As the residents of Old Hickory, as well as the local police, begin to fall victim to an unknown evil, four individuals—the town nerd, a high school jock, a widowed gunsith, and a mysterious transient from a distant shore—find themselves facing what could possibly be a hellish lycanthrope from ancient Ireland … the legendary Arget Bethir … the Silver Beast.

As a young girl, Laura Locke ignored the warnings of local superstition and played among the burnt-out ruins of Magnolia; a Tennessee plantation that had been forcibly occupied by the Union Army and then laid to waste during the bloody Battle of Franklin in 1864. She had always thought the ghost stories and tall tales to be untrue… until the night when she witnessed it for herself. High among the blackened columns of the old mansion, upon a balcony with no floor, stood the forlorn specter ...

Within this dark crypt, lie stories long untold…These are the forgotten fables… tales that have suffered the fate of premature burial. Shrouded and unceremoniously laid to rest. Stories that languish in deep shadow and tattered cobweb, abandoned and unread.Within these pages, you will find ten such yarns of Southern horror. Novellas, novelettes, and short stories that appeared briefly in limited editions and bygone periodicals, then faded into obscurity and...

It was a legend in Fear County... a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods.But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are true. His best friend Mandy just up and disappeared. He also knows that no one has ever had the courage to go after the monster and put an end to its raging, bestial hunger. Until now.But Evil is well guarded. And for young Jeb Swee...

The vampire curse of the Cravens ended over a century ago when Josiah Craven was buried in an unmarked grave and a stake driven through his heart. But tonight, his ancestors have awakened their Great-Grandpa Craven. They're planning a party in the backwoods of Tennessee. And the folks of Green Hollow are in for the night of their lives. The last night of their lives… Blood Kin is a story of bloodcurdling terror that will keep you awake long after the lights have been turned out…

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ALIVE, YET DEAD…The bloody War Between the States and a harrowing confinement in an enemy prison camp had turned Joshua Wingade into a broken man. His nerves and spirit shattered by the barbarity of battle, and demoralized by a cause that his heart secretly despised, Wingade returns home in hope of finding peace and healing.But, upon his arrival, he discovers that Hell had come to call. His beloved wife had been violated and transformed into a horrid bride ...

A collection of Southern-fried horror short stories from Ronald Kelly. Contents include: Peacemaker, The Boxcar, Consumption, Then Came a Woodsman, Oh, Sordid Shame!, The Thing at the Side of the Road, Whorehouse Hollow, Thinning the Herd

A graveyard feast beneath the summer moon …The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community … until the O'Sheas came to town.Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local townfolk. The thing began to happen. Strange things … horrible, unspeakable things … in the dead of night.The sighting of wolfish beasts ...

It was a legend in Fear County…a hideous creature—part snake, part earthbound demon—that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods.But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are not simply tall-tales, but true. Several children in the town of Pikesville, as well as his girlfriend, Mandy, have been abducted in the dead of night and taken to the Snake-Critter's lair. Jeb knows that no one has ever had the courage to go af...

Repulsive. Disgusting. Beyond the realm of good taste… A serial killer records the abominations he has committed… on the only journal he has in his possession. A man moves into a new abode that is plagued with a spider problem… or is it the other way around? A sadistic fiend prepares for Halloween with razored treats and poisonous prizes… A young boy’s dreams echo of torture, death, and genocide… An old man’s living fluids reveal a horrible secret from his past… A mentally-unstable woman u...

Where do the spiders go at night?Do they creep and crawl through the bushes and trees?Up the porch posts and across the eaves?Do they scramble inside? Skitter soundlessly down the hall?Do they enter your bedroom, climb the bedcovers and wall?Do they drop from the ceiling, shivering and cold?Do they find your mouth open and think"What a lovely abode…"Hidden or in plain sight, eight-legged creatures are everywhere. Where you expect t...