Bøger af Barbara Custer

Night to Dawn 45 continues the nightmare brigade with ghouls, zombies, vampires, and ghosts, all featured with a unique twist and guaranteed to keep you up at night. The collection of short stories, poetry, and illustrations, presented by Barbara Custer, includes: "Company of Ghouls" by Lee Clark Zumpe"Coon River" by Todd Hanks"Eternal Return" by Sandy DeLuca"Unholy Hungers" by Alexis Child"Easy Prey" by Marge Simon"The Bane of Azrael" by Lee Clark Zumpe"Murder Most Fowl" by David D. Jones"Redress of Grievances" by Marge Simon"Thanksgiving Feast" by Hal Kempka"I Stand with Vlad" by Hillary LyonsTodd Hanks's "Coon River."...and many others, including dark poetry and illustrations by Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Chris Friend, and other artists.

Amnesia and work related hassles become the least of Leslie's worries when she discovers she has become a vampire. Though this has some advantages, among them a healing gift, her need for blood and love leads her into a world ruled by fire and a centuries old war with other vampires and demonic deities of legend. To have the man she has come to love, to have a life, she must capture and destroy Kenworthy, the evil, bloodthirsty leader of the vampire clan.

William Penn never suspected that his beloved Philadelphia would turn into the city of brotherly death. But that's what's happening in Philadelphia and other major cities. And it's only going to get worse. The dead are coming-revenants, vampires, and zombies-people who have scores to settle with the living. So padlock your doors and pack up your guns and survival gear. If the dead passed because their funds, administrators, or heartless caregivers prohibited lifesaving treatment, they will come back seeking revenge. Their anger makes them hungry for flesh. So very hungry. Even vampires won't be immune to the terrors of revenants and zombies. The collection of 13 tales will keep you awake at night and make you wonder if you'll ever be safe again.

Night to Dawn 36 comes with a mixture of vampires, zombies, mummies, vengeful ghosts, and human monsters. Harold Kempka's "Showdown at Sundown" features a mock trial that ends in a horrible death. Kevin Harrison's "The Huntress: Animate," is a mummy tale involving mother and child with a sweet ending. NTD 36 includes works by Margaret L. Carter, Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Rod Marsden, Denny E. Marshall, Lee Clark Zumpe, Matthew Wilson, and many others!

Some of NTD 31's stories feature the zombie's point of view. These monsters spend more time being harried rather than attacking humans, for example, Allan Heller's "Cabin." Get ready for some sleepless nights with "Blood Moon," when a grieving woman calls her dead beloved back to life. You'll find plenty of horror and zombie fiction/poetry, along with cover illustrations by Sandy DeLuca, Marge Simon, Teresa Tunaley, Denny Marshall, and other great artists.

Monsters under the bed exist. If you didn't think so before, you will after reading Night to Dawn 32, in particular, Kempka's "Night Sounds." Balloons have crept into the stories via my flash piece, "Unseen Hands." As for clowns, whom we associate with balloons, you'll find plenty in Manzolillo's "Lip of the Stars." These clowns may appear friendly but aren't...quite. Find out what happens when a soldier goes astray in Kolacki's "Log of Zombies Dispatched." Illustrations by Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Elizabeth Pierce, Chris Friend, Teresa Tunaley, Denny E. Marshall, and Ron Weems.

Night to Dawn 28 features a concoction of zombies, ghosts, vampires, and other...beings. For starters, Allan Heller's tale, "Clutch in the Crypt," includes a werewolf, a vampire, and a zombie. Other zombie tales include Katie Tillwick's "Paperwork," which shows what can happen when bureaucracy gets in the way of fighting the dead. McQuiston's "Night's Embrace" portrays love between two zombies, but woe betide the humans that get in their way. Ken Goldman's "Snow Angel" features an elderly man reciting a story to his grandchild, whom we learn isn't human-quite. All of these tales and poetry will haunt you long after you close the book, for the dead travel fast.

Night to Dawn 25 offers vintage tales - mostly vampire, but you won't find any mundane themes. A Good Samaritan deed turns bloody when the person being rescued gets hungry. Another vampire who gets deathly ill on the blood he desperately needs. The Grim Reaper comes back as a beautiful woman. An Alzheimer's patient seeks relief but chooses the wrong "doctor," and his methods are more brutal than she expected. A vampire heads for Alaska during the winter because of the short days. Ken Goldman entertains us with "The Devil You Say."

Night to Dawn 33 runs over 100 pages, meaning more fiction, poetry, and illustrations. NTD will still include traditional vampire tales, but you'll also find mummies, demons, and a host of other monsters. What's more, many NTD vampires don't wilt at the sight of garlic or religious objects, so if you're traveling these pages, leave these items behind and carry a wooden stake with you. A stake through the heart will kill anything. Issue 33 features Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Rod Marsden, Todd Hanks, and many others!

Night to Dawn 34 features a crew of skeletons to haunt your dreams. You'll find plenty of bony villains from Rick McQuiston, Charles Gramlich, Linda Barrett, and other authors. You'll find a new twist on vampires, plus work from Marge Simon, Ralph Horner, Allan M. Heller, Sandy DeLuca, David Lowell Transue, and many others!

Featuring the conclusion to Ken Goldman's "The Devil, You Say" along with zombie tales, butterfly vampire, and a musician's look at the Zombie Apocalypse. Poetry, art, and fiction by Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Todd Hanks, Rod Marsden, Marc Shapiro, David Transue, Francis Alexander...and others!

Night to Dawn 27 will bring more zombie lore, plus work from two members of the Pennsylvania Bucks County Writers' Group; also work by Marge Simon, Derek Muk, Rajeev Bhargava, Lee Clark Zumpe, Todd Hanks, Rod Marsden, Sandy DeLuca, Denny Marshall, and other contributors who specialize in horror / science fiction.

Night to Dawn 44 ushers in a Halloween theme-complete with the pumpkin on the front cover and the horror tales, poetry, and illustrations inside. For starters, Lee Clark Zumpe's "The Quarantine Station" will remind you of The Island of Dr. Moreau, except the mad scientist in Zumpe's tale experiments with raising the dead. A gutless wonder of a boss gets his comeuppance in Sharon Bidwell's "Brain Dead." In Hal Kempka's "Hunger Pangs," an old house is the vampire, feeding on people who dare try to live in it. The Halloween theme continues, with tales from Marge Simon, Ann Stolinsky, Rod Marsden, Matthew Wilson, and many others.

Night to Dawn 43 offers a unique take on monsters. One of them is a Mylar balloon. That's right, folks, an evil balloon takes on a life of its own and attacks the protag. Enter Katherine Quevedo's story, "Hell-ium Balloon." The other tales feature a variety of undead, including one that befriends a lost child and becomes a hero. Night to Dawn 43 contains stories from Marge Simon, Lee Clark Zumpe, Matthew Wilson, Ken Goldman, and other authors.

Night to Dawn 38 caters to horror, dark fantasy, and dark science fiction aficionados. Aside from vampires, it features demons, zombies, and other mythical monsters. Night to Dawn 38 includes authors and artists like Marge Simon, Rod Marsden, Sandy DeLuca, Lee Clark Zumpe, Marc Shapiro, S. M. Bidwell, and many others.

In Night to Dawn 37, the line between life and death is often fuzzy. At night, the dead slither from their crypts. Our conversations take on an unnatural cast, and the familiar landmarks of our lives are torn away. Are the shadows flitting across the wall reflections of the moonlight, or are they vengeful ghosts with unfinished business? Find out when you read tales and poetry by Marge Simon, Lee Clark Zumpe, Sandy DeLuca, Marc Shapiro, and other contributors.

Sometimes they come back. At least the Kryszka aliens do. Their leader captures humans and injects a chemical to turn them into zombies. Yeron escapes their underground colony to practice human medicine, but most people fear him. Alexis, his patient, is afraid, too...until his seductive attentions profoundly arouse her. He develops a drug to control her pain from disabling arthritis, but her weakness prohibits her from handling most weapons. The Kryszka soldiers and zombies who break into the hospital are hungry. So very hungry. How will she fight them? Steel Rose is the prequel to When Blood Reigns

Night to Dawn 41 features vampires, demons, and other monsters; SF tales with horrific overtones. One character seeks love from the undead; a teacher lures his students into a dark swamp. Fiction and poetry by Lee Clark Zumpe, Marge Simon, Rod Marsden, Todd Hanks, Linda Barrett, Margaret L. Carter, Hillary Lyons, Hal Kempka, and many others.

Vaccines may have conquered corona for us, but the characters in Night to Dawn 40 face a different ending. In particular, Lee Clark Zumpe's "Worm-sacks and Dirt-backs." The story opens with a maze of dead, shambling people crowding a hospital, seeking relief from their pain. Zumpe's other three stories have grim endings and themes, too. Ken Goldman's "Young Girls Are Coming to Ajo" starts with an ordinary situation and twists its way to horror, with a vampire using a small lizard to do her bloodletting. Gerald Browning's "Giggling in the Dark" also has a grim theme, with the dead laughing as they feed on a human. Poetry and illustrations by Marge Simon, Sandy DeLuca, Denny E. Marshall, Richard H. Fay, and other contributors.

The apocalypse of the movie screen and the printed page has become a reality. A microbe threatens humanity, making Corona seem like the common cold. Innocents die to appease young and hungry gods. A doctor feeds the souls of his patients to a demon. Featuring Marge Simon, Lee Clark Zumpe, Margaret L. Carter, Rod Marsden, Matthew Wilson, and other authors.