Norman thought he'd hit the jackpot when he met Zach, trading his boring straight-A lifestyle for one filled with parties, drugs and more girls than he ever imagined he'd meet in his lifetime. But there's something dangerous about Zach, something not quite right. For Zach has a dark secret, that once revealed will drag his newfound sidekick into a nightmare world mired in death and destruction. Be wary of strangers and careful what you wish for. Sometimes A Song After Dark can be chilling to hear.

In a distant future, Stan works at a dead-end job, handcuffed to his desk, forbidden to look out the window. His life seems hopeless till he meets Meredith, a coworker who harbors secrets about this world and the next, secrets that could make his life worth living . . . Thus begins Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, eight mind-bending tales of madness. In "Aphelion," we meet a man who receives strange messages through his laptop, messages that turn him into a creative genius and make time disappear; in "Parting Sorrows," an old man has a fling with a sexy young girl he meets online,...

WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE FOREVER OR DIE TONIGHT? Deep in the underbelly of Nepenthe, California, an ageless evil stalks the night, killing without mercy, drawing weak and strong alike into its eternal embrace...and this frigid winter the evil is spreading like a black plague that threatens to swallow the city whole. THE QUESTION WILL BE ASKED OF YOU. . . . The only thing standing in its way is twenty-two-year-old Joshua, who sets out on a mission to destroy the ancient evil...and thus begins his dizzying journey into the heart of darkness, where Joshua navigates a nightmare world of clubs and...

WHAT'S MORE FRIGHTENING THAN DEATH? Sterling Davis is careening through his hedonistic life of drugs, sex, and money headlong, leaving a dust trail of decadence behind him. On his path of debaucheries, Sterling begins a carnal game of seduction with a secret admirer that takes him from heavenly pleasure to hellish pain...and unlocks a door to evils he never knew existed, unspeakable horrors that send him spinning into a macabre world where a grisly game of terrors awaits him... And so begins Sterling's descent into the heart of darkness... A harrowing journey through a treacherous wasteland....

A tyrannical nation... A broken man... An extraordinary dystopian adventure... In Azure, history has been erased, drones populate the skies, androids and cops patrol the streets, walls have been erected to keep the people in, and the threat of execution looms for even the pettiest of crimes. Asher Cain is a beaten man, close to dead. His wife and son are gone, lost to him forever. All he has left is his job as a drone operator, to which he clings desperately. But one day everything changes, and Asher finds himself targeted as a transgressor, on the run from the law, seeking a way out of the...

The first time Nick Northfield saw a demon was the summer of 1988 in Houston, Texas, when he was nine years old. It wouldn't be the last. . . . On the outside, Nick has everything a kid could want: a Nintendo with plenty of games, two good friends, and an unrequited crush whose interest in him might be growing. His mom always told him, "Count your friends on one hand and call yourself lucky," and Nick always listened. But something is wrong on the inside, for he's having haunting visions, nightmares that cause him to wake up screaming, and thoughts that he's different than other kids and very...