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Billy saw the recipe book. With trembling hands, he opened it up to the first page, and it was for a chili recipe. As he read it, he had to stifle a scream in his throat, in fear of ending up like the people in the pictures. He sat there for a few moments, that seemed more like an eternity, his whole body shaking and sweat streaming down into his eyes. He felt bile coming up in his throat and had to force it back down, choking on it, as he thought, I used to love Grandma's chili. It was at that moment he realized his sweet little harmless but quite annoying Grandma was a cannibal.

Alien vampires, bloodthirsty brats, annoying relatives, a small-town sheriff harboring big secrets, and a 300-pound football player with a severe case of constipation are among the tales in this repulsive - and quite disturbing - collection of Halloween stories. 

Georgie is unhappy, lonely, overweight young man who spends most of his spare time watching sci-fi movies and reading comic books. He has resigned himself to live this way, although it tends to be soul crushing. Then one night, as he is working the night shift at the Blue Moonlight drive in, a strange blue mist begins floating down from the night sky, landing on everything and making it sparkle like a sapphire. Beautiful, magic dust? He wonders.

Sixth Street Road, Vincennes, Indiana - 1998. The man, woman, and their terrified children huddled in the corner of the master bedroom, near the closet, listening to the mayhem going on outside, to their house being torn apart by some unearthly thing - and cowering in fear each time it began to make that sound; an loud, ear-splitting sound, almost deafening, a sort of a howling, shrieking sound, as if the thing was losing it's mind not being able to get to them.

The dog was so...huge. Byron Matthews had never seen a dog this big, not in all of his years at the animal shelter. It was so huge, menacing, and intimidating. But to Byron, the dog was so sweet, friendly, and lovable. But it was all an act, to gain Byron's trust. Act so sweet. Licking his fingers. Getting a taste for him.

A man whose rich but cheap Uncle that comes to sponge off of him each year, figures out a way to exact his own special brand of revenge. 

Over the last several years, I have had more than one debate with other people as to whether animals - either domestic pets or in the wild - really have a soul. One thing I'm sure about is this: Our pets do possess the ability to exhibit true and unconditional love for their owners - without really asking for anything in return except for food and water and, of course, unconditional love, as well.

The whole neighborhood was terrified when people began disappearing into thin air after Zach and his Mom moved into the creepy old house on the corner lot. The whole neighborhood was afraid of young Zach. Zach was weird. Zach was creepy. What they didn't know yet was, Zach had a very unhealthy appetite. 

A man with a strange fetish for wacthing violent acts realizes he has become much too close to his dangerous hobby. 

A woman who has resorted to becoming an escort to survive in the year 2013 - after a nuclear bomb has wiped out about 40 percent of the city's population - has bad dreams of a phantom killer who attacks her in her sleep....

A man who is slowly but surely losing his mind, paranoid that he is being hunted by a killer, decides to take matters into his own hands and kill the other man first - if he can find him.

They preferred small, out-of-the-way truck stops. Easy pickings. Mostly near-retirement-age truck drivers and lonely waitresses needing a lift home, or tourists just passing through on their way to much greener pastures...Hitchhiking can be a very dangerous habit. Especially when there are serial killers on the loose...

Alas...the good old days are gone. But not in our hearts - or our memories. That's the amazing thing about the human brain; it has this neat little “memory palace”, where can store all of our most favorite memories - and the palace has this neat little lock on the door that only WE can open. And inside that palace...oh, what memories!

The crazy lady wanders and wanders and wanders, and without ever really going anywhere. There's really nowhere to go. Except forward - and away from her past. Her past is a hard thing to escape, too. Since becoming one of the vultures, her whole life has felt like just one small piece of a universal puzzle. So far, for the crazy lady, the other pieces of the puzzle have failed to fall into place. So she wanders. As she wanders, so does her mind. 

After his estranged father suddenly goes off the radar, Brian Davis pays a long, overdue visit to his childhood home to find his father dead from the Covid 5 virus...or was it something far more sinister and human behind his demise? After logging into his father's computer and reading the last story he was working on - a literal magnum opus of faith and hope, along with some very accusatory remarks about corruption in our government - he realizes his father may have become a human target.

Every small town has it's share of big, dark secrets, and the sleepy little town of Lobo, Texas, seems to be bursting at the seams. Who is the mysterious derelict the town Sheriff talks to down at the old train depot at night? What exactly are the old train cars filled with? What has the local biker gang suddenly gone missing? For the citizens of Lobo, these questions may be answered soon enough - and with terrifying clarity. 

Luther Biggs was an amazing young man. But he was also birthed from tainted blood; Luther Biggs, Sr., a tall, powerfully built man with arms like 10-pound hams and the strength of an ox, was also prone to long alcoholic binges as well as bouts of extreme physical violence. Can Luther Jr. ever escape his past, get rid of his own inner demons, and live a happy life? Only time will tell, because the ghost of his dead father now seems to be haunting the local woods nearby, and his son may be the only one who can end his reign of terror before it's too late. 

I believe, at times, a lot of people don't realize just how much pets can improve their lives. Pets make us laugh, make us feel better when we are sick or depressed. They make sure you are never lonely. They can even lower your stress levels, resulting in a lower risk of strokes, heart attacks, and other health problems. Having pets in the house also teaches your kids about responsibility, and gives them a forever friend that makes them feel safe and secure while their parents are at work.

Leo Baynes, a rich, charming entrepreneur, whose personal tastes tend to lean toward the “exotic”, was so intent on discovering the secret of his own wanderlust, he would travel to the very ends of the earth just to satisfy his own insatiable thirst for things most men would run from. That is, until he met Chio - the cat woman. Now, the very doorway was now opening to more than just a handful of humans who had ever known existed, much less tasted, pleasures that would redefine the parameters of sexual sensation - and other unknown terrors...

A man walks the streets after a nuclear apocalypse, searching for his wife, only to find unholy terrors lurking within the crowds of the infectious derelicts that roam the streets at night.