Quick, dark, and often filled with black humor, this book will keep readers awake at night with an array of horror flash fiction.  Each story can be read in minutes, but will haunt for much longer.

Fifty-Two Stitches: Horror Stories

Literature & Fiction

Aaron Polson

Mercedes M. Yardley

Kurt Newton

Cate Gardner

Barry Napier

Genre Fiction

Strange Publications

Sick Things is the ultimate collection of extreme creature horror with 17 deviant and gore-soaked stories featuring demons, cannibals, mutants, golems, werewolves, and many more vile creatures, monsters, and beasts. EDITORIAL REVIEWS FANGORIA "Cover every orifice. Comet Press’ new collection SICK THINGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EXTREME CREATURE HORROR is making a beeline for the soft contents of your body—and it doesn’t care one bit where it makes its grand entrance, orbital sockets or otherwise. Rest assured this violation will be painful, given the tight confinements of our fallible frames of flesh—but anything less than a full-on ass-rape would probably seem insufficient in the eyes of editrix Cheryl Mullenax..." FATALLY YOURS "If you are an extreme fan of horror looking for the ultimate in disgusting, vile and disturbing fiction, Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror is a must-read…just make sure you have your barf bag handy!" Table of Contents "Devils" by Randy Chandler "Threshold" by Fred Venturini "This is My Body" by Lawrence Conquest "Hunger Pangs" by Matt Kurtz "Fly on the Wall" by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime "Legacy of the Last Invader" by M. Shaw "Acceptable Losses" by Simon Wood "An Unfortunate Incident at the Slaughterhouse" by Harper Hull "Rotsworth" by Kurt Bachard "Evil, Bent, and Candy-Sweet" by Tim Curran "Heat" by Daniel I. Russell "The Neglected" by Sean Logan "Betty and the Cambion" by Ralph Greco, Jr. "Jimmy Sticks and the Outlaw Critter of Doom" by Michael Boatman "Ranching the Sleore" by Aaron Polson "Paper Angels on Fire" by John Shirley "The Special Son" by Jeffrey Hale Editor Cheryl Mullenax

Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror

John Shirley

Randy Chandler

Michael Boatman

Tim Curran

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

Ralph Greco Jr.

M. Shaw

Simon-Wood

Comet Press

The saints are dead, but nobody bothered to tell them. A collection of short fiction littered with bits of dark magical realism, The Saints Are Dead skirts the lines between genres, dodging the overdone tropes of horror, science fiction, and fantasy while echoing timeless themes. An enchanted catalog supplies Depression-era children a Halloween for the ages. A lonely man spawns a universe in his back yard and revels in his role as supreme deity. With the aid of sentient, clockwork rabbits, a hobo wages war on a selfish vegetable grower. These are tales of misfits and the misaligned, outsiders and the awkward, all of whom must navigate strange landscapes and make sense of worlds which have slipped a notch or two past normal. Several stories have previously appeared in such venues as Everyday Weirdness, A Fly in Amber, The Battered Suitcase, Rose & Thorn Journal, and others, and some are new to this collection. A few have received mention in Tangent Online¿s recommended reading list and the storySouth Million Writers Award notable list.

The Saints Are Dead

Aqueous Books

After months of silence from the H&amp;P Lumber and Pulp logging camp, strange raving madmen have wandered out of the woods near the Lewis River. Civil War veteran Henry Barlow hasn’t carried a gun since his wife’s brutal murder, a memory he drowns nightly with bourbon and whiskey. When reports of the strange goings on at the Lewis River camp reach H&amp;P, they send Barlow and a small band of armed mercenaries upriver to investigate. As the days pass and things get stranger, Barlow must confront the phantoms of his past, his alcoholism, and the dark hearts of men perverted by power and greed. Most of all, he must find a will to live in order for he and his team to get out of the woods alive.

Loathsome, Dark and Deep

Belfire Press

The House Eaters

Nick Gillingham knew that moving before his senior year would really suck... but he never imagined a nightmare like Broughton’s Hollow. It’s bad enough that Nick hears disembodied voices after moving near “the House”—a crumbling relic with a sinister past. But then the local football team decides to make him their new tackling dummy, the “hot babe” at school starts manipulating him for her own nefarious purposes, and his parents’ marriage falls apart. When Nick’s elderly neighbor hints that whatever lurks within “the House” might be the cause of his troubles, he sets out to uncover the truth behind the local Indian legend of the “Eating Monster.” Nick will to have to rely on a band of social outcasts from school—and his looney kid sister—to put his life and family back together again. But even if he survives a close encounter with “the House,” Nick will still need to find a date for the homecoming dance... “A treat for YA readers and horror aficionados alike, The House Eaters turns the haunted house concept on its head with style & a brilliant cast of characters.” — Barry Napier, author, Debris & A Mouth for Picket Fences

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