Showing results for "Snake" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Before the modern world learned to interface tech with magic, the old gods ruled the dark completely. Deep within the underbelly of a shifting cosmos, Primordium: An Anthology of Horrors delivers a collection of pulse-pounding, genre-shattering tales that map out the dark origins of the Snake in...

A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident - and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt. Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also THE go-to facility in assisted dying. For a cut, they make impatient heirs happy. Nameless must concoct a scheme just as cunning.

Some games should never be played twice. In the summer of 2005, four children gathered in a sweltering garage to play an old board game they did not understand. By nightfall, one of them was gone. The police called it a disappearance. The others called it a curse. Twenty years later, Maya Cole wakes in a rehab clinic to find a black box waiting on her desk, sealed, nameless, and printed with a message she has not seen since childhood.“Four must play.” One by one, the survivors are drawn back together, each haunted, broken, and trying to forget. But the game remembers.

Anna's life as an accountant is pretty mundane - just ask her. One of the bright spots in her day is stopping in at The Trusty Mug for a cup of whatever tasty tea happens to be in season. But when a handsome detective asks her to help him check out what he believes is a baseless tip, her life will never be the same...

En hyggelig middag hos veninden Eva og hendes mand, Ian, tager en uventet og intens drejning. Vinen flyder, grænser udviskes, og da Ian afslører en fascinerende slangetatovering, der snor sig over hans krop, trækkes Sara ind i ægteparrets erotiske spind. Det, der starter som uskyldig flirt...

Fear, Legacy, Courage, and Balance...

Harker Brayton accepts an offer from an associate to stay at his house. We and Brayton learn that his friend's home is also home to numerous serpents. In fact, a wing of the house - the "Snakery" - is full of the cold blooded creatures, which have been known to wander.

In this short horror story, a daughter comes home to discover that her convalescing mother has been attacked by a predator she can't prove exists.

This enigmatic collection of poetry recounts the author’s story throughout six years of love, hatred, success, failure, frustration, and elation. It is a collage of images ranging from the obscene to the serene, the real to the surreal, and the darkest nightmares to the brightest dreams. So, take this journey through the author’s mind and emotions, and discover the full spectrum of the pain and pleasure he feels and transmits. Gain an understanding of his transformation, not only through the clever verses and rhymes, but also through the raw and vivid honesty of the feeling.

A short story about a man who is caught cheating on his wife in the small town of Cody, Wyoming, in the 1930s.

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway bet his fellow writers at the Algonquin Round Table that he could write a complete short story in six words. The other writers ponied up 10 bucks each, and Papa claimed the pot with possibly the saddest six words ever written: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." In this collection, Mario Milosevic offers 41 of his own very short stories. By turns funny, fantastic, witty, fabulous, and poignant, none are as brief as six words, but they all pack a punch and are guaranteed to intrigue, amuse, and move.