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Dark Emporium - Volume 1. The first of our new horror anthologies comprises twelve stories to chill you, scare you and entertain you.In this volume we have: -Sapphire Eyes Shining (Rie Sheridan Rose)Sin and Revenge (Olivia Arieti)The Minute Thief (Jackk N. Killington)Welcome to Deer Country (Jason R Frei)Trapped (Ian McKinley)Ludo's Portal (Carl Hughes)Apparition of Yargatti village (Shashi Kadapa)Call of the Kindling, Wane of the Moon. (SJ Townend)Sweet Jane (Thomas M. Malafarina)Big Bottle, Little Bottles (Stuart Holland)The Last Resort (Liam A. Spinage)The Twist of a Cork (Stephen Lang)

Matthias Jase, the loner who had fallen in with the Order, a strange occult secret society, is fascinated by the strange creatures he has discovered lurking in the edgelands of his small town. Driven towards a great sacrifice to gain their salvation he finds himself in a strange after world ruled by a terrible and beautiful goddess. In the town he has left behind strange forces begin to intrude. Days of rain are followed by an impenetrable fog. A mutilated dog doing lurks by the morgue. How will the secret Order respond as members fail to respond when sent to find out the truth? And as Detective Angela Morino investigates what has happened to Jase she discovers the strange obsessions that have led him on. As the supernatural intrusion worsens everyone is drawn into a final deadly confrontation where the stakes for the world could not be higher.

Owen Roth's life has come to a screeching halt. His beloved wife Morgan, victim of a highway accident, has been in a coma for three months, and her condition has not changed. Owen no longer has the will to live. He decides to end the life of the man responsible for his wife's coma, and then put an end to his own life. One night, he drives to the guilty man's luxury apartment building. However, just moments before he can commit the murder, a stray dog appears. Owen immediately realizes the fruitlessness of his scheme and decides to re-evaluate his thinking. Reluctant to leave the dog, Owen takes the animal with him. From that point on, the dog becomes his center of attention. His new canine companion has somehow managed to lift his spirits as well as his outlook. Owen believes that their encounter was not as random as he first suspected. And when his wife's condition takes an unexpected turn, everything that has taken place since the dog has entered his life becomes clear.

Rand Powell didn't expect to die before the age of forty. He also didn't expect to wake up in someone else's body, or meet a beautiful, mysterious angel named Harriet. But the biggest shock of all is when Harriet takes him to Barnes, Ohio, a small town in his past, where he is to help a deeply troubled young woman who was in love with him when she was in high school.

When her flirtatious boss takes her for a drive to the Southeastern Ohio woodlands on a Friday afternoon to look at a real estate investment, raven-haired Bobbie Marsh realizes that this is just another attempt on his part to get her alone. Little does either of them know that this half-hour drive will quickly turn into a nightmare. After Bobbie rejects his subtle advances, Craig leaves the farmhouse and is attacked and knocked unconscious. Bobbie, watching from a window, immediately searches frantically for somewhere to hide.For the next twelve tense hours, she eludes the two vicious home invaders as they systematically check every square inch of the farmhouse. Her only means of escape is through the front door, and even if she manages to make it outside, her only chance of survival is through miles of heavily wooded, unfamiliar land.Bobbie soon faces the grim realization that she might have to become the predator if she wants to survive.

Derek, the love of Paula's life, has been taken from her in an act of senseless violence, and she immediately falls into a frightening darkness.One night, as she lies sleeping in her bedroom, she strongly senses that she should visit Derek's parents. As she drives to their house the next morning, she is involved in an accident and soon discovers that she has entered a strange dimension. Here, time has taken a turn she never imagined was possible. In this strange new world, everything has become bright and exciting. She has been reunited with Derek, and the darkness from her former existence has disappeared.She cannot help but wonder where this new dimension is. And as the bizarre events continue, she begins to realize that returning to her former world would not only separate her from Derek once again, but would also bring back the darkness that had nearly destroyed her as the result of his death.However, this new dimension soon betrays her, and her new existence brings about its own horrors. Should she return to her former world of darkness and sorrow? Or remain with Derek in this terrifying new dimension?

When Frank Langley learns that a childhood nuisance has died, he makes the mistake of driving to the cemetery to look at the grave. The next day, he hears a voice in his kitchen and realizes that the voice belongs to the man he visited the previous day. From that day on, he is teased and tormented relentlessly. He struggles to discover some way of dealing with this, but when the demon almost gets him killed, Frank realizes that he must find some way of sending the demon back to Hell.

Arthur Sills meets a beautiful, mysterious woman and soon finds himself helplessly captivated. However, it isn't very long at all before he realizes that there is something about her that doesn't feel right. Before he can find out what is so bizarre about her, he discovers that he is suffering from sudden blackouts, and learns that he has been doing things he simply cannot remember.He soon finds that he is directly involved in a murder and, although he suspects this mysterious woman is somehow responsible, fears that he has no idea how to prove his innocence. And when he is suddenly being stalked by small groups of large men in suits, he realizes that if he doesn't find some way out of whatever nightmare he has been pulled into, he will soon be dead.

Lynn Monroe finds herself out in the middle of the woods in Southeastern Ohio, miles from civilization, being chased by two half-drunk country boys bent on raping and killing her. Her only means of escape lies in the steep, weed-choked hill straight ahead. At its crest, a large weather-beaten house overlooks the eerie hillside. The house has been abandoned for some time, but local lore says that a very strange woman had once lived there more than a century earlier. And that many bizarre things happened when the woman lived in that house. And that many weird things are still happening.Lynn is faced with the dilemma of confronting her two psychotic stalkers or climbing the hill to encounter whoever-or whatever-lies inside the house.She realizes in cold terror that she may not have a choice.

Lindsay Foreman becomes acutely aware of horrible dangers after helping an old woman struck by a car and left for dead on a Central Florida highway. As the old woman slips closer to death, she tells Lindsay she must give her something. Lindsay has no idea what the woman is talking about and assumes she is delirious. But later Lindsay begins experiencing strange visual sensations, seeing odd colors on people's faces. The more this happens, the more she realizes the colors appear to coincide with emotions and situational responses of people with whom she comes in contact. Desperate to find out what has happened to her, Lindsay digs deeper into the circumstances involving the old woman's death, hoping to discover clues about this strange 'gift' the old woman apparently passed on to her. However, a criminal element seems determined to stop Lindsay's investigation into the hit-and-run murder. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself in more trouble than she can handle - especially when an undercover DEA agent, C.C. Cross, seemingly comes to her rescue. It's hard to know whom to trust, but with her new insight, Lindsay has a better idea than anyone can imagine. The question is, will her strange gift of colors help keep her from getting herself - and Cross - killed?

Fairy Tales have hidden depths: we don't often get to discover the real meaning of the mysterious creatures which show up in these stories. We read tales of kidnapped children, of young ones coerced into horrendous fates by getting involved with the shape changing older ones... the trickery and deceit which goes on under the very noses of the people who should have known better but who ended up getting involved... Knowing all this, we still come back for more. Once Upon A Scream is a collection of outrageous crimes committed against those who walk into the many traps laid for them, (Cinderella's ugly stepsisters are a case in point, Hansel and Gretel are another... that really is a 'child beware!' tale if ever there was one!) with every story bringing its own wild selection of nastiness by animals and people alike. Find a whole new world of fairy lands and strange people in this fascinating collection of dark stories written by the best writers we could find.In this anthology we have: - We're Ugly and We Own It - David TurnbullAlternate Endings - Rie Sheridan RoseWicked Heart - Gina EastonWho's Afraid? - Liam SpinageBeauty Within The Briar - Rie Sheridan RoseBecoming - Jason R FreiThe Cindy Killer Story - Stuart HollandUnlicensed To Live - Dan AllenBeautiful Wickedness - Brooke MacKenzieThe Head Above The Gate - Rie Sheridan RoseA Reward of Summer Sweets - Aaron PadleyIn Eiger Wild Wood - Geoff NelderArsenic and Red Leather - Jason R FreiLord of the Dance - Liam SpinageChains of Straw - Rie Sheridan RoseLittle Red Cyber Head - Gary BudgenCollector of Teeth - Travis Mushanski

With just nine days until Halloween, Skullface wakes in his unmarked grave. He forces his way out and begins to question why he was there, who he is, what did he do to be buried in such a place. The Isle of Wight is a reasonably large place. There are many secluded corners which is just as well. Skullface needs them to kill, to drink the blood and eat the flesh to 'survive'. He justifies this by argument; the two sides of his mind are in constant battle.As Halloween draws closer, so Skullface's memories become clearer and he gets ever closer to remembering the reason for his death, his dysfunctional family and very strange life. He backs off from it many times but knows that if he is to permanently die, which is what he wants, he has to confront his past.When Halloween finally arrives, he makes the last walk to his home...