Deep in Texas, there is a Chinese restaurant that harbors a secret. The food at Paradise Buffet is delicious, and the secret ingredient ensures that once you have one bite, you'll never be able to stop.But when the food runs out and the customers become insatiable eating machines, the kitchen staff must take up arms against these obese cannibals or else be next on the menu!

Have you ever wished you could meet your favorite cartoon character?Just yank them right from the TV into your living room? Go on adventures and cause some mischief together? For Boyd, this wish came true. And at first, it was all fun and games when his favorite cartoon bunny Harry Hare stepped out of the screen and into his home. That is, until Boyd's older, sadistic brother Randall got his hands on the animated rabbit. And started living out his most violent and ...

Does your childhood trauma still control you? Do the demons from your past haunt and torment you, no matter how hard you try to move on and live your life? For Suzey, though she has just moved into her dream home with her loving, devoted husband, there is still something she deeply yearns for: a child. As each pregnancy devastatingly fails, she is reminded of the harsh words of her hateful grandmother. Words repeated to her throughout her childhood, day after day between the beatings and v...

Kip has the worst case of acne that anyone has ever seen. Zits cover his entire body; his skin is aflame with bright red, pus-filled sores. He has become an outcast in his school and the other kids call him Toad.But what they don't know is the pus leaking from Kip's acne is actually a powerful narcotic that produces strong psychedelic effects. Soon, everyone in school will want a taste of his hallucinogenic cream and this former-loser will become the most popular kid in school. But...

Natasha just wants to be loved. But it's hard to find someone when you're a hideous, disfigured monstrosity of a human.She knows she'll never be beautiful like the women in the magazines, but the porcelain doll mask she wears helps her feel pretty.She has spent her life locked in her bedroom by her bitter, abusive mother. But one day, fate provides an opportunity and Natasha finds herself free to explore the outside world.She wants to find love - no matter how many ...

Quiet, Mother, I'm tryin' to speak to our guests so they understand what they've gotten themselves into by buyin' this book. Well yes, of course they know about our story, my photo's right on the cover. It's just that we've got so much stuff in the house, I figured why not sell it, let some other folks enjoy it. Plus, I reckon that man sure did need my help. With the way his wife and kids were treatin' him and all. But he sure showed them, didn't he?Now, Mother, that's not nice to ...

Irreverent merriment. Diabolical debauchery. Gory good times. Editor Shane McKenzie has gutted the holiday spirit and left it to bleed out on the pages of this gruesome, extreme horror tribute to special occasions. Includes stories by the following masters of the macabre: Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Bentley Little, Nate Southard, Lee Thomas, Wrath James White and More!

This is a four-part novel about two childhood best friends who become FBI agents in Florida. Both agents work every case together, breaking all the rules to catch the criminals. The three main characters are Don Watts, Joey Parker, and Captain Jasmine Nolan. Don and Joey started out as probation agents, also known as probies, but they soon work their way up the career ladder and become the best FBI agents that have ever been in the Florida department.

A TRAGIC DOUBLE HOMICIDE, OR A HIDDEN SERIAL KILLER? SERGEANT ALICE MORROW IS DETERMINED TO SOLVE A MYSTERY SPANNING SIXTY YEARS.When Evelyn Massey is found dead in her home, it seems like an open-and-shut case: Evelyn was one hundred years old—natural causes. But Sergeant Alice Morrow learns that traces of poison were found in Mrs. Massey's blood. Then the remains of a body some sixty years deceased are discovered in the dead woman's basement.Two murders, decades apart. Ar...

Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury and combining the atmosphere of Edward Gorey with the phantasmagoric richness of setting found in Mervyn Peake, Deadfall Hotel guides you through a season spent in the ultimate haunted hotel. Christopher Fowler calls it "eerie, disturbing and yet strangely touching." Told through the story of a widower who takes the job of manager at a remote hotel where the guests are not quite like you and me, accompanied by his daughter and the ghost of his wife,

Richard Chizmar, Lisa Tuttle, Norman Prentiss, Kevin Quigley, and Peter Straub unmask monsters hiding in plain sight in an anthology of heart-pounding short fiction assembled by horror author and editor Brian James Freeman.DEVIL’S NIGHT by Richard ChizmarYou’ve read about what happened that night. What you don’t know is the true extent of the damage. The papers got it wrong—and the truth is so much worse than you thought.THE LAST DARE by Lisa...

Kealan Patrick Burke, Ray Garton, Bev Vincent, C. A. Suleiman, and Paul Melniczek treat readers to some spooky tricks with a hair-raising assemblage of tales gathered together by author, editor, and master of the macabre Brian James Freeman.THE MANNEQUIN CHALLENGE by Kealan Patrick BurkeFor some, office parties are the highlight of the season. For others, they can paralyze with dread. Theo is determined not to let his anxiety stop him from attending—though m...