Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Horror - General

A collection of short tales of horror and the macabre, ranging from a hapless foray into an otherworldly realm, insidious incursions of malevolent beings, and earthly manifestations of esoteric creatures. This anthology spans the bizzare, the sordid and the grotesque, culminating in one compulsive read.

Horror descends on the small town of Ashley Springs, Arkansas, when the slaughter of some of its most respected business men begins. Amy Bordeaux, owner of an antique shop, discovers the body of the second victim. She has a precognitive flash of another murder not yet committed. Amy is unable to convince Sheriff Frank Morgan of the validity of her vision. Another man is murdered exactly as she "saw" it.

Frank, who knew all three victims as young men, believes that past events in their lives have come back to haunt them. He secretly thinks that Amy's precognition is real, and is afraid she...

A short time after the death of Billy Lampford, the people of Ridgeland are slowly putting their lives back in order.

Now it's November, and almost time for the annual Turtle Festival. Thousands of people will be in attendance for the event, and that's what worries the Chief, because there's a new killer in town...and people are already beginning to die.

Matt Chapman begins to see that his friends are being picked off, one by one...and that's more than just coincidence. The pattern the killer follows is unsettling to Matt, and now his fear has turned to terror, as he realizes that the...

Murder It's Christmas Day and Jose's brother lies dead on the street. Shot - by a member of his own gang.

Jose's father is an abusive alcoholic who terrorizes his wife and children. Luis, leader of the Treces gang, approaches Jose and promises to make his life better so he can take care of his family.

Jose is a teen and would like nothing better than to become a real man even if it means joining a gang.

He discovers how hard the initiation is, how dangerous his life becomes and how often he is betrayed.

He is forced to sell drugs and finds himself in constant fear, but he...

A Hunter's life is not for everyone. Those few who do take up the duty are in for an interesting life, filled with constant travel, boredom, and loneliness; punctuated by moments of sheer terror--terror severe enough to send the strongest of men running for his mommy.

That is the way it's supposed to be, but no one told the Demon Hunter Gabrielle, that she would meet a Vampire whose fate she sees. She also finds two wayward female Hell spawn whose service she gains for all of eternity.

This is just the beginning of her story, as she deals with thieves, bandits, and drunkard witches,...

In the Canadian Northern Territories, scientists clone the largest flesh-eating mammal ever to stalk the earth. When the creature falls victim to a viral infection, they administer a powerful restorative drug that has dire side effects. It starts to BECOME something else and soon murders its creators. Tracking the lone survivor to the nearest expedition, the beast sets about destroying anyone and anything that gets in its way. Jim Lyons, the security operative for the besieged expedition, must keep the thing at bay long enough to get his team to safety. There's one problem. A huge blizzard...

A dark cloud follows Dr. Eric Stevens, a young and hardworking psychiatrist. Painful thoughts of his deceased wife have continually haunted him since tragic her death. Hiding his problems, he tries to assist his psychiatric patients with theirs.

After finding him leaning over the mutilated body of his fiancee, a rough edged detective brings in a new patient covered in blood. Everything around Eric becomes crazed and his patients become fearful.

Unbeknownst to Eric, something dark and evil has grown interested in him. Those around him fall victim and the only saving grace...is murder.

On a rainy, freezing night, in an isolated lake house, a door suddenly creaks open upstairs--where nobody is supposed to be. So begins best-selling Andrea D'Allasandra's latest masterpiece of terror and suspense--"The Creaking Door and Other Tales of Madness and Horror," If you dare, journey through these thirteen stories of psychos, zombies and houses that drip blood--where a creaking door is only the beginning of a stream of white-knuckled nightmares. A dead child who returns to haunt her monstrous mother...a homicidal hitchhiker who thinks he's found his new victim...a woman who discovers...

A team of archaeologists digging in present day Romania uncover a mass execution ground. They have unexpectedly also unearthed the executioner himself, Prince Vlad Dracula! The King of the Undead has been waiting for hundreds of years to resurrect himself in a bid for world domination. In the meantime he forces Doctors Peter Ralston, and Louise Johnston to transcribe his awesome memoirs. In this book, penned by his own dead hand, Dracula describes his monstrous birth, life and rise to power and finally the dark forces which caused him to become the world' most powerful vampire! He describes a...

"The Keepsake" A tale of temptation and terror.

It was only a souvenir of Ireland--a small stone that bore, if you looked closely, the suggestion of a human face. She couldn't know that only the power of St. Patrick had kept its evil in check through the centuries.

Four years ago, vampire bartender Erica Manning lost the one true love of her life. His name was Ryan Maximoff. They had lived their lives together for over twelve years, but their relationship ended in a heartbeat when she made a terrible mistake. Now, Erica lives a new life, one with her daughter and a brand new boyfriend. However, when one of Erica's deceased friends comes back from the dead and seeks Ryan out for help in solving the mystery of her return, Erica and her ex-beloved finally meet again, an encounter that rekindles their old feelings. And, when another old face from her past...

When a man wanders into an antique shop to get out of the rain, he discovers a way to satisfy his every desire. He soon learns that even unlimited power has drawbacks if recklessly used. As he gets accustomed to his newfound ability to influence the world, he finds challenges that even he can't overcome. He also learns that his lust for life can result in death. Each time the mysterious force is transferred to another, the owner becomes obsessed with its possibilities. When the unseen power reaches to the highest levels of government, it collides head-on with the two most famous names in...

"That's the part about being a vampire that I've always hated... the perks are great, but lunch can kill you..."

One would think that an Investigator who is both vampire and were-tiger would have an advantage when it comes to supernatural crime, but right now that's not the case for Sadie-marie Stanton, Investigator for Preternatural, Unlimited.

When a string of bizarre murders begin happening, Sadie is called in to use her unique talents to help solve these crimes, but the deeper she gets, the less sense it makes and the more trouble she gets in.

And then things really start to get...

A homeless man, Richard Starr, sees a terrified woman struggling in rain-swollen Black Creek. As he reaches to pull her ashore she suddenly sinks in the murky water. He dives into the creek but can't find her. Neither can the police. They dismiss his report as a hoax.

Later, Richard learns that his friend, Joe Baker, had been attacked. Joe told a mutual acquaintance he was sleeping under a bridge when the unknown assailant struck. At the time, it was dark, and Joe was drunk and disoriented, so he couldn't tell what was going on, except that he was being dragged into the creek. The...

Exploring headline horrors of human depravity, "Vulgarian Goulash" took readers beyond the edge.

"Vulgarian Goulash: Second Serving," promises a trip beyond the beyond.

In the seventeenth century, Salem Massachusetts had a terrible secret. Now, over three hundred years later in upstate New York, BRAD BANNING, a new and inexperienced filmmaker unwittingly discovers that secret. It had escaped the tyranny of the witch hunters and made its home in Spook Rock, a tiny backwoods commune, its throat held in a death grip by an evil force more powerful than time itself. When Banning intrudes too far into the lives of the witches, power-mad Lorianna casts him and his crew into the Abyss populated with ancient monsters, as well as incongruous beacons of purity. Along...

Scraping sounds awake you from your sleep. Something putrid is moving underneath the bed, with razor talons only a thin mattress away from tearing you to shreds. Cringing with disbelief, in a panic you suddenly flee from the bedroom and down the stairs, screaming.

In the living room, your corner vision catches a pair of glowing eyes shifting across the large picture window, and when you turn to look they are...still there, only now joined with a drooling maw of fangs.

As your heart races to the point of bursting from your chest, you flatten yourself against the wall trying praying to...

It begins when an ancient vampire is accidentally awakened from a centuries-old slumber. This vampire's young, frail, almost innocent appearance belies the immeasurable intelligence, power, and unmitigated evil that lies within the core of her being. And, this cold, calculating creature has only one goal in mind--to bring under her thrall the Maximoff twins, whom she sees as her progeny because they share an unbreakable link of blood.

However, both Ryan and Rayna Maximoff refuse to submit to anyone's will, not if they can help it! So, this malicious being plans on doing whatever she can to...

In 1993, Omar Lennyx made his debut in a one-shot comic book called, "The Files of Omar Lennyx: Blood Seekers," Now, ten years later, Lennyx returns to battle the supernatural in three all-new stories:

THE UAKARIAN

New York City's sewer system has a terrifying new tenant: half man, half beast!

THE KILLING DOLL

A convicted killer proves there is life--and revenge--after death!

DAS GOLEM

A stone giant has been discovered and reanimated--only to wreak havoc in the name of the Fuhrer!

"Clark blends the creepy stuff with sly bits of humor, adding yet another level with the...

Evil has manifested itself at Wasatch College. Fires and diabolical curses are common. Students and faculty have been injured and taken ill while the administration tries to deal with this outbreak.

Professor Bates once again finds himself in the middle of circumstances that he did not create and cannot control.

Bates is up to the challenge but he is thwarted at every turn by sinister events in the area's past. Only when the truth of the past is eventually discovered can the college be liberated from the ruinous force that has it in its grasp.