Something evil walks this small town’s streets ... and three men will face it head on while a fourth ponders if he can become a monster. On a quiet Fall night, murder comes to the small Iowa town of Black Forest for the first time in all its horror and depravity. Locals start to wonder if self-taught Satanist Shane Woland is involved in this horrendous killing of an awkward teenager. Lonely and divorced Principal Schlecte believes Shane is innocent. Sherriff Tim Levington is certain the boy is somehow involved. Town mechanic Mel Roland is convinced of the accused’s guilt, as well. And Shane Woland wants to meet the killer. But all is not as it seems, especially about the victim in this crime. For he has summoned evil, one so powerful that nothing, and no one, will be able to resist or beat it. As these grown orphans are forced to come to terms with the deepest flaws and the darkest desires of their hearts, the battle rages as they face evil in the faces of the town, and the ones reflecting back at them in the mirror.

A spooky and sinister collection of original horror and dark humor from big names and talented newcomers! What scares you most when you go to the doctor? Eighteen horror authors have come together to tell us what makes their skin crawl when they pick up a strange new bottle of pills from the pharmacist or hear the whirl of a dentist's maniacal drill while they're strapped to the chair. Try your best to keep the shadows at bay as you read these tales of blood, boils, scabs, and scars. This thrilling anthology is full of amusing and alarming anecdotes (and some antidotes) that will send more shivers down your spine than a chilled stethoscope on bare flesh. Contributors include: Jackson Arthur Alexis Aurol Rohmann Barisoff Christopher Blinn NM Brown Amy Coles Lydia McCann Madison Estes John Haas James Harper Julie Kathleen McNeely-Kirwan Ziaul Moid Khan Axel Kohagen Erika Lance Jay Mendell Devin Oldham Paul Wilson Reader Beware: Some of these stories may stay with you after the book is closed and follow you straight to your next medical appointment!

Home isn't always where the heart is. Sometimes, home is where the violence is. What happens when your safe place becomes quite the opposite; when the term 'home sweet home' no longer applies? Find out the answers in the third installment of the Suburban Secrets series, Home Invasion. Featuring stories such as, 'This is Business Not Pleasure' by Michael Noe, and 'Softly Comes the Ripper' by Michael Fisher, and including stories by Jim Goforth, Dawn Cano, Brian Barr, and several other great authors. Suburban Secrets is part of the series that you won't want to miss. So, lock your doors, and turn out the lights, Home Invasion is here!

Notions of the undead have fascinated and terrified humanity for centuries, and none more so than those tales revolving around zombies. From the very root of the zombie myth back in the Haitian slave days, to a saturation through popular culture, zombies have crawled their way up out of their graves, refusing to stay interred. Now, as their hordes increase and their hungers grow, the undead plagues cannot be stopped. It isn't just a case of no room left on Earth. The apocalypse is here, and it's time for humanity to abdicate their positions as rulers of the planet to those monstrous reanimated ghouls from the tomb. Humans have had their day.Time's up. The world belongs to the zombies now. It's zero hour.

A talent-filled horror anthology featuring 50+ time national and international bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson of Dune, Star Wars, and X-Files fame! This anthology introduces his new venture, Dan Shambles Zombie P.I. Introduction by Kevin J AndersonIntroducing Dan Shamble, Zombie PIPrivate detectives can be persistent fellows—even more so when they are the walking dead. Dan Chambeaux, affectionately (or not) called “Dan Shamble,” puts the P.I. back in R.I.P. A zombie, but still a gumshoe, Dan is back from the dead and back on the case, solving tough (or just strange) mysteries in the Unnatural Quarter. His partner Robin is a bleeding-heart human lawyer who wants to make sure the newly awakened monsters aren't downtrodden by outdated laws, and he has a ghost for an office manager, who is also a former girlfriend (but “former” in the sense that she's no longer alive, not that she's no longer his girlfriend), and a rough-around-the-edges cop who is his BHF (Best Human Friend). Dan Shamble has plenty of cases, not least of which is figuring out who killed him, and who killed his girlfriend.There have been a lot of undead or unnatural detectives in fiction and film—vampire detectives, succubus detectives, demon detectives, ghost detectives, werewolf detectives, skeleton detectives. Heck, there have even been zombie detectives before (Tim Waggoner's Nekropolis series comes immediately to mind, or Treat Williams in the 1980s film Dead Heat). But why is that a drawback? I mean, there have been any number of human detectives, too! It's the story that counts. Zombies are relentless, and “dead guy private eye” seemed like a good idea that lent itself to plenty of humor, some of it quite unfortunate. (Being a corpse and a PI leaves Dan to open to very poor-taste jokes, such as being called a “stiff dick.”) I wanted the Dan Shamble series to be laugh-out-loud funny, a fast and entertaining read, and once I started exploring the world of the Unnatural Quarter, the cases suggested themselves, one outrageous situation after another: A mummy who is suing to be emancipated from the museum because he's a person, dammit, not a piece of property; a skittish vampire who thinks somebody is trying to kill him because he sees wooden stakes everywhere; a witch seeking restitution after an incantation from a spellbook went horribly wrong and turned her sister into a fat sow, so she is suing the publisher for not running a “spell check”; an investigation into Jekyll Lifestyle Products and Necroceuticals—purveyors of toiletries, perfumes, soaps, and lotions that cater to monsters—because one batch of their special vampire shampoo was accidentally contaminated with garlic oil, which made all the vampires' hair fall out.Yes, I had a lot of fun writing the series.I am a prolific writer with many bestsellers, best known for my doorstop-sized science fiction or fantasy epics, but I have never limited myself only to SF/F. My first novel, Resurrection, Inc., was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award given by the Horror Writers Association (it was a Gothic horror, science fiction, murder mystery), and I've written thrillers with Dean Koontz, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Doug Beason. If you are looking for more Dan Shambles stories, you can find them on Amazon. "Slimy Underbelly"“Stakeout at the Vampire Circus,” “Road Kill,” “Naughty & Nice” (a zombie Christmas story, of course), “Role Model,” “Beware of Dog,” “The Writing on the Wall,” and now “Locked Room.”

This is a collection of stories of all different genres by great writers.

Death Awaits, a fitting title for this book, for that's what awaits you within its pages. Like a blanket sown from congealed blood. Its embrace as warm and wet as severed flesh. Makes sense considering it's bound in human skin. I can almost hear their screams as I flayed them before their deaths. My blades are still covered in their gore. Don't worry, I promise that they will be clean enough for you to see your own blood decorate them. In the meantime, why don't you begin reading. I promise that death will be waiting for you when the last page is turned... -Mr Empty

A Collection of Dark Tales for a Dark Time. Kicked down by cancer, Andy has struggled to make ends meet. Being a self employed decorator he is no longer earning money to support his family. This anthology has been put together by a talented selection of dark authors to help Andy and his family through this dark time. All proceeds from sales of this book will go to Andy to help keep a roof over his families head. Andy Taylor Class of 2017 Kicking cancers butt!