"Each short story is unique, carefully crafted, and memorable. A fun read from cover to cover." – MIDWEST BOOK REVIEWDesperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain't your typical westerns…Herein find legendary masters of anomalous Western and Horror stories—along with a posse of budding word-slingers—who all bring you an electrifying and frightening collection of extraordinary tales set in the Old West and beyond...

KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER THROUGH THE YEARSCarl Kolchak has faced more than his share of monsters throughout his infamous career. Now, Monstrous Books presents 13 short stories chronicling the intrepid reporter's exploits from his time in World War II until his semi-retirement in the 1990s.Kolchak's luck runs out during World War II. Devils in the outfield stir up trouble in the '50s. A road trip with editor Tony Vincenzo in the '70s takes a turn for the w...

"A wonderful collection of stories that will set all of us to thinking." —George A. Romero, legendary horror director of Night of the Living Dead .In this revised and expanded edition, Tribal Screams offers works of horror and fantasy that stem from the dark imagination of Owl Goingback, the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of the critically-acclaimed supernatural thrillers Crota, Breed, and

An ancient monster awakens in this "convincing and fascinating" classic horror thriller, a winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel ( San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle ).It starts with what appears to be a grisly car accident on Cemetery Road. Sheriff Skip Harding has never seen anything like it: two mutilated victims, one gutted and hanging upside down from a tree. All he knows for sure is that this is no hit...

A Cherokee man and his daughter must escape a shapeshifting trickster in this Bram Stoker Award–winning novel from the author of Crota .In a Florida funeral home, a corpse sits up and offers a warning: "Beware, Blue Sky Woman, Coyote's coming."In a North Carolina nursing home, a young orderly casts the shadow of an animal, and leaves carnage in his wake.Though his youth is far behind him, Luther Watie can ...

Sheriff Skip Harding is called out to investigate a double homicide unlike any he has seen before. The bodies are torn to pieces in the woods.

There is a dark underside to the sunny city of St. Augustine, Florida. An ancient evil is awakened in the Tolomato Cemetery, and is intent on stalking and destroying the citizens of the town.

Horror novelist Michael Anthony decides to move his family from NYC to the small Missouri town where he was raised by his eccentric grandmother. Moving into the house left to him, they find something already residing in the walls.

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ...Lee Child's Jack Reacher will team up with Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan to unmask a cunning killer. Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan work with Peter James's Roy Grace on a very unusual murder case.These are just some of the never-before-seen pairings in Match Up - a brand new collaboration between the world's famous crime writers. Edited be international bestseller Lee Child, this exclusive page-turning antho...

Books 5-8 in the Charlie Parker series, available together as a digital-only package.Charlie Parker's latest case in THE BLACK ANGEL starts with the disappearance of a young woman in New York. His hunt turns into an epic quest and marks a dawning realisation in Parker that there is another dimension to his crusade, a dangerous dimension that affects his personal life.In THE UNQUIET, Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has been missing for years foll...

Six of the Best: Joe Hunter has always hated bullies. And Tony Largo is a bully who has picked the wrong target when he assaults a war veteran.Homecoming: Joe promises a grieving mother he'll bring her son home, whatever it takes.Sand Dance: When a hot-dog seller gets mugged, Joe finds a sneaky way of getting revenge.UV Ray: Joe and his best buddy Rink don't play by the rules when they take on a child abuser at a bowling alley.Instant Justice: Carl Riley did...

The world has been brought to its knees by the “zombie virus.” Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race has come perilously close to extinction. But with the first winter come and gone, the infected have been reduced to not much more than a background nuisance, and survivors around the world are taking stock and vowing to rebuild and rise up stronger, better, and unafraid.All-new stories from New York Times best-selling author John ...