"In the dust zone every man lives with a shotgun under his mattress and a bullet in his brain." Life in the post apocalyptic dust zone of the Texas Panhandle can be brittle at best. Georgy Founder has already lost his wife, his daughter and his legs. But he still has three sons. With ingenuity and cunning the Founders...
With two brand new stories by Grady Richards. In this dark collection you will find otherworldly spiders, zombie debt collectors, malevolent pets, and prophecy gone awry. You will see into the heart of a child-killer and into the heart of a man mourning the loss of his daughter. You will find terrors locally in a ma...
"The Raven" tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition...
They say that people go there when they're ready to die. They say Death himself is a patron. That's where the tavern gets its name. Azrael's Stop. Watering hole for the Angel of Death. But that's just rumour. Ceph doesn't trade in rumour. He just serves drinks. Except, of course, that every couple of weeks, someone di...
Written live on the short story marathon that is Once Upon A Deadline for Notting Hill International Book Festival.
An elderly collector of second-hand books wrestles with his unusual ability to "read" the lives of his books' previous owners... and with one unique book he can't seem to read.
Not all outbreaks become pandemics. Some of them are cut off early, before they can really begin. "Zombie" is a humorous horror story about the near-apocalypse, an account of what almost became the last great plague.
Jonathan Hill is home alone on a stormy night, babysitting his baby sister who won't stop crying. When he finds her room door oddly locked, it's only the beginning to a horror filled night.
In an empty world fifteen year old Ben struggles to survive, surrounded by infected humans their only aim in life is to feed on living flesh. Almost out of food and water Ben must leave the safety of his house he shares with his mother in search of supplies, but Ben has another reason to leave his home.
I have to admit that I am bit daunted by the new perception of a vampire. Romanticism has created a parody of the legend: gaunt and sickly has been replaced by prim and sensual. The creature is more Don Juan than Vlad the Impaler, more passionate kisser than frenzied blood drinker, more dreamy than nightmare, more sen...
Monsters. Fairytale creatures. Aboriginal deities. These are only some of the things that Christopher Pierce has to deal with in his everyday life. It's just that "everyday" happens to be filled with strange, magical, and most of the time unpleasant things. Chosen as a Knight, a champion of humanity, and the rightful...
My name is Charlotte O'Dean, and I am a Faerie. I didn't always know I was a Fae. I once thought myself as a human girl, with human problems. That was all a lie. The reality is that I am the daughter of the Unseelie king. It is that king--my father--that holds my soul mate prisoner as lure for me…so that when he traps...
A short Horror story set in London's Victorian Era. Resembles the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Vivian sees ghosts. Vivian hears voices. Vivian is in very real danger. When her family moves to a new town and enrolls her in a special school for troubled teens, Vivian is forced to make new friends while dealing with a tragic family death and piecing together the cryptic messages left for her by the ghosts she see...
