The stories included in this collection are:
The Nephews
Nightmare Transcript
Non-returnable
Dead Legends
I’ve Been Thinking About You
The Man Who Looked Like Murphy
Toxic Shock
The Call
Getting the Job Done
Every Mother’s Son
Knocking
Hotel Hell
The Compost Heap
Iron Frog
Setup
The Gates of Dawn
Off the Cuff
The Screaming Head
Abduction (written with Jesse and Matti Hautala)
And the Sea Shall Claim Them (written by Matthew J. Costello and A. J. Matthews)
Scared Crows (written with Jim Connolly)
BEDBUGS
From the subway tunnels of Boston to the rain-swept streets of Quebec City to the deepest snow-filled forests of Hilton, Maine, no one in these chilling stories by horror master Rick Hautala is safe from the darkness or the dangerous things that lurk in the shadows. Waiting for us. Reaching for us...
Over the years, Rick Hautala's stories and novels have terrified and captivated millions of readers around the world. Bedbugs is a career-spanning collection of stories that whisks you away on a guided tour of the darkest reaches of the human maind and soul — a tour that could only be conducted by someone with Rick Hautala's ability to make your blood run cold.
The stories included in this collection are:
The Back of My Hands
Schoolhouse
The Voodoo Queen
Surprise
Tunnels
. . . from a Stone
Crying Wolf
The Sources of the Nile
Silver Rings
Colt .24
Bird in the House
Cousins’ Curse
Speedbump
Rubies and Pearls
A Little Bit of Divine Justice
Karen’s Eyes
Master Tape
Closing the Doors
Worst Fears
Winter Queen
Late Summer Shadows
Hitman
Perfect Witness
Piss Eyes
Served Cold
MOONBOG
THE EVIL GLOW OF THE MOON...
lit the path as twelve-year-old Billy Wilson walked past the bog. He knew he shouldn't have gone near the inky shadows of the swamp — but something forced him to come closer to the yawning darkness, the suffocating tangle, the flesh-tearing brambles of Holland Bog.
THE MURKY DEPTHS OF THE BOG...
sucked the boy into its fetid earth and claimed its human sacrifice. But one child wasn't enough. It needed a second, a third — and then nothing could stop the unquenchable hunger, the raging bloodthirst of the MOONBOG.
THE SIEGE
Formerly titled MOON WALKER
In Dyer, Maine, the dead won't stay buried!
The people of Dyer liked their quaint little farming community just the way it was. So they didn't question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town. No one talked about the hideous screams that shattered their sleep, nor asked why the lights at the funeral parlor blazed long into the night. And they never... never... discussed the eerie figures seen harvesting the potato fields by day — the slow, lumbering hulks with expressionless features and a blood-chilling deadness behind their eyes...
Engineer Dale Harmon was unaware of the unspeakable evil that infested the sleepy New England village. But now Harmon and four others are about to face an unstoppable onslaught of bloody terror that will far surpass their most gruesome nightmares. For the siege is about to begin. And the army of the dead takes no prisoners!
Look for more Rick Hautala titles coming soon from Crossroad Press
Cold Whisper
Dark Silence
Impulse
Shades of Night
Twilight Time
Writing as A.J. Matthews:
The White Room
Looking Glass
Follow
Unbroken
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ASHES
Desperately searching for a kindred spirit, an evil force, filled with a terrifying hunger that leaves its victims burned to ashes, arrives in a small Pennsylvania town, plagued by its own dark history, where it has discovered what it has been yearning for over the centuries.
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