Come. Take our hands. The twilight is dimming, but the moon is bright enough to see by, and it’s the perfect night to go for a walk. We’ll stroll through a cemetery in Exeter to where police officers are dispatched every Halloween and where a one-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire-girl is said to still roam. We’ll wander the wharfs in Jamestown, but mind your footing; the sea is home to all manner of creatures just waiting to break the surface after a thousand-year sleep. And keep an eye on the Romanesque Revival windows of the mansions along Newport’s Cliff Walk; you might catch a glimpse of a silhouette with no earthly reason for being there. In Providence, we’ll stalk the shadowy streets along with the ghosts of transcendentalist poets and jilted lovers, but don’t be surprised to discover that the monsters of Lovecraft’s fiction are not, in fact, the product of his imagination. The capital city has secrets and those secrets have tentacles. And teeth.

Welcome to Rhode Island, home of the weird, the hometown horror, the haunted, the hunted. Home of the Gothic and of horror with history. We promise there’s something here for everyone, whether visiting or already one with the region’s countless legends. Rhode Island is the smallest state but the biggest house of horrors...

And the door is open.

Midnight strikes like an invocation, clock hands joining in prayer to the darkness. After the twelfth chime, there’s no escaping the nightmare.

Fear reigns supreme.

In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror— shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full-throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all-new terrors that consume from without and within.

Midnight is here. It’s now time to find . . . In Darkness, Delight.

Featuring:

• Josh Malerman: One Thousand Words on a Tombstone - Delores Ray
  
• William Meikle: Refuge
  
• Jason Parent: Violet
  
• Ryan C. Thomas: Who Are You?
  
• Mark Matthews: Tattooed All in Black
  
• Evans Light: One Million Hits
  
• Lisa Lepovetsky: Kruze Nite
  
• Israel Finn: The Pipe
  
• Patrick Lacey: In the Ground
• John McNee: Dogsh*t Gauntlet
  
• Michael Bray: Letters
  
• Monique Youzwa: Rules of Leap Year
  
• Billy Chizmar: Mirrors
  
• Espi Kvlt: Pulsate
  
• Paul Michaels: Angel Wings
  
• Andrew Lennon: Run Rabbit Run
  
• Joanna Koch: Every Lucky Penny is Another Drop of Blood
  
  

About Corpus Press:

• Screamscapes: Tales of Terror
  
• Toes Up: Horror to Die For
  
• Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love
  

Halloween horror books from Corpus Press:

• Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories
• Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror
  
• Bad Apples 2: Six Slices of Halloween Horror
  
• Bad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror
  

Shallow Waters—where nothing stays buried.

With 23 Dark Fiction & Horror tales diving beneath the surface of life, death, and the mystery that lies beneath.

Shallow Waters is the official monthly flash fiction challenge hosted by the award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing. Every month a new challenge is posted online, with authors submitting via email. The best submissions are then posted on Crystal Lake’s Patreon page (an exclusive behind the scenes community of readers and authors), where patrons read daily entries and vote for the winner. What you’ll find in these Shallow Waters anthologies include the winners as well as the most popular of our finalists. Stay tuned for more volumes in this series, or find Crystal Lake Publishing on Patreon to enter or vote on future challenges (or gain access to our Still Water Bay series).

Volume five includes suspenseful stories of horror on the road, war, graveyards, Karma, and Halloween.

Includes:
Introduction by Joe Mynhardt
“Driving On” by Guy Medley (winner)
“Dichotomy” by Jason Parent
“Babysitting for Writers” by Kevin David Anderson (winner)
“The Good Samaritan” by L.F. Falconer
“Of Debris and Duty” by John Boden
“The Visitors” by Mark Allan Gunnells
“Twenty Reasons to Stay and One to Leave” by Richard Thomas
“The Knights of Cold Days” by Dave Jeffery
“Travel Bag” by Bryan Miller
“In the Desert, In the Night” by Pedro Iniguez
“Grievance” by Christine Lajewski
“Fuel for My Fire” by Linsey Knerl
“The Dead Lands” by Anthony D Redden
“Welcome to Gothmart” by David Bernard
“The Mascot” by Jennifer K Carstens (winner)
“Wasteland” by Sheldon Woodbury
“All’s Fair” by Michelle Mellon
“Stay Away” by Michael Patrick Hicks
“The Road Home” by Rand Eastwood
“Midnight Sun” by James Dorr
“The Wind Stakes Its Claim” by Kris Kinsella
“The Forest of Skin” by Esteban Vargas
“Second Chance” by Alex Ebenstein (winner)

In this volume…

• Traveling can be a mixed bag...especially when something in your travel bag starts moving.
• A woman journeys north for survival.
• Sometimes, working retail is not the worst part of your day.
• In the desert of New Mexico, ancient Navajo legends emerge, only to discover the cruelty of Man.
• An overachieving woman uses twisted methods to feed her need for turmoil. 
• A trio of Halloween trick-or-treaters learn that sometimes things slip through.
• A cemetery caretaker with a secret gift, a dead body, and the hope of a second chance.
• Grief can change a person. Literally.
• Someone has a bone to pick with the Deacon.
• Sometimes what lies ahead is more frightening than what was left behind. 
• Babysitting can be a tough gig, especially on Halloween
• A father and son venture out into the dead lands to search for the night creatures feasting on the corpses.
• In the distant future an ancient warrior and his ghost ship battle for the fate of the universe.

THIS BOOK DOES NOT INCLUDE A FREE SET OF STICKERS

Haunted Houses have intrigued and terrified the human mind for millennia. From folk tales about remote cabins, to Victorian ghost stories, to Hollywood blockbusters, the iconic crumbling walls and creaking doors have maintained themselves as a staple of horror. Weird House Press has gathered 13 of the finest voices in modern horror to construct and breathe unlife into haunted houses of their own. In these pages you will find cliffside mansions brimming with death, Lighthouses that serve as beacons of madness, and cursed architecture with a mind of its own. Explore abandoned homes with dark secrets and stand face to face with malevolent specters and demoniac spirits.

Stories included in 13 Haunted Houses:

UP ABOVE – RAMSEY CAMPBELL
EDDY BOY – JAMES CHAMBERS
THE BIRDHOUSE – DOUGLAS WYNNE
DEATH PLATE SEATING FOR 1000 – SARAH READ
HOME, SAFE AND SOUND – EMMA J. GIBBON
DEEP DOWN INSIDE – EVANS LIGHT
TEA HOUSE VIGNETTES – SARA TANTLINGER
27 FALSHAM STREET – TONY RICHARDS
GLIMMER – JASON PARENT
RUNNING THE NERVE GHOST – SIMON CLARK
DEATH RATTLE – TIM CURRAN
HONEYMOON IN BURNING BEDLAM – RICHARD GAVIN
THE LAST HAUNTED HOUSE STORY – PHILIP FRACASSI