Nightmares电子书

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Nightmares

Nightmares

The following stories have been re-printed with permission of the authors. Copyright remains with the authors.

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Table of Contents

Introduction

This is the second short story about Aloha Armstrong, The Woman from L.I.P.S., a secret agent who fights for freedom in the strangest of circumstances. Aloha first appeared in the novel My Zombie Prince, available as an ebook, in print online, or at your favorite bookstore. This story takes place after the events of the novel in an alternate reality where monsters are normal.

This is the debut story of paranormal investigator Amanda Dark and her adventures helping tormented ghosts cross over to their final destinations. Look for other Amanda Dark stories in this volume.

Rita Schulz is an accomplished romance author who writes in various genres. Her western romance published by Champagne Books is titled Fire in Their Hearts and is written under the name Rita Meger. She has published numerous short stories and collections with 53rd Street Publishing and we are proud to include this scary coming-of-age tale in this volume.

Every collection of horror must have a magic shop story. This tale tips its hat to Creepy Magazine and the classic horror comics from EC Comics.

Life is all about change, growing older, having children, getting married, falling in love. Change is a constant that many people fear. This story demonstrates change is sometimes welcome and inevitable.

One of the great unknowns is the eternal question of life after death. Theologians and philosophers alike have debated this question for centuries. Are ghosts and spirits real? What happens after our mortal body dies? This unusual tale tells the very personal story of a man who discovers that the answers to these questions are too close to home.

Now for a change of pace. A story about an alternate reality where a lazy, good-for-nothing man is forced to save the human race, and his wife, from certain doom.

This alternate history story postulates a very different United States than the one we know. In this reality, dark forces helped the South win the Civil War. One woman is determined to stop this pestilence from spreading over the entire world, even if it means sacrificing someone she loves.

Zombies abound in various media today because, with stories in the news about impending deadly pandemics, end of the world stories have once again become part of popular culture. Such stories go back to the earliest days of speculative fiction. This exciting tale is set in a possible future where secret operatives are determined to stop a zombie plague at its source—or die trying.

Another Amanda Dark paranormal story, this time told from the point of view of Amanda’s spectral client. A story where personal stakes take a horrifying twist.

What if a man was stranded on a deserted island with two women? Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? But not so for this shipwreck survivor.

The author says this unusual tale began at a workshop and the initial kernel was a place where monsters married. The setting is a bar where everyone knows you’re a monster. Welcome to the…

The author is a fan of both classic detective fiction and horror. And he is a fan of the Universal Studios monster films of the 1930s and ’40s. This story, we think, represents a blend of the two genres and will chill you with its implications.

Subsequent to the publication of Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel, the public’s imagination has been fired with visions of vampires thirsting for their own survival by drinking the blood of the living. This story carries on that tradition but is set in a future time when most vampires have been hunted down and destroyed. We present here the tale of a lone survivor.

Finally, we leave you with an Amanda Dark tale that starts as a routine case but turns into a nightmare of personal terror for Amanda. She is forced to confront dark family secrets and the resulting emotional fallout.

Russ Crossley

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