Fiction

With the biggest football game of the year only afew days away, the Red Rover, star halfback ofnational fame, is kidnapped under mysteriouscircumstances and carried by airplane to a lonelyisland in Lake Superior.

- The Monster (1898) is the story of an African-American coachman who is branded a 'monster'after being hideously disfigured whilst saving his master's son from a fire. It explores the themes of prejudice, fear and isolation in small town America.

Buried deep in the reaches of vast antiquity lie the ancient customs, the vicious "games", the laws of the privileged lords and his enslaved minions.

Mr. Parker is in a car accident and is taken to the hospital by another driver. However, Mr. Parker never arrives at the hospital, leaving Penny frantic with worry. Penny takes over running the newspaper in her father's absence and discovers a clue to her father's whereabouts.

Banished to the Underworld. A Ritual. The Disease. Enter the rich mythical world of Konn Lavery's debut novel containing a military dictatorship, cults, and politically-driven gangs. After Krista's people were banished from the surface by the humans, they were reduced to violence and hatred.

This brief story is full of pathos, genius, and theology. It is what the Germans call "a story with a tendency;" in other words, a story designed to establish and enforce an opinion.

Dr. Jim Sagacity has the special ability to see souls.

An ancient demon awakes to confront supernatural forces that prey upon an unguarded world. Pazuzu awakes to fight evil with evil. The demon first needs a human body. It finds Benedict Ishkott wandering alone and empty in the wastes of the Shur. One amnesic carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

Variant Squad Captain Joe Borland returns in PAINKILLER, a gut-wrenching novella of grisly horror. Dreams and reality collide in the shadow of the Variant Effect.

By the American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife.

A strange and curious story is this, about a banker whose only fear was that he might be buried alive, like his grandfather before him...

A mysterious disease has struck a hit and run victim. After Officer Dean begins the investigation it becomes clear the disease is the beginning of an epidemic.

This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories:

While practicing his violin at Oxford, John Maltravers notices a strange phenomenon: whenever a certain tune is played a mysterious presence seems to enter the room. Maltravers becomes increasingly unsettled, until he makes a startling discovery – tucked away in a hidden cupboard is a priceless Stradivarius! Obsessed with this treasure, he becomes increasingly withdrawn, unaware of the sinister hold this perfect violin is beginning to take over him.

A curious, unusual, puzzling type of book. The story of the awakening of a London financier who, after long years spent in the amassing of a fortune, reverts to his early dream of becoming a great philanthropist.

On the road with Kerouac, Cassaday, and Cthulhu -- Mamatas parodies the Beat writers of the 60's in this cross-country Lovecraftian romp.

Love, ghosts, mystery and a sense of impending horror are the ingredients of this story which is interesting and readable enough but hardly as convincing as some by the same author.

Eve’s lips parted, showing the even white teeth—those slightly pointed teeth. “You’re quite sane, my dear,” She said calmly. “You are now one of us; a revenant, even as I, and to live you must feed on the living.”

"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by author W. W. Jacobs. It was published in England in 1902. The story is based on the famous "setup" in which three wishes are granted. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.