This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews. A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned. Since his mother's disappearance ... more »

The man is a hulk of angry, flabby, flesh, housing a genius intelligence that is ever inventing new and twisted ways to inflict pain on others. Torturing and killing innumerable victims with impunity, he still wasn't clever enough to keep himself out of prison forever. They drugged him, beat and muzzled ... more »

Descend into the nerve-shattering realm of America's master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft-to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take a chance. . . . All you can lose is your sanity. The Doom ... more »

Davey's on the down and out when he loses his girl, his job and practically his sanity. While some men drown themselves in a forgiving bottle, Davey believes it's much more profitable to sink into Times Square's nightlife and lose himself inside Live Girls. They are the free ravishing pleasures who beckon ... more »

Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister's attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died-or why she was found on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the ... more »

A voice whispers in her ear at night, promising her a new life, urging her to let go of the reality she knows. The voice could only belong to one person, her brother Ethan, but his body, broken by drugs, lies cold in death. An invisible hand has opened the door for Lucy and her sisters and though Lucy ... more »

Peter Gardner has all the qualities of a renaissance man until a tragic accident leaves him paralyzed from the neck down. Trapped inside the prison of his immobile body, the former prodigy of music, sports and flying is confined to his hospital bed where the only passion he feels is hatred. Each day ... more »

It is twenty years before the events of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Yorick, the King's trusted jester and sometimes confidante, is caught in a web of treachery and murder as he struggles to be true to his King and to protect the infant Prince Hamlet. There is treason against the very dynasty of the King ... more »

By Algernon Blackwood By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman By Robert W. Chambers By Leonid Andreyev By W. F. Harvey By Anatole France By Fitz-James O'Brien By Ambrose Bierce By Olivia Howard Dunbar By Wilbur Daniel Steele By Myla Jo Closser By Edgar Allan Poe By Richard Le Gallienne By Arthur Machen By Guy de ... more »

Once again, Daniel Chaingang Bunkowski is on the loose. After a seemingly endless term is prison, he is hungrier then ever to get his teeth into some bloody violence. The opportunities for mayhem were pretty limited in the maximum-security prison where he was being held for so long. Now that he's out ... more »

Pieces of terror, pieces of suspense, pieces of darkness combine to create Pieces of Hate, master storyteller Ray Garton's short story collection. Nine works, including A Gift From Above, a new novel that will surely hit you from below, are here compiled for the sole purpose of scaring you onto the next ... more »

Bonner, California is only a memory to Greg Lowell until something mysteriously attracts him back to introduce his family to his past. His Padgett ancestors were the first settlers in Fire Valley but the curse is something Greg doesn't know about. The r more »