Failure to Melt, a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, shows why an American son of a victimized immigrant family might turn against his country. The suspense-filled thriller explores a scenario all too possible in today's world of domestic terrorism: could an incurable virus be imported into the country and launched on the American public?Following are comments from the expert reviewers in the ABNA Contest:"…I think this could definitely be a bes...

Stanley is a pervert. He's always wishing for things and is often clever enough to get them. Just before he becomes the victim of a traffic accident, he wishes for a world in which he soon finds himself.

This riveting suspense thriller explores the special bond between a brother and sister when Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his coastal hometown of Wilmington, NC, to assist with his sister's recovery after she's brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a 13-year-old. Coming face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma and, serving as his sister's legs, is drawn into the dark underside of this quiet c...

The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween—or for any haunted night—and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of What the Night Knows, the forthcoming novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide ...

Mile 81 is Stand by Me meets Christine—the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid.At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shac...

Andrew Dean tried to do the right thing, to save a friend. What he did, instead, was get himself involved in a world he never knew existed. Now, he has unknowingly made an enemy of every person in his neighborhood. Or, that is, every monster posing as a person in the neighborhood. With all his new enemies ready to erase him from their community, will Andrew, his best friend Garrett the werewolf, and his little dog Billiam be able to survive this fight?Find out into the third instal...

Five short mild horror stories.In the first tale, a man finds that his immortal soul is in peril.In the second tale, a man seeks to change his life and succeeds in a way he could never imagine.In the third tale, a man is forced to fight against the forces of evil.In the fourth tale, a man has to save his friend who has been seduced by evil.In the fifth tale, an old evil returns to terrorise the people living on a small Greek island.

Ethan, his face etched with the weariness of a thousand sleepless nights, hauled a dented bucket overflowing with salvaged canned goods. Each can, a tiny victory snatched from the jaws of starvation, represented another day survived in this ravaged world. He grunted with effort, his muscles protesting under the strain. The weight wasn't just physical; it was the weight of their existence, a constant, oppressive burden. He was a steelworker once, his hands forged to shape metal into somethi...

Set on the snaking, sinuous Danube River, Algernon Blackwood's tale "The Willows" represents a high point in the development of the horror genre. Indeed, acknowledged master H.P. Lovecraft regarded it as the best supernatural tale ever written. More awe-inspiring and thought-provoking than gory or terrifying, "The Willows" is a must-read for fans of classic ghost stories.

Ten years before the events in Akeldama: The Field of Blood, the Reverend Kirk Black rescues his young nephew Shawn from a Vampire attack. After training the boy to be a hunter, the two of them travel to Hidden Valley, New Mexico where a new coven of Vampires threatens to destroy the city. They meet up with Dave Reilly and Dimitri Milton to battle the new threat and Shawn established himself as a true hunter. With appearances by Maria Romanoff, LaCai Milton, Sophia, the Dwarf, and Midnight...

Who is the Meat in the basement? That's the question on police SWAT Lt. Boulder Johnson's mind. The basement is in his brother-in-law Harley Earle's house and the question is important; Harley's wife Becca, Boulder's sister, was never found after the uprising that saw the dead awaken. They were known as Meats when they were preying on the living. Now that they're supposedly gone, could it really be a Meat in the basement? And if so, who? And if it's who Boulder is afraid it is, for the lov...

Nine Women. Nine Stories. And nothing ordinary about them. From the slightly askew mind of Regan Wolfrom comes this collection of hilariously dark tales of love, death, and horrible timing. Heather Smythe Pretty. Shy. About as lapsed as a Catholic can get. Heather's trapped in the a cult of killer succubi with a taste for East Hollywood douches. ("High Times at the Sixth Annual Succubus Sisters Garage and Bake Sale") Amanda Hackensack