**"**Big Lizard is a wild, weird, darkly comic, gory, occasionally terrifying, and consistently entertaining romp through the world of the occult, chicken restaurants, and Biblical theme parks. You really get a representation of all Lansdale's genres here. Crime, horror, humor, it's all in there. I literally cannot recommend this book highly enough."—Jeremy Baker, author of Drawing in the Dark...

While others have been working and studying hard for the coming semester at Sirrus, a college where students learn to master the mystical powers of sorce, Charlie has neglected his two best-friends and spent most of his time with his girlfriend, Laurie.Now, two years later, in the midst of trying to reconnect with old friends and make new ones, Charlie finds there's a growing shadow that follows him, a voice in his head that isn't his own, something sinister by nature that wants to...

For decades, the work of mystery writer Peter Paige (Morton Wolson) sat unseen in private files. Now, for the first time, these lost stories are finally in print.This collection gathers nine twisted noir tales-including "To Be, or Be to Not," "The Deal," "Shock Performances," "The Facks of Life," "She Loved to Kill," "Play with Fire," "The Big Bust," "Ape," and "Alas, Mystery!" Each story opens a different trapdoor: from a tense lunchtime encounter to a deadly bargain, a lover's de...

Splatter Flicks is your crash course in making killer low-budget horror—from script to streamer. Learn to write lean, shoot smart, and spill blood safely, with insights from working pros in FX, directing, stunts, design, and more. Turn your micro-budget nightmare into a real scream.

From serial killers lurking in the shadows, to ghostly legends stalking lonely highways, to grief that twists into horror, award-winning author Paul Kane has been terrifying readers for over two decades. But his dark imagination hasn't been confined to the page.In Short, Sharp, Shocks, Kane collects the stories, scripts, and behind-the-scenes journeys of his most chilling short films, including The Opportunity, The Weeping Woman, Wind Chimes, The Torturer, and more. Each entry brin...

The audiobook edition of a rare story David Morrell wrote to give to his friends at Christmas is finally available. Featuring a foreword by the author, this is a novella that has different meanings, depending if you're a child or an adult. It's about the poignant friendship between Father Christmas, who lives a hundred years before being replaced, and Father Time, who lives only a single year before being replaced. Each year, Santa sees a version of his friend grow old and die. Now it's Sa...

Enter Rat Park at your own risk. Lose the cage. Find yourself. An L.A. power couple orders an A.I. sex droid to escape their marital prison. What happens to them could happen to you. With his fourth novel, Adam Novak shows us how it takes a village of automatons to augment your humanity, feed your deceptive compulsive sexual addiction, and forget why you ever got married in the first place.

Karyn and her husband Roy had come to the peaceful California village of Drago to escape the savagery of the city. On the surface, Drago appeared to be like most small rural towns. But it was not. The village had a most unsavory history. Unexplained disappearances, sudden deaths. People just vanished, never to be found.

The acclaimed and ground breaking collection of short stories, poetry, and allegory by Andrew Vachss, one of the most powerful voices in the field of child protection. This work is an illumination of the realities of child abuse, juvenile violence...and tribute to the power of imagination.People Magazine says, "Another Chance is Dr. Seuss dressed up as a Scorsese movie, another on-target hit by an author who has made children his primary concern."Anoth...

He brings the dead back to life.He’s America’s newest hero. He possesses the most awesome gift any man can master. He can reach beyond the grave to awaken the dearly departed.But their souls no longer inhabit their bodies. The things that now walk the earth - the things he has brought back - are carrion. Dead meat. Soulless, mindless creatures that only know he is responsible for their agony.As their bodies decay into hideous travesties of the once living, they have...

Twentysomething Pru seems like a girl on the straight and narrow. She takes in stray and abused animals and is studying to be a veterinarian. But college is so expensive these days, so she has to work her way using her talents as a conwoman. Fleecing dirty old men, using the dark web, and a variation on that old swindle, the Honey Trap.Luring the potential pedophiles online with her youthful look, she meets and drugs them, taking their valuables and selling them on the Los Angeles ...

Charley Brewster is a horror movie fan, a kid with an active imagination. So, when he begins telling people that his new next-door neighbor is a vampire, no one believes him. Not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo Evil Ed.But Charley's seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood and knows he will be the vampire's next victim. When Charley can't get anybody to believe him, he turns to TV horror host Peter Vincent, who used to be the "great vampire kil...