The Feline Friendship

The Feline Friendship
Author: Michael Allen Dymmoch
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626815186

Psychiatrist Jack Caleb and Chicago cop John Thinnes return in this “well-crafted procedural . . . intriguingly presented . . . spiked by psychological insight” (Booklist). After a woman is brutally raped in the posh Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago and a second rape victim is murdered, the hunt for a serial rapist/killer becomes a “heater” case, front-burnered due to the scrutiny of publicity. The pressure is on Det. John Thinnes and his new partner, a strong-willed feminist cop named Don Franchi. Psychiatrist Jack Caleb is acting as a police consultant to construct a psychological profile of the rapist, and Thinnes asks his friend to step in and mediate the friction between him and his partner. If they’re going to solve an increasingly complicated and disturbing case that matches the MO of earlier, similar crimes in another Illinois city, they need to find a way to work together . . .

Wherewolves

Wherewolves
Author: John Vamvas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991866618

"KEPT ME ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. GETS YOUR PULSE POUNDING." -Author and award winning investigative journalist, Victor Malarek Using a fun, explosive style, full of new slang and fresh dialogue, WHEREWOLVES is the story of a group of high school seniors, most of them "military brats," who are headed for an army-type survival weekend. "5 stars. It reminded me a bit of Lord of the Flies versus Silver Bullet but only way cooler." "Chillingly terrifying." The underdogs, Jeffrey and Doris, do not want to go as they fear for their safety among the disdain and cruelty of the popular students. Sergeant Tim O'Sullivan, their teacher, as well as their dysfunctional parents pressure them into going, but it is an unforgivable act by their peers that propels the pair to go. Likewise, Elie, a student resented because of his Arab roots, is even more determined to prove himself this weekend. In the background, a news report cautions of a wanted couple with alleged super-human strength supposedly brought on by a new drug on the streets. In the woods, the students hike, hunt, camp, and soon act in unity as the forest brings them closer together. But does it? O'Sullivan leaves them alone for the night. The students bond, chant, tell campfire tales, and quickly lose their fears and inhibitions. HOO-AH! Though sexual tensions are high, it soon turns to violence and everything quickly turns sour. When the kids start disappearing one after the other, the remaining begin to unwittingly "act like the natives" carving spears, ready to face whatever is out there. What has gotten into them? Amid blood-curdling growls and gruesome deaths, the story's underlying layers are revealed. We see how misconceptions, prejudice, greed, fear, and hatred bring out the worst and best in them. What is out there? Can it really be werewolves? "This is one horror novel that will have you thinking long after you've finished reading." Based on the screenplay, WHEREWOLVES, by John Vamvas and Olga Montes "SPARKLING DIALOGUE...THE WRITING IS SENSATIONAL." -Emmy and Peabody Award winning writer, William Mastrosimone

Chophouse

Chophouse
Author: Horns
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0984213686

A sinister night falls over the relaxed rural community of Dominic County, and a restless evil plots its escape from years of confinement. Before the light of day would return to the quiet woodland town, many came to believe that the gates of Hell had broken open and the Devil's minions were rampantly spreading terror and death there.... ....a family on vacation....a sheriff with a tragic childhood.....a curious young woman looking for love in the wrong place at the wrong time....an outsider ambulance driver who finds himself in dire medical straits.....and a host of unwitting victims struggling against forces of madness and wickedness unlike anything they could've dared imagine. A diabolic freight train carrying insanity and murder is barreling down the dark, towering woods known to the locals as Horror Hill, and everyone in its way is getting a free-ticket ride to the other side. . . . The CHOPHOUSE is open!

The Raising

The Raising
Author: Shawn-a-Lee McCutcheon-Bell
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0692485635

Mike Van Gremor, paranormal journalist, has lost what's most important in his life: his wife. Plagued by her memory, he throws himself into a new assignment, investigating fatal accidents near a small town in the Hudson River Valley. Soon, he will open the door to a remarkable new dimension and find himself in the position to decide the fate of mankind, and with the power to deliver us from evil. "Shawn-a-lee will scare the pants off you!" --Norm Applegate (author, Blood Bar)

Human Nature

Human Nature
Author: Matthew Ewald
Publisher: 978-0984213665
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2015-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 098421366X

Matthew Ewald's (actor: Galidor, Star Trek Phase II) chilling debut novel of horror from Black Bed Sheet Books. A group of young Animal Liberation Front activists perform a raid on an animal testing lab outside of Ventura, California, not knowing that the facility, Caladine, is a secret government testing ground for bio-engineered fighting hybrids. One of the few to survive the bloodbath, now confined to a psychiatric institution, tells the tale of that night to a gifted psychologist, whose expertise lies within schizophrenic disorders. Where all have failed, she must succeed in unlocking the truth of what happened during a night hidden away in bloodshed and carnage. But, neither the doctor nor the patient realize a far more sinister truth awaits; a truth which says they are being manipulated by the scheming head of the ward, a man who keeps patients as playthings in a basement asylum. By the time they find out these motives of monsters, it is too late for the both of them. A tale of madness becomes their reality. In the end -- to hunt the world's most horrific evil, you'll need to keep your eyes open and look within.

Landfill

Landfill
Author: David L. Hoof
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0692316736

Biology professor Max Hurd’s life is unraveling. Separated from his wife, pressured to perjure by his boss, and suspected by a psychotic cop of murder when that boss disappears already adds to his psychosis of fearing the dark. No one believes him of the real problem that has caused his boss and others to vanish near Gulls Bay: warrens of raccoon-sized carnivores multiplying in warrens beneath the dump, which DOE wants to re-open so that mining of methane can begin. No one seems to care if Max is eliminated. His ex-wife's pedophile biker lover is after the insurance money. The workers are locked out of their jobs at Gulls Bay. The Chinese chemists are cooking up bioweapons for use against Caucasians. All of these discontents are mustered against Max, whose separation leaves him only enough remaining money to live close enough to the landfill to see things that no one else believes in. By moonlight, he can see the landfill crawling with them. Biology tells him that those many mouths need food, and the biggest meal on the local menu of dark and foggy metropolitan Seattle are human beings. Max's only ally is Pugh's former lover, Dawn, who wants to cure him of his irrational fear of darkness, and silly notion that things out there do more than just go bump. Max cannot avoid the converging dangers. Without a plan, they will eat him alive.

Devil's Maintenance

Devil's Maintenance
Author: Thaxson Patterson II
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2016-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 069274519X

What would the U.S. government do if they actually caught the Devil? Where would they keep him? What would they do with him? If they used him, what would the cost be? In an abandoned nuclear submarine buried beneath the Greenland ice shelf, the National Security Agency’s new Information Assurance Technical Director, Ray Peterson, is revealed the greatest secret the U.S. government has ever kept. Daniel Edgar Vincent Ivan Liberty, codenamed Devil, has an intellect so vast, there is no puzzle he can't solve, no computer system too complex to create or control, and the thing he enjoys most is manipulating the fleeting lives of human beings. Devil surrendered to the U.S. government of his own free will, only requesting that he be kept alive in a prison of his design near the Arctic Circle in exchange for his gifts to be utilized exclusively for America….and for a terrible price that Ray will soon horrifyingly discover!

Harlow

Harlow
Author: David Greske
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0997927682

Monster Ink

Monster Ink
Author: Timothy Baker
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2014-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0692312315

Pony is a magical tattooist with Johnny Boy, a Sons of Flesh MC brother, in dire need of a new skin to live. But the prospects of new dead-on meat strolling into the tattoo shop are slim. Time is running out for Johnny Boy when Pony’s oldest friend and MC brother, Feaster, comes through for them; but he has a hidden agenda: revenge. Monster Ink is a horror novelette that tells the gruesome tale of three men that extend their lives beyond normal by taking others living full body skin and wearing them as their own, all through the use of a cursed magical tattoo. It is a story of brotherhood, disloyalty, and vengeance. Together with two compelling horror chillers, Front Lines, Big City and Hell and Tarnation, Monster Ink propels you into an exciting page-turning thrillogy that will make real fans of horror fiction wow and your average reader scream!

Evil Houses

Evil Houses
Author: Erik Shuttleworth
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0692218513

The secrets behind these EVIL HOUSES make paranormal child's play. EVIL HOUSES is an original collection of haunted house thrillers that's a must-read for fans of ghost stories and tales of gripping terror. In The House From Hell, Mike, Trista, Greg and Tiffany conduct a paranormal investigation in a house where, twenty-eight years earlier, the father drowned his wife and son and bludgeoned his daughter to death before hanging himself. The investigation leads into the bowels of a preserved, abandoned realm where every clue exposes violent evil and each revelation deepens the terrifying, apocalyptic reality the team has exposed themselves to. In The Straw House, Steven and Brenda are living a normal life in the 1980's. Steven acquires building contracts and Brenda tends the home preparing for their life together. However, neither knows the ancient evil that stalks Steven's soul until Steven's memory is reawakened to his old sins and their consequences on Halloween night. In the darkness Brenda is seduced by witchcraft and Steven comes face to face with an inferno of evil more sinister than any closeted childhood fear. In Grave Incidents, David, a psychologist and dream analysis specialist, attempts to assist Rebecca (a woman suffering from horrific nightmares and a peculiar phobia) in resolving her inner turmoil. As the sessions reach deeper into Rebecca's soul, David soon discovers his own haunted past. This triggers a dangerous downward spiral for them both. Soon their highly charged emotions and own histories are revealed through supernatural visions, bloody secrets and a dark truth that can only be unraveled through a violent confrontation in a secluded house in deep wilderness. "A bone-chilling read!" says Joe Flynn, horror host of San Jose's popular "The Joe Flynn Show."