A compilation of 31 horror stories for my readers who enjoy no holds barred terror before turning in at night. I have selected my most gruesome nightmares from "Black As Night" and "Shivers and other nightmares." The offering includes vampires, werewolves, boogeymen, and a sampling of monsters, aliens, and various deranged maniacs to haunt your dreams all the lonely nights.
The nightmares
A man awakens in the dark, only able to move his head on a pillow and the fingers of his right arm.
THE LOVE A man is terrified to find his home broken into and the contents trashed because the intruder may have discovered the room where he tortures his female victims.
WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED A man's pet cat brings home a small, alien furry thing that eats flesh like a school of piranha.
SOMETHING IN THE After a deer crashes through the windshield of a car, the stranger who rescued the husband from the wreckage tells him his wife's mutilated, bloodless corpse is not human.
UNDER NEW The meat at Big Mama's Restaurant is extremely fresh.
VAMPIRES AND A charter plane to Atlantic City lands at a remote private airport near Lake George, NY. THE VAMPIRE Something big in the basement has devoured Mike's neighbor's cat on loan to catch a mouse.
THE Lieutenant Ramsey is on the trail of a strange woman who kidnaps seven children every ten years and eats them to stay young.
Charlie needs to change a fuse in the spooky basement full of spiders.
THE CLOWN AT Charles likes to watch horror flicks by candlelight with his monster mannequins.
The Madeira Club has hired a travel agent to rent a castle in Transylvania for this year's gala Halloween party.
BLACK AS Two teenagers try to rescue a helpless woman from being buried alive by a masked rider on Halloween.
THE SHELL An elderly man loses his faith in a snowstorm on the last day of his life.
WEREWOLF ON A werewolf propositions a promoter to make his transformation the main event at Madison Square Garden.
THE BOY WHO CRIED John returns to the house where the boogeyman tried to eat him when he was ten years old.
TOOTH A serial killer has driven a crucifix through the hearts of seven boys and extracted their incisors.
THE A warlock has sworn to return on the anniversary of being burned at the stake three hundred years ago. CHRISTMAS It's the night before Christmas, something is in the house, and it's not Santa.
THE A psychotic female teenager cooks up an elaborate scheme to pose as a babysitter for a wealthy couple, rob them for road money, and murder their little boy to punish them for being rich.
The freak show at the end of the fairgrounds is one Jed Norman will never forget.
After feeling sick for a week following his vacation, Charles visits his doctor for a checkup
A stranger intercedes after an altar boy has a sexual encounter with a priest.
A teenager, gang-raped by members of her high school football team, delivers a baby with horrible birth defects.
TO KNOW the After receiving bad news from the doctor, Harry took the long way home through the park and bought flowers for Mildred, possibly for the last time.
VICTIM 13: The serial killer was amazed at how brazenly the woman entered the kill zone without regard to the recent string of murders.
Marla picks a ferocious black panther for the free tattoo she won.
THE A televangelist predicts the end of the world is coming in six months.
A SHORTCUT THROUGH THE Mason hears a gunshot in the black woods while taking a shortcut home.
THE FORTUNE An extremely superstitious couple always have a reading from a fortune teller before they harvest organs to sell for obscene amounts of money.
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A compilation of 31 horror stories for my readers who enjoy no holds barred terror before turning in at night. I have selected my most gruesome nightmares from "Black As Night" and "Shivers and other nightmares." The offering includes vampires, werewolves, boogeymen, and a sampling of monsters, aliens, and various deranged maniacs to haunt your dreams all the lonely nights.
The nightmares
A man awakens in the dark, only able to move his head on a pillow and the fingers of his right arm.
THE LOVE A man is terrified to find his home broken into and the contents trashed because the intruder may have discovered the room where he tortures his female victims.
WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED A man's pet cat brings home a small, alien furry thing that eats flesh like a school of piranha.
SOMETHING IN THE After a deer crashes through the windshield of a car, the stranger who rescued the husband from the wreckage tells him his wife's mutilated, bloodless corpse is not human.
UNDER NEW The meat at Big Mama's Restaurant is extremely fresh.
VAMPIRES AND A charter plane to Atlantic City lands at a remote private airport near Lake George, NY. THE VAMPIRE Something big in the basement has devoured Mike's neighbor's cat on loan to catch a mouse.
THE Lieutenant Ramsey is on the trail of a strange woman who kidnaps seven children every ten years and eats them to stay young.
Charlie needs to change a fuse in the spooky basement full of spiders.
THE CLOWN AT Charles likes to watch horror flicks by candlelight with his monster mannequins.
The Madeira Club has hired a travel agent to rent a castle in Transylvania for this year's gala Halloween party.
BLACK AS Two teenagers try to rescue a helpless woman from being buried alive by a masked rider on Halloween.
THE SHELL An elderly man loses his faith in a snowstorm on the last day of his life.
WEREWOLF ON A werewolf propositions a promoter to make his transformation the main event at Madison Square Garden.
THE BOY WHO CRIED John returns to the house where the boogeyman tried to eat him when he was ten years old.
TOOTH A serial killer has driven a crucifix through the hearts of seven boys and extracted their incisors.
THE A warlock has sworn to return on the anniversary of being burned at the stake three hundred years ago. CHRISTMAS It's the night before Christmas, something is in the house, and it's not Santa.
THE A psychotic female teenager cooks up an elaborate scheme to pose as a babysitter for a wealthy couple, rob them for road money, and murder their little boy to punish them for being rich.
The freak show at the end of the fairgrounds is one Jed Norman will never forget.
After feeling sick for a week following his vacation, Charles visits his doctor for a checkup
A stranger intercedes after an altar boy has a sexual encounter with a priest.
A teenager, gang-raped by members of her high school football team, delivers a baby with horrible birth defects.
TO KNOW the After receiving bad news from the doctor, Harry took the long way home through the park and bought flowers for Mildred, possibly for the last time.
VICTIM 13: The serial killer was amazed at how brazenly the woman entered the kill zone without regard to the recent string of murders.
Marla picks a ferocious black panther for the free tattoo she won.
THE A televangelist predicts the end of the world is coming in six months.
A SHORTCUT THROUGH THE Mason hears a gunshot in the black woods while taking a shortcut home.
THE FORTUNE An extremely superstitious couple always have a reading from a fortune teller before they harvest organs to sell for obscene amounts of money.