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"These tales are top class horror with a smile, which is just as scary as a scowl or a snarl." -Maynard Sims, author of the DCI Jack Callum series "A collection of horrific gems to curl up with on a dark night. Just make sure all the lights are on. Oh, and that you know where your cat is." -Catherine Cavendish, author of The Devil Inside Her and Waking the Ancients Welcome to Tornado Alley, where the tales are as dangerous and as twisted as the storms that ravage the great plains of Kansas. Here, you'll meet an arachnophobe whose plans for a romantic weekend become a nightmare far worse than anything she could ever have imagined. Holidays are all about food and family, but this year there's a darkness hovering over Don Carmelo's Thanksgiving feast. A hen-pecked husband finally decides to heed his wife's advice to man up and become a man, but will she like the changes in her husband? They say you should never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Harv Perkins is about to find out what it's like to not only walk in another man's shoes, but to wear his skin as well. Ding, dong, the witch is dead, that's what the residents of Beckham County are proclaiming. But down in the morgue, something is stirring. All these and more! Eleven tales to thrill and chill you!

Suffer the little children to come unto me… and be like goats in my paradeThe city of Portland, Maine, is preparing for a parade to end all parades, one that will usher in a thousand years of darkness. The only thing is, they don't know it. Four strangers will engage each other on the Devil's battlefield and fight not only for the future of the city, but for the entire world. Warren Pembroke, Satan's Chosen One. He has been charged with making sure everything goes according to the Dark Lord's plan. Svetlana Barnyk, a gypsy street performer cursed with the Gift of Sight. She lives in fear of the day when Zee Doctor will return to reclaim the gift he bestowed on her. "Tobacco Joe" Walton, an ex-con who served a 43-year term for committing a savage crime in the name of Justice. He is seeking redemption, but Ol' Scratch has other plans for him. Erik Marsh, a crime beat reporter driven to the edge by the atrocities man has committed against his fellow man. All he wants is to preserve his sanity and spend time with his son. Will they be able to defeat the Devil and stop the Goat Parade, or will the world be plunged into an age of darkness and endless suffering?

Lake Livingston: August, 1961.Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at the hands of giggling teenage girls.But the piney woods above Lake Livingston are dark at night, and hold many secrets for an impressionable youngster on the cusp of becoming a man. And one night, after skinny dipping in the lake with a mysterious local girl, Mark Gaitlin's life takes a crazy turn into the fire and brimstone religion of backwoods snake handlers and abandoned villages haunted by old family secrets. If he can survive the snakes and the ghosts and his own family's dark history, he just might make it out of the woods alive.And something else...he just might become a man.

You Can't Outrun Your Past… …as Cady is about to find out. Years ago, Cady was involved in an accident, one that claimed the life of a young woman, but due to a technicality, he was cleared of any charges against him. Once free, he fled to the other side of the country, hoping to start fresh.NightmaresNow, he's on his way to meet his girlfriend's uncle, her only living relative. Nervous doesn't begin to describe how he feels. He's terrified his worst nightmare might come true-that they'll question him about that accident. He'll soon learn there are worse things to be worried about.First, there are the centipedes…Second, there's the prison cell…