Dexter Radcliff's elderly great-aunt owns an ancient Native American artifact called the Talking Horn that allows one to speak with the dead, and when Dexter's carelessness causes the Horn to be stolen he is plunged into a nightmarish struggle with the Lost Society, a vast narco-terrorist network of occult assassins led by a dead sorcerer. But Dexter's problems have just begun-soon he will have to contend with parasitic brain-eating worms, sinister Longevitals who can live a very long time thanks to a hermetic treatment, a "Twisted Zoo" containing among its horrific exhibits Dexter's...

Sarah Temple hopes to find a bit of peace and quiet when she leaves her abusive boyfriend, but instead she finds a world of horror. It's bad enough that a sadistic serial killer and another maniac are both trying to murder her, but what's worse is the mysterious Solitary One who controls both of them, a malevolent entity that the serial killer describes as a living darkness, a man and yet not a man, something that's alive and yet not alive, something that wants to appall the world. Trying to flee from the two killers, Sarah finds herself running deeper and deeper into a deadly supernatural...

Everybody wants a little magic-but just a little can do a lot of damage A young man not overly burdened with brains hitchhikes to Ohio in search of his runaway girlfriend, but he finds a lot more than he's looking for. Soon Jason is chin-deep in a bizarre and perilous predicament involving a witch, a crippled magician, a sinister businessman, a mysterious stalker, and a book of magic that could bring about the end of the world. Harvey Click, best known for his lurid horror tales, explores a different genre with this darkly comic coming-of-age novel. He mixes a tablespoon of black magic with...

Ghosts, vampires, demons, serial killers, and other deadly denizens of the dark haunt this collection of chilling short stories by horror master Harvey Click. An unhappy and unloved boy summons a substitute mother-with sharp teeth. Two teenage boys learn it's better to leave a spooky abandoned house alone. Can ghosts kill? Denise is about to find out the hard way. When her creative writing instructor offers to teach Kathy how to write a horror story, she finds herself trapped inside one. A man discovers he may be a killer, though he can't remember the murders. A man with a terrible past, a...