Eddie Generous

Priscilla and James have just lost their businesses, their home, and all prospects for the future when a night of drinking turns them into outlaws on the run. When they awaken in a stolen car, desert surrounding them, they begin to plan a way forward that doesn't involve jail. First things first, they need money, food, and gasoline.Masks on, guns drawn, the pair fumble through rural Arizona, not making very good criminals. A kindness is paid to them one night, and in return, they pay it forward to a dehydrated, delirious man wandering along a desolate road beneath a pounding sun.What James and Priscilla don't know is that this man is a spree killer who is disgusted by boring things and people. Together, the couple alongside the man plan a robbery, unaware that their new partner cares nothing for money or planning for his future. There's violence, there's blood, and there's a promise of more to come, especially when the luckless couple prove a little more boring than the spree killer first thought.Can Priscilla and James survive the insane man's murder spree?Is there any future for them if they do?

When one gets away, the pack always finds them...After the sudden death of their parents, the Gerber siblings take over the family farm, quickly learning that fending for themselves is much harder than they'd assumed. This hardship leaves them open to letting a strange man they'd rescued from winter's clutches stay on for room and board, oblivious to the ferocious evil he's carrying as well as ravenous beasts it will draw to their home.Following a string of grisly chaos across the country, a private detective finds herself directly on the heels of a pack of spree killers she'd been paid to locate. But things aren't as they seem; she never anticipated that she'd come face-to-face with a bloodthirsty pack of werewolves.

Behind closed doors, down quiet streets, through the night fog rolling along the coasts, and deep within thick shadows the world over, criminals, opportunists, and maniacs roam; their hands, feet, and minds busy with Illicit Motions. Within these pages are fourteen crime stories; take a trip through the seedy side of the everyday world, the violence of professional hits, the chances to break away from the tedium of normalcy, and much more.Illicit Motions includes stories from Charles Ardai (winner of the Shamus, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ellery Queen awards, and founder and editor of Hard Case Crime), Michael Bracken (winner of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award), Nick Mamatas (author of I Am Providence and The Second Shooter), Deborah Sheldon, (winner of an Australian Shadows Award), as well as Joe Allegretti, Serena Jayne, Chris Kuriata, Justine Gardner, Armand Rosamilia, P.M. Raymond, M.E. Proctor, Robert Petyo, Tom Milani, and Eddie Generous (founder and editor of Unnerving).

The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 4Troubled by her dreams, Lana turns to therapy, hoping to understand the grisly, vivid., horrifying nature of her recent nightmares...that's assuming they're only nightmares. The Midnight Exhibit returns with it's fourth trip into terror, featuring short stories from Somer Canon (author of You're Mine), AM Sutter, and Eddie Generous (author of Hetty and Behemoth Risen), tied neatly together with a wraparound story.Parables of the Pumpkin PatchJody Smith returns, this time with a wrapped collection of suspenseful, horrific, and downright strange stories: cheating has a cost, as does revenge; sometimes the universe conspires against you, and the only chance at happiness is running; what is hidden in a bed of stone, is often better left where it is discovered; and not all medical facilities are created equal, and some are downright unfathomably horrible.Parables of the Pumpkin Patch: four shorts and a wraparound to tie it together along the vein of horror classics like Creepshow, Trick 'r Treat, and Tales from the Darkside. Take a trip to the pumpkin patch...if you dare.

HEAD IN THE ICEBOX: Jobless, indebted to the system, a husband and wife decide a life insurance scam is the only way out. The only problem? They need a body to ensure quick payout...a fresh body. With fresh bodies come fresh ghosts, and enough guilt to tear a relationship at its seams.One novella and five short tales of the haunted and the haunting, HEAD IN THE ICEBOX is an exploration of terror, suspense, and a pinch of humor.

Centuries after Earth has become uninhabitable, the planet has rejuvenated itself. The Union, the organization governing the diaspora, sends a team to the mother planet to inspect liveability.For months, activity on Plantation Earth has been irregular, the results, unexpected. The Union had been receiving strange transmissions, until finally they lost contact altogether.Lay Watt is a member of the second team. She's an outsider, being added to the mission along the way to Earth. Lay follows the crew as they traverse humanity's ruins, eventually coming to trail after an undefinable signal. As they explore, a figure from the periphery of their dreams stalks the edges of their reality, threatening to destroy all they know to be true.A novella plus three bonus shorts of cosmic terror.

Here, on the latest episode of Radio Run...Eight convicted criminals face a terrifying fight for survival as they try to make it to Alaska and freedom.Making it from A to be B is long and difficult as it is, but the trouble is amplified tenfold by the cryptids, mutations, and radioactivity of the former Canadian West. Survival is the name of the game, and the hostile world loves to eat losers. The only way to win at Radio Run is to survive, and survival is in short supply.

Ten unlucky passengers on a flight to Alaska are plucked from their seats by the power of a vortex lost to time and find themselves at the dated and empty, but fabulous Camp Summit.As a group, they seek answers; all the while, one-by-one, Camp Summit begins to reveal its nefarious plot to corrupt minds and entrap its guests...forever. The only hope to escape is a ghostly train stopping by the hotel's dedicated station on the mountaintop, but that's not for a week. Days pass in mayhem: s ances, supernatural attacks, cannibalism, spilled blood, coming to an apex in a horrific ball.

The mysterious box opened.People mutated.Two janitors escaped the research facility on Farley Island, carrying the mutation to the mainland.The small, remote town of Winterstone, British Columbia is awakening to a curious sickness that leaves people confused and sleepy, very interested in kissing. It isn't until the second stage of the sickness is triggered that the true breadth of the situation comes clear. The neighbors are rabid freaks and sticking around is a death sentence.To the citizens of Winterstone, survival means running. To the military presence racing to the scene, survival means battle, it means blocking that first invasion toehold on Earth's soil. It means survival as a species.

Three members of the 1968 Canadian Olympic boxing team and one reporter survive a plane crash on a deserted island, uncertain of what happened, where they are, or how they'll get home. They've settled for a night in the rainforest when one of the truths of the island reveals itself in the form of a dinosaur.An American fishing vessel gets waylaid by a storm and finds themselves suddenly in calm waters, fighting off creatures much bigger than they're used to, before washing up on the shore of an island existing aside from the laws of time.The island's survivors band together, looking for a way home. Can they make it out of this impossible place? Can they get home?

Back Woods Lodge has re-opened its doors. Thanks to The Anvil Group, hunting is off the table, so the proprietors have shifted direction, turning the old place into an artists' retreat.Things aren't going great for Paul Webster, once an artist of some acclaim, so he accepts a job guiding the first group: skilled painters who have been through a divorce. The point of the retreat is art, but Paul still finds a fresh love interest in Carla Moore. Before their love has any chance to bloom, a monster creeps from the thick forest to feed on the artists....And you know what they say: if you see one monster, there's probably more hiding in the shadows. But maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Hetty Stanley was a schoolteacher. Hetty Stanley was a prudish spinster. Hetty Stanley was a murderer. Hetty Stanley has been dead for more than a century.Dane Butler is doing his best and his best isn't enough, but a little luck puts him into an inherited home that shares a property line with a woman and her son. Winona and her son Casey are no better off than Dane, forcing the strangers to rely on one another.One day, Dane looks up from his computer at the sound of Winona shouting in through his door. Her four-year-old son is missing-no boots and no coat, January in Minnesota. Hours pass. Police scour the woods and begin pointing fingers at the only plausible suspects, but one high-ranking officer knows the painful history. Children have been disappearing from the old schoolhouse property for decades, and although it is impossible, there's only one likelihood: Hetty Stanley.To save Casey, Dane and Winona must find the link to Hetty and follow it, no matter how impossible the route seems or what trials they might face and what stakes they must overcome."Sprinkled with cultural nods and winks, Hetty emerges from the genres it references to become something distinct. Eddie Generous is handy with an unexpected metaphor and it marks a voice that speaks its own brand of weird."-- Andrew Pyper, author of The Residence and The Demonologist"Hetty is unsettling in the best sort of way. Eddie Generous creates a monster right out of every parent's worst nightmares, the evil that's been there all along, hidden in plain sight. Hetty scared the crap out of me. I couldn't put it down."-- Leslie Lutz, author of Fractured Tide

The best ideas don't come for free, there's a cost, sacrifices must be made...THE COMPLETE UNDERWORLD THEATER features 26 short stories and a single connective tissue that ties writers from 1978 to 2022 in an abhorrent act of selfishness and destruction. And yet...through this destruction comes creation.Follow your cold, black heart to the cabin where the worlds meet, open the door, step inside, find your seat, and enjoy this marathon showing of UNDERWORLD THEATER.

Spooky, suspenseful, gory, outrageous, comedic, THE COMPLETE BUMPS IN THE NIGHT omnibus features tales of haunted houses, haunted hearts, possessions, crazed minds, zombification, sea sirens, dystopias, revenge, deadly children, the apocalypse, vampires, cryptids, demons, serial killers, ghosts, ghouls, and bad, bad exes.What's been said about Eddie Generous' fiction: "...its own brand of weird," Andrew Pyper, author of The Oracle."Dark and unsettling..." Blu Gilliand, Cemetery Dance."...enthralling, intriguing..." Catherine Cavendish, author of In Darkness, Shadows Breathe."...scared the crap out of me," Leslie Lutz, author of Fractured Tide."Diverse, engrossing, and reliably great," Steve Pattee, Horror DNA.100 stories that will stick with you long after the book is closed...should you dare to investigate those bumps in the night.

Jabali Island began with a vision: a remote destination where luxury meets seclusion, and yet features miles of white beaches, a happening nightlife, award-winning chefs...and mammoth beasts that had remained out of sight until they could swallow no more of the encroachment. Jumbo Joe Bourque, former pro hockey player, hired on as a celebrity security guard, must team up with a small band of hopeful survivors to escape the island and its horrible, bloodthirsty creatures. Jabali Island promised its guests heaven but delivered them to hell.

Forced from their apartment, Hannah Laurie and her children, Skylar and Gabe, head north to seek cheaper housing, unaware Hannah's deadbeat ex has put them in danger from a morally bankrupt biker gang. Chasing up the highway, Hannah crashes, forcing them to flee on foot. The family spots hope for refuge in the form of a cabin deep in the woods, cordoned off by a rusty fence, unaware the safety they'd hoped to find is not on offer within the cabin. Instead, they find a foggy doorway at the bottom of a bunker. Anywhere seems better than where they are, and they rush through the mysterious doorway to find oddity mounted atop oddity on the far side. Giant birds, giant bugs, giant dinosaurs...there's no turning back, and the family must outsmart and outlast the maniacs and the beasts if they have any hope of leaving this impossible terror in their dust. Where the Dinosaurs Roam is a high-octane dino grindhouse featuring mounting screams, savage creatures, and buckets of blood.

Picking up the pieces after the giant space gator decimated the small town of Ghost Clearing on the semi-remote Picture Island, the locals and all the visitors are far from ready for the chain reaction. Sure, they took care of the gator, but what of the otherworldly DNA seeping into the soil, the water, the bloodstreams? Can the already battered townsfolk survive another attack, an attack from more than one beast?