Darrell Schweitzer

Gary A. Braunbeck

Paul Dale Anderson

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Adrian Cole

Doug Draa

Weirdbook returns after a nearly 20-year hiatus under the editorship of Douglas Draa! Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre... Chivaine, by John R. Fultz Give Me the Daggers, by Adrian Cole The Music of Bleak Entrainment, by Gary A. Braunbeck Into The Mountains with Mother Old Growth, by Christian Riley The Grimlorn Under the Mountain, by James Aquilone Dolls, by Paul Dale Anderson Gut Punch, by Jason A. Wyckoff Educational Upgrade, by Bret McCormick Boxes of Dead Children, by Darrell Schweitzer The Forgotten, by D.C. Lozar Coffee with Dad’s Ghost, Jessica Amanda Salmonson Missed It By That Much, by Gregg Chamberlain A Clockwork Muse, by Erica Ruppert The Rookery, by Kurt Newton Wolf of Hunger, Wolf of Shame, by J. T. Glover Zucchini Season, by Janet Harriett The Jewels That Were Their Eyes, by Llanwyre Laish The Twins, by Kevin Strange Princess or Warrior?, by S.W. Lauden

Weirdbook 31

Riverdale’s newly appointed head of homicide Lieutenant Andy Sinnott and criminalist Linda Davis team up to search for the elusive Icepick Killer, a serial rapist and murderer who punctures the eyes of his victims with sharp instruments. Captain Troy Nolan and Sally Brightson, honeymooning in the Bahamas for a month, are blissfully unaware of the homicides and arsons that plague Riverdale. Did Troy and Sally leave Riverdale in good hands? Is Andy up to the task of solving both multiple murders and an arson that killed an additional twenty people? Investigative reporter Joel Hickman thinks not, and Hickman pressures the mayor and Chief of Police Roger Elway to fire Andy Sinnott. When evidence points to Harvey Fredriks, Rat’s friend “George” from the novel Pickaxe, being the Icepick Killer, Rat teams up with Andy, Linda, and Pathologist Earl Stowe to prove Harvey’s innocence and track down the real killer. But even the best laid plans of Rat and men often go awry, and the killer targets Stowe, Linda, Lorraine Evangelista, Andy, and Rat as his next victims. Icepick is the eagerly-awaited sequel to Pickaxe and an exciting part of The Instruments of Death series of forensic mysteries by Paul Dale Anderson.

Book 4 of the Instruments of Death Series

Icepick

Mark Wynn is a former homicide detective who lost his job and pension after he tracked down serial killer Brian Russell and killed him in cold blood out of revenge for his family being brutally murdered. Mark spent two years in prison and is now out on parole. When Mark’s neighbor is murdered and dismembered in her apartment by a serial killer known as "the cutter," Mark tries to track down the killer, even though he is no longer a cop. Mark’s ex-partner, Mike Nelson, and the new head of homicide, Aaron Lester, tell Mark to stay out of it, but Mark can’t. Mark is an ex-con on parole, and if he even touches a gun he will go back to prison for the remainder of his twenty-year sentence. With only his wits to aid him, Mark attempts to thwart the killer’s plans to attack again. Deviants is a thrill-packed tale of revenge gone wrong.

Deviants

Raymond Benson

Richard Christian Matheson

Brian Hodge

G. Wayne Miller

Michael Boatman

David Niall Wilson

David J. Schow

Gary Braunbeck

Rick Hautala

Monica J. O'Rourke

More than 160 short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors. This volume will introduce you to horror, mystery, fantasy and thrills, from the dark worlds of Lovecraft to the cutting-edge suspense of the mean streets of the cities of the world. This monster collection speaks in the voices of some of today's leading masters of the short story, with something certain to appeal to every reader. Find a new creative voice to follow. Find a new world to love. An amazing wealth of fiction and imagination. Included in Corruption at the Crossroad: 12+1: Twelve Short Thrillers And A Play — Raymond Benson The Devil Made Me Do It Again And Again — Paul Dale Anderson Seeing Red — David J. Schow Bedbugs — Rick Hautala Destinations Unknown — Gary Braunbeck The Call Of Distant Shores — David Niall Wilson Falling Idols — Brian Hodge In The End, Only Darkness — Monica J O'Rourke 13: A Collection Of Horror And Weird Fiction — Michael Boatman Vapors: The Essential G. Wayne Miller Fiction, Vol. 2 — G. Wayne Miller Scars And Other Distinguishing Marks — Richard Christian Matheson

Corruption at the Crossroad

Axes to Grind is a supernatural thriller and police procedural set in a rural area of Wisconsin. Merritt County is a fictional place in the northern part of the state near Lake Superior. When Sandra Beech inherits nine hundred acres of woodland and a house from her mother’s great-aunt Susan, Sandy travels from Chicago to northern Wisconsin to put the place up for sale. The isolated old house has neither electricity nor indoor plumbing, the entire area is out of reach of any cell tower, and iron deposits in the soil interfere with radio communications. As a child, Sandy had thought great-aunt Susan looked and acted like a witch, and Sandy learns Susan and Sandy are descendants of a long line of witches dating back more than six thousand years. Susan’s spirit returns to teach Sandy magic so Sandy can use magic to save the world from the diabolical plans of a reincarnated Heinrich Himmler to unleash Asmodeus and a hoard of demons on an unsuspecting modern world. Merritt County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Dan Edmonds doesn’t believe Sandy when she tells Dan about Himmler, Asmodeus and the demons. But gruesome murders convince Dan something unusual is happening and Sandy Beech may be the cause. Either Sandy is insane and the murderer herself, or Sandy is an accomplice who is hiding the murderer in her house. Will Dan discover the truth before Sandy becomes Himmler’s next victim? Axes to Grind is a fast-paced thriller that will make your hair stand on end.

Book 6 of the Instruments of Death Series

Axes to Grind

Douglas Draa

L.F. Falconer

The first Weirdbook Annual -- The Witches MEGAPACK® -- presents a selection of all-new tales of witches! Included this time are: "Thou Shalt Not Suffer," by Matt Neil Hill "No Holds Bard," by Adrian Cole "Laying the Hairy Book," by Josh Reynolds "Here Is Where Your Proud Waves Halt," by Erica Ruppert "Vicious Circles," by Paul Dale Anderson "Assorted Shades of Red," by Franklyn Searight "Strange Days in Old Yandrissa," by John R. Fultz "Fertility Rites," by Glynn Owen Barrass "The Witch’s Heart," by Rachel Bolton "Hag Race," by Andre E. Harewood "Best Friend Becky," by Wayne Faust "The Rat in the Rabbit Cage," by Ashley Dioses "Two Spells," by Neva Bryan "Pulled Over," by Paul Spears "The Witch of Skur," by L.F. Falconer "Cat and Mouse," by Duane Pesice "Last of the Ashiptu," by Paul Lubaczewski "Firestorm," by Richard H. Durisen "The Witch of Pender," by John Linwood Grant "The Nora Witch," by Brandon Jimison "The Broken Witch," by Scott Hutchison Plus poetry by Maurits Zwankhuizen, Lucy A. Snyder, David F. Daumit, S.L. Edwards, Lori R. Lopez, Frederick J. Mayer, K.A. Opperman, Clay F. Johnson, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Oliver Smith, Darla Klein If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

The Witches MEGAPACK®: Weirdbook Annual #1

Terror gripped the streets of Willow Woods as the grisly deaths increased. The killer struck in isolated areas, slashing young women into bloody ribbons of flesh with the precision of a surgeon. The experts knew he used a razor-sharp butcher’s knife, but only the dead knew his face…. The bad dreams started when Danny’s real dad disappeared. Weird, scary dreams about a strange man with a long, shiny knife, standing over Danny’s mother covered in blood on their kitchen floor. His mom told him to forget about the dreams and stop watching the TV news reports about the Mad Slasher. She said they were safe, especially with their new friend Michael, his pretend daddy, to protect them. But Danny was afraid of Michael. Michael looked too much like the monster in his dreams….

Book 2 of the Instruments of Death Series

Daddy's Home

John Morgan is a hired assassin. John, 42, is employed by Sam Adams, a retired military and CIA operative who now owns a private security firm in Franklin Park, Illinois. When John is targeted for assassination in a parking garage at O’Hare Airport, he has no time to think. He responds automatically, twenty years of intense training activating muscle memory, and he takes weapons away from the twelve assassins and kills them all in a life-and-death shootout. John survives despite overwhelming odds, a debilitating shoulder wound, and surveillance by persons unknown who hacked into the Chicago Police Department’s security camera network. While John is recuperating from shoulder surgery at the company’s private clinic, two additional teams of assassins destroy Sam Adams’ company headquarters in an old factory building a block away from the clinic and then attack the clinic. Sam and 43 other company employees were in the building when it exploded. Despite being weak from loss of blood and woozy from the effects of morphine, John and another assassin, code-named Jimmy Carter, travel across country in a desperate attempt to thwart a conspiracy that could destroy the world.

Paul Dale Anderson

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