WELCOME TO MEAT CITY Take a trip along the arterial highway, and make a left at the last exit to enter Meat City, where all manner of nasty things are clamoring to greet you. •Granger knows what it's like to kill a man. It's an assassin's job to know death. When the corpse of Granger's latest victim staggers to his feet though, all bets are off in "Meat City". •Christian has searched for purpose his entire life. Miserable relationships and false religions were all part of the journey. But he might find just what he needs hidden in tunnels beneath the "City of a Million Gods". •A pale, pleading face of a young boy stares at Kari from the dilapidated corpse of a house next door. She knows what it's like to need someone, and she's determined to help "The Patchwork Boy". •It's been decades since the dead rose up and dragged the world kicking, screaming, and bleeding into hell. Only a few humans, The Pale Riders, still venture to the outlands. In "Ballad of the Pale Riders", a legendary rider teaches a rookie what it means to be humanity's last hope. These and thirteen more slices of horror await you on the raw and bloodied streets. Enjoy your visit . . . .

Angel Luis Colón invites you on a short tour of the world as a literary mix tape to that strange goth girl with the lazy eye who still wants nothing to do with you; no matter how good that fedora looks on your head. So what’s in store for your brain? Follow three major moments in the life of gambling addict and mafia muscle, Sean Clarke as he goes from softhearted kid to full blown bastard to broken old man. Thrill at the short-lived and incredibly violent courtship, marriage, and honeymoon of Hank and Annie. The set of the country’s most popular trash TV talk show is appropriately trashier than what makes the air. Beards make absolutely terrible trophies. Sometimes you’ll crawl through the fire and smoke for a chance at a semi-decent score and a way out of working in a place called “Meat City”. All that along with even more violence, revenge, Lee Van Cleef, light sex crimes, and cannibals than you can shake a stick at!

Let your fascination run wild into the dark places where childish nightmares rule. Open the door to your escape and enter another’s house tonight. For tonight you discover the terrible secrets in the stranger’s house down the street. Maybe a horrible evil is hidden in the attic, leaching from the eyes of innocent dolls. Maybe the house sits on cursed earth where witchcraft was born from the torture of innocence. Or perhaps you’re an interloping drifter who happens to stumble upon a home in the woods, abandoned for a good reason. Enter and watch as your loved one is seduced by bloody evil. But wait. The tornado is rising and preparing to wipe the earth clean of the putrid evil in hell’s basement. Hidden tombs rot your soul and reveal the unspeakable as you walk the halls of death in the path of the coming destruction. You’re still here, and the best is last. A house so steeped with hatred, wild beasts patrol its outskirts as the welcome alternative to what lies in wait within its walls. Witness the rivers of blood and the roaring specters preparing to carry your soul to its final end.

Freak. That's what folks are calling Lyric Freeman after a horrific crash kills her best friend and nearly claims Lyric. Her injuries result in the ability to hear the dying speak, and soon she finds she must help deceased slaves find freedom. Not so bad, right? Wrong... STRANGE FRUIT: A Ghost Story is a wild ride through the American Slave Trade to a modern day haunted house and is inspired by the protest poem by Abel Meeropol and the haunting musical versions by Nina Simone and Billie Holliday (and the many others who have done this ode justice). "Totally mesmerizing...." - Sandra Carrington-Smith "I was absolutely gripped with fear and interest from the very beginning!" - Natalie Rae Kimber

Still living at home with his narcotic-addicted mother, Cole Carney longs to find a way out and begin his career as a school teacher. After a strange incident, the mysterious Father Stanton gives him a job at his old elementary school, but he soon finds that more than just the decor has changed. As he uncovers the atrocities each room of the school presents and solves the mysteries surrounding each inhabitant, he unlocks the dark secrets of his own past. Along with a fellow teacher and a fiery journalist, Cole will try to bring down the murderous history of the school and prays he'll make it out alive.

How Does a Hot, Sexy Mother Who Hates Her Daughter Put Her Nasty Plan Into Action? There are many beautiful stories about mother/daughter relationships out there, but "CHARLA" isn't one of them! CHARLA is the story of a sexy mother who hates her daughter and manages to secretly bring her pain and discomfort. So creative is Charla in satisfying her unsettling needs, that even Amelie grew up unaware of her mother's deranged feelings towards her. With Amelie all grown up now, it has become harder and harder for Charla to quench her morbid impulses without getting her hands dirty. So ... one lonely dawn, Charla experiences a very weird event that sparks the idea of summoning a demon to disrupt her twenty-five year old daughter's perfect, pretty little life. She puts the sick plan into action ... and the demon moves in....

Matthew Ewald's (actor: Galidor, Star Trek Phase II) chilling debut novel of horror from Black Bed Sheet Books. A group of young Animal Liberation Front activists perform a raid on an animal testing lab outside of Ventura, California, not knowing that the facility, Caladine, is a secret government testing ground for bio-engineered fighting hybrids. One of the few to survive the bloodbath, now confined to a psychiatric institution, tells the tale of that night to a gifted psychologist, whose expertise lies within schizophrenic disorders. Where all have failed, she must succeed in unlocking the truth of what happened during a night hidden away in bloodshed and carnage. But, neither the doctor nor the patient realize a far more sinister truth awaits; a truth which says they are being manipulated by the scheming head of the ward, a man who keeps patients as playthings in a basement asylum. By the time they find out these motives of monsters, it is too late for the both of them. A tale of madness becomes their reality. In the end -- to hunt the world's most horrific evil, you'll need to keep your eyes open and look within.

From the bestselling author of "The Night It Got Out!" Welcome to Blood Verse, not your average collection of tales and verses of terror. Within these pages you’ll find how a serial killer uses an unusual method to stalk victims in South Chicago. A unique couple addresses infertility on a grand scale. Armageddon strikes twice in a small Iowa town at the hands of nature and a madman. A noble medical scientist undergoes a demented metamorphosis. The oldest and most powerful vampire on earth weighs in on contemporary culture. An obnoxious bigot goes to Hell to fulfil an ironic twist of destiny. An injured World Champion boxer fights his toughest opponent in a horrific bout beyond imagination. An outpatient psychiatric clinic places several patients in a setting that launches the ultimate terror and mayhem. A horrific futuristic twist on an American Scholastic tradition in Spelling Bee. A debut collection from a rising master of fantastic thrills that reads like Amazing Stories and Twilight Zone with a hellish twist, Blood Verse is sure to take you for an intense ride!

Two powerful brothers, separated at birth, find each other after being tortured and turned into vampire killing machines by sinister forces for use as weapons of Dark Ages warfare. They were fierce when starved and then unleashed into battle and slaughtered an astonishing many. But while being immortal, they were not immune to manipulation, lies, betrayal, or their own growing desires for truth and morality in a brutal world. Upon further transformation into creatures even more powerful than all the vampire elders, they struggle in their quest to maintain peaceful lives across history, from Medieval times to Nazi Berlin and present day USA, searching for answers to existence. Neither one wanted to be monsters, but was there a way to use their powers for good?