From the masters of horror at Writers, Poets and Deviants:Prepare for terror…- An exterminator meets his match in a family's attic…- A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage…- A boy's survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle…- A man asks a vampire for a favor and gets more than he wished for…- A strange device collects and stores the rage from people bent on revenge…- An exquisite chess set in an old...

- A desperate father, on the run with his daughter reveals a terrifying truth about his child...- Who is the bogeyman, really? Hear the real story – directlyfrom the monster himself...- A tiny burger joint along a desert highway – it appears to be a refreshing oasis for a traveling family... or is it?- A psychic investigates an apparition of a little girl and uncovers a shocking tale...Enjoy these chilling stories and more inCreepies: Twisted Tales...

Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking, a nightmare drifts across your memory, tainting your day with wisps of discomfort. NIGHTMARES UNHINGED reveals horror in all its mutable forms—abject to absurd—through twenty tales of terror.Contributors include Mario Acevedo, Edward Bryant, Dustin Carpenter, Sean Eads, Keith Ferrell,...

Bright lights, big city . . . magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural beings to protect them or have such powers themselves. Brujeria may be part of your way of life. Crimes can be caused (and solved) with occult arts and even a losing sports team's "curse" can be lifted with wizardry. And be careful of what cab you call—it might take you...

Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror is the ultimate collection of extreme horror from award winning masters and up-and-coming authors of macabre fiction.EDITORIAL REVIEWS"This book is a definite for any extreme horror fan. Full of terror, sex, and gore, I don't recommend this for the faint of heart." --FANGORIA"Simply put, Vile Things is every deviant horror fan's wet dream." --RUE MORGUE...

Shartrael Padina is no ordinary Inari. Bound in a symbiosis to the entities of the Starfire crystal, she can access their energy for healing or hurting. That power is sought by the small but growing Shirat Empire seeking control of the homeworld. When the elite Shirukan soldiers attack, her mate is killed protecting her escape through a portal to Earth, where she can hide her wings and blend in with humans.But Earth is no joyride. After fighting off the Shirukan soldier who follows...

This sophisticated, scary anthology collects the best horror fiction published between 1984 and 2005, one of horror’s most innovative eras. These exceptionally diverse stories, hand-picked by horror-expert editor Ellen Datlow, are tales of the subtly psychological, the unpredictably mischievous, and the disturbingly visceral.Here are classics, such as horror master Stephen King’s Chattery Teeth,” the tautly drawn account of a traveling salesman who unwisely picks up yet another hi...

From Bram Stoker Awards® Nominee Nate Southard, eighteen of his best horror stories selected by the author, published from 2005 to 2015.It contains: “His Start,” “Why I Do It,” Working the Bag,” “In the Clearing Beneath the Firs,” and “Yellow Triangles” previously published in Broken Skin (2009); “Insomnia Is My Only Friend” previously published in Horror Literature Quarterly no. 1 (2007); “Silent Corners” previously published in Trunk Stories no. 3 (2007); “Señorita” previously pub...

Paranormal crime stories by bestselling fiction writers like Kelley Armstrong, Anne Perry, Simon R. Green, Patricia Briggs, and more. A massive, monumental volume of paranormal crime fiction by bestselling authors. Gripping tales of mayhem include both novellas and short stories like Stalked by,” by Kelley Armstrong, The Judgment” by worldwide bestselling author Anne Perry, Appetite for Murder” by Simon R. Green, , Road Dogs” by Norman Partridge, The Hex Is In” by Mike Resnick, Dopp...

You can't kill the dead!Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for thi...

Welcome to Destiny — is it Mayberry or Middle Earth?A series of strange events in Destiny have Tempest Pomeroy reeling. Between her Djinni brother missing, the body she discovered in the clubhouse, and her quickening Tempestaerie powers approaching, not to mention all the Alphas in her world going crazy, well… to say she's having a bad week would be like saying Katrina dropped a little rain on the Gulf Coast.Tempe is a mail carrier and a Paramortal like her...

LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES is a collection of 25 100-word shorts that range from darkly comic to downright terrifying and wrong. Some shorts feature ghouls and monsters while others are simply about people behaving very, very badly. Which is scarier? Find out in this sick and twisted collection.They may only be a few words long, but that doesn't lessen the bloodshed any…