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Five men decide to kill a boy one summer. But the boy is much more than he seems. Slow and a giant, but there is something nefarious, something terrible just underneath the surface of his vacant eyes. When their plan springs into action they will discover that the trouble they've stumbled into has a cost attached the whole town will have to pay.

Starting almost immediately after the events of The Devil's Gunt, we find Median recuperating in a hospital where Dr. Rick is the chief medical officer. Of course, nothing is as it seems especially after he finds out the woman of his dreams is engaged to marry Dr. Rick. Meanwhile, Mary has finally gotten what she wanted most; the perfect relationship and a baby on the way. But after she begins to regret the cost, she decides to take action against the one who granted her blessing. The devil.

A little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by his drunken father, confessing he'd just murdered the boy's mother. When the twisted semblance of family they have left begins crumbling, his foster sister, a ten year old zombie, begins putting the family back together in a way only the dead can.

I'm Rick. AKA, Beelzebub. AKA, Mephistopheles. AKA, Old Hat. AKA, Mr. Scratch. AKA... AKA... AKA. You may think of me as the Father of Lies, but for the record, I'm also the Daddy of Mammon and Steve. But both of them are b-holes. In fact, all my hellspawn are. So, I got this idea. I wanted to have a kiddo with a human. I had it all lined up for this adult film star to carry my seed, except the demon who shall remain unnamed screwed up and impregnated the wrong person.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That noise in the dead of night. The shadow that slips by almost unnoticed. The fear that pulverizes your sense of reasoning and pushes you deep down under seven layers of covers. There is no escaping it, and when the dark forces of the universe come after you, the world will know exactly what you are made of. Will you run? Will you fight? Maybe you’ll join forces with the darkness that rips through your quiet little life. Everyone’s dying to find out.

In our spine-chilling homage to the late, great Dennis Wheatley and the inimitable Hammer Horror films spawned from his works, HellBound Books presents 20 superlatively satanic stories guaranteed to have you fearing for your very soul. A whole host of hell's denizens skulk within this audiobook, waiting with growing impatience for the brave of heart - or the relentlessly foolhardy - to make their otherworldly acquaintance, so please, do venture inside. If you dare....

Four tales of terror from the author of Fleshbags. Two deputies make a routine yearly stop and get a treat that will last them the rest of their lives. A man trying to bond with his stepson while trick-or-treating welcomes a lone child to join them. A gravedigger discovers a trick that puts his life on the line. And a German officer finds himself trapped in a slowly collapsing building being pursued by the man he just killed.

Gerald Parsons is on his way up. He's a talented executive in line for a major promotion and married to a beautiful woman. But a chance encounter that may not be coincidence with a stranger who claims to know him begins to unravel his happy life. After a coworker is killed and another has his career sabotaged, the stranger shows up at his home, ready to party with his own special news, leaving Gerald to ponder if he is next.

Helena is a widow, recently remarried. But the accidental death of her first husband never set right with her self-described "parapsychic" ability. When residents begin reporting a sea monster around Red Deer Lake, the authorities ignore them. Though they can't ignore people dying in a town that hasn't had a suspicious death in over 30 years, no one except Helena makes a connection between the sea monster and the deaths. And she suspects this all ties into her first husband's disappearance.

From the author of Fleshbags and The Ghost Toucher comes nine tales to scare, tantalize, puzzle, and make you laugh. Through different times and realities, see how the people change within the same four walls.

Two friends who have drifted apart go on an unintended journey when they take a drug that technically turns them into zombies for 72 hours. But near immortal cultists intent on journeying to the other side will stop at nothing to get the "Bloom" back, even if it means taking it from their undead bodies. As the two men run for their unlives, they test the bonds of friendship and learn the whole universe is depending on them. So we're probably screwed.

DeGere is a thief. But stealing has become much too easy for the man of many masks who bides his time between jobs seducing local women into stealing for him. His fence, Manson, gets all the details of his latest conquest, all the while questioning if the stories the thief tells are true. But then the two find out how very dangerous lies can be.

A husband survives an autopsy and his wife has a complaint, a woman experiences existential dread after a police interrogation, twin sisters find the instrument of their father’s ongoing death, and a contestant at a hot dog eating contest won’t stop eating no matter what is in front of him. Also, poems about the withering and revival of love thought to be lost and angels with strange motives—this is a book that will make every listener laugh, cry, and hide every part of their body beneath the covers. This is Rice at his absolute best...