Uneasy Reading is a collection of four short horror stories. The collection, at nearly 11,000 words, also includes an excerpt from the upcoming vampire/crime novella Wetwork.

The little tastes of horror found in Uneasy Reading include:

“Dead Favors” – Martin hates Silver Point and all of the rotten memories his old hometown holds. He’s only returning because his father is finally dead and because Cassie needs Martin to help with some unpleasant work.

“Rorschach’s Vampires” – Only Gordon sees them. They change shape and they tell him what to do. They demand things and he’s more than willing to give in to their needs.

“Worst Thing I Ever Did” – What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? Find out the terrible thing one man did in this short zombie tale.

“God’s Food” – Here is a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairytale of the same name.

Excerpt from Wetwork: Joey ‘Nine’ is a first class killer, a hitman who gets the job done no matter the mess. But now he has to contend with a former crime boss who wants him dead and a shifty drug dealer with the munchies. When the damned vampires show up, they don’t make things any easier.Uneasy Reading is a collection of four short horror stories. The collection, at nearly 11,000 words, also includes an excerpt from the upcoming vampire/crime novella Wetwork.

The little tastes of horror found in Uneasy Reading include:

“Dead Favors” – Martin hates Silver Point and all of the rotten memories his old hometown holds. He’s only returning because his father is finally dead and because Cassie needs Martin to help with some unpleasant work.

“Rorschach’s Vampires” – Only Gordon sees them. They change shape and they tell him what to do. They demand things and he’s more than willing to give in to their needs.

“Worst Thing I Ever Did” – What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? Find out the terrible thing one man did in this short zombie tale.

“God’s Food” – Here is a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairytale of the same name.

Excerpt from Wetwork: Joey ‘Nine’ is a first class killer, a hitman who gets the job done no matter the mess. But now he has to contend with a former crime boss who wants him dead and a shifty drug dealer with the munchies. When the damned vampires show up, they don’t make things any easier.

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A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Bram Stoker’s hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror.
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The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.

I compiled this eBook as a free release on my site CthulhuChick.com. I’ve added it to the Kindle store for convenience, and because someone else was trying to sell it here, but you can always get it for free on the site.

The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.

The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory (1919)
Old Bugs (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Tree (1920)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
The Temple (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
The Street (1920)
Celephaïs (1920)
From Beyond (1920)
Nyarlathotep (1920)
The Picture in the House (1920)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Moon-Bog (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)
Hypnos (1922)
What the Moon Brings (1922)
Azathoth (1922)
The Hound (1922)
The Lurking Fear (1922)
The Rats in the Walls (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
The Festival (1923)
The Shunned House (1924)
The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
The Descendant (1926)
Cool Air (1926)
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Pickman’s Model (1926)
The Silver Key (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
The Very Old Folk (1927)
The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)
The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
Ibid (1928)
The Dunwich Horror (1928)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
The Evil Clergyman (1933)
The Book (1933)
The Shadow out of Time (1934)
The Haunter of the Dark (1935)The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.

I compiled this eBook as a free release on my site CthulhuChick.com. I’ve added it to the Kindle store for convenience, and because someone else was trying to sell it here, but you can always get it for free on the site.

The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.

The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory (1919)
Old Bugs (1919)
The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
The White Ship (1919)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
The Terrible Old Man (1920)
The Tree (1920)
The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
The Temple (1920)
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
The Street (1920)
Celephaïs (1920)
From Beyond (1920)
Nyarlathotep (1920)
The Picture in the House (1920)
Ex Oblivione (1921)
The Nameless City (1921)
The Quest of Iranon (1921)
The Moon-Bog (1921)
The Outsider (1921)
The Other Gods (1921)
The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)
Hypnos (1922)
What the Moon Brings (1922)
Azathoth (1922)
The Hound (1922)
The Lurking Fear (1922)
The Rats in the Walls (1923)
The Unnamable (1923)
The Festival (1923)
The Shunned House (1924)
The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
He (1925)
In the Vault (1925)
The Descendant (1926)
Cool Air (1926)
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Pickman’s Model (1926)
The Silver Key (1926)
The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
The Very Old Folk (1927)
The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)
The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
Ibid (1928)
The Dunwich Horror (1928)
The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
The Evil Clergyman (1933)
The Book (1933)
The Shadow out of Time (1934)
The Haunter of the Dark (1935)

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In this autobiography, psychologist George Mandler describes growing up in central Europe in the early 20th century. He conveys some of the dread and horror of the holocaust and offers a picture of emigre life, recollections of the war and a picture of the American academy from the inside.
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In this short story – Edgar Davies is an old man with no friends, and no family. The only joy in his life are the snowmen he builds every year, which children from all over Pennsylvania come to see. When fate intervenes though, it’s revealed that Edgar is not the man everyone thought he was.

Also includes an exclusive three-chapter preview of James Melzer’s newest novella, Hull’s Landing. Available now.

In this short story – Edgar Davies is an old man with no friends, and no family. The only joy in his life are the snowmen he builds every year, which children from all over Pennsylvania come to see. When fate intervenes though, it’s revealed that Edgar is not the man everyone thought he was.

Also includes an exclusive three-chapter preview of James Melzer’s newest novella, Hull’s Landing. Available now.

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When twin sisters are stuck trying to entertain themselves while visiting with their grandfather at a nursing home, they find there is far more to an old Ouija board then just a fun time.When twin sisters are stuck trying to entertain themselves while visiting with their grandfather at a nursing home, they find there is far more to an old Ouija board then just a fun time.

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999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense

A ward-winning writer and editor Al Sarrantonio gathers together twenty-nine original stories from masters of the macabre. From dark fantasy and pure suspense to classic horror tales of vampires and zombies, 999 showcases the extraordinary scope of fantastical fright fiction. The stories in this anthology are a relentless tour de force of fear, which will haunt you, terrify you, and keep the adrenaline rushing all through the night.

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Take a ride on the Ghost Plane. Eleven twisted tales about life, love, and insanity. Eleven tales that explore the darker recesses. If you’re afraid to look too deeply in the mirror, read no further.

Scott Nicholson says: “Suzanne Tyrpak shows in these tales that horror can not only aspire to literary value, but also explore emotional and psychological terrain that is difficult to reach via other roads. Horror can hit you in the gut or mess with your head, but at its best it can reach into your heart as well. And these tales reflect perhaps the biggest horror of all–that we are alive, and this life is full of pain and death and love and sharp edges…

Enter this circus and let Suzanne show you why horror is the greatest show on earth.”

This collection of short stories is composed of three segments: Airport Stories, Hot Flashes, and Gothica. They range in length from 100 words to over 3000. Total word count is approximately 15,000 words, about 55 pages.

Ghost Plane was originally published by CrimeSpree Magazine. Venus Faded appears in the anthology Pronto! Writings from Rome (Triple Tree Publishing, 2002) along with notable authors including: Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Engstrom, Terry Brooks and John Saul. Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers awarded Suzanne Tyrpak first prize in the Colorado Gold Writing Contest, and Maui Writers awarded her third prize in the Rupert Hughes writing competition.

AIRPORT STORIES
Ghost Plane
Graveyard
Blue Angel

HOT FLASHES
Chocolate Kiss
Meditation
Forbidden
Dark Night
Pink

GOTHICA
Devil’s Mark
Burnt Offerings
Venus Faded

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Please check out Dating My Vibrator (and other true fiction) nine short stories about dating, divorce, desperation–all that good stuff.Take a ride on the Ghost Plane. Eleven twisted tales about life, love, and insanity. Eleven tales that explore the darker recesses. If you’re afraid to look too deeply in the mirror, read no further.

Scott Nicholson says: “Suzanne Tyrpak shows in these tales that horror can not only aspire to literary value, but also explore emotional and psychological terrain that is difficult to reach via other roads. Horror can hit you in the gut or mess with your head, but at its best it can reach into your heart as well. And these tales reflect perhaps the biggest horror of all–that we are alive, and this life is full of pain and death and love and sharp edges…

Enter this circus and let Suzanne show you why horror is the greatest show on earth.”

This collection of short stories is composed of three segments: Airport Stories, Hot Flashes, and Gothica. They range in length from 100 words to over 3000. Total word count is approximately 15,000 words, about 55 pages.

Ghost Plane was originally published by CrimeSpree Magazine. Venus Faded appears in the anthology Pronto! Writings from Rome (Triple Tree Publishing, 2002) along with notable authors including: Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth Engstrom, Terry Brooks and John Saul. Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers awarded Suzanne Tyrpak first prize in the Colorado Gold Writing Contest, and Maui Writers awarded her third prize in the Rupert Hughes writing competition.

AIRPORT STORIES
Ghost Plane
Graveyard
Blue Angel

HOT FLASHES
Chocolate Kiss
Meditation
Forbidden
Dark Night
Pink

GOTHICA
Devil’s Mark
Burnt Offerings
Venus Faded

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Please check out Dating My Vibrator (and other true fiction) nine short stories about dating, divorce, desperation–all that good stuff.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Zoe, a gifted telepath aboard the Odyssey space vessel is awakened to the sounds of screaming. The crew has succumbed to the deadly alien parasite which they picked up on a remote desert planet. Barely surviving the ordeal, Zoe utilizes the freezing chambers in the cryogenics laboratory and sends out a telepath distress call to anyone nearby. Light years away, Ida, a failed telepath aboard the salvage ship Argo hears the call and alerts her captain. Fearless, Captain Titus heads for the ship, promising his crew excessive credits for the missing vessel. But as they board the Odyssey they failed to realize it had been taken over by an alien species using humans as a host. Prepare for deep space horror, thrilling adventure, a malfunctioning Salvation robot, plasma sabers, and spider parasites capable of turning humans into flesh hungry zombies.

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Spanning all genres, including horror and drama, adventure, comedy, musicals, science fiction, and more, Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies That Defined America tells the stories behind the most significant and influential films in American culture, movies that had a profound influence on the literary, cinematic, and popular culture of our time.
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After finding an online advertisement for a free designer couch, roommates Lena, Stacy and Tamara believe that they have found the perfect bargain. After the sofa’s quick delivery, the three friends soon make a terrifying discovery.
“The Bridge” is a tale of horror.

Contains mature themes and graphic violence.After finding an online advertisement for a free designer couch, roommates Lena, Stacy and Tamara believe that they have found the perfect bargain. After the sofa’s quick delivery, the three friends soon make a terrifying discovery.
“The Bridge” is a tale of horror.

Contains mature themes and graphic violence.

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What is it that makes humankind capable of genocide? What can we do to create a world without large-scale crimes against humanity? In "Reason and Horror, " Schoolman labors to find an antidote to the relentlessly destructive and seemingly irreversible path of violence on which the history of enlightenment placed modernity. Offering a fascinating new interpretation of Horkheimer and Adorno’s monumental study, "Dialectic of Enlightenment," their classic written during the Nazi Holocaust, Schoolman reconstructs their arguments about individuality before the Holocaust, and then develops their ideas through the great works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Walt Whitman, and Alexis De Tocqueville. Schoolman shows that it is "democracy" that fosters the aesthetic qualities Horkheimer and Adorno believed necessary to oppose the enlightenment rationality responsible for genocide. Schoolman’s stunning and controversial solution to avoiding crimes against humanity is that its nations must foster a democratic way of life, because the aesthetic form of individuality able to stem the violence of genocidal extermination can flourish only under democracy.
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In the middle of the night, a Behemoth attacked their ship and wrecked it. The sailors are left to fend for themselves on floating makeshift rafts. The thing is, the sea serpent is still hungry and trolling for victims.

This story has also been published in 4Pack Horror Collection #3Type: short short

In the middle of the night, a Behemoth attacked their ship and wrecked it. The sailors are left to fend for themselves on floating makeshift rafts. The thing is, the sea serpent is still hungry and trolling for victims.

This story has also been published in 4Pack Horror Collection #3

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ONE NIGHTMARE ENDS…
Serial killer Kale Kane has finally died, having survived five years in a coma after a shootout with police. But is his reign of terror truly over? When he died, Kane took the reasons for his atrocities with him, along with the answer to a question police never got to ask: did he work alone?

…AND A NEW HORROR BEGINS.
Mallory Wiess is a typical teenage girl… or so it seems. When she moves to rural Minnesota with her father and younger brother, she quickly discovers her new home won’t be as boring as she’d feared. Who is the dark figure watching her from the house across the street? What is the shape hanging in the shadows of the old barn behind the neighborhood? And why has someone begun digging up graves at the ancient cemetery in the forest? Soon Mallory will learn the truth. For she has attracted the attention of a killer, a ruthless predator who believes only her death will finish the work Kale Kane began, and unleash an evil that has faded into legend. In the end, one night will decide if the dead will rise.

“Matt Hults delivers a crackling, creepy tale. A fast-paced read with a generous body count, ‘Husk’ will make your skin crawl.”
—Scott Nicholson, Bestselling author of They Hunger

“Remember the first time you read Joe Lansdale’s The Drive-In, or Freezer Burn? Remember how exhilarated you felt as you tore through the pages as Lansdale kept knocking your jaw to the floor with his endless inventiveness, unexpected belly-laughs, and those even more unexpected moments of terror and pathos? Miss that feeling of being completely at the mercy of a writer’s imagination and boundless energy for his subject? Fret no more, friends—you now have Matt Hults’s Husk. This sucker is the real thing, an in-your-face, rollicking, scary, funny, and unexpectedly poignant potpourri of a horror story, an unabashed and unapologetic throwback to the early pulps infused with a vindictive modern-day sensibility that will have your head spinning and your mouth hanging open. It doesn’t get any more fun than this.”
—Gary A. Braunbeck, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award, author of Coffin County and Destinations Unknown

“Suspenseful and gruesome, with just the right leavening of hopefulness and nod-wink humor.”
—Dr. Kim Paffenroth, Bram Stoker Award Winner for Dying to Live.

“Husk is wild, bloody, scary, action-packed, and entertaining as hell. Matt Hults seems to be having a blast telling his tale, and I had a blast going along for the ride. Great fun!”
—Jeff Strand, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of PRESSURE

“‘Husk’ is a chilling and relentless tale that will make you want to check your closets, lock your windows and keep an eye in your review mirror…but don’t think that’ll save you!”
––Fran Friel, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Mama’s Boy

“Husk is violent, intense and terrifying. The characters are as real as you and I, and every triumph is rapturous while every death is harrowing. Matt Hults proves himself as a master of the genre with his striking debut novel. It will leave you feeling skinned alive and dying for more.”
—Joel A. Sutherland, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Frozen Blood

“I have come across some pretty mind-blowing demons on paper, on the big screen, and especially in my mind. But the ‘Husk’ Matt Hults created in this his first novel breaks all my thresholds for fear, and believe me I have built some pretty sound barriers in my time.”
—Giovanna Lagana, author of With Black & White Comes the Grey

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Never speak them.

Never whisper them.

The Words.

The Words is a novella of otherworldly terror and madness from Douglas Clegg, the award-winning author of The Priest of Blood, Isis, Purity, The Hour Before Dark and many others.

The two teenagers invoke the words — the names of those who walk beyond the veil, in the dark of the Nowhere…

When Mark befriends outsider Dash, he believes his new friend to be an outcast rebel. But a dark mystery unfolds as Dash leads Mark into dangerous games and rituals involving stories of the occult and a strange drug that allows Dash to see into another world — a world of absolute darkness and terror.

“Your flesh will remember the words even if your mind forgets.”

One summer night, on their way with friends to a party, they make a fateful detour to a place where the words of Dash’s secret ceremonies will bring a new terror into the world…and where Mark will face unspeakable horror as it comes to monstrous life.

A tale of teen alienation at the crossroads of darkness and absolute brotherhood, The Words will get under your skin…and stay with you long after the lights go out.

“Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.” — Dean Koontz

“Clegg delivers!” — John Saul

“Douglas Clegg is one of the best!”– Richard Laymon

“Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation!” — Bentley Little

“Clegg is the future of dark fantasy!” — Sherrilyn Kenyon

About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 books, including The Vampyricon Trilogy, Purity, Nightmare House, Isis, Mr. Darkness and many others.

He is a past recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award. His novel The Priest of Blood hit the NY Times bestseller list, and his books The Hour Before Dark, The Attraction, The Children’s Hour, and Bad Karma have all been optioned for the movies. His novel Naomi was the first publisher-sponsored email serial to hit the internet in 1999, and several serials later, Clegg launches his new one, The Locust, during the summer of 2009.

Clegg lives quietly with his better half, as well as with a small menagerie of pets, including a border collie mutt, a too-intelligent gray tabby cat, and two very obstinate rabbits. He is currently working on a new novel of family, murder and madness set along the New England coast, where — coincidentally — the author resides.

Be sure and look for other Kindle editions of Douglas Clegg’s work, and for the upcoming fully-illustrated supernatural tale, Isis, published in the fall of 2009 by Vanguard Press, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne.

Excerpt:

After the last match goes out, he mouths the words to the Our Father, but it brings him no comfort. He remembers The Veil. He remembers the way things moved, and how the sky looked under its influence. He doubts now that a prayer could be answered. He doubts everything he has come to believe about the world.

The echo of the last scream. He can hear it, even though the room is silent. It seems to be in his head now: the final cry.

Hope it’s final.

The scream is too seductive, he knows. He understands what’s out there. It’s attracted to noise, because it doesn’t see with its eyes anymore. It sees by smell and sound and vibration. He has begun to think of it by its new name, only he doesn’t want to ever say that name out loud. Again.

Your flesh won’t forget.

Prickly feeling along the backs of his hands, along his calves. In his mind, he goes through the alphabet, trying to latch onto something he can work around. Something that will give him a jump into remembering the words…Never speak them.

Never whisper them.

The Words.

The Words is a novella of otherworldly terror and madness from Douglas Clegg, the award-winning author of The Priest of Blood, Isis, Purity, The Hour Before Dark and many others.

The two teenagers invoke the words — the names of those who walk beyond the veil, in the dark of the Nowhere…

When Mark befriends outsider Dash, he believes his new friend to be an outcast rebel. But a dark mystery unfolds as Dash leads Mark into dangerous games and rituals involving stories of the occult and a strange drug that allows Dash to see into another world — a world of absolute darkness and terror.

“Your flesh will remember the words even if your mind forgets.”

One summer night, on their way with friends to a party, they make a fateful detour to a place where the words of Dash’s secret ceremonies will bring a new terror into the world…and where Mark will face unspeakable horror as it comes to monstrous life.

A tale of teen alienation at the crossroads of darkness and absolute brotherhood, The Words will get under your skin…and stay with you long after the lights go out.

“Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.” — Dean Koontz

“Clegg delivers!” — John Saul

“Douglas Clegg is one of the best!”– Richard Laymon

“Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation!” — Bentley Little

“Clegg is the future of dark fantasy!” — Sherrilyn Kenyon

About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 books, including The Vampyricon Trilogy, Purity, Nightmare House, Isis, Mr. Darkness and many others.

He is a past recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award. His novel The Priest of Blood hit the NY Times bestseller list, and his books The Hour Before Dark, The Attraction, The Children’s Hour, and Bad Karma have all been optioned for the movies. His novel Naomi was the first publisher-sponsored email serial to hit the internet in 1999, and several serials later, Clegg launches his new one, The Locust, during the summer of 2009.

Clegg lives quietly with his better half, as well as with a small menagerie of pets, including a border collie mutt, a too-intelligent gray tabby cat, and two very obstinate rabbits. He is currently working on a new novel of family, murder and madness set along the New England coast, where — coincidentally — the author resides.

Be sure and look for other Kindle editions of Douglas Clegg’s work, and for the upcoming fully-illustrated supernatural tale, Isis, published in the fall of 2009 by Vanguard Press, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne.

Excerpt:

After the last match goes out, he mouths the words to the Our Father, but it brings him no comfort. He remembers The Veil. He remembers the way things moved, and how the sky looked under its influence. He doubts now that a prayer could be answered. He doubts everything he has come to believe about the world.

The echo of the last scream. He can hear it, even though the room is silent. It seems to be in his head now: the final cry.

Hope it’s final.

The scream is too seductive, he knows. He understands what’s out there. It’s attracted to noise, because it doesn’t see with its eyes anymore. It sees by smell and sound and vibration. He has begun to think of it by its new name, only he doesn’t want to ever say that name out loud. Again.

Your flesh won’t forget.

Prickly feeling along the backs of his hands, along his calves. In his mind, he goes through the alphabet, trying to latch onto something he can work around. Something that will give him a jump into remembering the words…

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Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged, films by directors like Tsukamoto Shinya ("Tetsuo: The Iron Man" 1988] and "Tetsuo II: Body Hammer" 1992]), Sato Hisayasu ("Muscle" 1988] and "Naked Blood" 1995]) Kurosawa Kiyoshi ("Cure" 1997], "Sance" 2000], and "Karo" 2001]), Nakata Hideo ("Ringu" 1998], "Ringu II" 1999], and "Dark Water" 2002]), and Miike Takashi ("Audition" 1999] and "Ichi the Killer" 2001]) continually revisit and redefine the horror genre in both its Japanese and global contexts. In the process, these and other directors of contemporary Japanese horror film consistently contribute exciting and important new visions, from postmodern reworkings of traditional avenging spirit narratives to groundbreaking works of cinematic terror that position depictions of radical or ‘monstrous’ alterity/hybridity as metaphors for larger socio-political concerns, including shifting gender roles, reconsiderations of the importance of the extended family as a social institution, and reconceptualisations of the very notion of cultural and national boundaries.
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