Evil lurks in the small town of Greer Springs, lying in wait for its next victim. Excited to fulfill a lifelong dream, nothing could have prepared Gene Mason for the horrors his family faced when they moved into a house with a dark and deadly past.Many of the situations portrayed in this story were inspired by actual events told to the author.Includes bonus story - Sacrificing SoulsBoding Evil – It WILL find you!Evil lurks in the small town of Greer Springs, lying in wait for its next victim. Excited to fulfill a lifelong dream, nothing could have prepared Gene Mason for the horrors his family faced when they moved into a house with a dark and deadly past.While Boding Evil is a fictional story, many of the situations portrayed were inspired by actual events told to the author. Some will say the events depicted in this book are merely objects of a fanciful imagination, but for those who lived through them, the events were quite real.Included with the purchase of this book is a FREE bonus story titled: Sacrificing Souls.

Cold Christmas Lane - A Ghost StoryRoger just wants to get home. Friday night, beer in the fridge. Trying to escape the week.But first he has to get past these damned cyclists. They seem to be everywhere. He’s desperate to get past, but they block him on every turn. It seems they have something in mind for him. Can he escape them.Roger just wants to get home. Friday night, beer in the fridge. Trying to escape the week.But first he has to get past these damned cyclists. They seem to be everywhere. He’s desperate to get past, but they block him on every turn. It seems they have something in mind for him. Can he escape them.James used to love cycling. But drivers like Roger ruined it all. James, like Roger, just wants to go home.

A family in near ruins. A son missing for a year. It's time to remember all that matters. It's time for a FAMILY PICNIC.Lilith's family is in near ruins. Her father is rarely home, her mother finds comfort only in the bottle and her brother has been missing for a year. It's time to remember all that matters. It's time for a "Family Picnic."

Starting out as a boy in the Catskills, Corky develops into a brilliant and famous magician whose long-hidden secret and expert skills attract dark forces intent on destroying him.

A man stuggles to deal with severe nightmares. A new medical trial is his last chance at a normal life.Mitch, Danielle, and Ethan are thrown into a world of magic. It is not by happenstance that this is so it is nothing more than games of the powerful. Pawns in the game of life and death where empires rise and empires fall their roles play a pivotal part in deciding the fate of others. Thrust from a world of science into a world of magic they must learn to adapt to a new and wondrous environment filled with immense good and equally evil inhabitants. They find inner strength in each other and new friends they never in their wildest dreams ever thought of meeting. They find tragedy and death perpetuated by an ancient evil that threatens not only their very existence but also life on two worlds. It is they and their new friends that must find a way to stop this ever-encroaching evil bent on the bringing darkness were light reigns.

A mysterious wooden idol causes havoc upon anyone who possesses it. It has taken countless lives, but why? Can anyone figure it out before its too late?An old rocker lies in his bed. Tonight will probably be his last night on Earth but he's not ready to go. His mind is clear and his memories are so strong. The old rocker thinks of his granddaughter of how much she needs him. Her parents don't understand her, but he does and he sees a bight future for her. If he stays she could be anything she wants, if he goes tonight he wonders will become of her. While the rocker lies there waiting for death a man slips quietly into the room. The man sits down by the old rocker, but this is no ordinary man. This man is a healer who has been sent as an answer to a prayer. Included with this story is information telling you how to awaken the power of healing inside yourself. This can be done in as little as one hour. It really is easier than you would think.

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it-and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints? * * * Alternate cover editions: [New English Library, 1990](https://www./book/show/13603217-the-dark-half) [New English Library Early Export Edition, 1990](https://www./book/show/39315780-the-dark-half)

DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES... He's watching you. He knows what you're doing. He knows what you're thinking. He's coming after you. DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES... He has a knife. The steel blade gleams. Whenever you close your eyes, you can see it--the tip of his knife, pointing at your chest. DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES... He's closing them for you. "A master of sheer fright... the tension never lets up, building page by page to a nail-biting, hair-raising finale!" --Florida Times-Union

A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them. But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives...and will do anything to get them.

Feeling old and lonely, Steve adopts a stray cat. He doesn't know there will be consequences. (5600 words)Cindy Adams makes the same dish every year for the hometown picnic. This year it's the same only she's divorced and starting over. She finds strength in the stability of family and friends. Sometimes when you're not looking for love, it finds you.Can forever be found over a time honored dish?Originally targeted for magazine publication at 1,000 words, this is a short story.

A sailor finds himself caught in the war between the North and the South, as well as between ageless superstition and mad science.Angus wakes up one day with a problem, a very BIG problem: his memory is gone. He doesn't know who he is or what he does. Voltari tells him he is his apprentice, but Angus knows nothing about magic. Still, Voltari is a Master Wizard, so he would know, wouldn't he? Voltari knows other things about him, too, but he isn't talking. Then, just as Angus begins to come to terms with his situation, everything changes....

The most evil book ever conceived falls into the hands of the leader of the Spanish Inquisition in this ingenious bibliomystery from the bestselling creator of Repairman Jack. In the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition spreads terror throughout the land, with Prior Tomás de Torquemada serving as the ultimate judge of who will live and who will be consigned to the purifying flames. Never has Torquemada questioned his own faith or his sacred duty to rid the world of heretics, blasphemers, and nonbelievers. Now, however, an extraordinary volume has come into his possession—an ancient book that radiates pure evil. The prior realizes this abomination must be destroyed along with anyone who has come into contact with it, for it is surely the devil’s work, corrupting and possessing all those who touch it. But whom can Torquemada trust to help him achieve his mission now that The Compendium of Srem has passed through numerous hands . . . including his own? F. Paul Wilson is a writer who is at home working in many different genres, from medical thriller to science fiction to mystery to urban fantasy to horror. Now he travels back centuries in time to explore the secret history of a book of great and terrible power, an ancient volume of eldritch lore that plays a substantial role in the author’s popular Repairman Jack series of novels: The Compendium of Srem. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

To defeat the darkness, she must first embrace it. Months have passed since Juliet Moreau returned to civilization after escaping her father's island—and the secrets she left behind. Now, back in London once more, she is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget Dr. Moreau’s horrific legacy—though someone, or something, hasn’t forgotten her. As people close to Juliet fall victim one by one to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes, Juliet fears one of her father’s creations may have also escaped the island. She is determined to find the killer before Scotland Yard does, though it means awakening sides of herself she had thought long banished, and facing loves from her past she never expected to see again. As Juliet strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness, she finds herself once more in the midst of a world of scandal and danger. Her heart torn in two, past bubbling to the surface, life threatened by an obsessive killer—Juliet will be lucky to escape alive. With inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this is a tantalizing mystery about the hidden natures of those we love and how far we’ll go to save them from themselves.

Marvin is fascinated with the stories his Grand Father has told him. Stories about a reptilian like creature resembling a Snake allegedly living in the Cave on the mountain.Marvin sees the creature from the story his Grand Father told him while waiting for his friend Craig to return from picking up a load of lumber. The creature scares him so badly that he can’t even breathe. The creature attacks him, or does it? Is it reality, or just a horible nightmare?

A short story featuring the vampire, Absolom, after his departure from Rome at the end of the novel, Absolom Rex. Sons of the Wolf chronicles Absolom's brief encounter with an ancient roman family with a lineage and a curse that traces back to the beginnings of roman history."You will always be fifteen, just like everyone else here.""But, where are the adults, the babies, the cities?""There are none. It’s just the castle, the forest, the cornfield and us."Welcome to Fifteen, a world where each inhabitant is fifteen years old and dangerous. The laws of this strange world demand that boys and girls remain mortal enemies and these laws are upheld with cold-blooded determination.When Akeem and his best friend Quinn find themselves in the world of Fifteen, they become opponents on opposite sides of an endless war. Though separated, they have the same goal, to find each other and find a way home but their friendship is forbidden and they would face a death sentence if their true feelings for one another are ever discovered. Will Akeem risk the wrath of the collective to find Quinn or will he save his own life by hunting her down?