Nineteen tales of horror, mystery, supernatural suspense, and the weird West. A horde of insects invade one unfortunate man's stomach and make it their home, a blind woman guards a cavern full of Civil War-era zombies, and a troubled teen digs up her father's corpse, hoping to get some closure. Visit a macabre secret museum where taxidermy and classic literature combine, discover the lengths one desperate mortuary assistant will go to for love, and learn why Jack McCall really killed Wild Bill Hickcok. "Adrian Ludens...will scare the hell outta you in Bedtime Stories for Carrion Beetles. I...

A collection of fifteen dark tales, Gruesome Faces Ghastly Places brings together three South Dakota-based horror authors in one exclusive collection. Ride along on a nightmarish road trip to Nowhere in Doug Murano's "Pavement Ends." Witness a bizarre Old West exorcism in Adrian Ludens' "Ghost Soup." And tour a carnival freak show that is more than it seems in C.W. LaSart's "To Each His Own Hell." These tales and a dozen more are sure to thrill any reader of horror and supernatural suspense fiction. "In the very best way, this collection...reminds me of the classic "Hitchcock Presents"...

"This is the kind of book Hitchcock's face used to appear on. When Bedbugs Bite is the certified antidote for stories in which it takes characters 12,003 words to say, 'Hello.' Think of the original Captain Zinger, Fredric Brown, only nastier, much, much ... I mean, really nasty " -MORT CASTLE, Multiple Bram Stoker Award(r) winner, as editor (With Sam Weller) of Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury) and as author of New Moon on the Water. "Every story in Adrian Ludens' When Bedbugs Bite is an itch under the skin you'll scratch to get at, but not without leaving a few scars."...

Collected together for the first time, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the fifth collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark." Featuring fiction by David Lear, Brockton McKinney, Lee Clark Zumpe, Robert Sagirs, Sean Logan, Adrian Ludens, Candra Hope, Ed Plotts, Glen Garrick, Matthew Piskun, Deborah Walker, Paul Johnson-Jovanovic & James Brooks Anthony Baynton, Sharon Baillie, Matt Leyshon, Matthew Acheson,...

Welcome to the Campfire. Did you ever go camping as a kid and sit around the fire at night listening to scary stories? Creepy Campfire Quarterly features horror fiction from some of the most talented writers across the globe. Dark, disturbing, dramatic, or just down right creepy, these stories will entertain you. And perhaps the next time you are around a campfire, you'll find yourself recounting a few of these haunting tales... Featuring works from the newest crop of modern horror writers: Adrian Ludens, Melanie Cole, Eric I. Dean, Aaron Wright, Daniel Blokh, Joe Nazare, Phil Slattery,...

A collection of previously published individual Grave Markers that includes Dmonic Sabile's "Full Moon in the West," Adrian Ludens' "Bottled Spirits," and S.L. Williams' "The Dance." Full Moon in the West: Juan "Tezcat" Medina is about to take the law into his own hands. Having lost his wife and daughter to a gang of outlaws, he's been given the chance to have them back with him. All he has to do is kill the six men who robbed him of his family. But there's something different about this gang of outlaws, something Tezcat isn't aware of until it's too late and he's forced into a showdown with...