Поздние темные ночи идеально подходят для чтения сюрреалистических и ужасающих историй от одних из лучших рассказчиков в индустрии ужасов. Стисните зубы, сядьте у костра и будьте готовы к тому, что, возможно, вы не выйдете из-под чар их писательского мастерства, но если вы это сделаете, мы уверены, что у вас будет зловещая улыбка, которой можно поделиться. Во всех этих современных историях есть элемент неожиданности и стиля, заставляющего задуматься... 

Когда Джек и Пит Лоуэллы находят на проселочной дороге неподалеку от городка Элквуд израненную, окровавленную незнакомку, они быстро понимают, что, возможно, совершили роковую ошибку. Девушку зовут Клэр, и она смогла сбежать от семьи Мерриллов, изощренных убийц-каннибалов, вырвалась из плена, в котором погибли все ее друзья. Ни Клэр, ни ее спасители еще не знают, что их кошмар только начался. Неожиданный побег навсегда изменит жизнь Элквуда и запустит необратимую цепную реакцию отмщения и ненависти, а Мерриллы, боясь разоблачения, пойдут на крайние меры, ведь перед страхом смерти беззащитны даже настоящие чудовища.

Available for the first time on Amazon Kindle, Kealan Patrick Burke’s Bram Stoker Award-winning coming of age story The Turtle Boy. School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks everything changes. For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Petes summer of wonder becomes a...

A new novel by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY. On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers—a family of cannibalistic lunatics—are closing in. A soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder returns from Iraq to the news that his brother is among the murdered in Elkwood. In snowbound Detroit, a waitress trapped in an abusive relationship gets an unexpected visit that will lead to bloodshed and send her back on the road to a past she has spent...

Wade Crawford is not a good guy. He’s a bank robber and a ruthless killer, and now three people are dead and Wade is on the run. With the cops hot on his heels, he breaks into a seemingly ordinary house in a seemingly ordinary neighborhood to hide and wait on word from his partner. But this neighborhood is far from ordinary. Indeed it has a very specific purpose, and soon Wade will discover that life in prison would be preferable to the hellish torment Seldom Seen has in store for him. Review “Burke does a good job of creating a sense of dread despite the intentionally unappealing protagonist, and he takes the story in directions that are unanticipated. (From reading the...

Welcome to Eddie’s Tavern, the only functioning waterhole in a near-dead town. Among the people you’ll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone’s haunted lawman, who walks in the shadow of death; Gracie, the barmaid, a wannabe actress, doomed to spend her hours tending bar in a purgatory of her father’s making; Flo, the town seductress, who may or may not have murdered her husband; Cobb, a nudist awaiting an apology from the commune who cast him out; Wintry, the mute giant, whose story is told only in cryptic messages scribbled beneath newspaper headlines; Kyle, the kid, who keeps a loaded gun beneath the table; and Cadaver, who looks like a corpse, but smells real nice, and occupies his time...

What if life as you know it was a lie? What if the world was not truly ours? What if there were old gods dwelling in the earth beneath our feet? And what if they came back? From award-winning authors Kealan Patrick Burke and Harry Shannon comes a vision of the apocalypse that will make you question everything you thought you knew about the world in which we live.

"What follows is the transcript from a series of screenshots emailed to the Columbus City Police on June 7th, 2011, and subsequently distributed to the media." Everyone has a page… In the last few years, social networking has exploded as one of the best and easiest means of keeping in touch with people. It increases your visibility, allows the creation of a profile that shows you to the world and lets them know everything about you. Allows anyone to find you. Written mostly as a series of Facebook instant messages and presented as a true-crime case, this short story by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke illustrates the ease with which innocent associations on the Internet...