A mysterious life form takes root in a retired couple's backyard.

Marked safe in the D' 313 is a self help book written to help readers navigate safetly in and around the metro Detroit area.

While sitting outside late one night, pondering both the stars and his future, a young man sees a strange craft up in the sky, and becomes obsessed with the possibility of its return.

Alec, a young executive on his way home from a business trip, stops at a motel for the night. But instead of finding rest, he encounters a terrifying apparition: a figure with glowing eyes who warns him, "Don't try to sleep."

THE GOLDEN MASK: A lonely man whose only friends are books spends an evening with a strange novella he has been warned not to read. THE THRONG: In the Deep South of the early twentieth century, a bitter and impoverished aristocrat plans to sell the last remnant of his family's once-sprawling plantation; little does the buyer know that the property is full of monsters...

It's the summer of 1985, and ten-year-old Jeremy Roberts has made some new friends recently: Bill and Nora Hathaway, a pleasant middle-aged couple who live in a big house by a lake. But the Hathaways are far more than they seem. Very soon they will be embarking on a voyage into the infinite...and they will ask Jeremy to come with them.

Skip Dozier likes to say he's in the business of murder: he creates graphic novels that document the lives of fiendish mass killers from the darkest corners of history. One of Skip's newest fans, who happens to be a killer himself, is so impressed that he wants Skip to serve as his biographer. And he'll be overseeing the work personally, just to make sure it turns out right.

Brian Strauss is a young father who secretly doubts his ability to protect his wife and son. Joanna Welling is a woman who does not recognize love if it lacks qualities of pain or domination. Carl Lowden is a man who sees himself slowly drifting out of the lives of the people he treasures most. All three are being stalked by beasts that live in the dark regions of the human mind, and all three will be called upon to face their fears...even as a new predator emerges from the dusky gloom of ...

A woman who lies dying in a hospital room on Christmas Eve gets an unusual visitor.

Annalee Rutledge, fourteen, doesn't know why there's a boy soldier from the Civil War hiding in her family's barn, especially since the conflict in which he fought ended almost one hundred and fifty years ago. What Annalee does know is that she loves him, and she's going to do whatever it takes to keep him safe.

Glenn Lockwood has made a new friend, a man by the name of Vernon Hudspeth. Today Vernon is seventy. Tomorrow he'll be sixty, and fifty the day after. Who knows how this is happening? Who knows why? Maybe these are just magic days, when impossible wishes are granted, dying loves are restored, and hints are everywhere that the cosmos is a far grander thing than anyone can imagine.

Chad Stapleton has decided to drive home tonight, from Palm Beach to Savannah. It's not that long of a drive, and he's made it plenty of times before. The only difference is that, this time around, there's a madman lying in wait at the Welcome Center where Chad's going to make an ill-timed pit stop. A madman with a special lesson to impart...