Horror

17 stories from today's modern masters of fright! Douglas Clegg, Stephen Dedman, Yvonne Navarro, Gary A. Braunbeck, Michael Laimo, Brian Hodge, Stephen M. Rainey, Nancy Kilpatrick and others.... In Douglas Clegg's "265 and Heaven" meet Fazzo, who holds the key to a very special doorway. A heaven like none anyone has ever seen, and that only a select few are permitted to enter. But not without a price. In Stephen M. Rainey's "Moving Pictures ... Still Life" we find a young girl, brought up amidst... more info>>

Anthropologist Martine Murdoch theorizes the existence of an ancient cult of heart-eaters to explain the condition of human remains found hidden within a long-abandoned Mayan city. When the theory is published, her life changes forever. Shunned by the scientific community, Marty sets out to discover the meaning behind a series of recent murders committed using the very techniques she wrote about. But instead of unearthing a psychotic human, Marty stumbles into the final act of an ancient struggl... more info>>

Lion, Tiger, or Bear? Something is prowling the moonlit streets of Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Lynda Malone has seen its eyes blazing from behind bushes near school, but no one believes her. No one but her new lab partner, Greg Ursek. Lynda is warmed by Greg's faith in her and is drawn to his old-fashioned manners and transforming smile. But as their friendship deepens, she stumbles across a deadly secret: He's not entirely human. [Cover Art by Dirk A. Wolf]

A riveting and terrifying sequel to Downward to Darkness by World Fantasy Award-winning McNaughton. Pale, beautiful and uptight Amy Miniter returns to her home town of Mt. Tabor, Connecticut to handle her mother's affairs. Writer Martin Paige comes to Mt. Tabor, too, investigating its past history of supernatural horrors. Martin and Amy are caught in a maelstrom of supernatural evil that has stalked this small New England town for generations. Amy's nightmares are chilling, but there are even Wo... more info>>

Twenty-one more tales of horror and dismay from Horror's master, Brian McNaughton. The Bram Stoker Award-winner returns with freakishly felicitous stories, funny and horrific at the same time.

North Hill was once the commercial and social center of Piketon, a growing city in the Rocky Mountains; now it's a place of boarded-up stores and roaming gangs. And now even-deadlier predators have arrived ... local residents have been disappearing for weeks, and the city's ruling political elite blames wild dogs. But a local zoologist knows another story--a tale of mutated bears, small in size but intelligent and immensely strong. Bloodhungry sentient bears that have come down from the mountain... more info>>

Davey's on the down and out when he loses his girl, his job, and practically his sanity. While some men drown themselves in a forgiving bottle, Davey believes it's much more profitable to sink into Times Square's nightlife and lose himself inside Live Girls. They are the free ravishing pleasures who beckon Davey into a world of irresistible fantasy and ecstasy. One of them propositions him with a kiss, an insatiable kiss that leads him far from the misery he once felt to a demonic place where bo... more info>>

A successful, middle-aged psychiatrist tormented by an unquenchable lust for blood.... A vampire serial killer on the rampage.... At the age of forty, Dr. Roger Darvell discovers that he is no ordinary man. He also discovers that vampires exist, and that a few of them kill as wantonly and cruelly as any monster in a horror film. When a renegade vampire follows Roger from Boston to his new home in Maryland and attacks one of his patients, Roger must come to terms with the newly discovered truth a... more info>>

Ever feel like the shadows are growing longer? Ever feel like the darkness is creeping up on you? Is that lack of light really nothing or is it something? Something out to get you! Mance had none of these questions in his head. He knew the truth about the Dark: It was alive! He had witnessed the shapeless and the intangible take form. The Dark had eyes, crazy, vengeful, angry eyes. He had seen the dark show its hungry, bright, shiny fangs. He had seen it grow and tower over him. Mance had seen t... more info>>

Hailed by Stephen King as "scary and suspenseful" and "unputdownable," and by Peter Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, as "The best vampire novel I have ever read," The Vampire Tapestry examines the classic monster as a biological, rather than supernatural, predator who awakens from hibernation every few decades needing to relearn human culture. After years of secret effort, the self-styled Edward Weyland has become a respected anthropology professor and director of a sleep research lab. With r... more info>>

The night the stars fell, we could hear the sounds: that low thump-thump from somewhere in the sky, like the beating of some gigantic heart... In Sylvan County, Virginia, strange sounds often accompany the coming of darkness. They drift among the remote and shadowed hills, mountains, and valleys as if with a purpose ... cognizant ... alive. Like an ominous fugue, this music emanates from portals unknown, weaving a soundtrack for the night itself ... a dirge for those who dare to venture into the... more info>>

One night Ed Smith thought he was having a waking nightmare when he saw a monstrous face at his window, but in the morning his neighbors were missing. The people who later turned up were not quite right, and gradually Smith realized they not only weren't his neighbors, but weren't even human--they were the creatures he had seen � Watt-Evans has created a terrifying new monster in the classic tradition of Frankenstein and Dracula!

A collection of nine stories: --A Gift From Above --Choices --Pieces --Cat Hater --Bad Blood --Ophilia Raphaeldo --The Devil's Music --Bait --God's Work

Young Kevin Holmes had been having trouble getting his parents to believe his stories after the electrical accident. His parents wouldn't believe a thirteen year-old boy when he told them wild tales, although they sensed something eerie at Blackwinter's Inn. When the three families decided to pool their money and buy the old broken-down Blackwinter's Inn, they could not have known that their children would soon become terrified of everything, even their own shadows. The ancient evil whispers wer... more info>>

Everyone thought the killing spree was over; were they wrong! Jack Eichord, a less-than-fearless murder detective, must now come against the most deadly serial killer of his lifetime. How can this detective with fear in his soul free the city from the fear that grips each citizen? He must go beyond the law to stop this heinous criminal and all while he has a bull's-eye right on his heart.

The year is 1938. Rebecca and Richard are Americans escaping a nightmare. Their flight from Berlin has brought them to this dark place in the Romanian woods. They seek sanctuary in the ancient home of the Count and Countess Viroslav -- within castle walls adorned with tapestries celebrating chaos, flesh, and seduction. Their host and hostess appear ageless, exquisite and generous; beautiful creatures of the night. Here, every pleasure is explored -- and nothing is forbidden. B... more info>>

In a steamy city, murder has never before been so icy. And as the toll of unsuspecting victims continues to climb, the search is on for the cold-blooded killer. Jack Eichord, serial-murder detective, is out to melt the man with the murder machine, but Jack's following an elusive trail of victims assaulted in the most horrific way ... and time's running out for him....

If killing could be a profession, Frank Spain would be a master. He knows how to deal out death better than any specialist in the business, but when his daughter Tiff becomes a sex object in a nasty porno flick game, Frank is out to seek revenge like never before. Homicide Detective Jack Eichord has never been dealt such a grisly case, but as he traces evidence cross-country in pursuit of the killer, he learns how pleasurable murder has become for Frank Spain and how horrid it's becoming for his... more info>>

Scott Bowman is now a respected psychiatrist living the good life, but sixteen years ago he and his friends accidentally committed a terrible crime. The group swore itself to secrecy and everyone's mouth was sealed out of guilt. None suspected that there had been another present to remember their crime. A creepy new addition to Scott's roster of patients at the local psychiatry ward proves to be more than a helpless, mad old man with a talent for drawing. Lurking behind the man's eerily realisti... more info>>

Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goes to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes to twenty-eight year old Karen. For Karen, the darkness dissipates, but then the dreams begin. At first th... more info>>

It only grows at night. Karen Tandy is a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists puzzle over the growth, Karen's personality drastically begins to change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moves! Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes in contact with Karen understands the very depths of terror. Her body and soul are being taken over by a black spirit ... more info>>

Blood will curdle in Calcutta. In the most crime-ridden city, nightmares become real and evil is defined by frightening occurrences. When an American family finds themselves encircled by the terrors of this land, lurid events befall them and life takes on a new meaning--death. Song of Kali will chill the blood and frighten even the most jaded of horror fans.

Bonner, California is only a memory to Greg Lowell until something mysteriously attracts him back to introduce his family to his past. His Padgett ancestors were the first settlers in Fire Valley but the curse is something Greg doesn't know about. The river that ran through his native town in Fire Valley has been still for years but is stirred by the Lowell family's visit to the valley--but not even the river that is about to flow again can cool the cursed land. After all, blood can't put out a ... more info>>

When Celia Williams is found dead, having burned herself in a lurid act of suicide, her fianc� Lloyd Denman doesn't seem to be able to go on with his own life, haunted by Celia and their past together. As Lloyd struggles to deal with this tragic event he learns about a bizarre accident in the California desert where a busload of people have burned to death. Police speculate that this was an act of a suicide pact, but as Lloyd's investigation reveals connections between the two events, he begin... more info>>

Poppy Z. Brite, author of four novels, LOST SOULS, DRAWING BLOOD, EXQUISITE CORPSE, and THE LAZARUS HEART, plus several collections of short stories, has gone to the edge and back with ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT (titled SELF-MADE MAN in Europe). Join Poppy as she explores the outermost regions of murder, passion, death and religion in twelve extraordinary short stories. With a foreword by horror master Peter Straub and an afterword by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brite reaches new heights--and depths--in ... more info>>