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A dangerous wave of madness is sweeping across a city. A young girl becomes the conduit for a haunted house. An abandoned theater is the gateway to a darker world. Do you believe in ghosts? You will. This collection of the best stories from award-winning NoSleep horror author Kyle Harrison will have you questioning your sanity while you keep the light on while listening to the book.

Welcome to Anoka, Minnesota, a small city just outside of the Twin Cities dubbed “The Halloween Capital of the World” since 1937. Here before you lie several tales involving bone collectors, pagan witches, werewolves, skeletal bison, and cloned children. It is up to you to decipher between fact and fiction as the author has woven historical facts into his narratives.

How do you carry on when life has taken everything? When death has touched you, so personally, so deeply, so powerfully. How do you carry on, when the future has been stolen by the birdsong? Nothing is as it seems in this nightmare world.

Before you is a tome of twisted tales that will tug on your heartstrings...while ripping them to shreds! Play a game where you bet your life on an unimaginable fortune. Visit a neighborhood that is suspiciously unwelcoming of outsiders. Watch as terrifying unwanted visitors stalk through apartment buildings and family homes.

I wish I could say that when Benson and his gang showed up we drew on some previously unknown strength and kicked their Rich Kid asses; that we chased them all the way back to their fancy cars and tucked and rolled seats and kicked in their doors and fenders; although we really would do that later, not to them personally but to guys like them, in those dog days immediately after high school - when Orley had yet to join the army and I’d yet to lose my mother, and LA was just a twinkle in Kevin’s eye.

Now that the smoke had cleared, she saw that the bulge had burst open, and was hollow. Reams of tree sap dribbled from its fracture. She stared at it as piano music tiptoed up the hall - Maggie's radio, no doubt - resonating eerily amidst the sterile walls. In addition to strands of weeping willow leaves, there were flowers, ferns, lilies, mushroom stools - she knew they hadn't been there before. Taken together, the branches almost formed a human shape - with shaggy shoulders and a mane of green hair - in profile.

A collection of short, disgusting, and mentally disturbed zombie stories for the Internet age. Concise, bittersweet, and stomach-churning, this collection of disgusting, horrifying, and psychological thriller-based zombie stories is the result of a challenge. One night, Kyle Clements and I decided we should write a novella. We came up with the idea of writing stories based on a weekly challenge. The stories that came out of the challenge are the most terrifying, depraved, sincere, and utterly unreadable works we could have hoped for.

"Goldie and Buzzy" tries to help parents teach their children the dangers of cigarette-smoking and vaping. It's all from personal experiences and personal opinions. Nothing to do with what the news has said about smoking and vaping, nor what doctors have said. "The Sleep Stalker" is about Danny, who is a popular writer who is thrown into a world of darkness and murder. "Gray in Light" and "Welcome Asylum" are two song lyrics I have written myself.

A short allegory. A letter to humanity. Teetering on the edge of truth and fiction. You might even say a Tale of Reality.

In the middle of a brutal winter night, five strangers are drawn to a Chicago bar by a mysterious invitation. Why are they there? What compelled them to go? As the night unfolds, the reason becomes clear. But can these strangers go on living with what they now know?

From mind to paper, from paper to book, finally, now, I have decided to publish this audiobook. An audiobook with short stories, poems, and song lyrics that I myself have written.

Wild Monsters Dance About is a collection of 21 short stories that will take into author M.J. Sewall’s unruly mind. These finely tuned tales jump through genres, concepts and characters, predicaments, adventures, and conundrums. Whether about everyday-science going terribly wrong in "Unintended Science" to animal evolution suddenly speeding up in "It Finally happened" or the prickly family politics of road trips in "Sibling Warfare", these stories will thrill, delight, and discombobulate your imagination.

Featuring season two of Jae El’s popular flash fiction, along with several new and previously unreleased tales, this volume brings the focus of the genres to the forefront. Whether your literary tastes are for alien invaders, unusual planets, dystopian futures, artificial intelligence, technology, cannibalistic tribes, kindly witches, people seeking revenge, or even kids with a curiosity over where babies come from, you’ve come to the right place.

At what point does coincidence turn into something else? Annika and Brody, two strangers online in a cancer support message group, are about to find out. When so many things line up, when the very stars seem to align in the sky, it can’t be anything else but synchronicity.

Edgar Allan Poe proposed that “the boundary line between instinct and reason is of a very shadowy nature” (1840). With its 21 stories of serial killers and sociopaths, fixations and fetishes, breakdowns and bad decisions crafted by authors as diverse as their writing styles, Shadowy Natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treacherous roads to destinations they will be too unsettled to leave.

Are you in for a treat? Get ready for six terrifying tales that will keep you up at night....

In the title novella, a third-rate American playwright named Landau attends a literary conference in Prague, where an organized group excursion to a former concentration camp degenerates into a battle of wills and an exercise in egomania and public humiliation. Nina, the heroine of the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," is sent to Paris to write an article for her lover's travel journal - a dizzying, erotic pilgrimage that forces her to see how sex has distorted her view of the world.

In this age of technology, video games, and texting, families have lost contact with each other and have created a world within themselves. Parents are too busy with their jobs making money to buy more technology to entertain their children. The children are wrapped up in their cell phones continuously texting to their friends, oblivious to their family around them. Growing up before the age of computers, I had the opportunity to experience the old fashion art of storytelling. I would like to believe that this art has not been forgotten but has only taken a back seat to progress.