancient evil, and only the Cemetery Club can stop it before the whole town ends up dead. Or worse.Rocky Point is a small town with a violent history mass graves, illegal medical experiments and brutal murders dating back centuries. Of course, when Cory, Marisol, John,...