Authors: Aaron Sterns & Greg McLean WOLF CREEK: ORGIN Nature vs nurture turns out to be a bloodbath. The wide open outback offers plenty of space for someone to hide. Or to hide a body. When wiry youngster Mick Taylor starts as a jackaroo at a remote Western Australian sheep station, he tries to keep his head down among the rough company of the farmhands. But he can't keep the devils inside him hidden for long. It turns out he's not the only one with the killer impulse – and the other psychopaths don't appreciate competition. Is Cutter, the station's surly…

Author: L. Andrew Cooper DESCENDING LINES When Megan met Carter Anderson at Harvard, their college romance took a mystical turn thanks to THE ALCHEMY OF WILL, a book by Dr. Allen Fincher that gave them the power to do almost anything, with disastrous results. Years later, they have a six-year-old daughter, Caitlin, dying a slow death from bone cancer. Dr. Fincher’s book offers them a cure: they can save the life of their first-born by sacrificing the life of their second. But Megan and Carter don’t have a second-born… yet. Only half-convinced, Megan, confined to their New York apartment, begins nine…

Author: Frazer Lee THE JACK IN THE GREEN A nightmare made real. On Christmas Eve, six year-old Tom McCrae witnessed an unspeakable atrocity that left him orphaned, his childhood in tatters. Now in his mid-thirties, Tom still has terrifying nightmares of that night. When Tom is sent to the remote Scottish village of Douglass to negotiate a land grab for his employer it seems like a golden opportunity for him to start over. But Tom can’t help feeling he’s been to Douglass before, and the terrible dreams from his childhood have begun to spill over into his waking life. As…

Author: Collie James THE FORGOTTEN When young Alley Anderson, moves into her newly acquired home, she soon finds that there's more wrong with the house than the fact that it is over a hundred years old. She doesn't know what exactly, but there's something hidden and horribly off . With the help of her Dashing new friend, Kody Farmer, she sets out to find what haunts the old house before she is attacked again. Will the next assault be worst one thus far, or will they discover a way to end haunting before it's to late? The Forgotten is an…

Author: D. Alexander Ward A FEAST OF BUZZARDS Take a journey through a twisted version of the American South with these stories by author D. Alexander Ward as he draws back the curtain on a world where isolation, faith and transformation all play a part in the struggle between light and dark—and the battles that rage within us all. The ghost of a young boy’s father helps him discover the hero within as he strives to rescue his mother, abducted during a drug deal gone bad. During a trip across Mississippi, a man listens as a voice on the radio…

Author: Nikki Hopeman HABEAS CORPSE When a series of grisly murders terrorizes the Steel City, Theo-an undead "Riser" working as a forensic technician for the Pittsburgh police-decides to use his dark gift to hunt the killer. "DEXTER meets Deadite... Nikki Hopeman's book just might be the most clever zombie story to hit the shelves in quite some time." ~ Michael Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Play Dead "If George Romero had created CSI, the result might have been something like Nikki Hopeman's Habeas Corpse. A cross-genre blend of mystery, horror, and urban fantasy, with strong characterization and razor-sharp prose.…

Author: Marty Young 809 JACOB STREET Fourteen year old Byron James wishes he'd never been dragged to Parkton. It's a crazy sideshow of a town in the middle of damn nowhere, and he's stranded there. To make matters worse, his two new friends - his only friends - turn out to be class rejects with an unhealthy interest in monsters. They want to discover the truth to the infamous monster house at number 809 Jacob Street. Joey Blue is an old bluesman who fell into his songs and couldn't find his way out again. Now he's a Gutterbreed, one of…