From award-winning author Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first foray into non-supernatural horror.After he finds himself stranded at a truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he recognizes the face of a little girl on a Missing poster as belonging to the same little girl he saw only a few minutes before. Looking around for some sign of her, he comes back to his table in the restaurant to find the little sitting there, waiting...

Winner of the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Fiction CollectionA collection of original dark fiction concerning itself with people, cars, and the open road.In the novella "The Ballad of Road Mama and Daddy Bliss," a man assigned community service duty with the city morgue after a DUI arrest is offered a simple deal: transport an old woman's body back to her hometown, and his record will be wiped clean. But this is no typical old woman, and -- as he soon ...

Una raccolta di racconti horror di alcuni dei più grandi interpreti dell’horror e dello splatterpunk mondiale e nazionale. Volume 2.Contiene i racconti, mai pubblicati in lingua italiana: ‘Gli Ospiti’ di Gary Braunbeck, opera vincitrice del Bram Stoker Award 2003, 'Messo alla prova' di Lisa Morton, opera vincitrice del Bram Stoker Award 2006, l’inedito 'Il Re che dorme' di Caleb Battiago e ‘Il Vecchio Crudele’ di Ramsey Campbell.Quattro diverse interpretazioni dell'horror mod...

UNWELL… Cody Goodfellow wants to introduce you to a goddess who offers unsurpassed pleasure – at an unspeakable price. UNWISE… Gemma Files wants you to see what happens when you look too closely into places and things better left unknown. UNQUIET… Mort Castle wants to play some unfamiliar music for you… the tunes of the lost and the damned. UNDONE… Gary A. Braunbeck

A team of human-like super robots are on the run from an evil CEO in this science fiction action adventure based on an original idea by Isaac Asimov.Annabelle Donohoe, the CEO of World Tech, is mad as hell. Her dreams of world domination died the day Zac Robillard discovered her evil plans and fled World Tech, taking his greatest creation, his beloved I-Bots, and all his research, with him. (Read about their origins in Isaac Asimov's History of I-Bots!) Mor...

A Bram Stoker Award–winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world.Wherever you're from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives' tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and ...

After he finds himself stranded at a truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he recognizes the face of a little girl on a Missing poster as belonging to the same little girl he saw only a few minutes before. Looking around for some sign of her, he comes back to his table in the restaurant to find the little girl sitting there, waiting for him. "I'm sorry, mister," is all she seems capable of saying. As the police and media begin to converge on th...

Weirdbook returns after a nearly 20-year hiatus under the editorship of Douglas Draa! Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...Included are:Chivaine, by John R. FultzGive Me the Daggers, by Adrian ColeThe Music of Bleak Entrainment, by Gary A. BraunbeckInto The Mountains with Mother Old Growth, by Christian RileyThe Grimlorn Under the Mountain, by James AquiloneDolls, by Paul Dale...

But be warned, fellow traveler… this is not just a book—it is a journey into the very life of Death.Listen to the tales of the afterlife: Halloween, vampires, Heaven, Hell, Armageddon, zombies, death-bringing angels, ghosts, cults, ritual killings, nightmares from Vietnam... The lists goes on and on.Ever wondered if it was possible to cheat death? To kill Death?Did you know Death was a girl?Or that it’s possible to escape and even become death...

Winner of the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Fiction Collection A collection of original dark fiction concerning itself with people, cars, and the open road. Contents include "The Ballad of Road Mama and Daddy Bliss," "Congestion," "Merge Right," "The Box Man" and a preview of Prodigal Blues.