Ronald Kelly

Legends exist in Beelzebub County of a flesh-eating creature that lives in backwoods Tennessee and preys on innocent children, but no one has ever tried to stop the monster, until ten-year-old Jeb Sweeney works up the courage to end the reign of terror. Original.

Fear

Stephanie Ellis

James Newman

Tim Curran

Tim Meyer

Chad Lutzke

Gabino Iglesias

Samantha Kolesnik

Jason Parent

Brian Moreland

Lee Murray

Kristopher Triana

Jennifer Soucy

Red Lagoe

Brennan LaFaro

There's life out there? and it's coming for you!It starts as a mild rattling of the windows disturbing your pleasant dreams. Then the trees outside your bedroom rustle from a mysterious celestial wind. When the neighborhood dogs erupt in a cacophony of terrified barking, you're jerked from your peaceful slumber. Through bleary eyes you look at the display on the nightstand. Midnight. A roar cracks the obsidian night sky as a ball of blinding light streaks out of the heavens, crashing with an earthshaking explosion on the other side of the hill. Racing to the open window, you smell the electric scent of charred ozone in the night air. The pulsing glow in the distance mesmerizes your senses. There's something pulling you from its rhythmic humming. Something too enticing to resist. Something's out there, and it has a story to tell. Lots of stories. You slip on your shoes and make your way for the door?

Midnight from Beyond the Stars

The vampire curse of the Craven family is reborn, and the inhabitants of the backwoods town of Green Hollow, Tennessee, encounter unexpected horror as a bride turns on her husband, a pet rat develops a murderous streak, and an insane preacher slaughters his congregation. Original.

Blood Kin

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Stephen King

Clive Barker

Peter Straub

Edward Gorman

Brian James Freeman

Norman Partridge

Jack Ketchum

Steve Rasnic Tem

Bentley Little

Brand new stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Bentley Little, Ed Gorman, and many others!

Turn Down the Lights

When you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastly costumes and masks of the season, and bags of candy galore. Then, as you travel farther into its shadowy depths, things begin to change. The air smells of damp autumn leaves and candle-scorched pumpkin. The shelves of All Hallows' Eve fare grow darker and more disturbing. Strange and unsettling things of Halloweens past and present lurk amid the cobwebs and dust... Four trick-or-treaters purchase vintage costumes from a strip-mall shop, only to discover that they must sign a mysterious disclaimer for the Halloween celebration to come... After a man's missing daughter is found-near death and physically altered-he must once again face a horrifying monster from his own childhood... A teenage girl hitches a ride after a Halloween rock & roll concert, only to learn that her favorite singing idol has made a pact with the Devil himself... Three kids receive unusual treats during a Halloween stop at their favorite teacher's house... During a random visit to his hometown, a businessman treats a young boy to the joy and excitement of a Halloween festival, only to find that things are not what they first appeared to be... A rash of ghoulish jack-o'-lanterns leads a small-town sheriff to the doorstep of one of the most notorious serial killers of all time... An advertisement in the back of an old comic book prompts two friends to place an order that they soon come to regret... Seven horrific tales and two nostalgic essays... hand-picked for your Trick-or-Treat bag. With the arrival of a 2020 Halloween, there is no telling what terrifying treats and petrifying prizes may await you!

The Halloween Store and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve

Halloween is more than a holiday; more than a fun time of candy and costumes for the young. It is inoculated into our very being at an early age and there it remains. As we grow old, it grows dormant... but it is still there. For the lucky ones, such as us, it emerges every year, like a reanimated corpse digging its way out of graveyard earth to shamble across our souls. And we rejoice... oh, if we are the fortunate ones, we most certainly rejoice. So turn these pages and celebrate our heritage. Blow the dust off the rubber mask in the attic and hang the glow-in-the-dark skeleton upon the door. Light the hollowed head of the butchered pumpkin and string the faux cobweb from every corner and eave. It’s Halloween once again. Shed your adult skin with serpentine glee and walk the blustery, October streets of long years past. And, most of all, watch out for misplaced steps in the darkness and the things that lurk, unseen, in the shadows in-between. Stories included in this collection: Mister Glow-Bones; The Outhouse; Billy’s Mask; Pins & Needles; Black Harvest; Pelingrad’s Pit; Mister Mack & the Monster Mobile; The Halloween Train; The Candy in the Ditch Gang; Halloweens: Past & Present; Monsters in a Box.

Mister Glow-Bones and Other Halloween Tales

After his family is killed by a pack of rabid wolves, Jefferson Gray survives the horrid disease himself, with the aid of a Cherokee medicine man. But, unfortunately, he can not banish the hatred that dwells within him. An animosity toward dangerous game, particularly timber wolves.

Timber Gray

Edward Lee

Jeff Strand

Wile E Young

Joe R Lansdale

Owl Goingback

Briana Morgan

Kenzie Jennings

Jill Girardi

Drew Huff

L M Labat

Patrick McDaufh

Jesse Allen Champion

David J Schow

Vivian Kasley

Brennan Lafaro

Desperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain't your typical westerns... Herein find legendary masters of anomalous Western and Horror stories-- along with a posse of budding word-slingers-- who all bring you an electrifying and frightening collection of extraordinary tales set in the Old West and beyond... Within these pages, the improbable is made real: cowboys encounter a chimeric critter of the night; dinosaurs return as massive poltergeists; Chinese railroad workers are haunted by invisible frights; outlaws experience Cronenbergian body-horror; fallen-light stalks mother and daughter upon a wintry prairie; a headless horseman roams the badlands; otherworldly creatures hunt within our domain; screaming spectral birds nest within the damned; and gunslinging women with murderous skills annihilate foolish notions of a man's world. These are just a handful of the offerings in this body of macabre lore. So, mount your saddle-horse and join this gang of rogue authors for a ride down dark trails of terror and unsettling thoroughfares that lead deep into strange, nightmarish territory.

An Anthology of the Weird West

Hot Iron and Cold Blood

Vampires, Zombies, & Mojo Men

The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve

Mark Justice

Bill Tackett

Looking at the World with Broken Glass in My Eye

Little Cindy Ann's gift of second sight may prove her undoing when she witnesses the abduction of her older brother, and the evil force responsible turns its attentions to the young girl

Hindsight

Fourteen years after Sonny McFarland's father, Richard, was executed in the electric chair after a bloody rampage, Sonny becomes a pawn in his dead father's game of revenge. Original.

Father's Little Helper

Something Out There

The possession

Pitfall

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree... what lurks among thy branches... Christmas can be the most wonderful time of the year. Candy canes and hot cocoa. Snowmen and sleigh rides. The love and hope that the Nativity brings. Cold milk and warm cookies for Santa. Family, friends, and the cheerful laughter of children. But, beneath the festive wrapping paper and the gleam and glitter of the lights and tinsel, things less jubilant may lie in wait. The holiday season can bring love, peace, and benevolence... but it may also spawn a darkness lurking amid the shadowy boughs of the Christmas tree, ornaments that should have never seen the light of day, let along hung on festive branches, and bones that jingle and dance, in search of Santa's crimson suit... and the flesh that resides within. In this collection of harrowing holiday tales, Ronald Kelly leaves ten frightful and horrific gifts in the Christmas stockings that hang from the mantle of your cheerful fireplace. Ghastly and gruesome presents that slowly unwrap and burst into life while you are tucked, snug and warm, in your bed and take on nightmarish form in the icy winter hours of Christmas Eve, turning comfort and joy into terror and dread. Stories included in this collection: Jingle Bones The Skating Pond Depravity Road Heirlooms The Winds Within Then Came a Woodsman As for Me, My Little Brain Beneath the Branches Papa’s Exile The Peddler’s Journey

Tales of Holiday Horror

Season's Creepings

Winner of the 2021 Splatterpunk Award for Best Collection In the foul and fetid darkness, it awakens. Vile, unstable, brimming with ill intent, like pus on the verge of eruption. Repulsive to gaze upon and even more disturbing to comprehend. It reaches out and discovers that the others—its siblings—have abandoned this cancerous womb long ago. Angry and alone, it thrashes violently…tearing, clawing its way from dormancy into daylight…and onto the dark playground of your bookshelf. Amid these pages, Southern horror master Ronald Kelly has brought together a loathsome assemblage of stories that cut deeply and expose the raw nerves of fright and revulsion. Joining his extreme horror collections, The Sick Stuff and More Sick Stuff, is a third installment of yarns both new and old…Even Sicker Stuff. Combined, they meld and morph, forming The Essential Sick Stuff. Twenty-three abhorrent tales to tantalize and torture the fragile psyche; to cause the stomach to revolt and gooseflesh to crawl as though something, visceral and alive, lurks just beneath the surface...

The Essential Sick Stuff

Across the Bloody Mississippi… Following the brutal murder of former Confederate officer, Joshua Wingade, the pursuit for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his hellish followers continues across a war-torn South. The newly resurrected gunfighter, Dead-Eye, accompanied by Louisiana mojo man, Job, find themselves hot on the trail, eager to rescue an abducted child and put an end to the death and destruction the outlaws and the dark witch, Evangeline, have conjured with the aid of Necronomicon and the otherworldly Hole Out of Nowhere. And into the West… Upon setting foot on Missouri soil, Dead-Eye and Job’s travels take them into the peaks of the Ozark Mountains, across the Indian Territory, through the swamps of Louisiana, and onto the dusty plains of Texas. Beasts, bayou creatures, and ghostly apparitions hinder their progress along the way, as well as hellish bounty hunters recruited and brought forth from realms beyond the Hole. Will Dead-Eye and Job – along with the demonic steed Brimstone and the silver-shoed mule Balaam – survive to continue their quest into the dark and savage heart of the western territories? Find out in The Saga of Dead-Eye: Book Two Werewolves, Swamp Critters, & Hellacious Haints!

Werewolves, Swamp Critters, & Hellacious Haints!

The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book Two

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