In the afterglow of a world that was, and will never be again... Clem is a suicidal mime, degenerating into a fish. Cassie is a teenage brat, pregnant with a child that seems to center around mysterious cults devoted to cats and dogs. "In ICHTHYIC IN THE AFTERGLOW, Jason Wayne Allen has selected elements from Robert W. Chambers' THE KING IN YELLOW and H.P. Lovecraft's fictional dream-realms and skillfully constructed a futuristic nightmare world that gleams like a poisoned river with an oil-slick spectrum of toxic colors. Move over, William S. Burroughs: you may have prepared a NAKED LUNCH,...

Long after the world ended, the survivors crawled out into the light to find that humans were no longer the dominant species.
Whether it was from radiation, genetic mutation or something only imagined in nightmares, new creatures now walked the planet, most seeking human flesh or perhaps wanting to make mankind bow to their will.
Mutants of all kinds were everywhere: some covered with scales, others dripping slime, or an amalgamation of multiple species, such as one with the head of a goat, gills instead of lungs, and six limbs instead of two.
At the end of the world, there will not only be...

The earth cannot contain the dead, graves opening wide to disgorge rotting bodies!
Maggot-filled, bloated with dripping pus, these mindless creatures only have one need-to feed on human flesh!
The zombie lives again in this anthology, filled with hungry corpses that cant get enough. Death, despair and loss, all will be experienced as you are taken on a trip into the very bowels of Hell.
The living dead are not forgiving, nor do they feel pity.
As you feel their cold embrace, and their teeth sinking into your throat to tear out your jugular, just pray its a quick death, before oblivion claims...

A mind-bending trip down the rabbit hole of terror where aliens, comic books, and nightmares are painted onto a blood-red canvas... Damien Shears is the best artist alive, but his favorite pastime is killing people. Armed with a pen designed by aliens, Damien illustrates his victims until they fall asleep; in their dreams, they confront their worst nightmares while Damien visits atrocities upon their flesh. His famous comic store has become the perfect tourist attraction for a group of five burn-outs who're looking for a place to party. Reality and dreams collide for the sake of murder and...

A Nobel Prize-winning poet has been missing for several years, along with his wife and child. Suffering from narcolepsy and amnesia, the poet wanders the same back-alleys he terrorized as a teenager. He's being carefully watched by Doctor Humphrey, whose unique treatment plan is driven by a higher power that wants a cure for mental instability to produce the ultimate war machines. At the mercy of his derangements and the ghosts of his fragmented past, the poet's descent into the darkest reaches of his soul reveals a blood-soaked past which threatens to repeat itself. While Doctor Humphrey...

Walter has found salvation in God, but he returns home from years in prison to a familiar damnation he cannot escape; his wife, Margaret, and her brother, Mr. Vegas, molded Walter into a relentless sexual predator to help fulfill their fantasies of debauchery and terror. Now, a tantalizing young girl walks by Walters house every day, and he struggles with a parole officer who is obsessed with the crimes Walter was never charged with. Together, these tragic figures must confront the secrets of a bloodsoaked history to save their souls from the corruption that has tainted Walters family-and all...