Chisto Healy

Three novellas, each answering the same prompt: Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood...The SurvivorA detective meets his match in this extreme body horror novella when body parts start appearing on the streets of New York. A serial killer is on the loose, can the detective reveal their identity before more lives are lost?Nothing is Hidden, Only UnseenThe staff at Price Slashers face otherworldly creatures in this extreme cosmic novella, where nothing is as it seems. Exploring a deadly dimension, the staff are faced with their own fears. Are their fears really what's killing them, though, or is something far more sinister at play?Those Baby BluesIn this extreme psychological novella, a new mother suffers from a recently-diagnosed mental illness, convinced her newborn is evil. As she and her sister shop for groceries, she uncovers hidden messages around the store. Is it all in her mind, or must she put an end to things once and for all?

Lonan's grandfather gave him nightmares with tales of Celtic legends. Now, as an adult, he discovers they're not just stories. The Sluagh are real and they're coming for his dying daughter's soul. Beware the black birds....

Some mistakes haunt the guilty, While others seek revenge.Roger leaves the house filled with the memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up.That is until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own. Brian's screams mixed with Alice's are too much for Roger to handle. He feels like he has to save the girl from her father's violence, but his own fear and trauma interfere, and Alice dies.As he tries to move on, to get past the biggest mistake of his life, Alice has other ideas.Now Roger must do for himself what he couldn't for Alice. Make it out of Sunnycrest alive.

When the police discover the body of a gay man locked in a closet, they call in help from P.I. Paulie Paisano (Price Slashers) and his new partner, Taylor Conroy (We're Here 2), because this is just the beginning. In this city, there are far more skeletons in the closet.This extended edition of Healy's previously released Skeletons includes the full trilogy of stories in the Skeletons universe, bringing the characters of Paisano and Conroy full circle in a desperate fight to uncover long-buried secrets and battle ongoing phobias around sexuality in toxic masculine workplaces.

Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it's a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don't belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she's dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a restaurant, Sarah realizes that her closet is actually a gateway to another time. Another world. A place where the same apartment belonged to the boyfriend of the final murder victim of a notorious serial killer that was never caught. Sometimes the doorway takes her to another floor in the building, to the apartment the girl herself-Regina-lived in on the 11th floor, the apartment where the murder actually happened, but it always takes her to 1987. The two people connected to her through the gateway in her closet are the owners of the initials carved into the tree out in front of Sunnycrest. Sarah's girlfriend, Felicia, has been at Sunnycrest longer and helps her to understand that the whole building is haunted. There is something strange about the place they live. The dead are everywhere and some of them are dangerous. The living are not to be trusted, either. Sarah gets drawn in further and can't let go. She wants to understand what Regina's spirit is trying to tell her, what she needs, and how to turn her closet back into a closet. One thing she needs to remember though, is that there is a killer in 1987. Can he still hurt her? Is any of it even real? Where will the gateway in Apartment 8 actually lead her?

In our spine-chilling homage to the late, great Dennis Wheatley and the inimitable Hammer Horror films spawned from his works, HellBound Books presents twenty superlatively satanic stories guaranteed to have you fearing for your very soul?A whole host of Hell's denizens skulk within these pages, waiting with growing impatience for brave of heart - or the relentlessly foolhardy - to make their otherworldly acquaintance, so please, do venture inside.If you dare?Featuring hellish tales from: L. G. Merrick, Henry Myllyl , Alan Derosby, A.K. McCarthy, Brian James Lewis, C. C. Parker, Chisto Healy, Leo J. Winters, R.C. Mulhare, Henry Myllyl , J.B. Toner, Glen Damien Campbell, Nathan Blake, Gerald Dean Rice, Ricki Whatley, Carlton Herzog, Len M. Ruth, Vivian Kasley, Carson Demmans, Mark Towse, and Alexander Marais