Experience five science fiction and fantasy tales close to home and heart. In "Call My Name," find out what sort of power someone can hold over you in the future if they know your true name. In "Dropouts," figure out exactly how and why things in the airport are just...wrong. In "We Don't Know Where You've Been, Mr. Jones," make some tough choices with a son whose father may be losing his mind, but not his soul. In "The Last Hotel," follow an unusual married couple who refuse to let a little thing like death keep them apart. And in "Real Death," ask yourself if you could actually choose not...

Explore the dark places of the human heart with stories ranging from classic horror to Greek myth, to modern warfare. Follow a blind vampire into a part of town other vampires avoid in "A Different Hunger." Live the terror when a suburb's forgotten citizens rise up for revenge in "The Shopping Cart People." Find out what finally happened with Medea in "To Ride the Serpent Once More." Explore mini dimensional rifts that bring in vampires in "Peter and the Vampires." Finally, see what's really going on in the Middle East in "So Hot." You'll come out of the darkness a different person.

When Jared first saw the undead creature who would raise him, he thought it was a dream. His eyelids were already flickering, thoughts tipping from the mostly-fanciful imaginings of a six-year- old into the unrestrained fantasy of the unconscious. And all he actually saw was a shadow that swept from his open window to his bedroom door. No rustle of the air. No creak of the floor. And the floor in this tiny apartment that he shared with his mother always creaked...

Follow Terry Hayman's keenly-felt takes on the bloodsuckers we all know and love. Meet a dangerous seductress who's surprisingly smitten by her prey, a heartless predator hiding from an even more heartless adversary, a vampire born blind, one slipping in from an alternate universe, one just trying to raise a son who's able to protect himself from creatures his peers no nothing about. There's always a new way to be undead. (Includes the short novel Raised by a Vampire.)

When a pathetic blonde begs Chicago attorney Weston Long to help her find her stalker, the hunt becomes a road trip, the help becomes obsession. And the prey gets deadly. "Jessica Falls is not a comfortable story, but it's one you won't be able to put down..." -Gerald Weinberg, bestselling author of "Freshman Murders"