A group of young Spring Breakers headed for Lake Havasu take a sudden detour in the middle of the Mojave Desert. It will be a quick stop, he said. It won't take long, he said. It's hot. Over 100 degrees, and no one really wants to meddle around some sweaty desert caves a mile off the highway. Then something goes wrong and no one knows what to do.Needles, California, a town in regression, home of semi-retired truck driver Big Vic. He's made a lot of mistakes in life and has vowed to ...

***Come one, come all and see the greatest show in the Imperial Valley!The Circus Oasis is back!***The original Circus Oasis hotel was shut down in the 70s after tragedy struck the Salton Sea. Many years later, after a massive rejuvenation of the area, the Lazar family has rebuilt the hotel, expecting a grand opening . . . and hoping the past stays buried in the desert sands where they left it.Families pile into the hotel for the inaugural Big Top Show, all smiles a...

**2020 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD NOMINATED**Tip it on back…Some call it courage in a bottle while others perceive it as the devil's cocktail. Alcohol comes in all types, bringing along with it the temptation of sin, the eagerness of confusion and the psychological bombardment on the mind forcing us to play a game between life and death.15 authors dive deep in the subconscious where the demons swim, blinding our judgment and guiding us to m...

Word travels slowly across a desert plane. By the time Blue arrived back to La Plateau after word that his family ranch had been taken over by marauders, he found another mystery plaguing the townsfolk. Three musicians have been singing death songs, terrorizing the locals.Those who can leave are fleeing, but pride keeps others around, hoping a death song isn't sung for them. Those unfortunates don't make it through the night, and the after...

"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man ... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination."-Rod Serling13 cosmic horror-tinged tales by some of the best authors the indie horror world has to offer

THE CLUBHOUSE VOLUME IVCOMPILED BY CRYSTAL COOKWITHIN THESE PAGES YOU WILL FIND TERRIFYING SHORT STORIES FROM FOURTEEN OF THE HOTTEST HORROR AUTHORS OUT THERE.THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A GRAB BAG OF TASTY TREATS, A LITTLE BIT OFEVERYTHING THAT THE GENRE HAS TO OFFER.ROBERT ESSIG – BRIAN BOWYER – MERRILL DAVID – KIMBERLY NICOLE – LESLIE KURT – LM KAPLIN – THOMAS R. CLARK & LUCAS MILLIRON – JAMIEKORT – R.E. SHAMBROOK – AARON LEBOLD – THOMAS STEWART – ASH ERICMOR...

**2023 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD WINNER - SHORT STORY (Stephen Kozeniewski)****2023 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD NOMINATED** (Anthology)Dive deep into depravity and submerge yourself in 15 waterlogged stories that will leave you wet, delusional & deranged.Featuring new stories from:- Gerard Houarner- Christine Morgan- Wile E. Young- Stephen Kozeniewski- Jonathan Butcher- Robert Essig- Lucas Milliron

**2022 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD NOMINATED**COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP18 authors tread through the muck and mud to add their own stories to the every-growing meat-pile of carnage and chaotic aftermath when bad decisions come full-circle. COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP is the fourth extreme horror anthology from The Evil Cookie Publishing. Pushing the limits with fast-paced, high-gore elements and plots, this anthology holds no punches and blurs the lin...

Word travels slowly across a desert plane. By the time Blue arrived back to La Plateau after word that his family ranch had been taken over by marauders, he found another mystery plaguing the townsfolk. Three musicians have been singing death songs, terrorizing the locals. Those who can leave are fleeing, but pride keeps others around, hoping a death song isn't sung for them. Those unfortunates don't make it through the night, and the aftermath is a testament to brutality. After such a str...

Try Not to Die: Sampler Vol. 2 – Death Doesn't Get Easier the Second Time.Are you ready to face the ultimate challenge?The nightmare continues in Try Not to Die: Sampler Vol. 2, featuring seven new worlds of terror, madness, and mayhem. From dark fantasy to psychological horror, sci-fi carnage to full-blown nightmares—each story forces you to make brutal choices where one wrong move means a gruesome end.In this volume, you'll sample the fir...

The first book in the bestselling cult YA thriller series GONE that Stephen King calls a "driving, torrential narrative." "I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent." —Stephen King Welcome to the FAYZ. In the blink of an eye all the adults disappear in a small town in southern California and no one knows why. Cut off from the outside world, those that are left are trapped, and there’s no help on the way. Sam Temple and his friends must do all they c...

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a "driving, torrential narrative." An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But in this gripping survival story, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in. More and more kids are developing strange superpowers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the b...