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An exotic fortune cookie-maker hangs up her rolling pin to spare customers the horrifying truth. A dying man comes to terms with the Halloween inside to survive. A woman finds Ambrose Bierce's diary and resolves to break its curse by making her death the final entry. A long-dead lynching victim returns to punish the men responsible for his grotesque execution. The stories in E. R. Bills' first turn at horror fiction showcase an unsettling new voice in the genre.

Welcome to Texas, where the things that go bump in the night are bigger and badder than anywhere else.Thirteen spine-tingling tales await, including Pendulum Grim, a chilling look at the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce, and Nia, a cautionary tale of political extremism. The real terror lies in stories like Warren, a haunting, ripped-from-the-headlines tale of how one man killed Halloween for a generation. E. R. Bills, a master of non-fiction and a voice for the forgotten, takes readers on a journey into the heart of fear with his latest collection of short fiction. With comparisons to Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, Bills' writing is urgent and horrifying, blurring the lines between truth and fiction.

Welcome to Texas, where the things that go bump in the night are bigger and badder than anywhere else.Thirteen spine-tingling tales await, including Pendulum Grim, a chilling look at the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce, and Nia, a cautionary tale of political extremism. The real terror lies in stories like Warren, a haunting, ripped-from-the-headlines tale of how one man killed Halloween for a generation. E. R. Bills, a master of non-fiction and a voice for the forgotten, takes readers on a journey into the heart of fear with his latest collection of short fiction. With comparisons to Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, Bills' writing is urgent and horrifying, blurring the lines between truth and fiction.

On July 29, 1910, white mobs marched through the southeastern part of Anderson County and the northeastern portion of Houston County in East Texas, slaughtering African Americans at will. Hundreds perished, thousands fled and the state of Texas turned a blind eye. As black families ran for their lives, the white perpetrators covered their tracks. The story was covered up for over a century, and, today, the victims are still piled up in unmarked mass graves. Here is the story of the Slocum Massacre in riveting detail-as told by its victims.