Terry M. West

"Right down to the title, which could have been lifted from a lost episode, Don't The Monsters All Get Scarier At Closing Time reads like a darker, more violent episode of the Twilight Zone."-Beauty in RuinsCould you love something so hideous and offensive that it made you ill to look at it? If you travel to a little dive called Violet's Tavern in Pasadena, you are apt to hear that question from Violet herself. But whatever you do, don't give her an answer. And don't tell her your sins. Especially after closing time.

Prepare to scream forever Howie Payne and Nick Enlow work the midnight shift at Big Carl's Video Transfer and Media Services. An odd AVI clip begins to appear in their public drive on a nightly basis. At first Howie and Nick think it's a serialized art house horror film someone on the day shift is sending them in secret. As the clips progress, however, the now obsessed duo discover something deeper and darker in the videos. Horror author Terry M. West would like to introduce you to the Green Room and its primary occupant, The Screamer.

"Terry M. West lays down his own rebellious medium with a dark picture of the future if man can't get along and continues to keep on the blinders."-Chad Lutze, The Ginger Nuts of Horror"HE SHALL MAKE THE WORLD GREAT AGAIN " Hundreds of years after the great cataclysm, the Ministry of the 45th survive in a network of scientific bunkers. The last bastion of the old holy order, the 45th are bent on rebuilding the scorched earth and eliminating God's enemies. The Ministry wages a war against the mutant topsiders that occupy the dead states of the Soviet Union of America. Defending the 45th are the Red Guard, genetically engineered soldiers who are programmed to obey through their lifebrand. Dr. Morgan is a serviceman for Unit 468 of the Red Guard. His lifebrand being medicine, Dr. Morgan is the longest surviving field medic to serve. But Dr. Morgan is a deeply conflicted man with violent fantasies that contradict his pledge to preserve life. After escaping an abduction by the topsiders, Dr. Morgan's faith is cracked. During a furlough in the high Chancellor's bunker, Dr. Morgan is hailed a hero and taken off the front lines. But he soon realizes that someone has altered his lifebrand and lifted the veil that concealed the greatest deception ever perpetrated. Dr. Morgan has just become the most dangerous man in the wastelands. And when he discovers who the real enemy is, the revelation unleashes a fury strong enough to destroy what is left of the earth.

"It is a wonderful tale told in the form of a screenplay, a sultry and lurid screenplay. Oozing character and harking back to the heyday of 80's horror. Gore, skin, sex, drugs and a broken hero you can root for, Dead Aware has it all."-Zachary Walters, The Eyes of Madness Before the GATE 4 series, there was DEAD AWARE. Dunlavey, the broken "P. I. with a third eye," exists in the dark shadows of New York City. Stricken by a sex magic ritual gone awry, an attempt to open his third eye, Dunlavey is cursed with horrifying visions and glimpses of hell itself. He uses this dark gift to assist the NYPD with any case that is deemed occult or unusual in nature. Constantly on a bad acid trip, Dunlavey drowns his pain in booze, drugs, and dangerous women. In DEAD AWARE, transients are being heinously killed and reassembled in a way that Dunlavey has never seen in his researches. As Dunlavey is drawn into the case, he soon realizes that the killer is aware of him, and able to strike out at him through his visions.

"Terry M. West hits the splatterpunk sub-genre with an atomic blast... a deliciously macabre and dangerously dark magnum opus by one of the most prolific writers in the horror industry. West's prose flows like a pregnant river after a storm. It billows and blooms with unsettling imagery and nihilistic subtext." Renier Palland, Horror Novel ReviewsWARNING: This story contains scenes of graphic gore and violence. Hunger knows no friend but its feeder... De onheilige honger (the unholy hunger) is a curse passed from a Dutch trapper in 1679. Those given the bite that never heals live forever, remember little of their previous lives, and every season they must partake of human flesh. They must eat. To the bone. They have been called many names. Boeman. Rakshasas. Wendigo. They are the eaters. And they live among us. RAVENOUS: De Onheilige Honger collects two of the most disturbing tales of Terry M. West's career. They are presented here together for the first time.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder... Tarrytown, NYWinter 1679Willem Tenner is a God-fearing Dutch wheat farmer. After he and his family take in a half-dead old man that has come to their doorstep, a violent and gory nightmare that will last for an eternity begins. Basilius De Vries is an undying creature. He consumes Willem's family and curses the wheat farmer with the bite that never heals. De onheilige honger. The eternal hunger. Piermont, NYWinter 1997Willem Tenner works at a video store and has few friends. He has lived many lives since 1679. He doesn't know what he is. He doesn't even know the name for it. When the hunger comes, he picks victims who have already given their lives away: Junkies, hookers, criminals. He will soon have to abandon this life and start again before people notice that he doesn't age. Willem had thought himself the only monster on this endless, ravenous trek through time. But he was wrong. An enemy has come for him. And the monster plans on tearing Willem's life, body, and soul apart. WARNING: This story contains scenes of graphic gore and violence.

"Dark, sadistic, twisted, demented, disturbing, and with an ending that holds no punches. This my friends is a horror masterpiece..." -Joey's Horror Corner "So it's a love story then? Well if you regard love as dark, twisted and violently vengeful then this is the sort of romance that will appeal to you - it certainly appealed to me."-Stuart Anderson, UK Horrorscene This expanded special edition features a new introduction from the author and a gallery of freak show art painted by Mr. West himself. HAIR AND BLOOD MACHINE is a noir, pulp thriller. It is a romance from the heart of hell. Johnny Brendan is a small town youth recovering from the loss of his parents. After suffering a psychotic breakdown, Johnny tries to rebuild his life and sanity. He goes to a carnival where he meets Cleadosia, The Gorilla Girl. Clea is a beautiful but hard and cold carnie with her own secrets. Clea sees the dark potential in Johnny, and she helps him unleash his violent inner demons on the town.

New cover/story polish 09/23 Pleasant Storm, Texas. 1965. A God-fearing family man finds an ancient book of secrets and is compelled to perform a blood ceremony. The Car Nex is brought into our dimension, and Hell is given form and fangs. Weapons will not slow it. Prayers will not stop it. It is coming. And it hungers.