"In a post-apocalyptic world, Tiva is running for her life when she stumbles across three survivors who save her from a horde of those things, whatever they are now. The creatures aren’t people anymore. They’re…infected. Struggling to find food, she soon realizes luck was on her side when Russ and his crew welcome her into the safety of their warehouse.
It seems not many survivors remain in what’s left of the world, so they figure they’d do better to stick together. Besides, Russ hasn’t known the love of a woman in a long time, and he and Tiva immediately feel the connection.
As the days pass, the crew takes turns keeping watch for the undead. Russ and Tiva vow to be there for each other should they get bitten. If the inevitable should happen, it wouldn’t be much of an afterlife, wandering aimlessly and killing innocent people.
Will Russ and Tiva get their happily ever after? Or are they destined to be undead like the rest of the world?"
"Includes:
1:11 Epistaxis—Actual vampires don’t need fangs in order to feed.
2:22 Starlight, Starbright—An astronaut defies orders not to return to Earth, but he does anyway…with dire consequences.
3:33 Rescue—Two detectives go in search of thirteen missing children and the person responsible for their disappearances.
4:44 Forecast—A bizarre weather phenomenon envelopes a city.
5:55 Firewood—He was warned about going into the forest to gather firewood.
6:66 Sniffy—A young boy grieves for his beloved pet.
7:77 Fortune—A teenager is informed he’s going to meet his fate that evening.
8:88 Karma—An abused woman’s husband gets his just desserts.
9:99 Second Date—He only dates young women with a unique personality or physical makeup.
10:10 100 Strokes—To combat her thinning hair, she thought she’d use an old tried-and-true method.
11:11 Mosquitoes—Her job was to test the blood of mosquitoes for possible signs of infectious diseases.
12:12 Protector—He promised he would protect her until his dying day."
"Old MacDonald had a farm, E I E I O
And on this farm he had some pigs, E I E I O
With a hack hack here, and a chop chop there,
Here a shriek, there a scream
Everywhere the blood streams...
Old MacDonald had a farm, E I E I O
In rural Georgia in 1948, a man was lucky to get any kind of work. Which was why Cletus Pink felt he'd been blessed when an old farmer named MacDonald offered him a job.
But what was making the horrific sounds coming from the main house? Worse, why was there always fresh blood oozing out from underneath the kitchen's back door?"
"Stories Included are:
CANCELLATION - A young woman discovers there's a penalty for having excessive non-payments to her credit card company.
THE DEVIL'S BREW - Vicky thinks her sister is unintentionally summoning the dark forces. Susan thinks Vicky's beliefs are sheer nonsense. One of them is wrong.
THE DRAIN - It was meant to be a long weekend, semi-vacation at their favorite tourist trap, New York City. You've heard the old wives' tales of alligators in the sewers? What the Duchins discovered was much, much worse."
"My name is Alexis Hembree, and I’m a cop. My partner and I are good at our jobs, except we don’t tend to work what others would call a “normal” beat. For some reason we draw evil to us like flies to sugar.
Sometimes there are things in this world we can’t explain or anticipate. But when they cross that line between their existence and ours, when they show up, we have to deal with them as best we can.
Some cops fight criminals. We fight something that never should have existed.
303 Lexington St.
It was a crack house. Except, in this case, drug dealers went in but they didn’t come out. Not alive, anyway, but in body bags. What’s more, if everyone who went inside ended up being shredded to death, who was doing the killing?
Georgie Porgie
The killer targeted women. Young, old, prostitutes, business women, it didn’t matter. One moment they would be walking down the sidewalk in the middle of town, and the next what was left of their bodies would be found in a nearby alleyway. Devoured. That’s why I had to be the next one to walk the streets. To draw out whoever was doing this. To be his next victim.
The Goodbye
He murdered young girls by crucifying them with ice picks. He was slick, elusive, and heading for our city. My partner and I were damned and determined this murderer would get no further. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep my head on the job. Neither could I ignore the weird-ass dreams I was having about this deviate. This case was becoming more personal, more foreboding, and more dangerous with each passing day. And there was no damn way I could avoid what I dreamed would be the final outcome."
"Amanda Storey was sent by her company to a tiny rural town to convince the community that having a chain mega-supermarket built there would be a boon to their economy and job market.
She never showed up for the town hall meeting, even though the company insists she was scheduled to be there. The inn where she had reservations claimed she never checked in, and police have not found any trace of her body or her car.
This is what really happened."
"Stories Included are:
EENIE MEENIE - Something lives in the big black plastic garbage bag. Something that isn’t human. Something that depends on the goodwill of others to provide it with food. Fortunately, it’s not particular if its meal is dead, long dead…or alive
RED RACING STRIPES - All he wanted was a little paint modification for his new car.
UNSUB - Lt. Sean Walsh puts his reputation on the line during the hunt for a vicious serial killer. The last thing he expected was for the hunted to become the hunter. "
"Four years ago Byron Shales was a manager for a department store. Now he hunts down and captures the newly zombie-fied dead, and resells them at auction to the highest bidder. What his buyers do with them after the sale is finalized is none of his business, and frankly he couldn’t care less.
His beliefs and apathy come to a sickening halt when he elects to keep one young woman for himself, and discovers that all his pre-conceived notions about these non-living creatures have been a lie. In fact, the truth about Rothsburg’s Disease may be more horrifying than the flesh-eating creatures it infects."
"With the cold weather quickly setting in, Lark is trying to ensure she has what she needs to make it through another bone-chilling winter in the cabin in the woods, but something has decided to pay her a visit. The question is, who? Or better yet, what?
There is a human invading his sanctuary, and he is determined to get rid of her. Humans in the past have left of their own accord, but not without a threat from him. However, this one is proving difficult. But she’ll go. One way or another, he will make her.
The thing is demanding that Lark leave, but she has nowhere to go. No one who cares. So she's determined to stand her ground.
After all, what does she have to lose, besides her life?"
"The handwritten account of one woman's struggle to survive in a world gone DEAD.
Something has happened to the world, and now the living are gradually becoming the living dead. This is the story of one young woman's struggle to live a life that has no future."
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