1. The Keeper
Noir
Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its
bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless
future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon
find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley.
Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy
streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . something.
And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence
and horror.
Those who are able will leave Bedford before the
darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here—from Susan Marley's
long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic
ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go—will soon know
the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.
1.
Drastic
measures
Dark fear Could be an anthology
There
was a definite bulge in the area he’d pointed to and, the girl pondered, if it
were really a knife, it was a large one. She pulled on the door handle only to
realize it was locked and she jiggled it as nonchalantly as possible, but was
too afraid to make any other move, fearing more than that would provoke an
attack. As if he were a hungry animal in the woods and she a helpless mouse
that had stumbled unluckily across his path. She didn’t want to make any sudden
moves. So the girl concentrated on breathing, steadying her pulse, which had
become rapid, and focusing on the signs they drove past. She tried to remember
each street name and turn they took. Tried to create a sort of map in her mind
because that’s what a news program had taught her once, years ago, to do when
you’re being kidnapped.
--From Melissa Lyon's Snow
DRASTIC MEASURES are tales of where the human mind goes when it's cornered. New discovery MELISSA LYONS is the most powerful new voice in suspense since Dean Koontz with her story, "Snow."
Editor BEN PARRIS adds two stories of his own edited by Fantasy & Science Fiction contributor KEN ALTABEF. In "Murder in Songjiang": All Brian wanted to do was teach English in China. All the U.S. State Department wanted of the CIA was a quiet investigation of how Brian got killed there. Espionage trainee Mike Spoto stood in the middle and cared about his training case too much for his own good.
ROBERT HORSEMAN presents "Déjà vu": There are two kinds of déjà vu: The kind where you remember things that never happened, and the kind Daniel has; BRAD POST gives us "The Trees": Sharon had second thoughts about her new husband Johnny. Her father detested the man, and the trees didn't like either of them.
Those tales and more by new discoveries SUSAN DAVID, CATHY DOUGLAS, KATE LARKINDALE, MICHELLE D KEYES, and GERALD VINCENT. (Note that the deluxe print edition of Drastic Measures contains a bonus story by George Clayton Johnson.)
"I found Drastic Measures to be an invigorating voyage into the macabre and mysterious, and certainly with a variety of tastes to touch one’s appetite."
--The Amazing Kreskin (July 2012)
DAVID MACK (The 4400), who wrote the foreword for this volume, says, "You're in for a wild ride.
--From Melissa Lyon's Snow
DRASTIC MEASURES are tales of where the human mind goes when it's cornered. New discovery MELISSA LYONS is the most powerful new voice in suspense since Dean Koontz with her story, "Snow."
Editor BEN PARRIS adds two stories of his own edited by Fantasy & Science Fiction contributor KEN ALTABEF. In "Murder in Songjiang": All Brian wanted to do was teach English in China. All the U.S. State Department wanted of the CIA was a quiet investigation of how Brian got killed there. Espionage trainee Mike Spoto stood in the middle and cared about his training case too much for his own good.
ROBERT HORSEMAN presents "Déjà vu": There are two kinds of déjà vu: The kind where you remember things that never happened, and the kind Daniel has; BRAD POST gives us "The Trees": Sharon had second thoughts about her new husband Johnny. Her father detested the man, and the trees didn't like either of them.
Those tales and more by new discoveries SUSAN DAVID, CATHY DOUGLAS, KATE LARKINDALE, MICHELLE D KEYES, and GERALD VINCENT. (Note that the deluxe print edition of Drastic Measures contains a bonus story by George Clayton Johnson.)
"I found Drastic Measures to be an invigorating voyage into the macabre and mysterious, and certainly with a variety of tastes to touch one’s appetite."
--The Amazing Kreskin (July 2012)
DAVID MACK (The 4400), who wrote the foreword for this volume, says, "You're in for a wild ride.
1.
Wraithworld
new dark fantasy novella
Discover the
surreal world of the Wraethworld in Kody Boye’s new dark fantasy novella.
Mary Matthews is a sweet little autistic girl living a very ordinary life until the fish girl appeared to her one night in her bedroom. The bizarre creature’s prophecies that Mary alone can save the fish girl’s world terrifies her.
The following day, Mary is on a fieldtrip with her special needs class when a voice beckons to her from an alley. Wandering away from her classmates, she enters into a place where the worlds bridge, realities become blurred, and the most terrifying of nightmares live to wreak havoc on those unfortunate enough to enter.
Mary holds within her hands the fate of a world.
At only five years old, how can she hope to survive in Wraethworld?
Mary Matthews is a sweet little autistic girl living a very ordinary life until the fish girl appeared to her one night in her bedroom. The bizarre creature’s prophecies that Mary alone can save the fish girl’s world terrifies her.
The following day, Mary is on a fieldtrip with her special needs class when a voice beckons to her from an alley. Wandering away from her classmates, she enters into a place where the worlds bridge, realities become blurred, and the most terrifying of nightmares live to wreak havoc on those unfortunate enough to enter.
Mary holds within her hands the fate of a world.
At only five years old, how can she hope to survive in Wraethworld?
1.
The
Elements [Kindle Edition]
Jonas Saul
A Short Story
In a remote cabin, during one
of the worst snowstorms the area has ever seen, John Stevenson is trapped. He
was supposed to leave days ago, but he has no gas for the snowmobile, a bad leg
and now he is seeing things. People are watching him through his own window.
There are no footprints in the fresh snow, but they are there.
John receives a call on his satellite phone that his wife and one of his daughters are in the hospital after a terrible accident on the highway. His other daughter is wandering in the woods without a jacket, lost after the car accident.
But John is trapped. The snow is too high, and the nearest road is twenty miles away.
As unknown visitors taunt him, he discovers the horror of what has become of his family and the lengths a man will go to in the face of terror.
John receives a call on his satellite phone that his wife and one of his daughters are in the hospital after a terrible accident on the highway. His other daughter is wandering in the woods without a jacket, lost after the car accident.
But John is trapped. The snow is too high, and the nearest road is twenty miles away.
As unknown visitors taunt him, he discovers the horror of what has become of his family and the lengths a man will go to in the face of terror.
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