In this startling new collection of 19th century horror tales, editor Martin H. Greenberg presents: * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce * Schalken the Painter, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu * The Doom of the Griffiths, by Mrs. Gaskell * The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, by Rudyard Kipling ... more »

Welcome to County Jail on a pitchblack, rainy night, when all good people are home in bed with the covers pulled over their heads. Simon Dawson, down on his luck and up for check fraud, is the center of this gritty, cinematic story masterpiece of horror and suspense. The road is washed out, and Simon ... more »

Anthropologist Martine Murdoch theorizes the existence of an ancient cult of heart-eaters to explain the condition of human remains found hidden within a long-abandoned Mayan city. When the theory is published, her life changes forever. Shunned by the scientific community, Marty sets out to discover ... more »

A collection of stories from Jason Brannon. If you loved his other DDP collections and stories (Five Days on the Banks of the Acheron, Space Stations and Graveyards, Atrocitas Aqua, Scary Holiday Tales To Make You Scream) you're really going to love these! Both dark and thought proking Jason has never ... more »

Stephen King hails Rex Miller as terrifying and original. Slob is his debut novel, the story of a man who thinks of himself as Death. A man who likes to feast on human hearts, spilling blood wherever he goes. Jack Eichord is the detective who must hunt this human monster and genius killer. Years of working ... more »

The night Johnny Danetello drove a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab, he was trying to save her life. Instead he ran down a cop and lost her and his freedom. Every day in prison, Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli's family blamed him for her death, and that going home would be suicide ... more »

Nate Watson is a cop in a bad section of Island City. Responding to a call from a frightened old woman, Nate and his partner Frank encounter a group of teenage thugs playing at black magic on the decrepit rooftops of the slums. Except they're not playing. Defeated by the boys' mysterious powers, Frank ... more »

When a professional gambler takes a holiday on the Alabama coast after a big casino score, he agrees to assist a grogeous professional hypnotist at a Halloween party. All he has to do is to distribute the party favors to the crowd during the show, in the dark, after the screams begin... more »

Dark Demons: Tales of Obsession, Possession, and Unnatural Desire They are the places we refuse to visit, but can't help but feel drawn there. They are the thoughts we avoid thinking, but in the end they take over our minds. They are the desires that unknowingly burrow into our hearts and infect the ... more »

Three Complete Masterpieces of the Weird and Uncanny! Here is a trio of dark fantasies by the creator of the fiendish Dr. Fu Manchu. You will shiver with dread at some of the horrors that spring from the mind of author Sax Rohmer. As The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection notes, Although his tales ... more »

The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the «Golden ... more »

Poppy Z. Brite, author of four novels, LOST SOULS, DRAWING BLOOD, EXQUISITE CORPSE, and THE LAZARUS HEART, plus several collections of short stories, has gone to the edge and back with ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT (titled SELF-MADE MAN in Europe). Join Poppy as she explores the outermost regions of murder ... more »