Jeremy Megargee

Kelli Owen

John Kiste

Henry Herz

Mark Oxbrow

Emma Kathryn

Laura Keating

Kai Holmwood

Cat Voleur

Amelia Mangan

Damon Cavalchini

Elizabeth McClellan

Dracula Beyond Stoker Is a Fiction Journal Dedicated to Celebrating and Continuing The Legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula.Issue 2 focusses on Renfield, with 10 all new tales, an essay, a classic reprint, and a poem featuring the world's favorite flyman.

Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 2

Jonathan Maberry

James Moore

Christopher Golden

Brian Keene

Thomas Clark

Mary SanGiovanni

Jaimie Engle

Armand Rosamilia

Chuck Buda

Amber Fallon

John Urbancik

Jay Wilburn

Frank Edler

Erin Al-Mehairi

Project Entertainment Network Presents... My Favorite StoryFifteen podcast hosts and authors share their favorite short story they've ever written...Christopher GoldenBrian KeeneJames A. MooreMary SanGiovanniFrank J. EdlerThomas R. ClarkJay WilburnKelli OwenAmber FallonChuck BudaJohn UrbancikJonathan MaberryErin Sweet Al-MehairiArmand RosamiliaJaimie Engle

My Favorite Story Podcast Author Anthology

Matt Newman's life is turned upside down when his wife is found murdered. The police have no leads and no suspects.As Matt sinks further into a deep depression, he stumbles across a mysterious notebook among his wife's belongings. Within its pages are cryptic writings revealing that she led a secret life. The more he reads, the greater his love turns to hatred for the woman he thought he knew.How had she managed to conceal this double life? Worse, are her tales of debauchery even more terrifying than the mystery surrounding her death?

Deceiver

Detective Carly Greene was only eleven when she learned Lake Superior was a brutal beast, capable of bringing up long forgotten memories of pain and death, by occasionally releasing the bodies of those trapped beneath her waves.As an adult, Carly still despises the bodies occasionally coughed up, and the high water eroding the edge of the graveyard this year gave "floaters" a new meaning. But she could never have prepared for what else broke free to swim with those long dead. Part myth. Part monster. Older than time.Carly, along with the medical examiner and a local reporter, must find and destroy a forgotten legend in the waters at the edge of Lake Superior. Before it decides it's time to feed. And breed...

Floaters

Nick Kontis and his remaining family members have survived winter-have outlived the threat of deadly infected flies-and are heading toward presumed safety. They quickly find all exit points blocked, the perimeter burned, and learn the flies were only the beginning, as Mother Nature has stepped in to correct mankind's mistakes. Her weapon of choice: spiders.With thick webs covering the spring landscape, and lack of any communication leaving them on their own to guess whether or not the spiders are as lethal as the flies they're eating, they make a new plan. Fleeing in a new direction they run into another party of survivors. And what was once a breakdown of society becomes an exercise in rebuilding.They'll need to find common ground and bond with the others, before winter arrives again. Before the spiders declare victory...

The Hatch

Nick and the boys return from the summer's last hunting trip to find the streets empty, the beachfront and park abandoned, and the windows of their own homes boarded shut. The hunters have become the hunted, in an apocalyptic plague that pits man against beast-very tiny beasts. And Nick is determined to keep his strength, courage and family alive during what could very well be the last winter of their lives.

Waiting Out Winter

Kelli Owen's debut collection returns! Featuring a foreword by Thomas F. Monteleone Horror is pessimism at its bleakest. Worst-case scenario. The darker side of reality. The glass half-empty. The situation unfathomable. In Black Bubbles, Kelli Owen presents classic genre tropes--ghosts, murderers, zombies, what you'd expect (sans sharks)--but it's the characters, rather than the tropes, that experience the story, speak of the horrors, and sometimes survive the inevitable. Sometimes. A decades-old crime shocks a family as evidence points to one of their own...An ancient evil hitchhikes its way to freedom...A child has an unusual fascination with decay...A woman excuses premeditation...Death takes a holiday...Science and good intentions make horrific bedfellows...A man hides from nightmares that invade his waking world... Kelli Owen's first collection gathers over 60,000 words, including a handful of out-of-print, difficult-to-find previously published work, a plethora of new pieces, story notes, drawings inspired by the title story, and an introduction by the legendary Thomas Monteleone.

Black Bubbles

Shallow Graves

Reeling from the loss of a child, Maggie finds her job at the local daycare unbearable and errands around town impossible. She knows every child, every single parent, and they're all reminders of what she's lost. Unable to heal, she sinks further into the grip of grief and depression. Jake is a good guy, a great husband, and wants only the best for his broken wife. Therapy and medications aren't helping, and a change of scenery makes perfect sense. A new home. A fresh start. He is nothing but patient, giving Maggie the space and emotional support needed to move on. But once they've settled in, Maggie offers him an alternative. And though Jake doesn't believe in ghosts, he plays along with the charade in the name of helping his wife. Until he discovers it's not a game. They are not alone. As the subtle activity grows violent, Jakes realizes the thing in their house has chosen Maggie as a surrogate mother, and it does not want a father figure. Jake and Maggie's fresh start has become a battlefield, and he's no longer sure which side his wife is on. Does Jake have the strength to save them both?

The Headless Boy

Presumed dead in the tragedy of 9-11, Ryan Kolstad saw his missed job interview that morning as something other than a failure-he saw opportunity. Believing his family would be better off, he walked away. Under the guise of a new identity, he's spent a decade punishing those he deems unworthy of the loving families they take for granted. Ryan suddenly finds himself questioning the lies and rules he's come to live by when he finds himself on the other side of judgement.

Survivor's Guilt

Kelli Owen

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