Böcker utgivna av Storm King Productions

LANEY GENNAWAY, recently separated and new to Southern California, decides to take a true crime tour to get to know her new town. The location of the tour: the notorious Aztec Hotel, built during Prohibition to cater to gamblers, drinkers, and sexual libertines, since fallen on hard times (and reportedly haunted) She befriends an elderly man named PRESTON BAILEY, who is friendly but clearly lonely. The tour is focused on a famous unsolved case from 1949--the so-called "FLOWER ARRANGER" who mixed and matched the body parts of his three victims (Violet, Rose, and Lily) at the Aztec Hotel before vanishing into thin air. The husband-and-wife tour guides claim to have finally discovered the Flower Arranger's identity and promise to lay out their case over the three-hour tour, ending with the big reveal. Laney is fascinated as the lurid details of case unfold, but quickly realizes that her new friend Preston has a personal connection to the murders: his older sister was LILY BAILEY, the third victim. As the tour begins to spiral out of control--the hotel loses power, and key guests (including a retired cop) fall strangely ill or go missing--Laney realizes someone on the tour is behind all this chaos and determined to stop the revelation of the Flower Arranger's real name. But why?

William Lincoln, an impatient businessman in his 20s, casually asks a small-town coffee shop barista about a carousel horse atop its roof. Within earshot, an elderly man asks William if he would like to learn about the history of the sprawling amusement park that once stood on that spot, the carousel horse the final reminder of its existence. They settle into a conversation that immediately disturbs young William. It is the story of an elderly man hoping to experience the amusement park one last time to recapture childhood memories, to relish the rapidly fleeting remaining moments. Instead of pleasant memories, each attraction becomes a surreal microcosm of aging and its inherent challenges as bodies and minds begin to break down. The elderly man is abused, pushed in a seemingly endless throng of elderly people through attractions that mimic the final stages of life. Finally, he winds up right back where he started, battered both mentally and physically. Instead of being able to leave the park, he realizes he is trapped in a loop, forced to relive the harrowing experience over and over. At the end of the elderly man's tale, William is puzzled, concerned, and annoyed, irritated to have had his time wasted on such a story. William quickly realizes that not everything in the coffee shop is as it seems. The elderly man with whom young William has been conversing shares his name. It is William Lincoln. Perplexed and scared now, young William attempts to leave, fleeing through the coffee shop's front door. When the door closes behind him, William is back in the amusement park, transformed again into his elderly self, still trapped in the loop, forced to reconcile the reality of aging and ultimately, his own mortality.

Daniel is the new kid in town, having moved with his parents from bustling Boston to a quaint house in Washington State. He's navigating a new school, settling into a fresh bedroom, and exploring a huge backyard--all with his two loyal cats by his side. But this isn't just any house. Unbeknownst to Daniel, their new home is a portal between this world and the next, and his cats are its mystical guardians, tasked with guiding wayward spirits. When one particularly stubborn spirit refuses to move on, the cats reveal their secret world to Daniel, enlisting him as their chief helper in this otherworldly mission. As Daniel delves deeper into this magical realm, he encounters various spirits, each with their own stories and lessons. These encounters help him discover more about himself, forging new friendships and finding his place in this new town. Through it all, he realizes that the most special thing of all is his loving family.

Theo, a 500 year old Vampire, has made a new home in a small town in Western Massachusetts, stalking it's residents in search of the perfect humans to spirit away to replace her lost brood. After all, a home is nothing without a family... Best friends, Ed and Liam, are spending a long weekend together only to find themselves victims of a violent attack. They quickly come to find out their assailant is an unhinged elderly Vampire named Theo. Before the night is over, the two find themselves not only abducted, but locked away behind the walls of Theo's rotting home as unwilling members of her new brood. More hellish still, they've become undead themselves. Each passing night plunges the two friends deeper into Theo's putrefying nightmare of a world. It doesn't take them long to understand running isn't an option. After all, when you've become one of the undead yourself where can you call home except with the creature who made you? Ed and Liam must learn to navigate Theo's world if they want to survive it.

In this sci-fi horror, an experiment in faster than light travel goes terribly wrong. Unintended side effects will drop pilot David Peeler into a living nightmare when alternate versions of himself start appearing, each one more deranged than the last. Putting both himself, and his family in danger, David will navigate the farthest reaches of the cosmos, and the abyss of the human mind. Little by little, he will lose himself to the growing insanity of confronting the darkest parts of himself made flesh. All of it culminating in an explosive ending that will almost certainly be Peeler's doom!

The locals call it 'the Coffin Road', a lonely highway winding through the backwoods of Maine, said to be the haunt of all who have died there. Not the best place for your car to break down! ALEX is the dazed survivor of an auto-wreck, assisted by OWEN, a young African-American recovery driver with his own reasons to fear these eerie backroads. But with a storm closing in, floodwaters have blocked the road back to town, forcing Alex and Owen to take the long, treacherous route back through the Coffin Road. They are pursued by a malevolent specter with a crooked neck. Who is he? And why does he want to own Alex body and soul? What other secrets lay hidden in these woods? Alex and Owen must journey through this shadow world and unravel its many mysteries before the Coffin Road buries them forever!

"Vortex 2.0 is the seventh story in the monthly anthology series John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction"--Back cover.

Series created by John Carpenter and Sandy King.

Time: A future where ships can fold space and much of humanity has abandoned its depleted world. Two forces-- Government and Corporation‿ vie for control of what‿s left of the Earth, of known space, and of the universe beyond. Hyperbreed tm: Gene-spliced human-animal hybrid assets with no legal status, living, breathing slaves created and programmed to do their Corporate masters bidding. Government, in trying to limit Corporate power, has recently insisted “splicesâ€? be paid wages and has begun to debate a bill that would allow the Hyperbreed assets to buy their freedom. Corporate will do anything to stop it. Maks: A race of alien robot pirates that exists on the edge of explored space--terrifying monsters who wear the body parts of vanquished flesh-and-blood enemies as trophies. An attack on Earth is next on their agenda. Caught in the middle: Byrr, Fext and Cammo, three Hyperbreed assets who‿ve run afoul of their Corporate masters. Thrown together on an ancient freighter, their mission is to transport valuable Explosive Ore to a distant mining colony. But their mission is far from what it seems and the battle for their futures and the future of Known Space is about to begin. In the vastness of space, small betrayals can have major consequences, playing the odds can change the course of history, and Luck isn‿t always what it seems.

After the death of her mother, a young girl moves away to the country with her father. Angry and grief-stricken, Monica Bleue must find a new life away from her friends, her school and everything that was familiar to her. Though she’s not speaking to her dad, she begins to find her way out of her heartache from the country serenity around them. But while out wandering the forests near their home, she comes face to face with a hidden horror that changes their lives forever. Monica and her father search for answers to her newly transformed state, and together they bond as she learns to harness the monstrous powers she now possesses. But there’s a sinister evil lying low in their small country town… and the number of missing children is climbing. Monica may be the only one with the power to uncover the secret, but as she begins to unravel the mystery, finding a savage killer only puts her and her father deeper in danger.

As the Cold War widened in the 1950s, military hero George Kutter and his family trained to be legacy survivors in the event of an atomic exchange with the Soviet Union. Prepared to wait out the aftermath of nuclear war, they were subjected to myriad simulations, scenarios and stresses in hopes of helping salvage something of their family, their country and humanity from the ashes of a conflict with the Russians that never happened. But when a group of hunting buddies stumble upon an old fallout shelter buried in the present-day Pennsylvania wilderness and end up locked inside, they quickly learn that “truthâ€? is just a matter of conditioning, while a crash course in paranoia, propaganda and control awaits. What was the nature of the secret Archonite initiative? What lengths did the United States go to in order to prepare for all-out war and its aftermath? What did the Kutter Family endure in perpetration for their duty? And if World War III never broke out‿ why are they still down there?