In the sleepy town of Managansett, a demonic gargoyle captures the soul of a young boy who willingly performs the gruesome tasks dictated to him by the monster in exchange for receiving all he has ever wanted...
The isolated little fishing village of Crayport, Massachusetts, might seem almost normal at first glance, but appearances can he deceiving. You would never be welcome there. Outsiders never are. The inhabitants of the village are unusually hostile to...
Vicki Sanders, recently promoted Quality Control Manager at Standard Silver, reports to work one day only to discover the Production Manager murdered. A few days later, the company president is found dead. Detective Walter Henderson, Vicki's father, ...
Having survived a nightmarish marriage that ended in tragedy, 23-year-old Laura Collier Brennan comes home to the small, wintery town of Dorrance, N.Y. But the family farm run by Laura's manipulative, dominating mother, Mary, is no refuge, so much to...
BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard env...
No one knew anymore where the gargoyle had come from. It was just an ugly stone creature high up on the walls of the old Sheffield Library. It seemed to perch up there, looking out with malevolent eyes over the small town of Managansett. And looking ...
Don D’Ammassa, author of over a hundred short stories and novels, noted reviewer and essayist, has long been a fixture in the world of science fiction literature. This collection offers up seventeen stories of the fantastic. Of space and beyond. Of...
Convinced that her uncle Walter's suicide was actually murder, Kari Spencer asks Private Investigator Paul Birch to look into the matter. Though he's not convinced, Birch is willing to spend some time putting her fears to rest.
His investiga...
Ted Croner buys a nondescript kaleidoscope at a yard sale, unaware of its magic properties. Whenever someone changes what it displays, they also alter the physical world, and only the user notices the differences. It might lead him to his perfect lif...
Weird and terrifying stories set in the Old West, in the middle of World War II, in Victorian London, as well as the present. Animated statues, organized earthworms, shapechanging waitresses, and serial victims all wait within....
This is an homage to the great lost world adventure stories which were immensely popular in the early 20th Century. A handful of people find themselves shipwrecked on an uncharted island where they find traces of an abandoned city and where unknown c...
A young businessman finds himself drawn into a dangerous web of espionage and high adventure in an alternate North America divided among a half dozen nations, where magic and steam technology co-exist....
Serves as a reference to major writers and works in the genres of fantasy and horror. This work offers information of various writers, including favorites such as C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Stephen King, R L Stine and Bram Stoker. It also includes ent...