Five tales of greed, power, danger, control, and justice. You will meet a Mexican Mafia package boy, a lost Civil War soldier, a New Orleans Vampire, and a career thug. They will all meet surprising and terrifying ends. Welcome to the darkest corners of your own mind…if you dare.

"Includes something for every kind of King fan.” —PeopleFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers, as well as stories first published in The New Yorker, “1408,” made into a movie starring John Cusack.“Riding the B...

Kari Voucher is loving it at her new job working for the Illinois Northern Railroad alongside her two favorite wolves that made it all possible for her. But while she takes well needed pride and joy up in her current gig, there are unfortunately others who don't and will stop at nothing to sabotage the railroad infrastructure board by board, from the bottom up which they do so to one of the most valued trains bringing oil from the refineries to destinations all over the upper Midwest and b...

It’s Christmas Eve and Walt Shuster has reached a crossroads in his life. Not certain which way to turn, he stops off for a drink at a rustic roadhouse along the way that seems filled with the holiday spirit. It doesn’t take him long to realize what a truly special place this is!This story is my Christmas, Hanukah, Quanza, Winter Solstice gift to you all. No matter how, or with whom you may share this special season, enjoy!

Black Heart Magazine has been publishing new fiction online every Friday since 2008. Now enjoy the first of our new themed digital issues, The NOIR Issue, featuring heavyweights from the nouveau-crime genre including Christopher Benton, Dan O'Shea, Benjamin Sobieck, Stephen D. Rogers, Jonathan Woods and more.Guest edited by crime fiction enthusiast and web writer extraordinaire Jimmy Callaway, this anthology of short fiction, poetry and noir-inspired artwork combines the best from ...

A boy takes a dangerous journey with his father. During the journey they go through a war zone and the boy sees many things he does not understad.

An ordinary work day at the western Massachusetts Sugarloaf Inn turns more chilling than the winter weather when staff member Candy Wadsen makes a gruesome discovery. Her day goes from bad to worse when Candy realizes that Detective Sergeant Dan Petrowski suspects her of committing the crime.

This is a humorous look into the right of passage in the outlaw motorcycle world. Ittakes a look into the morning after as well as the night a prospect received his patch.

Thirty-one poems about a "colorful" housepainter I worked with one summer when I was young.

A suspicious death occurs in the peaceful village of Hassman, New York. While the police and coroner write it off as a "natural causes" death, a retired English professor, who is also the village's self-appointed "amateur sleuth," thinks it just might be murder. The professor solves the lethal puzzle when a nighttime visit to the victim's cottage leads to the discovery of a mysterious poem and a dead cat, not to mention a near run-in with the murderer.

Decades ago, when bands like the Everly Brothers rode the airwaves and vacancy signs shone like beacons in the night, a young man gets his first taste of love, loss, and the ethereal satisfaction that comes with knowing that the world is turning and life is being lived.

Again we join Tommy, Robert S. Thompson and Nona The Waitress, in The Midwest, the Westerly Midwest, of America — as they follow The Swarm on their little bicycles zooming around town, and the activities of Moon Walking, the head librarian, as she fights the city fathers, who have demanded that everyone put up a fence in town, to keep everyone safe, from all sorts of terrible dangers.