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From the 17th century and Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean's reign of terror to the 20th century and a runaway child hiding in an ominous cave, two destinies become entwined and an evil course is set. Mild-mannered Jack Breen works in a video shop in Bristol, living out a dull, uncomplicated existence. But Jack has no clue as to how complicated his life is about to become when a menacing figure walks in asking for "the sickest film you've got." Bane, proprietor of the horror-themed pub The Slaughter Inn, has an obsession with darkness, death-and Jack himself. As their lives become intertwined, Bane's tormenting of Jack becomes increasingly dangerous. When the evil reaches out to touch his friends with horrific results, he's determined to put a stop to it, no matter the cost. Jack's final conflict with Bane results in a disturbing journey deeper into the darkness within himself as he takes a bus ride down the Sawney Bean trail right into hell. You've got your ticket, now take your seat, the Maniacal Mystery Tour's about to begin. A 101 Ways to Hell novel set in the 1990s, Sawney Bone is by Leo Darke, the infamous author of Lucifer Sam and Pandemonium.

Nikolis Cole: The Low-Rise Saint Richard Black When homicide detective Karen Oswalt receives a phone call from a long-thought-dead informant claiming to have information that could help her solve a year-old case, she agrees to meet with him, not knowing at the time that she is about to come face to face with something that can't possibly exist. Rock, Paper, Scissors Sebastian Bendix During a routine practice session, an up-and-coming grunge rock band inadvertently summons The Tailor, a nightmarish fairy tale creature called upon by parents to help deal with unkempt children. Now, with The Tailor's help, the Filthy Habits will be cleaning up their act - whether they want to or not. Coattails Joshua Rex Julie thinks she's found the perfect birthday gift for her boyfriend, not realizing that a sinister force has compelled her to buy the antique waistcoat. But to what purpose? From the moment Ryan put on the jacket, Julie knew something wasn't right, and now she's in a race against time to save her boyfriend from a darkness that wants him for its own.

The Regal Retreat is an exclusive resort situated deep in the countryside of East Anglia where the rich and famous go to unwind. However, far from being a place of rest and relaxation, bad things happen there. Its history has been plagued by tragedy and misfortune. Over the years there have been scores of killing sprees, accidents, suicides, and even the occasional sighting of the resident ghost. In a desperate attempt to save the business, the resort calls in paranormal investigator Ben Shivers. Since the devastating loss of his daughter and the subsequent breakdown of his marriage, he has been traveling Europe in a vintage VW camper van with his sidekick, a rescue cat called Mr. Trimble. He sees the assignment as the perfect opportunity to break the cycle of self-destruction he has been on, but as he delves into the case, he uncovers a history many would rather forget-sordid family secrets, witchcraft, murder, and an ancient curse, all coming together in a perfect storm deep in the heart of the English countryside. Welcome to the Regal Retreat.

The Source by W.C. Jones Have you ever wondered why people do bad things? One man's desire to find out why turns into an obsession after his wife and unborn child are killed in a drive-by shooting. What Josh discovers defies all logic and reason. But now that he knows the truth, is he about to become the next victim of a random act of violence?Brain Attack by A.P. Sessler DANIEL REGINALD LEWIS. For years he had been known only as Head-Explode Guy because of his iconic death in the cult scifi/horror film Brain Attack. But a convention organizer has finally succeeded where all others failed, tracking down the elusive actor and securing his appearance at this year's Horr-Onto Con, surely to go down as one of the greatest cons in history. But someone doesn't want Lewis to make that appearance. Someone afraid of what he might expose. Secrets a shadow organization never meant to go public and will go to any length to make certain they stay buried. Will this mysterious actor be able to expose the truth behind Brain Attack, or will he be silenced-again?The Bathtub by Andrew RichardsonElizabeth had always fantasized about two of her handsome co-workers, but she knew better than to start anything while she worked side by side with them. Now that she's about to leave the bank for a new job, her wildest, naughtiest fantasies are about to become a reality. But a home invasion wasn't part of what the threesome had planned, and now her wildest dreams are about to become her worst nightmare-in more ways than one.

Said the little child to his mother dear, do you hear what I hear Shrieking through the night, father dear, And do you see what I see A cry, a scream, blood coloring the snow And a laugh as evil as sin And a laugh as evil as sin Well, folks, looks like we're back in Deathlehem, where... ...Santa's gift turns a mindless horde of bargain-hungry shoppersinto...well... a horde of hungry shoppers... ...defective toys aren't just dangerous; they're deadly... ...holiday ornaments prove to be absolutely captivating-permanently... ...those ugly Christmas sweaters are to die for... Twenty-five more tales of holiday horror to benefit The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

A print collection of previously published digital digital shorts that include The Freaks Come Out at Night by Joseph Rubas, The First Suitor by A.P. Sessler, and Vampire Worms by Neil Davies.

Slay bells ring, Kids are screaming, In the lane, snow is blood stained. There's nowhere to hide, Krampus has arrived, There'll be feasting in a winter slaughter land... Welcome Back to Deathlehem ... where the office Secret Santa proves more dangerous than a game of Russian roulette... ... where trips to Grandma's house are fraught with danger... ... where a traditional Nutcracker poses a threat to a pair of would-be thieves... ... where ghosts of Christmases past haunt and take vengeance against the living... ... and many more! Twenty-three tales of holiday horror that benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Conceived in darkness, it feeds off the host. It is poked at and prodded, all the while growing within the confines of the author's mind until it reaches that point where it will no longer be contained. It forces its way through the porous openings in the skull, insinuates itself into the bloodstream, feeds into the very cells of its host, who has only one desire - to rid itself of this parasite before it is driven insane.Cranial LeakageAn otherworldly artist finds beauty in man's depravity...One woman's therapy session frees more than just memories...A fertility ritual delivers more than just an abundant harvest...The ultimate hot sauce proves to be too much for one man...An obsession with dreams pushes one woman over the edge...... and many more!

Twas the fright before Christmas And all through the town Not a soul stirred No one dared make a sound... Welcome to Deathlehem, where... ...Krampus, not Santa, brings the holiday cheer... ...the lights on the tree, so festive and bright, skitter and crawl and possess a lethal bite... ...malicious little elves, not a jolly fat one, know if you've been naughty--or nice... and ...family gatherings and office parties often turn deadly. So enter...if you dare. A collection of 23 holiday horrors benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

We survived The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Then came THEM!, It Came From Beneath the Sea, and The Deadly Mantis. They were merely practice runs. Now prepare for ATTACK! of the B-Movie Monsters: Night of the Gigantis Rampaging Rodents! Terrifying Tentacles! Bone-Crushing Claws! Scientific experiments gone dreadfully wrong!

For some, death is not the end. There are those who are doomed to walk the earth for all eternity, those who are trapped between one plain of existence and the next, those who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not let go of the lives they left behind. These are the vengeful spirits, the tortured souls, the ghosts that haunt our realm. Welcome to FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, a collection of 19 original ghost stories from Adam Millard, Nelson W. Pyles, Robert W. Walker, Jennifer Word, et al.

There's something in Troughton's Moss that's been there for ages. It speaks to the people of Ellsford, whispers in their ear, burrows into their minds, like a Brainworm, and it tells them what to do.THE MADONNATwenty years ago it spoke to Paul Cunningham and set the wheels in motion. He brutally murdered, then raped a young woman. A short while later, within the narrow confines of her grave, she gave birth to ...THE CHILDGrown to adulthood, it moves undetected amongst the people of Ellsford with only one purpose. THE END TIMESThe time has come. The Moss is beginning to give up its dead, sacrifices made in its name throughout the ages. THE CHOSEN ONEDobson Heather, a child of the Moss himself, has been marked. But is he Ellsford's salvation, or their damnation?

Lonely, haunted roads, insanity, ancient curses, and strange creatures that go bump in the night: these are the types of tales that make up the rich tapestry of Maine's legends and lore, and they are exactly the types of tales you will find within these pages.Northern Frights is the first anthology from the "Horror Writers of Maine." There are names in this collection you might recognize, ones you should, and after reading it, ones you'll never forget. Sit back, keep the lights on, and read some horror from native Mainers.With stories from: Martin Campbell, Duane E. Coffill, GD Dearborn, Peter N. Dudar, E.J. Fechenda, Jeremy Flagg, Joshua Goudreau, James Graham, April Hawks, Harold Hull, Leslie J Linder, John McIlveen, Holly Newstein, Dale T. Phillips, Glenn Rolfe, Leon Roy, Angi Shearstone, Katherine Silva, Juss Stinson, Lynda Styles, Wicker Stone, Morgan Sylvia, and Thomas Washburn, J

A group of teenage friends think it's a good idea to hang around in a graveyard, while a young thief gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a local property. We're given a first-hand account of struggles in the aftermath of a post-apocalyptic event and the reminiscences of a musician with a very unusual talent. A woman wakes with no memory of who or where she is... and also no pulse, then we're flung through space to a planet where a grave discovery is made-one which has deadly repercussions... Ladies and gentlemen, these are the Zombies! a collection of stories by award-winning and #1 bestselling author Paul Kane (Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Before, Arcana, The Storm), including a brand new short novel, one of his popular Dalton Quayle novelettes, and a steampunk poem. With an introduction by award-winning and bestselling author Brian Keene (The Rising, City of the Dead) and cover art by Dominic Harman (The Hellbound Heart, Cabal), this is one book that simply refuses to lay down and die!

In a far corner of space, orbiting a massive black hole, the research ship DARC12 discovers a strange asteroid-one that seems to be alive. After loading the rock on board for study, the ship quickly descends into madness. It begins with voices, whispers filling the shadows and the minds of the crew. A once-sane man declares that their discovery is not just a rock, but a god. Then the killing begins, and a cult rises, swearing allegiance to their newfound deity.As the murders mount and the dead themselves begin to rise, a small group of survivors clings to the hope that they can somehow escape the hell they've been plunged into. But their problems escalate as they face an army of undead crewmembers, the reanimated corpses of hundreds of failed genetic experiments, the murderous cult, and-worst of all-the rapidly evolving creature in... CONTAINMENT ROOM 7

Seven long years have passed since Betty-June Gray and her son, Jesus, escaped the horrific events that befell them on the Tucker farm. For Betty-June, those years have been spent trying to forget about the past while dealing with the nightmarish results of toxic poisoning from the Atkins Chemical Plant, which are quickly making her son deathly ill.Desperate for cash for Jesus's medical treatment, Betty-June starts waitressing at the Pig-Whistle Truck Stop Diner. Fearing she won't bring in enough money, she's faced with the very real possibility of having to earn extra cash servicing truckers in the privacy of the diner's supply closet. But she's about to come face-to-face with a sex-crime vigilante called "The Headhunter," who is getting ready to castrate another victim.Against a backdrop of deformed gators, evil politicians, racist policemen, and a six-foot-tall Moth Man stalking the truck stop, is anyone safe on this dark, sultry evening in Cold Currant, Mississippi? Find out in the continuing saga of Betty-June Gray...The Mississippi Glory Hole Mutilations

An embittered farmer.A New York corporate raider.Two teenage high school girls.A failed small business owner. Past and present collide, revealing secrets best kept hidden. These disparate people gather at a desolate Kansas farm for a hellish night not everyone will survive. Godland is a dark psychological suspense horror thriller. A Midwestern nightmare. Farm noir.

Under the burning sun of Cold Currant, Mississippi, right on the banks of the Mississippi River, sits an old antebellum farmhouse that has been passed down through the generations. The farm's current occupants, the Tucker clan, are on the brink of losing their family's legacy. Only, the Tuckers have been hiding a depraved, murderous secret under the very soil of the farmland they continue to work. When the vice-president of Cold Currant Savings and Loan shows up one sweltering summer afternoon to deliver their foreclosure papers, all hell breaks loose. In the race to save their farm, Lee Tucker and his two inbred sons, Tobias and Mathias, are forced to make some terrible decisions and spill a lot of blood. But as the sun sets and the moon rises over the crops, and as their latest victim lies naked and screaming in the barn, a nightmarish chain of events begins to unfold. Will it be the end of the Tucker Blood Cult, or will their redneck living be enough to save the family farm? Find out in...BLOOD CULT OF THE BOOBY FARMERS!

BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF ANOMALOUS WEATHER, ¿SOMETHING PROWLS Up north, a snowstorm of unprecedented ferocity descends upon Zukunft Falls, Montana, and the nearby Enchanted Point Ski Resort. Within the blinding whiteness created by the storm, something even more ferocious hunts the refugees as they seek shelter from the raging winds and plummeting temperatures. BENEATH THE RISING FLOODWATERS, SOMETHING LURKS Meanwhile, down south, a storm system forms off the coast of Florida with a speed that defies nature. The Governor quickly rescinds her evacuation order and advises citizens to shelter in place and ride out the storm. But homes and businesses are disappearing, being deconstructed around the terrified residents until they are forced into the open to become potential prey to something from which even the state's most feared predators flee. WITHIN THE CONCEALING DARKNESS, SOMETHING FEASTS Defying the Governor's orders, a disparate group of strangers-a Hollywood-bound teen runaway, a politician, a reporter, an over-the-hill beach bum, a middle-aged gamer, a pair of grad students from the University of Central Florida, among others-band together as circumstances force them to rely on each other as they try to outrun the storm and the predator that hunts them. Who will survive the terror of... HORRORICANE

What is your deepest fear? Things that exist in plain sight? Those that hide in the darkest corners of your soul? Our deepest fears come in many forms. The seen and the hidden. The real and the imagined. The flesh and the incorporeal. Between the covers of this book, you'll find a bit of all this. Monsters, real and imagined. The familiar and the alien. So open the book. Be prepared to confront your worst fears.¿Things That Don't Belong in the Light

The Caribbean Sea, 1708 AD.In Port Royal, many have heard the legend of the Black Brig, a ship of the damned bringing a fate worse than death to the isolated colonies of the Caribbean Sea. But few know the true story behind the tavern tales. As the war between the Northern Alliance and the League of the Antilles looms on the horizon, an old captain is ready to embark on a venture to cease the blight of the Black Brig once for all and have his revenge.Set in an alternate historical setting, where a supernatural plague caused the fall of the European powers and where what was left of humanity struggles to survive in the New World, Dead Men Tell No Tales narrates the ghastly voyage pirate captain Daniel Drake Davies underwent in 1676, and the events that will force him to confront those same horrors thirty years later. For the dead do not rest peacefully in the Devil's Sea. Pirates, voodoo, and seagoing undead await you in this fantastic journey in a land that never was.

Help her open the door. It wants to come through...First, the dream. Now this message from the mouth of a stranger. It was too much of a coincidence for Nate Carver, and has him dropping everything to help a woman he hasn't even thought about in eight years, not since the overdose that almost took Cathy Deveraux's life.The prison escape of Thomas Elbert stirs up memories for Detective Alec Palmer, and the man's death raises questions. Why would a catatonic convicted killer suddenly wake up and escape, only to commit suicide days later? Or was it murder? And what connection did he have to Nate Carver, a man on the run with a daughter he never knew he had?All roads lead to Boston, where, in their search for answers, they will be drawn into the dark world of the occult and mysticism. Of parallel worlds and alternate realities. Of doors that open onto other times and other worlds. Of dreams that won't be denied.By the time they realize they are merely pawns in a much bigger game, a game where the fate of the world is at stake, will it be too late?