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The night the stars fell, we could hear the sounds: that low thump-thump from somewhere in the sky, like the beating of some gigantic heart...In Sylvan County, Virginia, strange sounds often accompany the coming of darkness. They drift among the remote and shadowed hills, mountains, and valleys as if with a purpose...cognizant...alive. Like an ominous fugue, this music emanates from portals unknown, weaving a soundtrack for the night itself...a dirge for those who dare to venture into the mysterious and forbidding spheres beyond sound.

At the heart of all legends lies a sense of wonder . . . the perception of awe-inspiring power . . . the recognition of something larger than life. Here you will find heroic action and adventure blended with daring excursions into the hearts of depravity, lust, beauty, and grandeur, all seamlessly woven into legends bound for the 21st century and beyond.

When Matt tried to kill Barry with his car, the two brothers went their separate ways. Barry moved to Atlanta and Matt stayed in the family home in Aiken Mill, Virginia. One day Barry is notified that Matt disappeared. Since he lost his job and his girl, he returns home and is shocked by the damage someone did to his house. Even more perplexing is the word Lebo painted in Matt's room in cow's blood. The first night he is in the house strange things happen like a glass moving of its own volition; Barry hears strange inhuman noises and the word Lebo starts to glow. Jennifer Brand joins Barry in seeking answers. Since she is a gray mage, she senses the dark forces gathering around Barry and his house. They learn that Matt rented a room to Ren, a practitioner of the dark arts, who intends to invoke a spell that will require a blood sacrifice, preferably Matt's but Barry will do in a pinch. The two Riggs brothers and Jennifer try to stop him.

AIKEN MILL, VIRGINIA... A legend-haunted town in Sylvan County, located in a remote, mountainous corner of the state. With its long history of countless deaths and disappearances, Aiken Mill has become known to law enforcement as "The Cold Case Capital of the World." Now, an unidentified, mutilated body has turned up in the town. During his investigation, Sheriff Bryce Parrott discovers frightening clues that lead him to believe some ghostly force-or entity-may be responsible for the killing. While exploring the darkest corners of Sylvan County, psychology professor Martin Pritchett and his brother, Phillip, happen upon a crumbling, century-old house beside a body of water called Black Tooth Pond. A strange compulsion leads both men back to the house time and time again, but neither can remember any of the events that occur there. As both Sheriff Parrott and the Pritchett brothers attempt to solve their respective mysteries, their paths begin to converge-paths that lead inexorably to the ancient, foreboding house at Black Tooth Pond. *** "Stephen Mark Rainey is a consummate storyteller...at the top of his game." - Richard Chizmar "Stephen Mark Rainey's The House of Black Tooth Pond dwells at the intersection between the traditional haunted house story and tales of cosmic dread, expertly combining both into a frightening, genre-bending novel that both thrills and chills. - Peter Rawlik, author of Reanimators, Reanimatrix, The Book of Yig "What T.E.D. Klein did for Lovecraftian horror set in upstate New York and NYC, Stephen Mark Rainey does for the rural South." - Leverett Butts, author of Guns of the Waste Land

A compelling and frighteningly perceptive collection of chilling tales from master raconteur Stephen Mark Rainey. "A consummate storyteller... at the top of his game." - Richard Chizmar Come and join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Fugue Devil," Stephen Mark Rainey's quintessential scare-your-pants-off story, with this all-new edition that features 11 additional tales to wither your soul and curl your toes: - A thrilling midnight adventure turns into a dawning horror for two boys.- A dirge for the dead; if you hear it, it's too late.- A terror in the night that echoes through the years.- Hell is just a stone's throw away.- To read the play brings on madness, to perform the play...- Her music cast a spell because, of course, she was a witch.- In this wine lies the darkest truth.- When the stars are right, the sky will fall.- Voices from the static hint at horrors to come.- "I am John, your host. I have much to look forward to," he said with a grotesque smile.- Something inhuman from the future lurks in the shadows of the past...- Will capturing the image of a devilish horror render it powerless? Or simply draw its inescapable gaze to you?

In the town of Broad Run, West Virginia...Vance Archer and Marybeth Wilkins, a pair of adventurous seventh graders, have discovered an exciting activity called geocaching-a kind of scavenger hunt using GPS technology-which leads them after hidden treasures in the woods around their community. However, on one of their outings, they encounter a frightening, half-seen creature with glowing red eyes watching them from the shadows. Soon, Vance begins to receive mysterious messages on his phone from a caller named Indrid Cold. He learns that this name is associated with the legendary Mothman, a strange, unearthly being that is said to appear when some terrible event is about to occur. Believing that they-as well as their friends and loved ones-may soon face mortal danger, Vance and Marybeth try to solve the increasingly strange clues before disaster strikes.Each Ameri-Scares novel is based on or inspired by an historical event, folktale, legend, of myth unique to that particular state.

On a hike along the shores of Lake Superior, thirteen-year-old Anna Hendrix sees a huge creature rise from the waters and-to her horror-sink a tour boat. Soon afterward, Jeff Griggs, also thirteen, encounters a similar but smaller creature in the woods around his parents' vacation house. Unable to resist investigating, both Anna and Jeff venture into the nearby forests. They meet each other at a huge waterfall, where they discover a partially hidden cave. Inside it, to their surprise, they find a cave painting of a creature that resembles the ones they have seen. Suddenly, in a bizarre twist of time and space, the youngsters are transported to strange, unknown land, vastly different from the Michigan they know. Here, they meet a strange but friendly young man who calls himself Skyhawk. He claims to be a member of a civilization that can only be reached by way of the cave. In this strange land, huge monsters roam freely. Skyhawk and his people worship the beasts as gods. But while the people of this land appear friendly, Anna and Jeff discover they hide a deadly secret. And the two youngsters must somehow find their way back home before the passage between the two worlds closes forever.

Deathrealm: Spirits, a new horror anthology edited by Stephen Mark Rainey, picks up exactly where Deathrealm magazine left off over 25 years ago 20 all-new stories and poems by the most intense voices ever to weave their way into your waking world. From soft, dreadful whispers to high, chilling screams, these voices emerge from the darkness to lure and draw you back to their hellish home - The Land Where Horror Dwells. Deathrealm magazine was one of the most celebrated horror publications of the 20th Century, and now its creator brings you a new volume of fiction and verse for the 21st Century and beyond. Deathrealm: Spirits features 20 new ghostly stories (and poems) by some of the best to have ever written in the genre, including...Linda D. AddisonMeghan ArcuriLarry BlamireMaurice BroaddusHeather D. DaughrityTimothy G. HugueninBrian KeeneRonald KellyJoe R. LansdaleKasey LansdaleEric LaRoccaPatricia Lee MacomberElizabeth MassieBridgett NelsonErrick NunnallyJeff OliverJessica Amanda SalmonsonRichard ThomasTony TremblayDavid Niall Wilson