A tale of psychological horror, available as a limited edition chapbook from White Noise Press. "Brazen Bull," which gets its title from the ancient instrument of torture, explores the twin demons of despair and distrust within a familiar, familial setting. Excellent artwork by publisher/editor Keith Minnion completes the package.

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D.D. Murphry has a way with words—or is it that words have their way with him? Work the clues alongside this unlikely sleuth to reveal an underground cabal of letters, a conspiracy of meaning, right below the surface of the everyday world.

Murphry is both hero and villain, an unforgettable personality who will have you cringing while you laugh and rooting for his every misguided plan. This is a clever tale told with a dexterity that allows for a gritty, noir feel, insight into the frailty of the human mind and the ability to see the absurdity in it all.

Charlene Myers, a struggling young artist, reluctantly moves to the rustic, isolated farm she inherited in hopes of rekindling her creative spark and reviving her flagging career. However, Homeplace - the dilapidated house and craggy, mountainous farmland to which she's moved - holds dark family secrets she had no idea about, secrets that begin to surround her and draw her in. What is in the tiny cabin called the "Children's House?" What is in the boarded up room at the top of the farmhouse stairs or the old well in the yard? Was Charlene's ancestor truly a witch? Is she part of a familial legacy of cruelty and abuse that she cannot escape?

This pocket-sized (6 X 4 1/2"), bright magenta collection of seven stories packs a major punch. One in Borderland Press's popular and collectible "Little Book" series, this beautiful little volume offers six reprinted tales of terror plus a brand new creepy story, "Pinkie," written especially for this book.

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In 1856, mysterious Nicholas Abbadon came to the seaside town of Cape May, New Jersey where he opened his side street inn. Many terrible, dark, and secret things happened there in the more than one hundred years that followed. Now, it is 1978. Former teacher Sam Ford happens upon Cape May and the Abbadon Inn. The new owners of the bed and breakfast make him an irresistible offer: free room and board and a salary to home school their troubled son. But soon Sam wonders if he should have kept on traveling. The odor of decay hangs in the air, icy chills sweep through the third floor, and he has disturbing dreams and visions of death and destruction, and of escaped slaves of the long past trying to reach Cape May along the Underground Railroad. It wasn't chance that brought Sam to the Inn. It was fate, reaching out from the past when his ancestors lived, and died in chains. Now they want something from him. And that something may be his life.

The most extensive collection of Massie’s short fiction to date, The Fear Report offers 130,000 words of some of the most disturbing horror fiction around today. Filled with some of Massie’s own personal favorites, with no repeats from the earlier Shadow Dreams, this collection also presents a brand-new novella, “Dooka Dee,” which Massie describes as “what happens when the supernatural meets Attention Deficit Disorder.” This book has an eerie yet beautiful color cover as well as evocative black and white interiors by Cortney Skinner.

This collection of short stories offers a glimpse into the myriad worlds of Elizabeth Massie’s characters. These folks are normal, everyday people, living mostly in small towns, growing up or growing old and handling life’s problems like you and me. Except for one thing — these people are about to be touched by the cold shadow of fear, enveloped by a dark nightmare laced with dread. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award twice, Massie gives us a chilling collection of some of her best stories from the past ten years. In these stories we can see the terror lurking in the familiar, and the darkness waiting in our dreams.

When the female population of Sunnydale starts strutting its girl power, the push for gender equality seems like a normal expression of modern feminism. But when the guys start acting like powerless pawns and even a few turn up dead, senior Buffy Summers comes to realize that the local “womyn’s” movement has reached an unnatural and dangerous pitch.

The Slayer is the only one who can see straight during the ultimate battle of the sexes. Her friends — including Giles — are spellbound by the malignant muses permeating the school. Even the local vampires are acting strange. Alone in her search for answers, Buffy must figure out who’s behind the sinister sisterhood and close the gap before the feminist revolution goes too far.

Angelique and Barnabas Collins were lovers one upon a time. However, through treachery, deceit, and magic, they have become immortal enemies. To pay for the evil jealously that left Barnabas damned to feast on the blood of humans, Angelique has been banished to the netherworld. Meanwhile, Barnabas lives a lie, carefully guarding his hellish secret from the unsuspecting mortals with whom he lives — including Victoria Winters, the beautiful governess to the Collins family.

Determined to escape her dark imprisonment, Angelique conjures a diabolical plan that will make her flesh once more. Using her psychic powers, she will send another vampire to destroy Barnabas completely. But as she will soon discover, the powers of darkness may have found their match in the burning light of innocence, and love.

Kate McDolen, an elementary school teacher, knew she had to protect vulnerable eight-year-old Mistie Henderson from parents who were making her life hell. So one day she packed her bags, quietly picked up Mistie after school, and set off toward what she thought would be a new life. How could she know she was driving into a nightmare?

The nightmare began when Tony jumped into the passenger’s seat of Kate’s car, waving a gun. Tony was a dangerous girl, more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. An admirer of violence and power, she had very different plans in mind for Kate and little Mistie. The cross-country trip that followed would turn into a one-way journey to fear, desperation, and madness.

A family reunion should be a happy event, a chance to reunite with people not seen in a long while. But the Lynch family reunion isn’t a happy event at all. It is the beginning of a terrifying connection between three cousins and a deranged woman who, for a brief time, had been part of the family. When these four people are reunited, a bond is formed, a bond that fuses their souls and reveals dark, chilling visions of a tortured past, a tormented present, and a deadly future – not only for them but for their entire hometown. Will these warnings be enough to enable them to change the horrible fate they have glimpsed?

According to legend, the sineater is a dark and mysterious figure of the night, condemned to live alone in the woods. He may come out only when a death in the community occurs. As the mourners turn their backs in fear, the sineater devours food from the chests of the dead, thereby absorbing the sins of the departed and freeing the soul to enter heaven. Yet in a small mountain town, the order has been broken. The sineater has a family of his own, even though they must avert their gaze on the rare occasions he visits them. With the violated taboo comes a rash of horrifying events. But does the evil emanate from the sineater, his family, or from an even darker force?