Crystal Lake Publishing: 30 books

C.H.U.D. – a genre defying, cult classic film featuring monsters living in the sewers below New York. What a fun movie. And with the support of its producer Andrew Bonime, we (Crystal Lake Publishing and today’s top Horror and SF authors) managed to put together C.H.U.D. Lives! – a tribute...

Welcome to The Lake. Remember those dark and scary nights spent telling ghost stories and other campfire tales? With the TALES FROM THE LAKE horror anthology, you can relive the most memorable of those moments by reading the best Dark Fiction stories around. From urban legends and ghosts,...

Seventeen Tales to Frighten and Enlighten! The world is full of beauty and mystery. In these 17 tales, Gunnells will take you on a journey through landscapes of light and darkness, rapture and agony, hope and fear. A post-apocalyptic landscape where it is safer to forget who you once...

“Tonight, tonight The moon shines bright And the beast will come To tear and bite!” Teen sleuth Beatrice Beecham and her gang of friends have a new case to solve. In the coastal town of Dorsal Finn a timber wolf escapes from a smuggler’s boat at White Wharf. Livestock is found mauled,...

No one can handle Scottish folklore with elements of the darkest horror, science fiction and fantasy, suspense and adventure like William Meikle. In Samurai and Other Stories you'll find numerous ghosts, many Scotsmen, a big blob, some holy relics, some unholy relics, a Mothman, a barbarian,...

Fires are being started in abandoned warehouses in the older industrial area of San Francisco, and none of the professionals in the fire department can figure out how they're being started in order to catch the arsonist.  What is the motive?  Why is the arsonist setting fires?  Insurance?  Revenge?  Some...

In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal Ghost Club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest. This is one of the tales. Lost people are drawn to places where what ails...

A horrible infection has fallen over a desolate town in this short horror story. The townsfolk are forced into action to protect themselves from further outbreaks caused by an addicting berry that grows amongst the base of large boulders. When Emmie returns home to find one of The Lost...

On a trip through the Sipsey Wilderness Area in remote Alabama, a couple is rescued from the flooded river they’re canoeing by two burly men in overalls who seem to have their best interests in mind. That’s until the two brothers deliver Blaine and Casey into the horrifying nightmare...

A heartbroken widow. An infamous building. A darkness desperate to feed. This is Eidolon Avenue. Young, bereaved and abandoned, the recent Knickerbocker Crash having taken more than just her savings, Mrs. Artatlan Fogoly considered herself lucky to have found a room to let. But when devout...

This is Writers on Writing – An Author’s Guide where your favorite authors share their ultimate secrets in becoming and being an author.  **Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best. ** This is Writers On Writing – An Author’s Guide Vol.2, where professional...

Over one hundred of Boston’s best short poems (under fifty lines) from more than forty years of publishing, including fifteen award-winning poems. Boston’s poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov’s Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grandmaster Awards of the Science Fiction...

Ever wanted to hang out with legends like Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, and Dean Koontz? This is your chance to read fun anecdotes and career advice from a wide range of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy authors and filmmakers. Modern Mythmakers is a collection of 35 interviews from...

Bram Stoker Award® winners Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti use their unique voices to create a dark, surrealistic poetry collection exploring the many ways shattered bodies, minds, and souls endure. They created poems of visionary imagery encompassing death, gods, goddesses and shadowy,...