Robert J. Duperre, author of The Fall and Dead of Winter, now presents Silas, a contemporary fantasy novel. Ken Lowery is a man at odds with his life. He hates his job, is disappointed in his marriage, and feels resigned to leading a mundane existence. That all changes when his wife brings home a rambunctious Black Labrador puppy named Silas, who forges a remarkable connection with Ken and begins to heal his inner turmoil. When some neighborhood children start to go missing, he takes it upon himself to protect those around him and is thrust into a surreal world where monsters roam. Not...

...Three brothers traipse across a post-apocalyptic landscape, encountering unspeakable horrors... ...A young boy growing up in suburban hell thinks there might be more to his home town than meets the eye, what with all the children going missing... ...A woman dying of cancer is given a way out, if only she is willing to pay the price... ...The crew of a space station must battle their fears and a strange alien relic when they are isolated from humanity...if humanity exists any longer... These stories and more await inside the pages of The Gate: 13 Dark & Odd Tales, the new compilation by...

...a young man tries to build a better life while trapped in a mall after a plague has killed off most of humanity... ...zombies overrun a world gone mad, leaving a boy with no choice but to rely on possibly mystical means of escape... ...Halloween night brings out a darkness so threatening that a young couple's only hope of survival may be a procession of strange, ghostly children... ...when the world is given a brief glimpse of divinity, a formerly disabled man must come to grips with the fact that not everything is as good as it seems... These tales and many more await in The Gate 2: 13...