Barbara Custer

• Feb-2003
• / Horror
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Scene: a teaching hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Time: 1995 The cast of characters includes Leslie Taite, a timid, bullied respiratory therapist; Alex Wallach, her friend and protector; Kenworthy Mason, Alex's arch-enemy and a killer who leav...

• Feb-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Barbara Custer and Johnson gives us two views of the galactic frontier, with his Captain Danger, a superman of the future who keeps law and order among the spaceways, and a master thief, who operates as a future Robin Hood of the star systems. Tom Jo...

• May-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Barbara Custer and Tom Johnson bring their respective experiences to the printed page, blending it into tales of intergalactic adventure. Johnson introduces us to Eddy Edwards, a UFO hunter searching for alien life. In the process he meets Stuanofu, ...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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William Penn never suspected that his beloved Philadelphia would turn into the city of brotherly death. But that’s what’s happening in Philadelphia and other major cities. And it’s only going to get worse. The dead are coming -- revenants, vamp...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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Three short stories involving a vampire, zombies, and a revenant with unfinished business. The opening story, “Rebirth,” tells a poignant tale of a bullied teenage girl grieving for her mother. The residents in “Homes for the Dead” overwhelm ...

• Feb-2013
• / Science Fiction Romance
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The denizens of hell attack. The zombies feed. She's their meal. Sometimes they come back. At least the Kryszka aliens do. Their leader injects captured humans with a drug, turning them into zombies. Yeron escapes the Kryszka Colony, hoping to practi...

• Feb-2014
• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 25 offers vintage tales �" mostly vampire, but you won’t find any mundane themes. A Good Samaritan deed turns bloody when the person being rescued gets hungry. Another vampire who gets deathly ill on the blood he desperately needs. T...

• Apr-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Trittonite Chibale warns Natalie Springer that an exploding star heading toward Earth will incinerate the planet. After lengthy negotiations with politicians, he and his pilots organize a fleet of ships to pull the Earth away from the exploding star�...

• Apr-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Trittonite Chibale warns Natalie Springer that an exploding star heading toward Earth will incinerate the planet. After lengthy negotiations with politicians, he and his pilots organize a fleet of ships to pull the Earth away from the exploding star�...

• May-2014
• / Action Adventure
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Cassandra Kelly is without a year of her life -- a year that has gone missing. People from that year are back to wreak havoc in her life. Her resolve is strong, but fragments of missing time rain down on her with fury, placing her at the threshold of...

• Jul-2014
• / Horror
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Featuring the conclusion to Ken Goldman's "The Devil, You Say" along with zombie tales, butterfly vampire, and a musician's look at the Zombie Apocalypse. Poetry, art, and fiction by Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Todd Hanks, Rod Marsden, Marc Shapiro, D...

• Feb-2015
• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 27 will bring more zombie lore, plus work from two members of the Pennsylvania Bucks County Writers’ Group; also work by Marge Simon, Derek Muk, Rajeev Bhargava, Lee Clark Zumpe, Todd Hanks, Rod Marsden, Sandy DeLuca, Denny Marshall, ...

• Jul-2015
• / Fantasy
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Night to Dawn 28 features a concoction of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and other…beings. For starters, Allan Heller’s tale, “Clutch in the Crypt,” includes a werewolf, a vampire, and a zombie. Other zombie tales include Katie Tillwick’s “Pa...

• Nov-2015
• / Science Fiction
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Devastated by an error which caused an infant’s death, Lilly becomes deathly ill and collapses from loss of blood. She wakes up from emergency surgery with mental telepathic powers. When an extraterrestrial ship crash-lands near her home, she inves...

• Jan-2016
• / Dark Fantasy
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NTD 29 brings a unique take on the vampire theme; only now, I’ve brought mummies and zombies into the equation. Thomas Canfield can take credit for the mummy tale, “Skin Deep;” Margaret L. Carter has ushered fresh life to an ancient theme with ...

• Nov-2016
• / Dark Fantasy
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Marked for death, Alexis accompanies her lover, Yeron, and four survivors of a zombie invasion on a search for the renegades who created a chemical that induces a zombie-like state. On the way, ravenous flesh-eaters attack Alexis’s team; one surviv...

• Feb-2017
• / Dark Fantasy
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Some of NTD 31's stories feature the zombie’s point of view. These monsters spend more time being harried rather than attacking humans, for example, Allan Heller’s “Cabin.” Get ready for some sleepless nights with "Blood Moon," when a grievin...

• Jun-2017
• / Fantasy
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Monsters under the bed exist. If you didn’t think so before, you will after reading Night to Dawn 32, in particular, Kempka’s “Night Sounds.” Balloons have crept into the stories via my flash piece, “Unseen Hands.” As for clowns, whom we ...

• Jan-2018
• / Fantasy
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Night to Dawn 33 runs over 100 pages, meaning more fiction, poetry, and illustrations. NTD will still include traditional vampire tales, but you’ll also find mummies, demons, and a host of other monsters. What’s more, many NTD vampires don’t wi...

• May-2018
• / Science Fiction
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A crash landing leaves an alien woman at the mercy of a sadistic scientist whose "cure" could kill her. A painting opens a doorway to an alternate dimension, and a brand new life, for one woman, while a nurse's life is turned upside down in a rescue ...

• Jun-2018
• / Dark Fantasy
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Night to Dawn 34 features a crew of skeletons to haunt your dreams. You'll find plenty of bony villains from Rick McQuiston, Charles Gramlich, Linda Barrett, and other authors. You'll find a new twist on vampires, plus work from Marge Simon, Ralph Ho...

• Jul-2019
• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 36 comes with a mixture of vampires, zombies, mummies, vengeful ghosts, and human monsters. Harold Kempka's Showdown at Sundown features a mock trial that ends in a horrible death. Kevin Harrison's The Huntress: Animate, is a mummy ...

• Jan-2020
• / Horror
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In Night to Dawn 37, the line between life and death is often fuzzy. At night, the dead slither from their crypts. Our conversations take on an unnatural cast, and the familiar landmarks of our lives are torn away. Are the shadows flitting across the...

• Jul-2020
• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 38 caters to horror, dark fantasy, and dark science fiction aficionados. Aside from vampires, it features demons, zombies, and other mythical monsters. Night to Dawn 38 includes authors and artists like Marge Simon, Rod Marsden, Sandy D...

• Jan-2021
• / Horror
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The apocalypse of the movie screen and the printed page has become a reality. A microbe threatens humanity, making Corona seem like the common cold. Innocents die to appease young and hungry gods. A doctor feeds the souls of his patients to a demon. ...

• Jun-2021
• / General Fiction
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Vaccines may have conquered corona for us, but the characters in Night to Dawn 40 face a different ending. In particular, Lee Clark Zumpe's Worm-sacks and Dirt-backs. The story opens with a maze of dead, shambling people crowding a hospital, seeking ...

• Jan-2022
• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 41 features vampires, demons, and other monsters; SF tales with horrific overtones. One character seeks love from the undead; a teacher lures his students into a dark swamp. Fiction and poetry by Lee Clark Zumpe, Marge Simon, Rod Marsde...

• Jan-2023
• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 43 offers a unique take on monsters. One of them is a Mylar balloon. That's right, folks, an evil balloon takes on a life of its own and attacks the protag. Enter Katherine Quevedo's story, Hell-ium Balloon. The other tales feature a va...

• Jul-2023
• / Contemporary Romance
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Night to Dawn 44 ushers in a Halloween theme-complete with the pumpkin on the front cover and the horror tales, poetry, and illustrations inside. For starters, Lee Clark Zumpe's The Quarantine Station will remind you of The Island of Dr. Moreau, exce...

• Jan-2024
• / Dark Fantasy
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Night to Dawn 45 continues the nightmare brigade with ghouls, zombies, vampires, and ghosts, all featured with a unique twist and guaranteed to keep you up at night. The collection of short stories, poetry, and illustrations, presented by Barbara Cus...

• / Horror
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Night to Dawn 35 will take you away from the skeleton theme in Night to Dawn 34, but will feature a mixture of vampires, zombies, vengeful ghosts, and human monsters. It will include Vincent Davis's It Came from the Inkwell, along with work by Lee Cl...