Category — Horror

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Includes the story “1922”—soon to be a Netflix original film starring Thomas Jane and Molly Parker.

Four unforgettable novellas that explore the dark side of human nature from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

“Does anybody really know anybody? Before tonight she certainly would have thought so.”

In “1922,” a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness.

A mystery writer is brutally assaulted in “Big Driver” by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

In “Fair Extension,” making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

Finally, the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is in “A Good Marriage.”

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“The mon’ter killed my mommy!” A “monster” called Gothic.

Not yet three years old, Steven Pierce watched his mother murdered by an angry lover. More horrifically, a “monster” finished her off, and marked young Steven as his, going forward.

As Steven grows up, he struggles with the demons that followed him, not realizing that the actual demon, the “monster” really was following him, feeding upon his blood, manipulating his dreams, twisting his thoughts, sweetening his blood for the ultimate final feeding.

Unaware that Gothic has always been near, terrifying memories of that night, “The Night of the Crime”, have haunted Steven as reached manhood. Now, years later, in his own failing marriage, Steven is offered help by a friend. Successful and ruthless real estate developer David Garrison, however is having an affair with Steven’s wife, and sees an opportunity to evade discovery of the affair – using his own considerable resources to help Steven discover what really happened that night.

As the secrets are peeled away, no one involved is ready for what they will discover and the terrifying implications.

But David has a problem of his own. In addition to sleeping with Steven’s wife, he begins an affair with a wealthy, beautiful heiress. Melissa Thornhardt is no one’s plaything. All she’s ever asked for is for True Love. She has sought all her life for her “Intended”, her one true love. Now that she’s met David she’s certain he’s the one.

There is more to Melissa however than a romantic nature.

In addition to beauty, brilliance, power, and wealth, Melissa takes part in other family traditions, notably the Family Magic. She is a very skilled witch, and uses her powers to influence the world around her. No one in her family is accustomed to being told “no”. But this is especially true of Melissa, who bends reality, the will of others, their thoughts, their experiences, to her own bidding. And with this power, she draws her Intended, her true love.

She has sought her true love, dueled Fate for it, and no one will deny her.

David is a playboy, as committed to debauchery as was his father. He enjoys Melissa’s passion, but not her obsession. He soon wants to be rid of her as much as she wants all of him. He recognizes her presence when he hears her “night songs” playing, a soundtrack to her intense passion and limitless tenacity. Hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn. And hell has never dreamed of a woman like Melissa Thornhardt.

The inevitable collision of Melissa’s and David’s wills is the classic story of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.

But where this collision coincides with David and Steven confronting the murderer, the “monster”, no one could have expected what happened next. For as they are told, “there’s no such thing as vampires”, Gothic seems to be just that.

What they don’t realize is that this outcome may even threaten to tear the very fabric separating the Living from the Dead, Day from Night, Living from the Living Dead.

Where Melissa’s path crosses that of Gothic, the color is red. Blood red.

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Eric can’t remember the recurring dream that keeps waking him in the middle of the night with an overwhelming urge to leave, yet he spends each day feeling as if he desperately needs to be somewhere. With no idea how to cure himself of this odd compulsion, he decides to let it take its course and go for a drive, hoping that once he proves to himself that there is nowhere to go, he can return to his normal life. Instead, he finds himself hurled headlong into a nightmare adventure across a fractured Wisconsin as the dream reveals itself one heart-pounding detail at a time.

Horror, science fiction, dark fantasy. From the author of The Temple of the Blind. 84,000 words.

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Cherry blossom lipstick: check

Smokey eyes: check

Skinny jeans: check

Dead kid in the mirror: check

For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She’s been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too.

Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. That is until she see’s the ghost of her foster sister… Sally.

Everyone thinks Sally’s just another runaway, but Mattie knows the truth—she’s dead. Murdered. Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can’t do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young policeman, Officer Dan, and together they set out to discover the real truth behind Sally’s disappearance.

Only to find out she’s dealing with a much bigger problem, a serial killer, and she may be the next victim…

Will Mattie be able to find out the truth before the killer finds her?

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