Buckle up for a journey into Halloween eternal. OVER 700 PAGES OF HORROR!"Brutal, humorous and utterly terrifying." -Allan Leverone, NY Times and USA Today bestselling authorThis special collection contains all three volumes of the highly rated Bad Apples: Halloween Horror anthologies. Features eighteen novellas and short stories by: Kealan Patrick Burke, Adam Light, Evans Light, Edward Lorn, John McNee, Mark Matthews, Jason Parent, Craig Saunders and Gregor Xane. More than 15% Savings compared to buying each individual volume separately. Contents Include:BAD APPLES: VOLUME ONEHELLNOTES raves: "Thrilling and chilling and nostalgic in all the right places.

Bad Apples: Halloween Horror: The Complete Collection

The Legend Continues. Twenty-four heart-rending tales with elements of terror, mystery, and a nightmarish darkness that knows no end. Welcome to my lake. Welcome to where dreams and hope are illusions.and pain is God.   This anthology begins with Joe R. Lansdale's The Folding Man, one of his darkest stories ever written. Kealan Patrick Burke's Go Warily After Dark pulls us into a desolated world, and reminds us of the price of survival: a guilt that seeps into the marrow. Damien Angelica Walter's Everything Hurts, Until it Doesn't places us in the middle of a family whose secrets and traditions are thicker than blood. Jennifer Loring's When the Dead Come Home explores a loss so dark, that even the stars are sucked into its melancholic vacuum. In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King's short fiction, comes Crystal Lake Publishing's Tales from The Lake anthologies. This fourth volume of Speculative Fiction contains the following short stories:  Jennifer Loring - When the Dead Come Home Joe R. Lansdale - The Folding Man Kealan Patrick Burke - Go Warily After Dark T. E. Grau - To the Hills Damien Angelica Walters - Everything Hurts, Until it Doesn't Sheldon Higdon - Drowning in Sorrow Max Booth III - Whenever You Exhale, I Inhale Bruce Golden - The Withering JG Faherty - Grave Secrets Hunter Liguore - End of the Hall David Dunwoody - Snowmen Timothy G. Arsenault - Pieces of Me Maria Alexander - Neighborhood Watchers Timothy Johnson - The Story of Jessie and Me Michael Bailey - I will be the Reflection Until the End E. E. King - The Honeymoon's Over Darren Speegle - Song in a Sundress Cynthia Ward - Weighing In Michael Haynes - Reliving the Past Leigh M. Lane - The Long Haul Mark Cassell - Dust Devils Del Howison - Liminality Gene O'Neill - The Gardener Jeff Cercone - Condo by the Lake With an introduction by editor Ben Eads. Cover art by Ben Baldwin. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing - Tales from The Darkest Depths.

Tales From The Lake: Volume 4 - Tales from the Lake, #4

Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best. This is Writers On Writing - An Author's Guide, where your favorite authors share their secrets in the ultimate guide to becoming - and being - an author. In this third volume you'll find in-depth essays from authors such as Jonathan Janz, Kealan Patrick Burke, Nerine Dorman, Hal Bodner, Ben Eads, and James Everington. Edited by Joe Mynhardt. "Creating Effective Characters" by Hal Bodner "Fictional Emotions; Emotional Fictions" by James Everington"Home Sweet Home" by Ben Eads"You" by Kealan Patrick Burke"How about them free books, eh? (the art of becoming a book reviewer)" by Nerine Dorman"Treating Fiction like a Relationship" by Jonathan JanzWriters On Writing is an ongoing series of 15, 000 to 20, 000 word eBooks, with original 'On Writing' essays by writing professionals. A new edition will be launched every few months. Writers On Writing give young authors the guidance they need, but has advice for all authors, from the interested newbie to the seasoned veteran (sounds delicious, right?). This ongoing series of essays on the craft of writing will include all topics related to writing fiction, including: The Basics Plot & Structure Voice Theme POV Characterization Dialogue Narrative Creating a bond with your reader Pacing Advanced writing and plotting techniques Writer's block Marketing Branding Publishing Self-publishing Healthy habits Bad habits The Writer's Life eBook formatting Paperback formatting Amazon keywords Writing blurbs and descriptions Cover design & layout Productivity The Classics Short stories Poetry The Writing Process Show don't Tell Self-editing Proofreading Building a solid career Targeting a specific genre Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Sharpening your writing skills Making every word count Deadlines Putting together an Anthology Working with other artists Collaborating Grammar Punctuation Writing for a career Treating it as a business Running a small press Financing your career Keeping track of your royalties Staying motivated Writing movies Writing comics Writing games Building a fan-base Online presence Newsletters Podcasting Author interviews Media appearances Websites Blogging And so much more. Are you ready to unleash the author in you?

Writers on Writing Vol.3 - Writers on Writing, #3

From the Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of THE TURTLE BOY, KIN, and JACK & JILL. Somewhere out west there is a town called Milestone. You will not find it on any map. If you're lucky, you won't find it at all. Once a thriving mining community, the few souls who still dwell there know nothing of hope and everything of damnation. Because Milestone may appear near-death, a ghost town in the making, but it is very much alive. There are the stories of invisible barriers that open and close the borders on a whim, sometimes fatally, the whispers of a man in a top hat who comes cycling up out of the darkness of the abandoned mine to change the fate of the town, the buried music box that summons him, the people with unnatural powers, the old man who counts stacks of pennies and prays they never fall...and the fires that burn brightly with the sounds of screams. Milestone is very much alive, and those unlucky souls trapped within its borders have little choice but to learn the true nature of their prison, or become its latest victim. And even as they fight against the inevitable, the borders continue to expand. Milestone is growing. Included here are the novellas "The Witch", "Saturday Night at Eddie's", "Thirty Miles South of Dry County" and "The Palaver".

Milestone: The Collected Stories - Milestone, #1

When they were kids, Gillian and John used to visit the local cemetery every Sunday after church. It was a curious place for children to frequent, but they had their reasons. The main attraction was the lofty hill that separated the cemetery from the elementary school, and the act of tumbling down it like Jack and Jill was a ritualistic escape from the abuse they were suffering at their father's hands. It was an escape that lasted only until John's tragic death. Now, Gillian is all grown up. Married with two children, she has managed over the years to force the trauma of her nightmarish childhood into the darkest recesses of her mind. But lately there are dreams, and in them Gillian sees impossibly vivid reenactments of the horrors she endured as a child. Nightly, she sees John die all over again, only not in the way she remembers. And something else is in those dreams, stalking her, a terrible figure with wire-hanger hands and a plastic bag wrapped around its rotten face. A monster whose reach starts to extend beyond the boundaries of sleep into the waking world, threatening everything Gillian holds dear. A monster she once called Daddy.

Jack & Jill

The perfect getaway... The perfect place to hide... Hocking Hills, Ohio is an oasis for campers, hikers, nature enthusiasts, and for those who just want to get away and lose themselves in the wild. And as long as you follow your guide's advice and stay within the permitted areas, you can expect to survive the night. Because deep within the dark woods, something insidious awaits, something few have ever seen, something ancient, unknowable, and insatiable. If you go down to these woods today, you won't live to see the sunrise... A brand new novella from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY and KIN.

The Tent

The fourth volume in the award-winning Timmy Quinn series. At eleven years of age, strange things started to happen to a boy named Timmy Quinn. His ordinary life was abruptly thrown into chaos by the revelation that there exists a separate plane of existence reserved solely for the vengeful spirits of the murdered: The Curtain. Worse, Timmy is a conduit for these monstrous entities, allowing them to walk freely between worlds to exact their brutal vengeance. His search for answers has taken him halfway around the world, forcing him to endure many horrors, among them the revelation that the spiritual realm known as The Stage may have been man-made, and that the dead do not operate of their own free will, but are instead influenced by an enigmatic figure known only as "Peregrine."About this man, Timmy knows nothing. But he will learn, and in time, he will come to know Peregrine as an adversary worse than the vengeful dead. This is Peregrine's Tale. This edition includes two bonus short stories and an excerpt from the final volume NEMESIS.

Peregrine's Tale - The Timmy Quinn Series, #4

An omnibus collection of four novellas by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke (Kin, The Turtle Boy). Featured in this book are:THE TENTThe perfect getaway... The perfect place to hide... Hocking Hills, Ohio is an oasis for campers, hikers, nature enthusiasts, and for those who just want to get away and lose themselves in the wild. And as long as you follow your guide's advice and stay within the permitted areas, you can expect to survive the night. Because deep within the dark woods, something insidious awaits, something few have ever seen, something ancient, unknowable, and insatiable. If you go down to these woods today, you won't live to see the sunrise... YOU IN?For years the Wickerwood Inn has stood abandoned, home to nothing but dust and the trapped echo of past celebrations...and tragedy. For a down on his luck ex-gambler, the inn's reputation is a thing of myth, and certainly not reason enough to turn down the first paying job to come his way in months. The inn will soon be renovated in preparation for a new lease on life. So tonight, from midnight till six, Peter Haskins will watch over the machinery. And he will soon discover that there is something else in the hotel with him, something that needs no new lease on life, for it has never died. And never will. SELDOM SEEN IN AUGUSTWade Crawford is not a good guy. He's a bank robber and a ruthless killer, and now three people are dead and Wade is on the run. With the cops hot on his heels, he breaks into a seemingly ordinary house in a seemingly ordinary neighborhood to hide and wait on word from his partner. But this neighborhood is far from ordinary. Indeed it has a very specific purpose, and soon Wade will discover that life in prison would be preferable to the hellish torment Seldom Seen has in store for him. MIDLISTERSMeet Jason Tennant, a writer of violent horror novels whose career is mired firmly in a maddening swamp of frustration somewhere north of nowhere and south of success. He is a midlister, those thankless souls who labor in the shadows of sometimes better, sometimes luckier writers, and it's starting to take its toll. Meet Kent Gray, wildly popular author of a string of so-called "sex-fi" novels. He's wealthy, handsome, and the object of Jason Tennant's professional jealousy. Welcome to Baltimore, Maryland, and the Aurora Science Fiction & Horror Convention, where these two men, midlister and bestseller, will meet for the first time, and the midlister motto "Better Read Than Dead" will be put to the ultimate test.

The Novellas

Regarder dans l'abîme par Richard Thomas est un livre exceptionnel, une grippe de tapisserie de vies brisées et de rêves brisés, de fantasmes sombres et de réflexions sombres. C'est l'une des meilleures collections à auteur unique que j'ai eu le plaisir de lire ces dernières années et, en tant que tel, obtient ma plus haute recommandation. C'est aussi un excellent témoignage d'un talent que je soupçonne que nous allons entendre beaucoup plus, et bientôt.

La seule chose mieux qu'une superbe collection d'histoires SpinEchilling, est une superbe collection d'histoires spinochlanling accompagnées d'illustrations tout aussi troublantes, et à cet égard, vous auriez du mal à trouver un meilleur exemple que dans l'état de la menthe: 2013. En le lisant, j'ai découvert des écrivains et des artistes qui m'incarnent auparavant qui sont maintenant très élevés sur mon radar, et ils devraient être tout aussi haut sur le vôtre.

L'horreur elle-même est un peu un genre intimidé, l'antagoniste étant un snobisme littéraire et une idée fausse publique. Et je pense que la bonne horreur aborde nos peurs les plus sombres, quels qu'ils soient. Il nous emmène dans l'esprit des victimes, explore les menaces, diffuse la peur, étudie comment elle nous change. Il recule le rideau sur le vilain vilain de la société, déchire les masques que les monstres portent dans le monde, nous montre la vérité potentielle de la condition humaine. L'horreur est la vérité, sans faille et honnête. Tout le monde ne veut pas voir cela, mais une bonne horreur garantit qu'il est là pour être vu.

Avec Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik insuffle son histoire de métamorphe, de romance et de rivalité de pack avec des surprises inattendues et bienvenues. La prose fluide, le gore à gogo et les personnages humains trop bien, font de cette nouvelle inhabituelle et rapide un must pour les fans qui aiment leur horreur servaient de rare sanguin.

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