Holiday Horror Tales


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Holiday Horror Tales is a series of holiday tales. Dwell into new holiday fantasies and explore each holiday like it's your last. Every holiday is filled with lots of kisses, parties, and laughter. New Year is here. Four high schoolers, Faith, Sam, Francine, and Steve, come together on New Year to party and have fun until a mysterious book and attic leads them into another realm with a hideous monster. "Look at the darker side and reveal your New Year resolutions darkest secrets, just like Sam did, and lead your life into FATE or DESTINY." Valentine's Day is here. William and Cassidy's proposal was more than just a moment. Saving the day and catching the town's former killer, Tyrone, meant destroying a science lab and between it all, Casey does everything she can to save Cassidy from hearty arrows, before the big day of realizing love is the way. "Look at the darker side and reveal your Valentines darkest secrets, just like William and Cassidy did, and lead your life into FATE or DESTINY." Holiday Horror Tales full series




Holiday Horror Tales #2


Book Description

Holiday Horror Tales is a series of holiday tales. Dwell into new holiday fantasies and explore each holiday like it's your last. Every holiday is filled with lots of kisses, parties, and laughter. Valentine's Day is here. William and Cassidy's proposal was more than just a moment. Saving the day and catching the town's former killer, Tyrone, meant destroying a science lab and between it all, Casey does everything she can to save Cassidy from hearty arrows, before the big day of realizing love is the way. "Look at the darker side and reveal your Valentines darkest secrets, just like William and Cassidy did, and lead your life into FATE or DESTINY." All books in the Holiday Horror Tales series standalone. Valentine's is the second book in the Holiday Horror Tales series.




Lost Worlds Short Stories


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New Authors and collections. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title is packed with dark valleys, high mountain passes, dinosaurs and endless dark creations. Contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Rachel Verkade, Thomas Canfield, Kevin M. Folliard, David Sklar, David Tallerman, Sara M. Harvey, Sarah L. Byrne, John Walters, Ronald D. Ferguson, Michael Penncavage, James C. Simpson, Rebecca Schwarz, K.G. McAbee, and Mike Adamson. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. Rider Haggard, Jonathan Swift and Jules Verne.




Valentine's Resolve


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After three years of exile from humanity’s war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth’s allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as the Marshal to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of an overlord himself…




Valentine's Rising


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Returning to the Ozark Territories, freedom fighter David Valentine is shocked to find it overrun by vampiric Kurians under the command of the merciless Consul Solon. In a desperate gambit, Valentine leads a courageous group of soldiers on a mission to drive a spike into the gears of the Kurian Order. Valentine stakes life, honor, and the future of his home in a rebellion that sparks the greatest battle of his life.




Wild Frontiers


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The Frontier: the line between civilisation and the unknown where pioneers rely on a strong will and a dead eye not big city laws. A land where the sweat you shed makes a place yours, whatever lines the government draws on a map; where everyone knows putting on a badge doesn't make a sheriff better than everyone else; where the divide between legend and reality isn't always where it seems. From aging settlers who miss the days when the town only had one street to decent folk who become gunslingers, from lawmen who find the solidity of the railroad is no protection from the devil to practical men who discover some monsters are more than heathen superstition, these nine tales will show you the West that was, that might have been, and might be again.Each story in this anthology takes you along a different trail, but they share the grit and adventure that built the frontier. Containing: "Hangman’s Knot" by Kevin M. Folliard "Mystery Train" by Misha Burnett "Llano Estacado" by Jackson Kuhl "Dusk Woman" by J. Conrad Matthews "Josephine’s Revenge" by Damito Huffman "Such is the Nature of the Change" by Stephen M. Coghlan "Absolution" by Patrick Winters "Through Dry Places" by Dave Higgins "The Amarillo Job" by Jeffrey L. Blehar




Bites of Terror


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“A playfully morbid” horror anthology “filled with color and great artistic detail” (Book Riot). Tuck into these darkly funny horror stories served as an utterly unforgettable graphic novel of hand-sculpted dioramas. The Cake Creeper cordially invites you to a delicious and diabolical feast . . . where he’ll serve you a slice of tasty terror. Enter the world of Bites of Terror, a gleefully macabre anthology of cautionary tales. Meet an ice-cream cone who regrets a wish granted by a sinister salesman, a quarantined strawberry trying to escape a deathly mold outbreak, and a widowed watermelon dying to regrow her husband from a seed. In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt and other classic horror comics, Bites of Terror presents a tasty combination of horror and humor that reflects the human condition.




Yesterday's Faces


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The pulp magazines dealt in fiction that was, by reason of the audience and the medium, heightened beyond normal experience. The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment. This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source.




THE SCREAM - 60 Horror Tales in One Edition


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This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Table of Contents: Novels & Novellas: Uncle Silas The Cock and Anchor The House by the Church-Yard Wylder's Hand Guy Deverell The Tenants of Malory Haunted Lives The Wyvern Mystery Checkmate Willing to Die The Haunted Baronet Spalatro Short Story Collections: In a Glass Darkly: Green Tea The Familiar Mr Justice Harbottle The Room in the Dragon Volant Carmilla The Purcell Papers: The Ghost and the Bone-Setter The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh The Last Heir of Castle Connor The Drunkard's Dream Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess The Bridal of Carrigvarah Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter Scraps of Hibernian Ballads Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald The Quare Gander Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory Other Tales: Madam Crowl's Ghost Squire Toby's Will Dickon the Devil The Child That Went with the Fairies The White Cat of Drumgunniol An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street Ghost Stories of Chapelizod Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling Sir Dominick's Bargain Ultor de Lacy The Vision of Tom Chuff Stories of Lough Guir The Evil Guest The Watcher Laura Silver Bell The Murdered Cousin The Mysterious Lodger An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House The Dead Sexton A Debt of Honor Devereux's Dream Catherine's Quest Haunted Pichon and Sons The Phantom Fourth The Spirit's Whisper Dr. Feversham's Story...




EconoClash Review #7


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Lucky Number Seven of EconoClash Review presents nine quality cheap thrills of neo-pulp lunacy that will push the envelope of genre limitations. Themes of hard luck and ill fate weave throughout this fresh anthology featuring: time slipping lovers, day-drunk step-dads, fantastically stoned fairies, brawny tavern heroes, haunted beauty queens, underestimated female lawmen, blown-cover spies, smack fiend postmen, and even honest to God cowboys. All of them fighting to survive worlds they unwittingly created themselves. Whether you find top notch schadenfreude to be your guilty pleasure or anonymous up-vote, the seventh issue of ECR is your lucky ticket to a world of quality cheap thrills. Read original stories by Simon Broder, J. Travis Grundon, Angelique Fawns, Matthew X. Gomez, Willow Croft, Russell W. Johnson, Scott Forbes Crawford, Kevin M. Folliard, and Mack Moyer only in EconoClash Review #7 from Down & Out Books.