Damned: A Horror Anthology


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"DAMNED" is a collection of five tales of the wickedness of men, how little it takes to corrupt the soul, and the consequences of giving in to the dark. "Absolution" follows a young musician, on a vacation with his fiancée and her rich family, who wants to be accepted by them without selling out. A Stranger offers him a way in, but it comes with a heavy price. "Shiver" is the story of two friends stuck at a hunting lodge in the mountains during a blizzard. As the cold bears down on the men, so does something much more sinister. "Ashes & Dust" finds two sisters wandering a vast cemetery after they get lost among the tombstones. An evil presence tries to lure them further into the maze of death. In "Bloodletter" a man deals with loss by performing ritualistic murders in hopes of being reconnected with his true love. "Debt" caps this anthology with an apocalypse brought to the world by an unholy army here to collect what is owed to the devil.




The Wicked and the Damned


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A chilling mosaic novel by masters of their craft. On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed. But whose story can be trusted? Whose recollection is warped, even unto themselves? For these are strange stories of the uncanny, the irrational and the spine-chillingly frightening, where horrors abound and the dark depths of the human psyche is unearthed. A chilling portmanteau. I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck prickling. The perfect combination of horror and Warhammer 40,000.’ Paul Kane – bestselling and award-winning author of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell and Before




The Damned


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Known as one of the key figures in the 'weird' horror movement that arose in England and the United States in the early twentieth century, Algernon Blackwood was known for inserting surprising, often sophisticated twists into his tales. The Damned tells the story of a haunted house whose supernatural activity stems from an unlikely source.




Voices of the Damned


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"Damaged people, ultraviolence, murder and explicit sex-what's not to love about her work?" -"Bad Barbie" Featurette, "Fangoria" (America's #1 Horror Magazine) Enter into the mind of Barbie Wilde, whose disturbing interior world teems with the voices of rebellious female demons, devilish witches, semen-hungry neo-vampires, raging gods and home invaders, the fiends of sleep paralysis, pint-sized store-front preachers with a whiff of sulfur, body horrors of the most grotesque kind, clandestine aliens and Zulu zombies. These truly are the "Voices of the Damned": eleven short horror stories from Barbie Wilde, actress ("Hellbound: Hellraiser II," "Death Wish 3") and dark crime-horror novelist ("The Venus Complex"). "Fangoria" has called Wilde "one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around." Each story is accompanied by seductive, haunting, full color artworks and illustrations created by some of the most imaginative artists in the genre: Clive Barker, Nick Percival, Steve McGinnis, Daniele Serra, Eric Gross, Tara Bush, Vincent Sammy, & Ben Baldwin.




Damned


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12 stories about Heaven and Hell, angels and demons, good and evil from the best names in modern horror. This antho comes in at over 160,000 words with all original work from:Jack KetchumEdward LeeBrian HodgeCharlee JacobGerard HouarnerTom PiccirilliPatrick LestewkaDoc SolammenMehitobel WilsonJohn EversonGary BraunbeckJeffrey ThomasEach story is illustrated by Erik Wilson and signed by all contributors.




The Damned Thing


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»The Damned Thing« is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, originally published in 1893. AMBROSE BIERCE [1842-1914] was an American author, journalist, and war veteran. He was one of the most influential journalists in the United States in the late 19th century and alongside his success as a horror writer he was hailed as a pioneer of realism. Among his most famous works are The Devil's Dictionary and the short story »An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.«




Damned


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Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.




Damnable Tales


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This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror – a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches’ curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers...




Anthology of the Damned


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Twelve Terrifying Tales to Keep You Awake at Night! Featuring classic tales from horror masters such as H.P Lovecraft and Robert Chambers and also newer horror authors, this anthology collection is sure to make you lose sleep. It also features artwork by horror artist Harold Torres. Ghosts, hauntings, alien fish, demon possessions, and mutant creatures. And those are just the authors! This set of spooky tales is a perfect read for Halloween, Dark and Stormy Nights, or Sunday Morning Church. Each author in this collection has a wealth of additional stories, so this is just the beginning. Pick it up now… if you dare.




SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED


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While looking for a secret place to smoke cigarettes with his two best friends, troubled teenager Mark discovers a mysterious shack in a suburban field. Alienated from his parents and peers, Mark finds within the shack an escape greater than anything he has ever experienced. But it isn’t long before the place begins revealing its strange, powerful sentience. And it wants something in exchange for the shelter it provides. Shelter for the Damned is not only a scary, fast-paced horror novel, but also an unflinching study of suburban violence, masculine conditioning, and adolescent rage.