From Jack Chase, author of Made in America and The Schultz Brothers**, comes a remastered and expanded edition of his signature horror story—the basis for the feature film now in development, written for the screen and directed by Chase. A slow-burn nightmare about the last summer of youth, the danger of being polite, and a stranger who only ever wanted to be welcome.**Evans notices things...

New Orleans, 1888. A storm locks five strangers in a saloon on Tchoupitoulas Street. Cards get dealt. Whiskey gets poured. Nobody is who they claim to be.Joe Battle walks in looking for buried money. Freddy Lee sits at the table sweating through his shirt, running from a killing he can't outrun. Wayne Dickinson plays the Southern gentleman a little too well. And when Abraham Abernathy—war veteran, ...

Six stories. Five nocturnal interludes. A world quietly coming apart.FORKSIn a town built over a nuclear testing site, a sleepless engineer watches his silverware disappear piece by piece.THERE'S A MAN AT THE DOORA fugitive checks into a roadside motel room that already belongs to someone else.THE CRYING WOMAN IN ROOM 202After a fight, a woman calls her boyfriend ninety-seven ti...

VIOLENT CRIMES 2: BLACK BUTTERFLY — COMING 10.31.26Preorder now.The Saturday before Thanksgiving, eighteen-year-old Evelyn Armstrong comes home to Bronxville, New York. By sunrise, she is missing. Three days later, searchers find her body in the woods near Twin Lakes, and a town built on old money, good schools, and the illusion of safety discovers how quickly one murder can poison everything around it.FBI profiler J...

OVERTIME 2: BUENOS AIRES — SEPTEMBER 2026Marcus Graves returns in Buenos Aires. The scale expands. The consequences do too.Marcus Graves is a drug dealer for the rich and famous.He was supposed to be a lawyer. Instead, he's the most sought-after cocaine courier in Los Angeles, a cartel's golden boy with a client list that reads like a Deadline article and a product line that arrives shrink-wrapped. The money is obsc...

From the author of Made in America and The Bastard of Taylor's End comes a strange, claustrophobic descent into violence, denial, and a place that may not exist.A former middleweight arrives in Marrow's Point, a forgotten borough wedged between a river and a dead industrial district. The rent is cheap, nobody asks questions, and the streets have a habit of leading...

What would you do if you woke up inside the life you always wanted?Arthur Meyersworth is twenty-seven and stuck—stuck in a mediocre advertising job, stuck in a decaying apartment in Reseda, stuck being perpetually "next in line" for a promotion that never comes. Once a promising DJ, now a cubicle fixture and break room zombie, Arthur copes the way he always has: too much alcohol, late-night television, and the quiet hope that tomorrow might feel different.

From the author of Made in America and The Schultz Brothers**,** Moonlight Jazz is a quiet, eerie tale of old Hollywood, loneliness, and one sleepless man who may have been the last person to see a vanished woman as she truly was.January 9, 1947. Hollywood is cold after midnight, and the clocks inside Mack's diner do not agree.Howard Crane...

Francesca "Frankie" Walsh is thirty-two, broke, brilliant, and mean enough to survive New York's underground comedy circuit. Then a doctor gives her three months to live.The diagnosis is glioblastoma. The odds are terrible. Frankie's first instinct is to refuse treatment, light a cigarette, and find out whether dying makes better material than living ever did.Then, after one particularly disastrous set, she meets Paul Hayes, a once-promisin...

From Jack Chase, author of Made in America and The Schultz Brothers**, comes one of his earliest and most haunting works.**Nick Demming has worn the badge for thirty-two years. On his final day with the SFPD, he's forced to confront everything he's lost along the way—his family, his purpose, and maybe his soul.As he patrols the city's fog-bound, tech-gutted streets one las...

Billy Castle is twenty-five years old, commuting from Queens to Manhattan to serve drinks to uptowners, keep his alcoholic mother afloat, and outrun the reputation of a father whose name still echoes through certain corners of the city—whose ostensibly random murder in a liquor store by an unknown shooter when Billy was a child left behind nothing but a name that carries weight in all the places Billy has spent his whole life avoiding.On his first week working at t...

A dying cardiologist is in desperate need of a donor heart that no one believes will become available in time to save him. An innocent young woman is brutally raped and murdered in a crime whose trail has long-since grown cold, and the state’s most powerful political figure—its senior United States senator—hides his son from the authorities investigating the crime.It is the relentless convergence of these disparate threads that drives the narrative in this emotionally-intense medic...