The immortal of the underworld make a welcome return for the second installment of 'Tales of the Undead - Suffer Eternal', and are looking forward to reacquainting themselves with your jagged nerves. Over twenty new and established authors from around the world will attempt to scare, sicken and repulse the living daylights out of you, as they describe the horrors that can come from simply living too long. Author list: Alison J. Mckenzie, Nathan J.D.L. Rowark, J. Ru...

A flash fiction collection. Twelve dark fiction stories. R Rated for sensitive themes.

When a boy is given a box by an angel who asks him to care for it, the task shapes his entire life.Originally published in DRAGONS AND DREAMS (edited by Jane Yolen) this is one of Bruce Coville's personal favorites among all his stories.

The first collection of poems and short stories by young writer, Kate Greenlee. Thirteen poems and two short stories make up a varied selection of styles and subjects; from the supernatural to the political, Greenlee deals with themes around feminism and femininity, mathematics, body image and violence in the modern world. ‘Ghosts in the Attic’ is a short selection of crafted works, a well-fitting debut.

A moving short story. Set in the grim world of early Sixties Ireland, it tells the harrowing story of a boy making his way to school. Beware - this is not for the fainthearted!

Richard Damon is a painter suffering for his art. Now it’s time to make someone else do the suffering.

A dream of desolation and death. A nightmare vision of a looming end, surrounded by hidden enemies and desperate strangers.His love taken. His hope lost. His life forfeit because of his failures, his inadequacies.How can this end be a beginning? And how can a dream seem so real?

1940's Chicago, a black female detective is asked to discover what happened to a rich gadabout whom disappeared mysteriously from his hotel room.Unfortunately, she does.

"It Waits" now has a new beginning, new middle, and a new ending. It has been totally reworked. It is now a true short story in the horror fiction genre.Somewhere out there It Waits. It is very hungry.

Slowly, the hole grew deeper as he found his rhythm. Dig, swing, dump. Dig, swing, dump. His laboured breathing synchronised with the turning of his shoulders; dragon's breath in the morning chill. He was grateful for the wattle trees enshrouding the lower garden, for they shielded him from prying eyes while he undertook this grimmest of tasks. Sunlight slanted through silver leaves and splashed upon her corpse, which was gaily wrapped in a floral curtain he'd found in the garage."W...

Riley has to do something. He can't sit by any longer. He's in a car, he has a gun. He can't believe what he's about to do.He must take action, despite the cost. He must do it...it's right, and she's worth it.

Not long ago, some extremely devoted H.P. Lovecraft fans called themselves the H.P. Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum, and soon some became many. Eventually they crafted a unique anthology from poets, authors, and artists. Editor/contributor Dawn M. Matthews wove them into one cohesive story that takes place in an asylum. The tales are told by the patients with a wraparound story that works it into the main story , hence creating a terrifying read.The asylum is not ordinary,, of course. Its...