Gregor Xane

In The Hanover Block, you witnessed men doing nasty things on their lawns, the perverse pleasures they enjoy alone in their backyard sheds, workshops, and garages. But what of the women, the wives, the church lady down the block, the home care nurses, the widows and daughters and sisters and mothers? Women are doing strange things behind closed doors. Why are their curtains drawn? Why are their basements off-limits? What dark secrets are they trading at prayer circles on Sunday nights? And now shadowy government agents in dark suits are rapidly closing in, asking these same questions. The brides are coming...

Halloween horror, dark fiction and suspense short stories. Carve your pumpkins and turn on the porch light, Halloween frights begin with the sound of... Doorbells at Dusk. Doorbells at Dusk is a treasury of brand-new Halloween tales from both modern masters and rising stars of dark fiction, horror and suspense. Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their first taste of terror, the discovery and overcoming of fears. For those who find they love a good scare, that first taste can grow into a voracious appetite. That might be why you're looking at this book right now. If so, you've come to the right place. These are the thrills you crave, packed into a collection that's pure Halloween. Featuring stories by: Sean Eads Amber Fallon Charles Gramlich Joanna Koch Curtis M. Lawson Lisa Lepovetsky Adam Light Evans Light Chad Lutzke Josh Malerman Jason Parent Thomas Vaughn Joshua Viola Ian Welke Gregor XaneAbout Corpus Press: Corpus Press is a publisher of horror and weird fiction, specializing in modern pulp that emphasizes plot over gore. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the press has garnered praise from SCREAM Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Horror Novel Reviews, Hellnotes and others for its Bad Apples: Slices of Halloween Horror series, the anthology Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love, and for its short story collections and novellas. Horror anthologies and collections from Corpus Press: Screamscapes: Tales of TerrorToes Up: Horror to Die ForDead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted LoveHalloween horror books from Corpus Press: Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween StoriesBad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween HorrorBad Apples 2: Six Slices of Halloween HorrorBad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror

Bill likes booze. He likes women. But he doesn't like to work. Luckily for Bill, if he plays the lottery, he wins. Every single time. What happens when a low-life starts living the high life? What happens when a deadbeat loser becomes the luckiest man alive? He draws some unwanted attention, naturally, from dark and powerful forces, and before he knows what's what, his days on Earth are numbered. Bill's luck just ran out.

Living in the long shadow of a tragic accident, Marion struggles through his solitary suburban life. He's resigned himself to a static existence, to living and dying in a world where every house looks exactly the same. Then he notices changes in his neighborhood. Tool sheds and playhouses are cropping up all over, hastily constructed and set at odd angles. The nutjob down the road builds an outhouse in the middle of his front yard, and the guy right next door is erecting two geodesic climbing domes, one nested inside the other. People are doing strange things on their lawns.