Suffering from migraine induced blind spots, Roy Jennings pulls off the highway into a remote, snow covered, deserted rest area where he makes a tragic mistake when he relies on the kindness of strangers."The Kindness of Strangers" was originally written and developed in December 2010 during Jack Ketchum's master class, "Talking Scars", hosted by The Cult at Chuckpalahniuk.net.Perfect for a quick read on an iPhone when you've got a few minutes to spare.

An idyllic honeymoon turns horrific when a young couple stops to pet the horses at a farm.This short story was written and developed as part of Jack Ketchum's Master Class, "Talking Scars", hosted by The Cult at chuckpalahniuk.comContains adult situations, content and graphic depictions.

An office worker lured by a beautiful woman into the grips of a scientist, who will stop at nothing to perform his gruesome experiments on live, human subjects.Pulp-style horror fiction influenced by Robert E Howard and H.P Lovecraft.

Welcome to Eddie's Tavern, the only functioning waterhole in a near-dead town. Among the people you'll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone's haunted lawman, who walks in the shadow of death; Gracie, the barmaid, a wannabe actress, doomed to spend her hours tending bar in a purgatory of her father's making; Flo, the town seductress, who may or may not have murdered her husband; Cobb, a nudist awaiting an apology from the commune who cast him out; Wintry, the mute giant, whose story is told onl...

A man journeys with a pregnant stranger, while unseen aliens deal out punishment from above.A priest's skin oozes a healing elixir.A self-absorbed husband monitors the end of his existence over the internet.A teenager digs through a deep crust of waste and bone to win his freedom.These, plus 5 more stories from Joel Arnold, are your perfect companion as the earth falls apart around you.

The box is Jack Ketchum's 1994 Bram Stoker Award-winning story. It has been anthologized, reprinted, and now it is available for the first time in digital - along with a brand new afterword by the author.

A rash of sacrificial deaths in California leads an investigator into a nightmare world of occultism and Nazi terror: "A master of the genre." — Rocky Mountain NewsThe shocking suicide of his beautiful fiancée has left Lloyd Denman devastated. Though outwardly happy, Celia Williams chose to set herself on fire, ending her young life in the most excruciating manner imaginable. Haunted by her death, Lloyd vows to uncover the truth behind he...

Something has come to the San Fernando Valley ... something horrible. But this horror is not confined to only the dark hours. It walks in daylight with impunity, grinning, smirking. This horror can not be stopped with a crucifix; it wears one ... a very unusual one. It has no heart, so a wooden stake is useless. It has many names, many faces, has always been and will never die. It was born of evil and is nurtured by ignorance. It can enter your life at any time ... if it hasn't already. In...

First published in 1991, this is the story of New York City. Friday night. Untouched by anything visible, Mrs Greenberg's furniture starts to slide across the room - and however hard she tries, she can't move it back.Harry Erskine, self-taught fortune teller, agrees to investigate - but soon realises that Mrs Greenberg's moving furniture is just the beginning of a nightmare, for it is being drawn by the same inexorable force which drags us all to the grave.City by city, Ame...

On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers — a family of cannibalistic lunatics — are closing in.A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood.In snowbound Detroit, a waitress t...

A sleeping menace is roused deep in the darkness of the forest. For decades it grows, biding its time, reaching out to tug at the ordinary lives of those living beyond the shadow of the trees.Their children begin to disappear.Unaware and unsuspecting of the danger, a group of families, friends for many years, journey to a newly re-opened hotel. It stands alone in a clearing a mile or more within the forest boundary.For some this will be their last reunion.

April showers bring May flowers. But as the rain-swollen creeks recede, the residents of one rural Pennsylvania town learn that April showers bring something far worse than destructive floods and property damage. This year, the April showers have brought a cryptozoological nightmare named Scratch, and only pain and terror follow in his wake.This novella by award-winning, best-selling writer Brian Keene also includes a bonus short story - "Halves".