Bøger af Tim Curran

Nobody gets out alive!The warheads have come down.The reign of mankind ends when the mushroom clouds appear in the skies and the cities become irradiated tombs, nuclear graveyards that are grim testament of man's inhumanity to his fellow man.Now there is only survival.Terrible, brutal day-by-day existence in the atomic wastelands, a dark plutonium netherworld of monsters and mutants, madmen, and roving gangs. And those awful, malevolent things that are even worse.The dead are the lucky ones.Welcome to the day after tomorrow.Welcome to doomsday.

Horror of the Blood Devils is written like one of the old Italian horror movies! Blood! Gore! Vampires! This fast paced Bloody Bones Horror novel will entertain you until the bitter and climatic ending! Designed with an Italian giallo flare in mind; This book should satisfy all connoisseurs of Gore Horror!Despair Island, 1962.Prison break.Five desperate men go over the wall at Stackhouse Correctional. Their object: reach the coast on the far end of the island before all hell breaks loose. Behind them, are teams of guards with vicious dogs. Before them, the treacherous depths of Snakebit Swamp, a desolate, primeval run of alligators and poisonous snakes.But there's something worse that calls it home-an ancient evil that feeds on human blood. If the guards and convicts want to survive the night, they'll have to join together.They have entered the hunting grounds.And they are prey.

Cut River, Michigan. Population: 0. The town the Devil built. Once it was a sleepy backwater town and once there were people in it.Then a lurking pestilence ate the flesh from its bones. A pestilence born in the smoldering graveyards of nameless, forgotten battlefields. And now there is only a shifting darkness in Cut River, a darkness populated by hideous shadows that pretend to be people. Seven strangers will arrive. If they can stay alive until dawn, they'll survive. But to do that will mean engaging in a bloody war of attrition against the things that crawl and hunt in the night. Things that wear the faces of men, women, and children. Toxic Shadows. Welcome to Cut River. Welcome to the graveyard. War is Hell.

Vietnam 1970. A green hell where death waits behind every tree, in every pooling shadow, and in every mist-haunted hollow. Boobytraps and bullets, landmines and rockets. Mike McKinney went to write about the war, about the terror and frustrations, soldiers and people and a landscape forever altered by the conflict...but he ran across something even worse: a primeval horror straight out of the darkest Vietnamese folklore. A monstrosity that stalks human heads among the twisted, jungled hills of the Central Highlands. Now it is hunting him. And nothing can stop it.

Nearly 200 years ago they turned Cobton into a graveyard. They rose from the darkness and drained it dry, feeding off its citizens, one by one by one, their terrible thirst sparing no one. The village was shunned as cursed ground, its tall, narrow houses fell to decay. The Resurrection. Now the haunted ruins of Cobton have been rebuilt as a tourist trap. A TV crew descends on it one cold winter night and is trapped there by a howling blizzard that shuts them off from the world. And in the subterranean, charnel darkness below...the evil is reawakening, ancient hungers renewed. The Colony is rising. Their thirst is unspeakable. And for the TV crew, it's Hell on Earth.

Be quiet. Very quiet. Don't scream. They can't see you, but they can hear you. And they're coming. Knocking at doors and reaching through windows, hungry to incinerate anything that moves, anything that breathes. Born in a searing hellstorm of radioactive dust, they own the night and if they touch you, they'll burn the flesh from your bones. Listen. They're coming now. Don't even whisper. And don't scream.

Five years of hell. Day after day, Nathan Partridge endured the dehumanizing, brutal conditions of the Arizona Territorial Prison until he became more animal than man. He kept his sights on his parole, his loving wife, and $80,000 in robbery money he had hidden. Then his house burned down and his wife disappeared in the flames. He busted out to get his money, only it's gone. And only his wife knew where it was hidden. Now he's after her. And on his trail are desperate manhunters, the worst criminal scum of the Territories as well as one dogged, relentless federal marshal and two deranged bounty hunters whose chosen prey is human. But Partidge's most desperate enemy might be his own father. A man who's been in the grave for ten years.

Book 6 in the Horror Collection contains stories by Tim Curran, Douglas Hackle, Kyle M. Scott, Mike Duke, Zoey Xolton, Natasha Sinclair & Kevin J. Kennedy. We will take you on a trip through hell, to vampire torn lands, find out the perils of collecting too many books and on many more terrifying adventures.

William Zero, a.k.a. Dr. Blood-and-Bones. One of the most infamous butchers in U.S. history, a serial killer who skinned and dissected his victims. He killed a dozen people and then vanished without a trace. Now his deranged son, Eddy, is searching for him. He believes his father escaped into an alternate reality and the only way to follow him is by recreating his crimes and opening the doorway to Hell.And as Eddy hunts his father, he is hunted. Dr. Lisa Lochmere, a psychiatrist is hot on his trail, motivated by sexual obsessions she can't even begin to understand. When she was a teenager she had an affair with an older man that turned into brutal abuse. Years later, she discovered her lover was none other than William Zero. And ever since, despite herself, she has had a certain sexual compulsion concerning him. A compulsion that only grew when Eddy was placed under her care at an asylum, only to be released by her superiors prematurely.Now she has tracked Eddy to San Francisco-the scene of his father's crimes. She intends to find him, telling herself it's for his own good and a book she wants to write, but in reality the reasons are much more personal. She has enlisted the help of James Fenn, a homicide detective, who wants to help her, but in reality has fallen in love with her, a woman who can know no love, only obsession.As Eddy kills and kills again and Fenn falls deeper in love with her, Lisa is drawn to the house where Zero dispatched his victims, believing it to be the place where Eddy is most likely to go. But it isn't Eddy she finds there, but something far worse. Nothing-and no one-is what they seem in the House of Skin.

200 years ago, the village of Clavitt Fields was burned to the ground. It was hoped that what lived there had perished in the fire. But they did not perish. They went underground ... For generations, they lived and bred in darkness, adapting themselves to a subterranean existence. Now they are rising to the surface, and what they've become is a horror beyond belief, a crawling nightmare of evil and bloodthirsty violence bent on destruction. The night is alive ... and it belongs to them.

Holly is not herself. She was once a pretty young woman, healthy and strong, completely devoted to her husband Richard. When she became pregnant, he was ecstatic. They would finally have a child to complete their love. But then Holly began to change. She began reading strange, old books and consorting with a mysterious midwife named Mrs. Crouch. Day by day, she becomes less like the woman Richard married, slowly degenerating into something evil and monstrous. The child she carries is not his. In fact, it's not even human. Holly is about to unleash hell into the world.

Christina is young, pretty and very alone. Her relationships seem cursed, each one turning to slow poison. Then one perfectly ordinary day, as an act of kindness, she pulls some weeds from an old derelict grave. Now she's no longer alone. For what has laid down in the cold black earth for decades has attached itself to her. For it, she will be the perfect wife and, God help her, the perfect mother.

At the bottom of a prehistoric lake in Antarctica there is a city old as time, a relic of an alien pre-human intelligence. Somewhere, deep in its ancient labyrinthine depths, there is an ever-increasing source of power of incalculable menace.Now an elite team of Navy divers is going down to investigate it, and what they find is a nightmare beyond imagining.The city is not dead.As it wakes from its deathless slumber of countless millions of years, so does the race that built it, unleashing a deadly force that will harvest the human race like cattle.Trapped beneath the ice, haunted by the city, its inhabitants, and the monsters spawned from their own fragile psyches, the divers have only one chance to destroy it before it rises to engulf the world of men.The clock is ticking.And the city's black heart is beating.