Bestselling Horror eBooks for March 2010

Terror Incognita

Author: Thomas, Jeffrey
Cover Artist: Jamie Oberschlake
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Original Pub: 2003 (Trade Paperback — Delirium Books)

13 Terrors include . . .

• A deaf woman develops a strange bond with a bizarre lamp.
• A mysterious house in the forest conjures up the amorous dead.
• Another dimension awaits behind a sealed attic window.
• In Hell, once a year the damned are granted a bittersweet respite.
• The ghost of a madwoman creates a new body for herself from whats at hand.
• On a seemingly lifeless planet, a team of explorers discovers a displaced Victorian house.
• A shattered marriage opens the portal to a terrifying dream land.
• In a post-apocalyptic world, mutated infants are banished to an enigmatic island.
• A man on the brink of insanity finds himself tormented by alien beings.
• The grotesque subject matter of a series of T-shirts brings horror home to a callous man.
• The spirits of murdered animals find refuge in the body of a compassionate zoo worker.
• In the future, the notions of beauty become hideously distorted.
• A father murders his own daughter, but there has been a six-legged witness.

Table of Contents:

• The Book of Love: Jeffrey Thomas Explores The Heart’s Dark Realms (An Introduction) by Mark McLaughlin
• Adoration
• Coffee Break
• The Boarded Window
• Elizabeth Rising
• The House on the Plain
• Through Obscure Glass
• John Sadness
• Collapsed Roof
• T-Shirts of the Damned
• Mandrill
• Disfigured
• Crimson Blues
• Empathy

Long After Dark

Author: Gifune, Greg F.
Cover Artist: Zach McCain
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novel
Publisher: Delirium Books

Harry Fremont hasn’t slept in days. He’s down with a terrible flu: runny nose, fever, a sore throat, the chills, and worst of all, a horrible cough that keeps him up all night.

His wife Kelly is away on a business trip and their son Garret is at college, leaving Harry alone in the house. Though worn out, Harry has been unable to sleep . . . and things are starting to change. He’s seeing unusual things outside, just beyond the windows and confines of his home . . . hearing things . . . experiencing unsettling things that make no sense. And they’re getting worse.

Are they simply figments of a tortured and exhausted mind, or clues to an intricate mystery steeped in evil and deception Harry cannot yet comprehend?

Haunted by remnants of earlier nightmares, disturbing questions about his life and marriage, strange shadowy figures, odd noises, cryptic writings on his doors and glimpses of a hideously disfigured being wrapped in bloody bandages, Harry free-falls into a horrifying world of paranoia, agony and terror where nothing is what it seems.

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us . . . long after dark.

Sleep while you still can.

Honey is Sweeter Than Blood

Author: Thomas, Jeffrey
Cover Artist: Alan M. Clark
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Original Pub: June 2004 (Hardcover — Delirium Books)

Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood features eight very bizarre tales of erotic horror — including the novelette “Damask.”

In these stories, the author of the critically acclaimed collection Punktown and the Stoker-nominated novel Monstrocity walks the reader along the razor-studded tightrope between titillation and repulsion.

Between pleasure and pain.

Between sweetness and blood.

Table of Contents:

• Honey is Sweeter Than Blood
• A Puppet Show for No One
• Clouds and Rain
• Impressions
• Scorpion Face
• Can You Pass Strother’s Love Test
• Damask
• Afterword: My Sexual Exploits

Cage of Bones and Other Deadly Obsessions

Author: Everson, John
Cover Artist: Andrew Shorrock
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Original Pub: October 13, 2000 (Hardcover — Delirium Books)

John Everson’s first short story collection now released in a digital format! Includes 20 short stories.

“Yellow”
The cave held the seed of ancient gods . . . their vacation provided the climax of despair.

“Long Distance Call”
There are some calls you should never answer.

“Cage of Bones”
It was beautiful. After weeks of preparation it was finished. A full body restraint. Made of steel. Wood. Leather. And bones.

“Dead Girl On The Side of The Road”
Her body was his, unchanging, for 25 years to enjoy whenever he chose.

“Pumpkin Head”
She held the browning vine up from her belly, and with squeamish understanding, he dug through his clothes for his pocketknife.

“Direkit Seed”
Her name was Ceiran, with a C. She sang sexy Barry Manilow songs and worked in a club. And she was a witch.

“Every Last Drop”
Tony couldn’t resist the promise of the perfect blowjob. But more than his orgasm was being sucked away.

“When Barrettes Brought Justice To A Burning Heart”
The derelict with the milky white eyes promised revenge, and that was something Bill wanted more than life itself.

“The Mouth”
The defining evidence that separates sex and murder is really only the amount of blood left behind on the bed.

“Creaks”
Sometimes the most frightening parts of growing up are the discoveries of our own nature.

“Remember Me, My Husband”
Ella Marie had been dead for 100 years when she gave him her ring.

“Wooden”
“Tonight,” she promised, “I’ll be back. I’ll bring some matches. We’ll have a bonfire, you and I. Dead wood burns best.”

“Swallowing The Pill”
Some pills get easier to swallow…with practice.

“Broken Window”
In giving him entrance to her soul, had Katrina given too much?

“Tomorrow”
He was a bored child prodigy who could use his will to make his pets and parents do whatever he chose. What will he do tomorrow?

“Mirror Image”
The mirror reflects his true nature. Or is it someone else?

“Murdering The Language”
Gretta only wanted to protect the library’s patrons from smut and filth. But some lessons in literature are painful.

“Anniversary”
Margaret lived for the nights of the full moon. And she wanted this night to be perfect; it was their first anniversary.

“The Last Plague”
When nothing else is left, what is there left to lose?

“Bloodroses”
She was blinded by lust and razored by marriage. But at least she had the thorns of her rose garden to soothe her.

Table of Contents:

• Yellow
• Long Distance Call
• Cage of Bones
• Dead Girl On The Side of The Road
• Pumpkin Head
• Direkit Seed
• Every Last Drop
• When Barrettes Brought Justice To A Burning Heart
• The Mouth
• Creaks
• Remember Me, My Husband
• Wooden
• Swallowing The Pill
• Broken Window
• Tomorrow
• Mirror Image
• Murdering The Language
• Anniversary
• The Last Plague
• Bloodroses

Boneland

Author: Thomas, Jeffrey
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Original Pub: July 2004 (Hardcover — Bloodletting Press)

In 1893, the Guests attempt their first contact with the human race. Families go mad. Parents commit suicide. A president is assassinated.

By 1918, in the bleak boneland of the 20th Century, human assassins commit atrocities and global wars are waged to sate the appetites of the Guests.

John Board is a crime scene photographer, whose nightmarish images of human destruction are used as titillating entertainment. Board’s future is tied in with these unseen, unfathomable forces — and so is his past. America is drowning in a sea of blood as flashbulbs click and movie cameras roll.

The Guests are here to stay.

Boneland is a tale of a not-so-alternate history . . . a story of horror, science fiction, and the surreal by Jeffrey Thomas, acclaimed author of Letters From Hades, Punktown and Monstrocity.

Creeptych

Author: Everson, John
Cover Art: John Everson
Format: Horror Short Story Collection
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital

Does your skin crawl when you see a spider on the wall or a roach on the kitchen floor? Do you find yourself itching uncontrollably after being touched by a fly or mosquito? Do you ever lie awake half the night because you felt something delicately, carefully crawling across your feet beneath the sheets?

Then this Creeptych of three bug-ridden stories is for you!

Bad Day: Paul Hughes had a really bad day. He lost his job, his wife and then after getting bit by a bug . . . his life. Compared to what happens to his neighbors after the Luna Roaches come to town, his day wasn’t so bad at all. At least he died. . . .

Eardrum Buzz: Wes couldn’t get enough of the music of Eardrum Buzz’s first disc, Misery Machine; the drone of their guitars was hypnotizing. But when he is brought into the band’s inner circle to join The Swarm, he soon has the music within him. Terrifyingly deep within him. . . .

Violet Lagoon: When a quartet of co-eds decide to reenact The Blue Lagoon on an abandoned Florida Key, they find more than just sex and sand is on the agenda. Stings turn out to play a part in their weekend as well. Lots and lots of stings. But those were just the beginning of the pain. . . .

Table of Contents:

• Bad Day
• Eardrum Buzz
• Violet Lagoon

Down To Sleep

Author: Gifune, Greg F.
Cover Artist: Mike Bohatch
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Darkside Digital
Original Pub: 2002 (Trade Paperback — December Girl Press)

Greg F. Gifune’s first short story collection!

Including the original ten stories plus three tales not found in the original paperback release.

Download the new digital release and join us on a chilling and macabre journey into the earlier works of a writer on the rise: Greg F. Gifune, author of The Bleeding Season, Heretics, Drago Descending, Saying Uncle, and Night Work.

Close your eyes and accompany us Down To Sleep.

Table of Contents:

• Webs
• Chasing Moonlight
• First Impressions
• Stopover
• The Raincatchers
• Dark Halo
• Cutting Slack
• Hoax
• Obedient Flies
• Down to Sleep
• Plus three new stories which never appeared in the original book

Joined At The Muse

Author: Wilson, David Niall; Brian Keene and Others
Cover Artist: Neil Jackson
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Macabre Ink Digital

When two distinct literary voices come together, a new and unique voice ensues.

Collaboration is one of the oldest and most intriguing literary practices still in existence. In Joined at the Muse, you’ll find thirteen stories. Each of them was written by author David Niall Wilson — and someone else.

Many of these are award-winning authors.

All of them are very different.

Two of the stories included, “Within an Image, Dancing,” and “A Wreath of Clouds” are previously unpublished and presented here for the first time ever.

This is a long book. Within the covers you’ll find lycanthropes, science fiction, horror, everything from the nearly whimsical to the very, very weird.

Table of Contents:

• A Poem of Adrian, Gray by Brian A. Hopkins and David Niall Wilson
• The Purloined Prose by Patricia Lee Macomber and David Niall Wilson
• A Wreath of Clouds by Stephen Mark Rainey and David Niall Wilson
• Moon Like a Gambler’s Face by Richard Rowand and David Niall Wilson
• La Belle Dame, Sans Merci by Brian A. Hopkins and David Niall Wilson
• La Belle Dame, Sans Regret by Brian A. Hopkins and David Niall Wilson
• Ribbons of Darkness Over Me by Brett Alexander Savory and David Niall Wilson
• Death Did Not Become Him by Patricia Lee Macomber and David Niall Wilson
• Within an Image, Dancing by John B. Rosenman and David Niall Wilson
• That Extra Mile by Brian A. Hopkins and David Niall Wilson
• Virtue’s Mask by Brian A. Hopkins and David Niall Wilson
• Sing a Song of Sixth Sense by Patricia Lee Macomber and David Niall Wilson
• Deliver Us From Meeble by Brian Keene and David Niall Wilson

Fallen Angel

Author: Grech, Amy and Michael Mccarty
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Novella
Publisher: AM Digital Horror

When she turns eighteen, Angel McAllister forcibly endures an incestuous relationship with her father.

Angel’s long-time friend and sarcastic, stand-up comedian Uncle Brew pays her a visit to catch up on old times and consoles Angel when she learns of her father’s death.

And strange things start happening when she moves back home.

The Sick Stuff

Author: Kelly, Ronald
Format: Horror eBook
Formats: PDF, EPUB and MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Publisher: Macabre Ink Digital
Original Pub: 2009 (Trade Paperback — Thunderstorm Books)

Repulsive.

Disgusting.

Beyond the realm of good taste . . .

• A serial killer records the abominations he has committed . . . on the only journal he has in his possession.
• A man moves into a new abode that is plagued with a spider problem . . . or is it the other way around?
• A sadistic fiend prepares for Halloween with razored treats and poisonous prizes . . .
• A young boy’s dreams echo of torture, death, and genocide . . .
• An old man’s living fluids reveal a horrible secret from his past . . .
• A mentally-unstable woman uses a sexual obsession to take an unwilling hostage . . .
• Parasites from within, self-vampirism, and spontaneous decay… all stem from a voodoo curse cast upon the unfortunate survivors of a Louisiana family . . .

This is the sick stuff.

Table of Contents:

• Diary
• Housewarming
• Old Hacker
• Mass Appeal
• Pins and Needles
• The Abduction
• Mojo Mama