Böcker av Grant Palmquist

When their friend Keith dies, little do Owen and Steve know their suspicions of foul play will lead them deep into a maze of illusions, secrets, and desires, that the search for truth will take them beyond the outer world and into a haunting inner world-behind the surface of reality, beyond what be can seen and heard, deep inside nightmares and dreams, within delusions and visions, past the veneer of an illusory world and into a valley of darkness. And submerged in that vale of darkness Sacred Witchery will cast its spell on them... and you.

Bullied and blackballed, eighteen-year-old Stephanie Zeller lives a lonesome life of misery in the hopeless world of Houston, Texas. She daydreams of boyfriends, popularity, and love without a clue how to get them. For who could love a girl so ugly, nerdy, and boring? If only Stephanie were beautiful, everything would be different. Boys would desire her, girls would fight for her friendship, and she'd have a life worth living. But that's only a dream, so far out of reach she can barely imagine it... On a Friday night in a fit of loneliness, Stephanie searches for someone who can see her inner beauty, and in a dimly lit club she meets a mysterious man named Adrian who invites her to a party that could change her life... Stephanie's greatest desire is waiting to take hold of her, transform her, and make her dreams a reality... but it will come at a cost so great she may never recover. Part Carrie and part The Hellbound Heart, Feral Beauty is a coming-of-age horror tale that Stephen King and Clive Barker fans can't afford to miss-particularly if you're one who keeps a light on when darkness falls.

Hope has eluded Ray Reznick ever since his wife died in a car accident and left him alone with his only son. Ray's tried every trick in the book to meet a special woman who might save him from his loneliness, but she remains elusive, just out of reach... until a magical old friend named Ben who rescued Ray from his forlorn childhood comes to visit. Ben has the power to take Ray to a special place where loneliness and heartache die, a place that can lead Ray to the truth... but can also destroy him. In Ben's world nothing is as it seems, for this world is just a waiting station for a truth that lies beyond the grave, beyond heaven and hell... in Horrors and Dreams.

In a distant future, Stan works at a dead-end job, handcuffed to his desk, forbidden to look out the window. His life seems hopeless till he meets Meredith, a coworker who harbors secrets about this world and the next, secrets that could make his life worth living... Thus begins Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, eight mind-bending tales of madness. In "Aphelion," we meet a man who receives strange messages through his laptop, messages that turn him into a creative genius and make time disappear; in "Parting Sorrows," an old man has a fling with a sexy young girl he meets online, but there's something strange about her; in "Flaming Butterfly," a young man is abducted and forced into another world, where he becomes a slave. In Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, Grant Palmquist explores that elusive part of the mind where reality and insanity meet. These surreal, unsettling tales will leave their mark on you-permanently.

WHAT'S MORE FRIGHTENING THAN DEATH? Sterling Davis is careening through his hedonistic life of drugs, sex, and money headlong, leaving a dust trail of decadence behind him. On his path of debaucheries, Sterling begins a carnal game of seduction with a secret admirer that takes him from heavenly pleasure to hellish pain...and unlocks a door to evils he never knew existed, unspeakable horrors that send him spinning into a macabre world where a grisly game of terrors awaits him... And so begins Sterling's descent into the heart of darkness... A harrowing journey through a treacherous wasteland. A torturous struggle for survival. Surrounded by endless savagery, cruel barbarity, and the most lurid of temptations. To save himself from damnation Sterling Davis will have more than hell to pay... Dirge is a terrifying, edge-of-your-seat thriller that takes you on a heart-stopping ride from the dizzying heights of ecstasy to the bowels of hell itself. YOU'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT...

The first time Nick Northfield saw a demon was the summer of 1988 in Houston, Texas, when he was nine years old. It wouldn't be the last. . . . On the outside, Nick has everything a kid could want: a Nintendo with plenty of games, two good friends, and an unrequited crush whose interest in him might be growing. His mom always told him, "Count your friends on one hand and call yourself lucky," and Nick always listened. But something is wrong on the inside, for he's having haunting visions, nightmares that cause him to wake up screaming, and thoughts that he's different than other kids and very much alone. And not long after his first sighting of a demon, he sees another. . . . On the opposite side of town, Sal Burke helps operate his family's candy store by day, and by night embarks upon a vicious killing spree, eager to watch his fame around town grow. And it does, as the town soon grows wary of the vicious murderer known only as the Pied Piper. Now Sal is opening a new candy store in Nick's part of town . . . and horror will soon follow. Beware, the Pied Piper is coming to town, and he's bringing his lust for murder and mayhem with him. The Seer is a terrifying novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat . . . and up till morning.

A tyrannical nation... A broken man... An extraordinary dystopian adventure... In Azure, history has been erased, drones populate the skies, androids and cops patrol the streets, walls have been erected to keep the people in, and the threat of execution looms for even the pettiest of crimes. Asher Cain is a beaten man, close to dead. His wife and son are gone, lost to him forever. All he has left is his job as a drone operator, to which he clings desperately. But one day everything changes, and Asher finds himself targeted as a transgressor, on the run from the law, seeking a way out of the nation he once helped to keep secure. To make it out of Azure alive, he'll have to find the courage to face the fears hiding within himself... and confront his haunting past. Azure is a fast-paced, eerie vision of the future that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of sheer adventure.

Seventeen-year-old Norman thought he'd hit the jackpot when he met Zach, trading his boring straight-A lifestyle for one filled with parties, drugs, and more girls than he ever imagined he'd meet in his lifetime. But there's something dangerous about Zach, something not quite right. For Zach has a dark secret, that once revealed will drag his newfound sidekick into a nightmare world mired in death and destruction. Be wary of strangers and careful what you wish for. Sometimes A Song After Dark can be chilling to hear.