Some type of gigantic, grey mass passes by—an ashen, misty mass with cut-out windows from end to end. One can feel the gust of a satanic draught from these open holes, hear the flapping, maddeningly blown-about shutters; one can almost see the spectral faces of the passengers... A wandering train
Occasional Demons: Сollection of short stories
- Book ID
- 107527873
- Publisher
- Crossroad Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 9 MB
- Category
- Standards
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This collection, from an acclaimed Master of Dark Fiction, consists of twenty-one tales with some being straight genre entries, others psychological terror and finally a few shorts that include science fiction elements. The first eighteen are short stories written solely by Rick and the final three are collaborations with Jesse and Matti Hautala, Matthew J. Costello, and Jim Connolly.
The stories included are:
The Nephews,
Nightmare Transcript,
Non-returnable,
Dead Legends,
I've Been Thinking About You,
The Man Who Looked Like Murphy,
Toxic Shock,
The Call,
Getting the Job Done,
Every Mother's Son,
Knocking, Hotel Hell,
The Compost Heap,
Iron Frog,
Setup,
The Gates of Dawn,
Off the Cuff,
The Screaming Head,
Abduction (written with Jesse and Matti Hautala),
And the Sea Shall Claim Them (written by Matthew J. Costello and A. J. Matthews),
Scared Crows (written with Jim Connolly).
✦ Subjects
Ужасы
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