Enjoy eighteen suspenseful short stories of horror, supernatural, science fiction, thriller and mystery from the author readers have named the new Stephen King. These tales will delight fans of Twilight Zone and lovers of genius twists.Â
These stories plus eight more for you to enjoy, along with Susan May's celebrated From the Imagination Vault, where she takes the reader behind-the-scenes of each story.
THE WAR VETERAN Â For decades, Jack Baker endures flashbacks to that June day on Omaha Beach. Tonight a seventy-year-old secret will come for him.Â
SCENIC ROUTE Â Pam, Michael and their young sons stop overnight at a quaint bed-and-breakfast, not realizing that something is wrong in Broken Springs, Population 402.
WHERE WE ONCE WERE  Tamara dreamed of visiting her ancestors' 1897 time for her PhD research. What she discovers is a secret two hundred years in the making.
GONE  On a rainy night Crystal's husband disappears while fetching their car. Her mind races with terrifying images of his fate. The truth is far more terrible than she can imagine.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE  Mankind's only hope are oxygen conversion plants to support life. All is doomed until THEY come. Now Keriss must face a heartbreaking decision.
THINGS THAT WILL KILL YOU IN AUSTRALIA American tourist and blogger R.P. Kraul has come to Australia prepared for anything. Perhaps not prepared enough.
HIDE-AND-SEEK Â Henry doesn't like playing hide-and-seek. When his siblings find him they are so mean. Until the day he discovers there are worse things than being found.
PROGRAM DELETE  The Intelervate Chip repairs brain-damaged babies better than new, making them superior in other ways. Will this change the balance of society?Â
IT'S IN THE GENES Â Helen struggles to motivate her son to get up on time. But since Brandon has joined his father on late night fishing trips he's changed. Now she discovers why.
BACK AGAIN Â A tragic accident takes Dawn's only child until she finds herself back again living that day. A second chance to save her son but it's not so simple to change fate.
Eight more mind-bending stories in one collection in the style of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, from the creative mind of a best-selling dark thriller author.
"It is impossible to pick a favorite out of these eighteen stories."Â Diane LynchÂ
Award-winning short stories for lovers of Stephen King, Harlan Coben, James Patterson, Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and early Dean Koontz.