A sudden terror has changes everything in Del's life...When Delvin Lyon wakes up with a list of names in his mind that threaten to tear his brain apart, he thinks that that is the most firghtened he will be.But when he meets the strange couple that run the local carnival, he is sure that they are connect with the strange list, and a sinister purpose.Now Del must protect those that he loves because The List of Five may very well mean the end of every...

Down on his luck Henry Pickman receives a just in time inheritance. As it turns out it's more than he bargained for.

A young girl lives in poverty in Siberia. She finds her escape through stories and tall tales, but stories are just words, and words can't protect you.

"Enjoyable and nasty: the stories are impressive." 5 Stars."Icky." 5 Stars"Humor and horror and shivers, excellent combination." 5 Stars"Dan Dillard has written a great book, loaded with some creepy short stories." 5 Stars"...this book will snare you in its gloriously wicked clutches and drag you kicking, screaming, and sometimes laughing from one creepy story to the next." -Stalk and Slash"...creative and very entertaining in some cases while truly ...

Every life has its secrets, but some secrets only the dead can tell...When Paul and his wife Donna move to the community of Kingston Corners they are hoping for some peace and quiet, but soon after starting his new job as custodian at The Church Of The Resurrection, he notices something isn't quite right about the place. Apparitions move through the halls, a girl's anklet appears and reappears, mysterious messages are scrawled on chalkboards, and as Paul comes to realize a restless spirit ...

Sometimes it's not what you know, but who you know. Sometimes you just need to know where to go. Poor old Harry has made some kind of a score. Theft from a vehicle, locked or unlocked, it's all the same to him. Speedos take what they can get and are grateful enough just to make it through the day . The only question is what's in the nifty little box. Perhaps his old friend Mike will be able to open it. A short horror story.

Five short mild horror stories.In the first tale, a man finds that his immortal soul is in peril.In the second tale, a man seeks to change his life and succeeds in a way he could never imagine.In the third tale, a man is forced to fight against the forces of evil.In the fourth tale, a man has to save his friend who has been seduced by evil.In the fifth tale, an old evil returns to terrorise the people living on a small Greek island.

The zombie apocalypse sucks, sure, but high school wasn’t much better. You gotta wonder how having the brains to ace tests helps you out when a slobbering zombie is on your tail, wanting to eat said brains. Moving to the woods cut down on such occurrences, but it can’t last forever. And when all the dumb zombies eat all the dumb humans, what will be left?Brains is a short story that will only take a few minutes to read.

A short story written after a series of near death encounter during the Christmas 2013 period. My editor asked me to change my name in the story, as she thought it was to close to the truth, and could worry my friends. So, I became Paul Smart. The encounters included one when I stopped breathing in my sleep.

Teenager Alexandra Eidyn never suspected that her annual trip to Grandmother's house to spend the summer would this time destroy her plans to attend Oxford University in the fall and instead propel her into the World of Vampires and eventually to the gates of Heaven and Hell. On the way, she'd fall in love — something she'd come to think wasn't even possible for her — with two people, become a fugitive from justice, and be a casualty of the Church to which she'd turned for help. She withdr...

This is the tale of a polite and well-mannered boy named Alex who; after being abducted, develops an incredible bond with an angry and foul mouthed doll called The Gruff who teaches young Alex how to find his voice.When Alex wakes bound in a wooden coffin to manic cursing and abusing, he finds something he'd never imagined having, a true friend. In the days that follow, a small oddly tempered doll called The Gruff will teach Alex how to say no, how to sharpen his claws and how to k...

The aborted boy is only a scrap of flesh but has a heartbeat like the fluttering of butterfly wings. Kate, nurse on duty, doesn't know what to do. This sixteen-week old baby was supposed to be delivered dead! It was a given. She's been trained under such unlikely circumstances to discretely place the fetus in a basin and set it on a shelf in the lab till its--his--heart quits beating. She can't.