Welcome to the midnight matinee, the great cinematic festival of horror. From the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, from the tinsel ...
Jesse Gordon, driven to a shocking murder by the killing of his wife and infant daughter, condemns himself to life underground in the New York City subway system. Abandoning the light of day, he finds an evil as old as time, and a redemption which mu...
Welcome to DreamthorpA sleepy little Pennsylvania resort town where city folks can get away from it all...A town where a woman who saw her best friend mutilated by a crazed sex killer can hide – and forget......until haunted relics of another ...
In this stunning new collection, GAHAN WILSON invites two hungry strangers to a beach party. One sports a grin, the other a saw... TANITH LEE invokes a dreadful demon in the mind of a love-starved woman ... JOE HALDEMAN carves a chilling verse of ter...
In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared. These aren't ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments - the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They don't move, and they don't speak. Ash We...
THEY'VE WON... They came in the night, to the towns and cities. Like a slow, insidious virus they spread from house to house, building to building, from graveyard to bedroom and cellar to boardroom. They are ancient and deathless, sun-shy and bloodt...
Two young necromancers-in-training accept the invitation of Victor Mordenheim to aid him in his research. Mordenheim, man of science, wishes to revive his dead wife and funnel her essence into a new living receptacle. The newcomers' consternation is ...
In 2095, the Prisons Are Closed...And the Gates of Hell Are Opened! The Hand of God party controls the Holy Protectorate of the United States, presided over by the Imperator Solene Solux. Prohibition and the Inquisition are back in full force. Ownin...
Tired of the political machinations of his egotistical fellow wizards, Benelaius retires from the College of War Wizards to take up residency in Cormyr, where he lives peacefully until he and his legman, Jasper, are forced to investigate the murder o...
I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander. Burdened bq the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter Heaven... And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly searching for a wag to rid themselves of their pai...
In the third novel in the series, the immortal Crow joins a peace-loving woman on a search-and-destroy mission deep in the woods to break up a crazed militia that tries to bomb a day-care center. Original....
SOMETHING IS OUT THERE. AND EVERYTHING WE KNOW, EVERYTHING WE BELIEVE. EVERYTHING WE ARE-IS DOOMED. Their identities are a secret. Their mission does not exist. There is no one they can trust...not even the one man pulling the strings. A trio o...
HE IS OUT THERE. AND HE IS DANGEROUS BEYOND IMAGINING. Two men walk the desert beneath the Arizona stars. By morning, one will lie buried beneath the blistering sands. The other will be the new Apostle. Laika Harris, Tony Luciano and Joseph Ste...
HE IS THE PRISONER, AGELESS, DEATHLESS, POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE. AND NOW HE IS FREE. A being as old as time, he has always been. For centuries a clandestine order of knights has guarded him, keeping his existence secret from an unsuspecting world....
This retelling of the Christmas classic by Clement C. Moore blends Santa Claus with the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch figure of the Belsnickel, a thin, cantankerous old man who visits children before Christmas and rewards, or punishes, them based on...
You are invited to a party. A reunion of old college friends who haven't seen each other since the late 1960s. It should be a blast, with great music and fond memories. But be forewarned, it won't all be good. Two of the friends at the party weren't ...
Chet Williamson's The Story of Noichi the Blind blends Japanese classicism with the tropes of contemporary horror to create the most literate yet stomach-churning tale this writer has ever told.
Purported to be a possibly lost Lafcadio Hearn m...
When Paul Blair's wife is killed by a young drunk driver, he decides to dedicate his life to keeping the youth of his church from bad influences. And if that means bringing down the wolves who tempt them, so be it. When Paul finds that one of his own...
The original Psycho novel by Robert Bloch was published in 1959 and became an instant hit, leading to the smash movie only a year later, which brought Norman Bates's terrifying story into the public consciousness, where it still remains (proven by th...
Fifteen stories from living legends, rising stars, venerable masters and surprising newcomers, exploring our troubled past, our turbulent present, and frightening futures yet to come.Freedom of Screech. It’s not for the faint of heart.Chet Williams...
(Originally published as Night Visions 7)- A jazz musician whose powerful music just might wake the dead.- A sleepy Wisconsin town harbors an evil that has waited generations to exact its revenge.- A young couple struggles for survival amid the ruins...
Though primarily a writer of very accomplished fiction, Chet Williamson has also written non-fiction books, essays, plays, reviews, songs, and letters of complaint. What you'll find in these pages is a grab-bag of his work that is largely unseen by h...
Three men are offered a million dollars each if they will spend a month in an isolated Pennsylvania mansion, The Pines. There they will confront madness, murder, and the ultimate evil ??? so that their billionaire host might find the key to life beyo...