Richard Chizmar

Guy Smith

Toneye Eyenot

Skip Novak

Crystal Jeans

Adam Millard

Rose Garnett

Fox Emm

Suzanne Fox

Ty Schwamberger

Antonio Simon

The Man may mean different things to different people: society, the government, a parent, a boss, a significant other, a shady organization that only controls a subset of a group or society, men in general, women in general. The Man makes the rules, and those rules exist to keep us in line. To make society run smooth and stop us from regressing back to the wild animals that lurk within us. But what happens when we break the rules? What happens when we buck against The Man and his machine that we're slaves to?F*ck the Rules features rule-bending stories from writing masters such as Guy N. Smith, Richard Chizmar, Adam Millard, Antonio Simon, Jr., Suzanne Fox, and more. Find out what happens when you throw your middle fingers up and defy those who hold you down.

Fuck the Rules

Dean Harrison

Thom Erb

“A group of friends walk into a bar...” LAST NIGHT OUT by Ty Schwamberger: Gabe, Alan, and Erin thought one last night out on the town before their junior year of college came to an end would be fitting. They were the best of friends, and not seeing each other for an entire summer vacation wasn’t something they were looking forward to. So they did what they always did on a Friday night—they went to a bar. Only this time they decided to try someplace new—the Torchlight Inn... TONES OF HOME by Thomas A. Erb: Ashley and Maurice are in love. The two of them are headed to her hometown for the holidays to share the good news with her family. Those two things would drive any young man to drink, but add the fact that he's from the South and an African-American, and they’re headed to the rural upstate town of Arcadia Falls, NY, where the reputation of toothless and inbred rednecks even scares the streetwise kid from North Carolina. Nevertheless, they’re truly in love, and Maurice is sure he's encountered more dangerous things on the gang-filled streets of Durham... OFF LIMITS by Dean Harrison: For spring break, Ellen Campbell isn’t going to party at the beach—she's taking her new boyfriend, Shawn Farris, home to Miller Falls to meet her parents for the first time. She’s very excited about it, but also nervous as to how her father, a famous crime writer, will take to Shawn, her very first boyfriend... Plus three extra shots of twisted horror for your drinking and reading pleasure!

Twisted Tales from the Torchlight Inn

Rodney's life started to spiral out of control after the untimely death of his beloved wife. He ended up on the rough streets: fighting for his sanity, his next fix and feeding himself. But it was his hunger for getting high and trying to forget his former life that was the hardest for him to control. Or at least he thought. Then came the night when he and another junkie walked into Parkside Cemetery, dug up the dead body of Becky Smithshire and...bit into her cold body. That's when Rodney's life really changed. Derrick, Craig, Joan and Stacy were the best of friends, if not a little more at times. Late one night before their impending first days of college, they decided to have a liquid-picnic in their local cemetery. It was supposed to be a night of laughs, booze and sex. Until Derrick came running back to his three friends, scared half to death. He started babbling about seeing something that looked like a werewolf. Now the three friends must escape from the cemetery before the werewolf finds them and chomps them into little pieces. Will all four friends survive? Or will the bloodline of the werewolf win the night? Only the deepest bonds of friendship and something even greater holds the answer. *** “Ty Schwamberger is (not so) quietly establishing a reputation for producing lean, mean tales of true horror. He is a presence in the genre who warrants your attention and appreciation.” ~Tom Monteleone, five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award “A howling mad B-movie bash of beer, blood, blunders, and ghoulish hijinks.” ~Christine Morgan, author of Lakehouse Infernal “Schwamberger’s GRAVE INTENTIONS is a frenetic blast of energy that's full of blood and guts (and claws and teeth). A booze-soaked bloodbath nightmare with a wicked old school horror vibe.” ~David Moody, author of the AUTUMN and HATER novels “Schwamberger's Grave Intentions delivers on its promise: solid monster mayhem with a generous helping of humor. Pre-college teens Craig and best friend Derrick are just trying to have one last good time with girls and beer, but instead are stuck with a handful of bodies and more as they try to survive the night in a cemetery after midnight. Call this an old-fashioned gore-and-grin fest as something stalks them among the gravestones, making their last romp before college truly memorable--if only they can live through it... It's a novella with bite!” ~W.D. Gagliani, author of the Nick Lupo Series

Grave Intentions

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