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Death Trap	by Zia Black Feb. 10, 2012	$3.99	37699 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: As the daughter of Stephen King's biggest fan, it felt natural when Zahra 'Zia Black' Brown drifted to the darkness of horror, crime, science fiction, and thrillers. Since childhood, her stories have shown the world's twisted side. Against the predictable and mundane, she loves to be shocked and be shocking. People say it's all been done before. Zia disagrees, and she's ready to prove it. She currently resides in England with her parents. On most days, you'll find Zia lurking in the shadows of her mind, fighting to bring the darkness out...
Brother Mine - #2 in The Forgotten Shelters Series	by Dee Phillips Feb. 10, 2012	$0.99	11862 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: An English Major at University, Denny (Dee) Phillips loves science fiction and enjoys coming up with new ideas in that genre. Her newest interest is in vampire books. Denny has made a career out of writing website content articles and has researched many different topics. As such, she also has many information books available.
The Good Time Girl	by Wren Emerson Feb. 10, 2012	$0.99	4813 words	Sample 20%
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Death Cheated Once, Death Cheated Twice?	by Lawrence Frederick Feb. 10, 2012	$0.99	1163 words	Sample 20%
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The Devil's Advocates	by C.D. Reimer Feb. 10, 2012	$0.99	5677 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: C.D. Reimer lives and works in Silicon Valley. His interests are ceramics, painting, tropical fish, and web programming. These keep him out of trouble when heâ€™s not fixing broken users and consoling hurt computers. Currently working on his first novel, two short story collections, and various short stories. He had published 25+ short stories and appeared in a half dozen anthologies.
Living With the Dead: A (Sweet) Zombie Story	by Rebecca M. Senese Feb. 10, 2012	$0.99	2953 words	Sample 35%
Author bio: Based in Toronto, Canada, I write horror, science fiction and mystery/crime, often all at once in the same story. Garnering an Honorable Mention in â€œThe Yearâ€™s Best Science Fictionâ€ and nominated for numerous Aurora Awards, my work has appeared in TransVersions, Deadbolt Magazine, On Spec, The Vampireâ€™s Crypt, Storyteller, Reflectionâ€™s Edge, Future Syndicate and Into the Darkness, amongst others.
You're Next	by Zia Black Feb. 10, 2012	$2.99	27437 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: As the daughter of Stephen King's biggest fan, it felt natural when Zahra 'Zia Black' Brown drifted to the darkness of horror, crime, science fiction, and thrillers. Since childhood, her stories have shown the world's twisted side. Against the predictable and mundane, she loves to be shocked and be shocking. People say it's all been done before. Zia disagrees, and she's ready to prove it. She currently resides in England with her parents. On most days, you'll find Zia lurking in the shadows of her mind, fighting to bring the darkness out...
Beneath the Wings of Dragons	by R.E. Volver Feb. 09, 2012	$0.99	1677 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: R.E. Volver writes in a little house out in the country. He has been known to confront ghosts, hunt vampires, and slay the occasional werewolf. Or maybe that was the beer talking.
Delightfully Twisted Tales: Love and Other Filthy Habits (Volume Five)	by Nicky Drayden Feb. 09, 2012	$0.99	7814 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Nicky Drayden is a Systems Analyst who dabbles in prose when she's not buried in code. She resides in Austin, Texas where being weird is highly encouraged, if not required. Her recent short story publications include Space and Time Magazine, Shimmer Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. You can see more of her work at www.nickydrayden.com.
Possessions	by Elizabeth (E.B.) Loan/ Elsie Love Feb. 09, 2012	$0.99	5481 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Elizabeth (E.B.) Loan was born and raised in the western suburbs, just outside great city of Chicago. A mother of five, Elizabeth recently ended her full time career to devote more time to her writing. She currently has three books in print (Her third book, "CONFESSIONS OF A PTA MAFIA MOM", was written under the pen name Elsie Love). When she isn't writing or vacuuming, Elizabeth travels as much as humanly possible and pretends to be a woman of great means. More information about Elizabeth & her work can be found at: www.elsielove.com or www.ebloan.com
Zombies in Afghanistan	by Ross Payton Feb. 09, 2012	$0.99	9309 words	Sample 20%
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In 666 Words	by Michael Grant Feb. 09, 2012	$1.99	30192 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Check out all updates at www.latenighthorrors.com
The Graveyard	by Caroline Doyle Feb. 09, 2012	$1.99	1669 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: I am 49 years old and live in Merseyside, England. I am a new writer. What I write comes from a lifetimes experience. I write fiction as well as non fiction.
Case #357597	by Peter Davidson Feb. 09, 2012	$0.99	3796 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: I decided to give wriing fiction a try after many years of writing film & game reviews. I used to own & write for my own film review website, but the time constraints on trying to review the latest films whilst also keeping a full-time job going didn't work out. There is no particular genre that I aim to write for; anything is an option! With writing fiction stories on my own schedule, I love that I can take as long as I like to get it done.
The Midway Monster	by Daniel Eness Feb. 09, 2012	$0.99	3703 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Daniel Eness writes stories of strange adventure where the hero always wins, except those times when he dies spectacularly in an explosion. He lives in Iowa with his family of six, for whom he writes of the churning seascape of the soul, deep evil and the hope that has overcome them both. His work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Ideomancer, Diagram and Brain Harvest Magazine, and, in 2012, Eortholic Press will release two novels, a novella and a collection of short adventures.
Country Justice	by R.E. Volver Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	3767 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: R.E. Volver writes in a little house out in the country. He has been known to confront ghosts, hunt vampires, and slay the occasional werewolf. Or maybe that was the beer talking.
A Paranormal Menagerie	by M.L. Steger Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	57318 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: I was born in San Jose, California and have been writing my whole life. It started with poetry in elementary school, then in junior high and high school creative writing. I remember writing about my favorite eraser - sticking pins in it to give it arms and legs, and drawing a face on it, and calling it "Eraserman", the super hero of the writing world. My love for writing grew to include not only humor but ghost stories as well. I have always had a love for horror/ghost stories. I have particularly always loved short stories since I can usually finish them in one sitting. My favorite short stories are "The Papal Magician" by Greg Allen and "He Cometh and He Passeth by" by H.R. Wakefield. Though I do have many others. I enjoy the paranormal detective Carnacki created by William Hope Hodgson, and of course, anything by M.R. James is a big enjoyment for me. Though I do have episodes where I haven't written anything for months, I always come back to writing. Anything can give me an idea - strange looking vegetables at the grocery store. (They must be from another planet and are going to take over the world.) Or a phrase someone says. Maybe even a strange look someone makes. (Again, it may have something to do with vegetables.) I have worked in customer service, technical writing, word processing, and currently staff secretary.
Five Tales, Too	by R.E. Volver Feb. 08, 2012	$2.99	21656 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: R.E. Volver writes in a little house out in the country. He has been known to confront ghosts, hunt vampires, and slay the occasional werewolf. Or maybe that was the beer talking.
Second Judas	by R.E. Volver Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	5800 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: R.E. Volver writes in a little house out in the country. He has been known to confront ghosts, hunt vampires, and slay the occasional werewolf. Or maybe that was the beer talking.
Oaktown (Ten Stories)	by Adam Riser Feb. 08, 2012	$3.99	23803 words	Sample 20%
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Cycles	by Kim Antieau Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	2256 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Kim Antieau has had dozens of short stories and essays published, along with many novels, including Coyote Cowgirl, Church of the Old Mermaids, Ruby's Imagine, The Fish Wife, Her Frozen Wild, and The Jigsaw Woman. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest most of the time and in the Sonoran Desert some of the time, with her husband, writer Mario Milosevic.
The Barrens & Others	by F. Paul Wilson Feb. 08, 2012	$2.99	124365 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: F. PAUL WILSON is the author of forty-plus books and numerous short stories spanning science fiction, horror, adventure, medical thrillers, and virtually everything between. His novels regularly appear on the New York Times Bestsellers List. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers of America, the Stoker Award, the Porgie Award, the Prometheus and Prometheus Hall of Fame Awards, the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention, the Inkpot Award from ComiCon, and was voted Grand Master by the World Horror Convention. He is listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America. Millions of his books are in print in twenty-four languages. He also has written for the stage, screen, and interactive media. His latest thrillers, Ground Zero and Fatal Error, star his urban mercenary, Repairman Jack. Jack: Secret Histories kicked off a young-adult trilogy starring a teenage Jack. Paul resides at the Jersey Shore and can be found on the Web at www.repairmanjack.com.
Day One: Zombie Outbreak	by Christine Sutton Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	7151 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Christine lives in Central California with her husband of fifteen years. She is an author, reader, and custom cake artist.
Juice in a Cluster of Grapes	by Daniel Eness Feb. 07, 2012	$0.99	3224 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: Daniel Eness writes stories of strange adventure where the hero always wins, except those times when he dies spectacularly in an explosion. He lives in Iowa with his family of six, for whom he writes of the churning seascape of the soul, deep evil and the hope that has overcome them both. His work has appeared in Stupefying Stories, Ideomancer, Diagram and Brain Harvest Magazine, and, in 2012, Eortholic Press will release two novels, a novella and a collection of short adventures.
Nightmare	by Annette Shelley Feb. 07, 2012	$4.99	21510 words	Sample 5%
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In Search of Flesh	by JL McCale Feb. 07, 2012	$4.99	20788 words	Sample 5%
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Dark Horse Diaries: Part I: The Dark Horse	by Bill Hollars Feb. 07, 2012	$0.99	11470 words	Sample 20%
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Sacrament	by Rashaad Bell Feb. 07, 2012	$0.99	9537 words	Sample 5%
Author bio: I am currently hyper extending myself into the space between moments to do battle with carnivorous sound and cannibalistic electrons. Please leave a message at the beep. Â â€¦Oh and I write books too! Â
Cold Grey Stones	by Tanith Lee Feb. 07, 2012	$4.99	54762 words	Sample 10%
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Shattered Heights	by jeff diego munoz Feb. 06, 2012	$0.99	11840 words	Sample 30%
Author bio: i'm only 22 years old and i'm a poet/novelist who wants to become a bestseller
The Dead Place	by Kate Genet Feb. 06, 2012	$0.99	6347 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Hi, I'm a writer who loves novels with a bit of a twist, a bit of a fright, something shadowy and mysterious moving through the pages. I write short stories, novellas and novels which feature strong, interesting lesbian protagonists.Characters I hope you can like, admire, and wish you knew. Maybe they're even a bit like you. I'd love to hear from you, so be sure to catch up with me at my blog, and meanwhile - happy reading!
The Kill Riff	by David J Schow Feb. 06, 2012	$2.99	121403 words	Sample 20%
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Attic Clowns: Volume Four	by Jeremy Shipp Feb. 06, 2012	$0.99	13643 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with his wife, Lisa, a couple of pygmy tigers, and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his atticâ€“not so much.
Attic Clowns: Volume Three	by Jeremy Shipp Feb. 06, 2012	$0.99	10377 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with his wife, Lisa, a couple of pygmy tigers, and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his atticâ€“not so much.
Attic Clowns: Volume Two	by Jeremy Shipp Feb. 06, 2012	$0.99	10890 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Sheep and Wolves. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with his wife, Lisa, a couple of pygmy tigers, and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his atticâ€“not so much.
Urban Horror : City Slicker Short Horror Story	by richard GK stark Feb. 06, 2012	Free!	4790 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Richard GK Stark is based in the UK. His background includes a Degree in Physics and 17 years experience working in New Media Publishing - including Video, Books, CD-ROMs & Internet Publishing. He is also a talented Classical Singer, from which he now makes a full time living. (see http://www.richardstark.co.uk) He also runs a Publishing Company, RGK Media Ltd. He first noticed a talent for writing as a child, his stories became very popular with the other kids during school or on camping trips. Up until now working in Publishing and Opera Singing took up the majority of his time, usually confining writing to the 28th. & 29th. December in any given year. His first book - Four Short Horror Stories, includes two ideas he had on a camping trip when he was 13. More Short Horror Stories and Comedy/Fantasy works are planned for future release. He has also written two Operas.
The Singapore Werewolf	by Thomas Mackay King Feb. 06, 2012	$2.99	46005 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: I believe I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, a wonderful city with deep artistic and cultural roots, all of which I fully absorbed. Of course the pleasant, positive aspects of Edinburgh are equally well balanced by the darker, sinister side, past and present, of which I both enjoyed, and endured, my quota. I have worked and lived across the world for over twenty eight years, and am now, tapping into the subterranean recesses inside my cranium to bring to the surface my experiences and observations, god, bad and ugly. I love writing; it stretches me to reflect, to delve deeper, and perhaps, hopefully to even darker places. TMK
Haunted House-Real Ghost Story	by Arul Das Feb. 06, 2012	$5.49	12146 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Arul Amaladas is shortly called as Arul Das was born in (18.06.1990)Sattur,India. I make things up and write them down.I am always fond of reading newspapers and historical humor books.This made me write short stories.Humor and romance stories are always my favourite. In my spare time I try to keep the maintain my owned website www.8secretsearchenginetricks.com more or less up to date. Among from writing short stories,writing script to short comedy dramas is my hobby.
Innsmouth Magazine: Issue 9	by Paula R. Stiles Feb. 05, 2012	$0.99	20082 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Paula R. Stiles is American, but has also lived in Cameroon, Scotland and Canada. Recently, she completed a PhD in Medieval History on the Knights Templar and has published fiction in places like Strange Horizons, Writers of the Future XXIV, Black Gate, Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction, and The Living Dead II. For further info, try her homepage: http://thesnowleopard.net/other.html
The Butcher	by Drac Von Stoller Feb. 05, 2012	$0.99	2547 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Drac Von Stoller's imagination and fascination for the Horror genre began when he was a little boy watching his favorite actors such as Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi on his little black and white television alone in his dark room. Drac would watch these horror movies for hours and build model kits of his favorite characters like Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein and even the Munster's car from his favorite television series. Then as time went on and nothing was left to the imagination in the new horror movies, Drac still loved watching the old movies he so loved as a little boy. Then as Drac became an adult he decided one day that he would write a short story in the horror genre and let some of his friends read it and see what they thought. Drac's first short story was titled "Death in the Wilderness," which would be considered flash fiction but this would be Drac's test to see if he was destined to be an author. Sure enough when people read "Death in the Wilderness" they loved it but couldn't understand why Drac didn't keep on with the story but Drac knew all along that if what they read was so good then Drac has succeeded. This gave Drac the confidence he needed to keep on writing more and more short stories. The rest is history Drac has now written 31 short stories in the course of a 2 year span. Drac doesn't want to write a story unless it moves him in a way that he would want to read his own work and say any horror or ghost fan would not be disappointed.
The Nerve	by CC Geddes Feb. 05, 2012	$0.99	4617 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: CC Geddes likes to think about scary things. She likes to read scary things and write scary things. Yet she has a remarkably blissful life in all the best unscary ways. In that life, most people know her as Cindie Geddes, a happily married mother of a 10-year-old son.
Beginnings: Book I (The Plague)	by Danielle Blanchard Benson Feb. 05, 2012	$4.49	91298 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Danielle Blanchard Benson is a world traveler and a university student earning her degree in Creative Writing with a Minor in Specialized Languages (French). She has written The Beautiful People series, which will be released in eight separate volumes. Ms. Blanchard Benson is currently working on The Vamp Saga (Death Wish: Book One will be released in January of 2012), Murder, Inc: The Pop Stars series (which will be released beginning in autumn of 2012), and a full-length novel, DeGeneration (which will be released in winter of 2013). Ms. Blanchard Benson has lived abroad in Stockholm (Sweden), Manchester (England), Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. She currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Golden Parachute	by Paul D. Dail Feb. 05, 2012	$0.99	5907 words	Sample 10%
Author bio: Paul Dail is the author of The Imaginings, a horror novel currently in production, as well as several other novel and short story projects. Writing has always been his passion, and while he will quickly tell you that the people he has met in the many places that he has traveled have been the best schooling he could get, Paul received his formal education in English with a Creative Writing emphasis at the University of Montana, Missoula. He has had a non-fiction submission published in The Sun magazineâ€™s Readerâ€™s Write section entitled, â€œSlowing Down.â€ Currently Paul lives in Southern Utah, amid the red rock, sagebrush and pinion junipers, with his wife and two daughters. He teaches Language Arts and Creative Writing at Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts.
Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction Volume 1	by Adam Bradley Feb. 05, 2012	$2.99	57104 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Morpheus Tales begun in June 2008, and publishes a regularly quarterly fiction magazine, and an accompanying free online non-fiction magazine, (in January, April, July and October), and as many special issues as we can manage. Free previews, free downloads, and ordering information can be found on our website: www.morpheustales.com
Werewolf Rut	by Kali Lowe Feb. 05, 2012	$2.99	5784 words	Sample 25%
Author bio: Kali Lowe is a career author and hobbyist musician who loves to apply her overactive imagination toward describing naughty sex scenes in intricate detail. She lives in New England with her long-term boyfriend and far too many cats.
Birth	by Krystell Lake Feb. 05, 2012	$9.99	122397 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Krystell Lake is a writer of mostly vampire fiction. She also has written screenplays and teleplays. She lives near Chicago with her son and daughter.
To Di(n)e For: A (Speculative) Horror Story	by Rebecca M. Senese Feb. 05, 2012	$0.99	6436 words	Sample 35%
Author bio: Based in Toronto, Canada, I write horror, science fiction and mystery/crime, often all at once in the same story. Garnering an Honorable Mention in â€œThe Yearâ€™s Best Science Fictionâ€ and nominated for numerous Aurora Awards, my work has appeared in TransVersions, Deadbolt Magazine, On Spec, The Vampireâ€™s Crypt, Storyteller, Reflectionâ€™s Edge, Future Syndicate and Into the Darkness, amongst others.
Apocalypse x 7: Offbeat Doomsday Stories	by Michael Canfield Feb. 05, 2012	$2.99	22364 words	Sample 20%
Author bio: Michael Canfield writes about monsters, superheroes, couples, babies, astronauts, paranoids, obsessives, and other people. He has published mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror and just-plain-odd stories on fiction sites including StrangeHorizons, Spinetingler, EscapePod, Daily Science Fiction, in dead-tree magazines including Realms of Fantasy, Talebones, and Black Gate, and other places. "Super-Villains" was also republished in the prestigious Fantasy: The Year's Best series, edited by Rich Horton (Prime Books). Born in Las Vegas, he now lives, works, plays, writes, and watches television in Seattle and Los Angeles.
The Agoraphobics: Shortwave	by Izzy Winchester Feb. 05, 2012	$1.00	2162 words	Sample 45%
Author bio: Where do monsters move? In small places. Izzy Winchester bites his nails too much, sleeps too little, and sometimes writes stuff. Since you're probably wondering at this point, he more commonly goes by the name "Del" and the pronoun "she", but if there's anywhere a 4'10" girl with 36C breasts can pass as her drag persona, it's behind a wall of text. His avatar and cover images are drawn by the amazingly talented Toastuh, whose amazing webcomic resides at http://attendance.comicgenesis.com/. As for the rest, we'll just have to see. Got a question for the author? Ask it at askshotgun.tumblr.com. Ask her anything! She's sad and lonely and has too much time on her hands. Clearly.
Dark Side: Seven Repulsive Stories	by Stefanie N Snider Feb. 04, 2012	$4.50	15202 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Stefanie N Snider lives with her husband in Ontario Canada. By day, she gets paid to play with other people's blood. By night, she writes bloody stories about other people.

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