"From the moment I first looked upon his striking and clouded features, his dark eyes brimming with passion, intensity, and hellish fire, I knew he was destined to come to ruin. I want to commemorate him as a man, as an artist; yes, even as a criminal. I set down the story for myself, for the world, so that all of us may come to some late understanding of the man they call Caravaggio." Lauded genius, tortured madman, fugitive murderer...the painter Caravaggio lived a tragically short life treading the line between heaven and hell. This fictionalized account, told by his beloved acolyte Mario...

The Below is a shadowy place, where the nightmares of humans have dwelt for thousands of years. Once in a while, a person will choose to visit. Photographer Sabrina Glass has chosen to live there. Along the way, she befriends the Poisons, half-demon guardians who keep the nightmares in the Below world where they belong. But someone has begun to murder the Poisons, one by one. Will Sabrina be able to stop the killer before the nightmares escape from Below and retake the sunlit world of humans?

"Our first instinct was just sheer disbelief. We were trying to tell ourselves that it couldn't be real. It couldn't be happening. But it was." In December of 1982, when Tom Ross was thirteen years old, he took a week's vacation to Mammoth Lakes in California with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. Almost from the moment they arrived at their condo, they experienced a near-constant barrage of bizarre phenomena that escalated over their stay, and seemed to follow them after they left. Items moved around by themselves, shades flew open when no one was near them, bloody tissues appeared out of...

"Up to that point, I was quite happy to be interested in the paranormal because I really hadn't experienced much. Until I did. And then I was thinking, 'Oh God, do I really want to continue with this?'" - Steve Mera BSc., Director of the Scientific Establishment of Parapsychology Steve Mera had been investigating paranormal phenomena for many years, and had never seen anything that shook him to his very foundations. All that changed in 1996, when he was called in with his team to look into the bizarre occurrences taking place at a small bungalow in Rochdale, Manchester, England. Flying...

Steve Mera had been investigating paranormal phenomena for many years, and had never seen anything that shock him to his very foundations. All that changed in 1996, when he was called in to investigate the bizarre occurrences taking place at a small bungalow in England. Flying objects, disembodied voices, phantom smells and sounds, and strangest of all, copious falls of water that seemingly came from nowhere plagued the Gardner family for nearly a year. What Steve experienced during the investigation was enough to make him question his entire career path, and remains one of only a handful of...

A group of freakish outsiders strive to take the next step in human evolution... A vicious serial murderer finds himself stepping on the toes of some very powerful beings... A journalist gets caught in the middle of a battle between rival zombie cults... A hapless woman causes bloody carnage with an uncontrollable killer mind virus... These are just a few of the monsters on offer in this collection of macabre tales, monsters who hope to either shed their monstrosity... or revel in it.

Vile...Vicious...Villainous The residents of a small 19th century town hide a dreadful secret... A young man goes to extreme lengths to avenge the victim of a Nazi experiment... A routine exorcism goes horribly and hilariously awry... A macabre anniversary gift causes lascivious madness... A retired circus freak attempts one last revolting performance... A high school reunion culminates in a bizarre murder... A Native American monster legend becomes terrifying reality (or does it?)... The Associated Villainies contains 26 horror tales that run the gamut from the frightening to the facetious,...

"This house is very much haunted, and will continue to be haunted for a very long time. I do believe it could be a ticking time bomb. And if that is the case, then we'll certainly be hearing from this house again." - Steve Mera BSc. Director of the Scientific Establishment of Parapsychology Keith Linder's reports of a spectacular haunting at his Bothell home became fodder for intense media attention after a well-known paranormal TV show investigated his case and came up empty. But that was really only the beginning of the story. Desperate for help, Keith contacted a team of experienced...