PSYCHOLOGICAL CUTTING-EDGE TERROR WITH A   WICKED TWIST!

A TURN OF THE SCREW!

 

F. Paul Wilson ... Tim Lebbon ... Ramsey Campbell ...Tina L. Jens ... Robert Weinberg ... Mort Castle ... Nancy Kilpatrick ... Sephera Giron ... Thomas Deja ... J. Knight these along with other masters of suspense plunge you into their corkscrew world of hateful revenge, uncertain fate, and finally--panic. You drift deeper and deeper, tumbling into THE BLACK SPIRAL.

 

In twenty maximum-fear-factor tales of suspense you'll encounter... Elvis rising from the grave to wreak havoc on a rap group who's been sampling his songs ... the uncertainty of crossing over into the shadowy world of the near death experience ...  a writer who finds himself hunted like a character in the pages of his own screenplay ... a young couple who think theyve found their dream home that is, until they learn of its blood-soaked past ... a seductive vixen who uses her voluptuous body as bait as she prowls the Goth scene's nightlife looking for fresh meat, leading to an orgiastic night that guarantees eternal life for Vanessa and her all-consuming passions ... lust-filled ghosts who covet and  seduce unsuspecting women as they sleep ...  a beautiful, hard-driving  femme fatale who's on the run in the dusty heart of the Arizona Desert and races the devil for pink slips, and a serpent-handling, traveling preacher man who unwittingly makes a pact with "Old Mr. Scratch"  himself.

 

These stories are at once eerie and haunting, chilling and nightmarishly brilliant.  Guaranteed to prickle your skin with gooseflesh, and keep you reading until the wee hours of dawn.

 

 

 THE BLACK SPIRAL: TWISTED TALES OF  TERROR!

  

 

A FINGERNAILS-ON-THE-BLACKBOARD   THRILLFEST !

 

 

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Robert Weinberg and Tina L.Jens--"ELVIS CAN'T DANCE"

 

Gnashing his teeth, Elvis pushed open the lid of his coffin and sat up. Angrily, he reached over and shut off the nearby radio, cutting off the song in mid-play. There was a limit to what even the dead could stand. And a rap group sampling his songs was two steps over the line.

 

 

F.Paul Wilson--"CUTS"

 

LA screenwriter Milo Johnson is having a bad day. The studio is busting his chops over his latest adaptation of a horror novel.  More sex and violence they say.  And even worse, he awakens to find his body riddled with abrasions and welts. Before his doctor can make a psychiatric referral for self-mutilation, Milo discovers the awful truth ... revenge is the dish best eaten cold.

 

Tim Lebbon--"FELL SWOOP"

 

Jack groaned and raised himself up on one elbow, closing his eyes to try to purge his mind of hallucination and pain.  When he opened them again the man was still there, hands resting on knees, long hair hanging over one shoulder in a ponytail.  His eyes were black and he was staring directly at Jack.

      "Wake up," the naked man said.  It's going to be a hell of a day.

 

. . . and Jack turned and ran back down the sideroad he had emerged from, seeking the sightless, soundless blank oblivion of the previous night.

            "I'll find you," Rook had said.  The stranger who wore his face.

 

Derrick Douglas--DEAD HEAT

 

If looks could kill, they'd look like Madison Chase; blonde, appealing, deadly:

 

As the speedometer needle shivered past ninety, Madison squinted anxiously through the bug-splattered windshield of the stolen Shelby Mustang Cobra. The tour bus loomed on her right...

 

The driver turned toward her, sunlight glinting off his Ray-Bans, and suddenly pulled hard left. The bus careened across the centerline--pummeling the side of the muscle car with a glancing blow.

 

Her teeth shook with the force of the collision.

 

Tortured sheet metal shrieked and buckled.

 

As the steering wheel was nearly ripped from Madison's hands, she wrestled it and held tight as the pony car lurched onto the shoulder, kicking up gravel that sprayed noisily against the undercarriage.  The steering wheel shook, sending bone-numbing vibrations up her arms.

 

Time and the world blurred into slow motion.

 

Dont hit the brakes, foot off the gas, her mind coached matter-of-factly as experience overruled panic.

 

Regaining control, Madison hitched the wheel to the right and plunged back onto the blacktop.  She stood on the gas, double-clutching through the gears, sending all 390-ft. lbs. of torque to the rear axle, which caused the Mustang's tail end to whip violently as she closed the distance in seconds.

 

Frantically, her eyes searched the dash gauges. They read normal. "Good boy, Frank," she said, praising the Cobra's stamina. "Now lets frag their ass!"

As she tucked the Mustang tight on their butt and eased off the gas, the throaty bark of the dual exhaust empowered her.  With unblinking eyes, she took in the red custom-painted letters scrawled across the back of the bus that read:

 LEGION

 

 

Richard D. Weber-- WOMAN-CHILD

 

Now, as she lay in bed, her button-down nightshirt riding high on her firm thighs, her legs propped up, she gave Capt. Wiggly a horsy-back ride. "Ride a cock horse to Mulberry bush . . . ride a cock horse on . . ." she sang.

With each bounce of her knees, the inseam of the little clown's pants bulged slightly at the crotch.

She yawned and reached over, extinguishing the light.

"Good night, Capt. Wiggly." As she began to drift into sleep, Phoebe pulled her legs into the fetal position, snuggling the clown firmly between her thighs.

Concealed by the cloak of darkness, Capt. Wiggly smiled like the serpent in the Garden of Eden.  His form shape-shifted, elongating, stretching, rippling beneath the covers.

 Coming in October 2003 ....

ISBN  1-897013-221