All three volumes of Joel Arnold's popular BEDTIME STORIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE series gathered together in ONE omnibus edition! Over thirty stories of horror and sci-fi, including bonus stories by Daniel Pyle and H.P. Lovecrabbe!These are the kind of bedtime stories that will keep you reading far into the night!"'Bedtime Stories' is a wonderful collection of short stories all linked together with an unsettling distrust of the future...Any fan of either horror or short storie...

BRANCHES contains three short stories about family relationships by award winning author Joel Arnold.In 'Korean Mother is Dying' a divorced mother deals with the difficulties of raising a teenage daughter while coming to grips with her own past.In 'A Hand to Hold' a mother and her son form a bond over an elderly woman who lives across their street.In ''Jump!' the Water Master Cried' a father brings her daughter to meet her grandfather for the first time to see if th...

12-year old Connor and his friends, Pavel and Gabe, decide to make this Halloween all about the candy. They map out the most efficient route through their neighborhood, carry large pillowcases for their stash, and agree to dress up in the simplicity of the classic white sheet; they are going as ghosts.Things, however, don't turn out as simple as they plan. First, Pavel's little sister, Anna, has to join them. Second, they run into a pair of neighborhood bullies who want to take all...

You survived the first two volumes of Joel Arnold's BEDTIME STORIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE…barely. Are you ready for volume 3?In this collection of 10 short stories you'll meet:A herd of cows protecting a dead woman from her abusive husband.A beached mermaid on the shores of Lake Superior.A group of friends whose love of Halloween keeps them together for a long, long time.A little girl who deals candy – and something far more sinister – from her bright red ...

Mr. Varney and Mr. Johnson are on vacation out west, travelling in an old school bus they've converted into an RV. When thirteen-year old Kelly befriends them at a campground in Gallatin Canyon, they suspect that her guardian is up to no good. Is she the unwitting victim of a kidnapping? Or is something more sinister going on?As Varney tries to make peace with a tragedy that happened years before, he and Johnson try to decide just how involved they should get in the suspicious circ...

It's the kind of calendar you don't see much of anymore, hanging on grimy backroom walls, a pin-up model posed over each month of the year showing a little skin.But there was something different about this calendar.Something…frightening.The old-timers at Morton's Service Garage winced whenever a new page was revealed, glancing at the dates ahead with dread. What was it they saw that the new guy, Jordan, didn't see? What were they so afraid of?Follow award-wi...

Jared just wants to be a normal kid; play in the woods, climb trees, build forts... But there are the awful unbidden seizures that rack his body, the strangers who meet in secret with his father, the cache of firearms that fill the basement……and the bees.When his house is surrounded by ATF agents, Jared's world is turned upside down, and he doesn't know whom to trust; his father, the ATF, or the undulating swarms that only he can see.Join author Joel Arnold in this s...

Four college friends go inner-tubing down the Wakkamungus River after a forest fire has devastated the surrounding landscape. As they float through an eerie silence, they can't help but feel that there's something else out there...something watching them. They soon find themselves in a life and death struggle against something that has risen from the smoldering ashes.This short story is also part of Arnold's collection 'Bait & Other Stories'.

In the Midwest, the saying goes, "Revenge is a hot-dish best served cold" – or something to that effect. In Joel Arnold's new short story collection A WRINKLE IN CRIME, revenge is also served at a lakeside resort, in an outhouse, at a state fair, on a camping trip in the Gallatin Mountains, and along a snow-swept lonely highway.In these 10 stories of foul play, murder and revenge, you'll meet:A man who takes advantage of an unfortunate accident to pull off a perfect crime.

Sometimes your only hope is to embrace the darkness."It's pretty much a guarantee that every issue of Black Static is going to house at least one powerhouse story, and this one is no different with the inclusion of Joel Arnold's 'The Toyol'." - Dread CentralAfter cyclone Nargis destroys Zeya's home and family in Myanmar, she accepts a job offer in Kuala Lampur. After arriving, she realizes she's been tricked, and has instead been sold to a sex trafficking ring. Bars cover h...

Deep in the north woods, two sisters become lost; one stalked by a murderous ex-husband, the other unable to rid herself of the leeches that appear mysteriously on her skin.All are drawn to an old, dilapidated cabin.Inside lives an old man with awful urges, accompanied by a Rottweiler possessed by something…unnatural.But it's what resides beneath the cabin that they should really be worried about.Please join award-winning author Joel Arnold on a ride over th...

A man journeys with a pregnant stranger, while unseen aliens deal out punishment from above.A priest's skin oozes a healing elixir.A self-absorbed husband monitors the end of his existence over the internet.A teenager digs through a deep crust of waste and bone to win his freedom.These, plus 5 more stories from Joel Arnold, are your perfect companion as the earth falls apart around you.