GHOUL by Brian Keene

June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with his buddies. Instead his summer will be filled with terror and a life-and-death battle against a nightmarish creature that few will believe even exists. Timmy learns that the person who’s been unearthing fresh graves in the cemetery isn’t a person at all. It’s a thing. And it’s after Timmy and his friends. If Timmy hopes to live to see September, he’ll have to escape the…GHOUL.

GHOST WALK by Brian keene

There are all kinds of legends about LeHorn’s Hollow. Everything from ghosts to a goat man are said to haunt the woods. So it’s the perfect place for Ken Ripple to set up his latest haunted attraction. Halloween is coming and Ripple knows folks will come from miles around to walk down the spooky trail and get scared witless. But there’s one thing Ripple hasn’t counted on. Those legends aren’t just talk. Evil really does wait in the woods. Soon the unsuspecting customers will pay their money and get in line…to die.

NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER by Richard Laymon

Shortly after returning to college for the start of the Fall semester, Ed Logan learns that the girl he loves has found herself a new boyfriend and won’t be coming back to school. Heartbroken and restless, Ed strikes out late one night for a walk through town. He doesn’t much care where he’s going, but soon finds himself fascinated by what he discovers between midnight and dawn — frightened by the town’s lurking terrors, lured by its mysteries… and enthralled by a strange, beautiful girl who roams the lonely streets.

MIDNIGHT GRINDING by Ronald Kelly

It’s dark. Crickets chirp in the black of night, accompanied by the lonesome call of a whippoorwill. On the front porch of a ramshackle house, pale moonlight reveals two forms in rocking chairs, facing one another. Just you and the storyteller.

You are uneasy at first, a little nervous… but for what reason? After all, they are only tall tales and folklore passed down from generation to generation. Just a bunch of ghost stories and strange yarns conjured up for your entertainment. Or are they? Perhaps, in some dreadful way, they are based more in fact, than in fiction.

You sit there in silence for a long moment. You contemplate making an excuse and taking your leave. But it is too late. In hushed tones, the storyteller begins. The crickets grow disturbingly quiet and the whippoorwill is replaced by the far away howling of a dog. Or something vaguely – and sinisterly – similar.

Then the storytelling session begins. And the darkness about you grows even darker…

BODY COUNTING by David Whitman

Body Counting is number 27 in the very popular Delirium X series. This is one of only 92 hardcover copies.

Contents:

Out of the Ashes
The Mind of Hunter Castle
Killing Brando
Angel Lust
What Love Was
The Eyes of God
The Death of the Piano Man
Dust in the Wind
The Thursday Night Poker Players
Broken Souls
The Hitman Always Rings Twice
Body Counting