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Fear

Fri, 02 Dec 1994 15:58:59 +0200

It was a legend in Fear County... a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods.

But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are true. His best friend Mandy just up and disappeared. He also knows that no one has ever had the courage to go after the monster and put an end to its raging, bestial hunger. Until now.

But Evil is well guarded. And for young Jeb Sweeny, who is about to cross over into the forbidden land of Fear County and the lair of the unknown, passage through the gates of Hell comes with a terrible price. Everlasting...FEAR!

The Halloween Store and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:26:58 +0200

When you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastly costumes and masks of the season, and bags of candy galore. Then, as you travel farther into its shadowy depths, things begin to change. The air smells of damp autumn leaves and candle-scorched pumpkin. The shelves of All Hallows' Eve fare grow darker and more disturbing. Strange and unsettling things of Halloweens past and present lurk amid the cobwebs and dust...

Four trick-or-treaters purchase vintage costumes from a strip-mall shop, only to discover that they must sign a mysterious disclaimer for the Halloween celebration to come...

After a man's missing daughter is found–near death and physically altered–he must once again face a horrifying monster from his own childhood...

A teenage girl hitches a ride after a Halloween rock & roll concert, only to learn that her favorite singing idol has made a pact with the Devil himself...

Three...

Blood Kin

Wed, 06 May 2015 12:04:14 +0300

The vampire curse of the Cravens ended over a century ago when Josiah Craven was buried in an unmarked grave and a stake driven through his heart. But tonight, his ancestors have awakened their Great-Grandpa Craven. They're planning a party in the backwoods of Tennessee. And the folks of Green Hollow are in for the night of their lives. The last night of their lives...

Blood Kin is a story of bloodcurdling terror that will keep you awake long after the lights have been turned out...

Cumberland Furnace & Other Fear Forged Fables

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:16:38 +0200

Seven tales of terror that could only beat in the dark, diseased heart of Dixie...

- An abandoned furnace stands as a monument to cruelty and torture...as well as a gathering place for old ghosts...

- Grandma’s culinary gifts of comfort and compassion contain a special ingredient conjured from the very depths of Hell...

- A man’s stubborn curiosity awakens an insatiable hunger on a lonesome country road...

- A surprise feature plays on the big screen of a drive-in theatre, revealing a town gathering that should have been left in secrecy and darkness...

- Two boys explore a traveler’s mobile museum of cinematic horrors, only to discover that true horror is not always what it first appears to be....

- Grandpa’s Christmas Eve story brings a yuletide visit from a wandering ghost with a long-unfulfilled mission...

- It started out as nothing more than a shortcut home... a detour through a shadowy stretch of forest known as Tanglewood. But what awaited him there, amid the brush and bramble, made a simple flat tire seem like a horrifying journey into madness...

Hell Hollow

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:18:08 +0200

From out of a shadowy backwoods hollow, echoes a dark threat from the past, nearly a century lost and forgotten.

The rural town of Harmony, Tennessee possessed a disturbing secret; a secret so ancient that most of its residents were completely unaware of it. Even the last survivors of a vigilante raid long ago have filed the tragic events of that autumn night away, totally unaware of the evil that remains, dormant, but forever patient, among the tall pines and thick-leaved kudzu of a place known only as Hell Hollow.

There it would have remained, unrevealed, if not for a handful of unknowing participants. Four kids, bored for excitement during one of the hottest summers on record. A killer on the run, dodging his latest atrocity. And a rape victim on a deadly mission – scarred in both body and mind. All have a hand in bringing forth an unspeakable evil from the dark woods of Hell Hollow.

He is a skeletal figure in top hat and tails, brandishing a handful of magical cards and a patented elixir that was brewed in the very depths of Purgatory.

Long Chills

Wed, 27 Nov 2013 02:16:39 +0200

A teenage girl with second sight is brought to an abandoned farmstead to locate the bodies of several abducted children, only to find an entire graveyard beneath her feet. A detour on a rural road reveals a horrifying presence that both deceives and feeds. In ancient Ireland, a young priest suffers bestial dreams linked to the dark legend of a werewolf warrior. A physician with a special talent attempts to keep life and dignity sacred in post-apocalyptic Texas, while a sadistic general works equally hard to destroy it. Two children in a farming camp are terrorized by a demented handyman with a crippled hand and a fondness for well-honed steel. Nuclear fallout brings horrors beyond imagining to a mountain family in the form of rampant mutation, as well deceit and derision among themselves. In Long Chills, acclaimed horror author Ronald Kelly explores the dark hills and hollows of his native South, as well as other disturbing places, with this new collection of thirteen novellas and long fiction stories. The scares are intense and the shadows long and deep as Kelly takes you on lengthy journeys of darkness and depravity, as well as madness and the macabre. Stories in this collection include:
Midnight Grinding
The Spawn of Arget Bethir
Tanglewood
Flesh-Welder
Tyrophex-14
The Seedling
Devil’s Creek
The Winds Within
Of Crows & Pale Doves
A Shiny Can of Whup-Ass
Mojo Mama
Potter’s Field
Evolution Ridge

Timber Gray

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:30:57 +0200

After his family is killed by a pack of rabid wolves, Jefferson Gray survives the horrid disease himself, with the aid of a Cherokee medicine man. But, unfortunately, he can not banish his animosity toward dangerous game, particularly timber wolves. 15 years later, he tackles his greatest challenge… a pack of fifty wolves led by the legendary Cripplefoot. Can he survive?

Flesh Welder

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:16:36 +0200

Chaos reigns supreme. Social and economic upheaval, rampant terrorism, and nuclear annihilation have turned the earth into a vast wasteland. And, in Texas, the gates of Hell have been cracked open, unleashing its evil and fury upon the undeserving. The inhabitants of Ruin Town find themselves unwilling pawns, trapped between warring forces, desperately attempting to survive. Even when the bombing and gunfire cease, they can find no refuge, no relief, for afterwards, Satan himself descends mercilessly upon them... in the form of General Payne and his band of sadistic mercenaries. It is then that the suffering truly begins.Murder, rape, racial intolerance, mutilation... all are heaped upon those who dwell in Ruin Town, if only to feed the General's insatiable lust for power and sadistic pleasure. Afterward, the broken and dying seek out the only one who can deliver them from the horror that their world has become. The one who can miraculously meld flesh to flesh, and bone to bone. He is the healer supreme, the medico grande... the Flesh-Welder.

Hindsight

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:54:39 +0200

Includes the bonus novella "Potter's Field". SIGHT UNSEEN. Little Cindy Ann knew things no one else knew; saw things no one else saw. Ever since she'd nearly died of fever, the gift of second sight had been hers. Only it didn't seem like such a gift when the other children called her a witch and wouldn't play with her. Or when her visions resembled nothing so much as her worst nightmares. DEATH UNDYING. Then her older brother disappeared in the vicinity of the old tobacco barn. And Cindy's visions began to burn with a bloodthirsty relentless hatred. What horrors lay buried in the cold earth of the barn? And how could one innocent little girl hope to fight the terrifying evil - an evil that had taken her brother, and that would now turn on the only witness to its monstrous, merciless crimes...Cindy herself.

Midnight Grinding

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:16:37 +0200

The Dark'Un

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:48:48 +0200

It was passed down from generation to generation. The legend of The Dark'Un, the strange beast that roamed Pale Dove Mountain. The dark monster that no one had ever seen — at least not and lived to tell about it — except, so it was said, old Fletcher Brice who lived at the foot of the mountain. No one really believed in The Dark'Un. It was just a story to make a child's flesh crawl. Until Old Man Brice died. Now, the people of Tucker's Mill, Tennessee, would be forced to believe.

Twilight Hankerings

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:30:55 +0200

Stories of hunger - of "hankerings" - deep south monsters, vampires, werewolves and more from dixie horror writer Ron Kelly, bringing the darkside of the south to his own flavor of horror. This is a brand new collection, only available in digital.

The Sick Stuff

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:30:56 +0200

Dark southern horror from a true master: An old man’s living fluids reveal a horrible secret from his past...A mentally-unstable woman uses a sexual obsession to take an unwilling hostage...Parasites from within, self-vampirism, and spontaneous decay... all stem from a voodoo curse cast upon the unfortunate survivors of a Louisiana family... This is the sick stuff.