This terrifying original fiction anthology is based on the critically acclaimed novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, which has inspired the original "Hellraiser" movie and horror franchise.Contentsxiii • Foreword (Hellbound Hearts) • (2009) �
In this knockout anthology, today's most important writers of speculative fiction cruise the abnormal elements of society and find a new wave of underground disorder, poignant horror, dirty kisses, and necessary anarchy. Including never-before published
From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger.
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attra
'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but trans
Fiction Ecto, Endo, Meso by Nancy Kilpatrick Tintype by Elizabeth Massie Dead Little Pieces by Yvonne Navarro Twisted Sister by Chris Marrs The Fifty-Year King by Rhodi Hawk Coma Chameleon by Nancy HolderInterviews Cassandra Peterson on Elvira, Movies and
Marvin KayeSaralee KayeIntroduction (Ghosts) • Marvin KayeA Prologue of Last Words • Marvin KayeMinuke • (1949) • Nigel KnealeThe Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins FreemanLegal Rites • (1950) • Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
It's too late The living dead have already taken over the world. Your brains have been devoured. Nothing is left but spasms of ravenous need - an obscene hunger for even more zombie fiction. Forget the metaphors and the mildly scary. You want shock, you w
* Cradle • (1995) • shortstory by Alan Brennert * The Dark Nightingale Returns • shortstory by Thomas Marcinko * A Frenzied Beat of Wings • (1980) • shortstory by C. Bruce Hunter * The Devil Is Not Mocked • (1943) • shortstory by Manly Wade