It's 1997. Sullivan Carter is now an apprentice at Carter & Sons Funeral Home, and his life has settled down considerably. Until his younger brother, Colton, opens a door to the afterlife in their new home, that is. A ghostly child now cries inconsolably from somewhere within the walls of the house. A tall, spindly shadow man who belongs in a forgotten children's rhyme creeps through rooms after dark. And a spate of gruesome deaths in the village coincides with reported sightings of a beast that prowls the streets at night. Can Sullivan save the entire village by solving a decades' old mystery and closing the otherworldly door left open by Colton? Or will the darkness from last year, the darkness he'd rather forget, destroy him? Because some things from the cundy will not rest.

** A short horror story of 3600 words. On Monday night Faye finds that her mattress is broken. She doesn’t know how it happened, it was fine the night before. When she buys a new mattress from a backstreet bed shop, awful things she could never have imagined begin to emerge. Things that make her flesh crawl. Can she possibly make a horrific situation work to her advantage? Or is the cosy life she was used to over for good? **

A short horror story of 4200 words. When Dempsey accidentally kills her uncle she’s a little bit shocked to say the least, but she’s more shocked about the fact she’s gone into early labour. As she battles through contraction pains and wonders what to do with Uncle Dorchester’s body, she’s filled with dread when she realises that Uncle Dorchester’s two best mates, Ralfie and Jonesy, witnessed the whole incident. Now, for the sake of her baby, Dempsey prepares to do anything she can to get away with murder…