Download or read book The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities written by Gary McMahon and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative journalist uncovers the horrifying secret behind a legendary Hollywood family. After an accident, a bus driver is faced with a horrible choice. A group of skydivers face a winged terror from above. An art dealer is haunted by a portrait of a red-haired woman in a green dress. A son is reunited with his father, thirty years after his death. THE PORCUPINE BOY AND OTHER ANTHOLOGICAL ODDITIES is an anthology of dark fiction containing fourteen never-before-published stories by some of the genre’s best writers.
Download or read book Halloween Season written by Lucy A. Snyder and published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us. For dedicated fans, the season begins when the leaves start turning autumn colors and doesn't finish until Hallowtide ends in November. With it comes a whole lot of fun: scary movies and stories, haunted houses, seasonal sweets, spooky decorations, costume parties, and of course trick or treat. But Halloween is also a deeply spiritual time for some; it's an opportunity to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on. Master storyteller Lucy A. Snyder has filled her cauldron with everything that Halloween means to her and distilled it into a spell-binding volume of stories. Within these pages you'll find thrills and chills, hilarity and horrors, the sweet and the naughty. One of the best things about Halloween is you don't have to be yourself. So go ahead and try on a new mask or two ... you may discover hidden talents as a witch, a pirate, a space voyager, a zombie fighter, or even an elf. This is the perfect collection to celebrate the season of the dead or to summon those heady autumn vibes whenever you like. You may even find a couple of tales that evoke a certain winter holiday that keeps trying to crowd in on the fun. In the worlds within this book, every day is Halloween!
Download or read book The Best Horror of the Year written by Ellen Datlow and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ellen Datlow (“the venerable queen of horror anthologies” (New York Times) comes a new entry in the series that has brought you stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman comes thrilling stories, the best horror stories available. For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the eleventh volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Stephen King, Linda Nagata, Laird Barron, Margo Lanagan, and many others. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.
Download or read book Read Me and Other Ghost Stories written by Keith Minnion and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1974, and Cyrus Barnaby is a sophomore in college. He is also an orphan, having survived a horrific automobile accident fourteen years previously, an accident that took both his parents’ lives. Now Cyrus is an art student, a painting major at a large upstate university. He paints Dark Angels and gothic, symbolist landscapes.He also draws the cadavers in the Medical College’s dissection rooms, and what appear (to one professor at least) to be messages from the dead, written in blood vessel patterns in harvested brain cauls. Cyrus lives with other students in a large Victorian rooming house they call “Our House”. Although Our House looks, sounds, and acts like it is haunted, it isn’t. Cyrus is. READ ME, a novella, is a mystery story and a ghost story combined, and fits hand-in-glove with nine other ghost stories in this collection, including two new stories, “The Retirement” and “The Wrinkle”, published here for the first time.
Download or read book The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell written by Brian Evenson and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Here is how monstrous humans are.” A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration. Combining psychological and ecological horror, each tale thrums with Evenson’s award-winning literary craftsmanship, dark humor, and thrilling suspense.
Download or read book Extreme Zombies written by Joe Lansdale and published by Prime Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's too late! The living dead have already taken over the world. Your brains have been devoured. Nothing is left but spasms of ravenous need -- an obscene hunger for even more zombie fiction. Forget the metaphors and the mildly scary. You want shock, you want grue, you want disturbing, gut-wrenching, skull-crunching zombie stories that take you over the edge and go splat. You want the bloody best of the ultimate undead. You have no choice...you...must...have...Extreme Zombies!
Download or read book Barbara s Escape written by Elizabeth Massie and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patsy Black and her best friend Barbara Layman are convinced the soldier staying at Black's Tavern are spies for the British--and Barbara has a plan to catch them in the act. But when the spies catch Barbara first, can Patsy rescue Barbara and stop the British soldiers from invading Philadelphia?
Download or read book Revelations written by Douglas E. Winter and published by Harper Voyager. This book was released on 1997-12-05 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelations is a unique publishing event -- a visionary collaborative epic novel by today's bestselling and most respected dark fantasy authors. Decade by decade as the Millenium approaches, we take an unforgettable imaginative journey of terror and transcendence through a century that some see as Civilization's darkest -- our own. We end up with Barker's shattering 21st century climax: A dramatic revelation that is both a prophetic warning and a visionary answer for all humankind.
Download or read book 1776 Son of Liberty written by Elizabeth Massie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his farm in Maryland, sixteen-year-old Caleb Jacobson waits anxiously for news from Boston: rumors have it that colonials are staging an armed rebellion against the oppressive tyranny of King George III of England and his soldiers. War! Caleb longs to join the volunteer army of General Washington and win the fight for freedom, but he is torn between loyalty to his fellow colonials and his race. Caleb is a free black living in a slave state. He knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if his fellow blacks remain shackled in bondage. Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans. Can he be trusted to keep his word? Caleb will have to choose.
Download or read book Jambo Watoto written by Marsha Heatwole and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left for the day while their mother goes hunting, four little cheetahs find they are not alone and are tempted to leave the safety of the grass to follow other animals.
Download or read book Psychos written by John Skipp and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again. From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers, but still turning the pages. Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics, the best that the genre has to offer, by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman, Amelia Beamer, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors. John Skipp, who is also the editor of Zombies, Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight, through two nonfiction essays, into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction, movies, websites, and writers.
Download or read book 1870 Not With Our Blood written by Elizabeth Massie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Irish immigrant boy keeps hope alive by dreaming of becoming a writer.
Download or read book Wire Mesh Mothers eBook Biblioboard written by Elizabeth Massie and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started with the best of intentions. Kate McDolen, an elementary school teacher, knew she had to protect one of her students, little 8-year-old Mistie, from parents who were making her life a living hell. So Kate packed her bags, quietly picked up Mistie after school one day, and set off with her toward what she thought would be a new life. It becomes a nightmare.
Download or read book Drive in Creature Feature written by Eugene Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DRIVE-IN CREATURE FEATURE Buy a ticket, turn the page and transport yourself back to a time when families cowered in their cars at drive-in movies. A time when monsters towered over lovers who huddled in the dark as aliens invaded, giant insects screeched and malicious, nuclear-fueled beasts destroyed cities. This is more than a double feature; it is a marathon of thrills and frights that dare you to turn the page. It is the drive-in and like the ghoulish denizens that once stalked its screens... it will never die. So grab a soda and a big bag of popcorn and delve into these chilling tales by some of our very best horror writers, including New York Times Best selling authors Clive Barker, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola, S.G. Browne, Paul Moore, Elizabeth Massie, Ronald Kelly, William, F. Nolan, Lisa Morton, Taylor Grant, Joe McKinney, and so many more. "I cut my horror teeth on creature features every Saturday night and grew up loving monsters. DRIVE-IN CREATURE FEATURE fuses everything I loved about monsters when I was a boy with adult sensibilities and a wicked sense of humor. These 19 stories that run the creature feature gamut and are written by some of the most talented writers in the genre will more than satisfy the appetite of any hungry monster lover." - Ray Garton, author of "Night Life" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrecting Ravana." "An insanely fun anthology with every kind of creature you could hope for...and some you'd never expect!" - Jeff Strand, author of "Dweller."
Download or read book Desper Hollow written by Elizabeth Massie and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins when mountain matriarch Granny Mustard decides she wants to live forever, but then is killed. Her slow-witted but equally hardheaded granddaughter Jenkie decides to pick up the ball and run with it, taking Granny's unperfected immortality moonshine recipe, a socially-inept friend named Bink, and dreams of fame and fortune to an abandoned trailer up in Desper Hollow. But slow-witted can't stand against the terrible power Granny initiated. Jenkie's experiments only worsen the troubles with Granny's original recipe, bringing dead critters and a few stray folks back to a state of hungry, vicious, mindless animation. Now a stash of the living dead is locked up in the back of the trailer, a howling herd that has Jenkie terrified. And Armistead, one of the red-eyed living dead, seems way too alert for comfort. Mountain resident Kathy Shaw and Hollywood pitchman Jack Carroll, who is looking for the next hit reality show, find themselves caught up in the growing horror surrounding Desper Hollow. They can't avoid it and must face it head on. So must Armistead, who fights the fog of his ghastly condition to discover the truth of who he really is.
Download or read book Steps to an Ecology of Mind written by Gregory Bateson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This classic anthology of his major work includes a new Foreword by his daughter, Mary Katherine Bateson. 5 line drawings.
Download or read book Appalachian Undead written by Eugene Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost Heaven... Or is it? Is Appalachia as mysterious and wonderful as people say? Or does its enduring beauty hold something dark. Something dreadful. Something very hungry for our flesh. Can the people of the region stand up against the hordes of the Undead and thrive as they have thrived under other worst circumstances? Appalachian Undead takes a look at the dark side of Appalachia, where the Undead walk, driven by old magic and worse, their hunger for us. Nestled in the safety of the hills, the inhabitants have thrived and adapted even to the worst of conditions, but can they survive against an army that never tires and never stops feeding? With new intriguing tales of the Undead, this anthology contains work by some of the best names in horror, including Jonathan Maberry, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Elizabeth Massie, Lucy Snyder, Bev Vincent, Tim Waggoner and many more. Table of Contents: When Granny Comes Marchin' Home Again - Elizabeth Massie Calling Death - Jonathan Maberry Hide and Seek - Tim Waggoner Twilight of the Zombie Game Preserve... - S. Clayton Rhodes Being in Shadow - Maurice Broaddus Sitting up with the Dead- Bev Vincent The Girl and the Guardian - Simon McCaffery Repent, Jessie Shimmer! -Lucy Snyder Almost Heaven -Michael Paul Gonzalez On Stagger - G. Cameron Fuller We Take Care of Our Own - John Everson Sleeper - Tim Lebbon Reckless - Eliot Parker Company's Coming - Ronald Kelly Black Friday - Karin Fuller Spoiled - Paul Moore Miranda Jo's Girl - Steve Rasnic Tem Times Is Tough in Musky Holler - John Skipp & Dori Miller Long Days to Come - K. Allen Wood Hell's Hollow - Michael West Brother Hollis Gives His Final Sermon from a Rickety Make-Shift Pulpit in the Remains of a Smokehouse that now Serves as His Church - Gary A. Braunbeck Introduction by S.G. Browne (author of Breathers: A Zombie's Lament) Special Afterword by Fangoria Magazine editor Rebekah McKendry
