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Detective Greg Loren faces his darkest hour in this thrilling prequel to Signs of Portents.

With his career joining his personal life on a downward slide toward oblivion, Loren is running out of time and patience. Pulled into yet another in an endless series of supernatural cases, he uncovers a series of grave robberies that are more than they seem.

What is the Church of the Second Coming? And what does it have to do with Loren’s deceased wife, Beth?

With everything on the line, will Loren sacrifice his future to reclaim his past? Will his partner and confidante, Soriya Greystone, stand with him or against him in his decision?

No one walks away unscathed in this scintillating chapter of the Greystone series.

The apocalypse has arrived in a tsunami of teeth and clawing hands as a virulent plague causes those it infects to become ravenous monsters that hunger for flesh.

At the beginning of the epidemic, siblings Andy, Vicki, Phil, and Jim Gibson are scattered across the United States, separated by hundreds of miles. They and their friends must fight their way through hordes of zombies as society collapses around them, in order to be reunited.

Will they succeed? Or will a fate darker than the grave befall them?

The Legend Continues…

Twenty-four heart-rending tales with elements of terror, mystery, and a nightmarish darkness that knows no end.

Welcome to my lake. Welcome to where dreams and hope are illusions…and pain is God.

• This anthology begins with Joe R. Lansdale’s The Folding Man, one of his darkest stories ever written.
• Kealan Patrick Burke’s Go Warily After Dark pulls us into a desolated world, and reminds us of the price of survival: a guilt that seeps into the marrow.
• Damien Angelica Walter’s Everything Hurts, Until it Doesn’t places us in the middle of a family whose secrets and traditions are thicker than blood.
• Jennifer Loring’s When the Dead Come Home explores a loss so dark, that even the stars are sucked into its melancholic vacuum.

In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King’s short fiction, comes Crystal Lake Publishing’s Tales from The Lake anthologies.

This fourth volume of Speculative Fiction contains the following short stories:

• Jennifer Loring – When the Dead Come Home
• Joe R. Lansdale – The Folding Man
• Kealan Patrick Burke – Go Warily After Dark
• T. E. Grau – To the Hills
• Damien Angelica Walters – Everything Hurts, Until it Doesn’t
• Sheldon Higdon – Drowning in Sorrow
• Max Booth III – Whenever You Exhale, I Inhale
• Bruce Golden – The Withering
• JG Faherty – Grave Secrets
• Hunter Liguore – End of the Hall
• David Dunwoody – Snowmen
• Timothy G. Arsenault – Pieces of Me
• Maria Alexander – Neighborhood Watchers
• Timothy Johnson – The Story of Jessie and Me
• Michael Bailey – I will be the Reflection Until the End
• E.E. King – The Honeymoon’s Over
• Darren Speegle – Song in a Sundress
• Cynthia Ward – Weighing In
• Michael Haynes – Reliving the Past
• Leigh M. Lane – The Long Haul
• Mark Cassell – Dust Devils
• Del Howison – Liminality
• Gene O’Neill – The Gardener
• Jeff Cercone – Condo by the Lake

“This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp. Can anyone hear me? …hello? Is anyone alive out there?

“The end of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push humanity to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us. Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without change, there can be no peace. Only survivors.”

Fated to lead New America, seven gifted people survive an apocalypse only to find themselves on a cross-country quest through horror that will shake the very core of who they believed they were. These long-denied protectors of humanity are destined to rebuild their country…if they can stay alive long enough to find each other.

What does this dystopian military fiction series have that makes it so great?

• Nuclear armageddon and post-apocalyptic survival in every page.
• A centuries-old conspiracy that caused armageddon.
• Dangerous trips through the apocalypse to find family, supplies, and safety.
• Post-apocalyptic survival methods that can be copied if shtf.
• A refugee camp with very different laws, picking up those who have survived shtf.
• A hero you will love, even as you ponder the secrets that could cost him leadership.
• A constant battle for survival that includes deadly trips into decaying cities, insanity, fights against nature, psychics, horrors of the past, and ghosts that stalk their every move.

Set along the lines of The Stand and The Postman, this is a chilling vision of the collapse of all society and the rebirth of a nation by those who survived. It’s so much more than just another shtf book.

This way, please…

In the dark corners of a castle deep in the Alps, a secret awaits Daniel Stone. After inheriting the castle from his grandmother, Daniel and his father travel to Bavaria.

They soon notice a dark presence in the old stronghold: strange noises echo from the depths beneath the castle, and someone or something seems to be following their every move.

After things spiral out of control, Daniel and his father receive unexpected help from an old relative, who tells them of the dark secrets the castle holds. But even with the three of them, will they be able to discover the centuries-old mystery that lies buried, or will darkness claim them all?