Thirty-one horror short stories with a Memphis theme.
Monsters from Memphis is Thirty-One spine-tingling, gut-wrenching tales of Modern Southern Horror, SF, and Fantasy, featuring some of the best in contemporary talent (HWA & SFWA), as well as highly-skilled new voices. The monsters are waiting just for you. If you're very lucky, you might get out alive!
Answers such important questions as: "Is Elvis really dead?"
All the stories have some connection with Memphis, the home of Nathan Bedford Forrest and B.B. King -- and the place where Elvis Presley and Martin Luther King, Jr., both met their fate.
Excerpt
From "Inner Enemies"
The yellow glow of the bridge lights is a parody of a sunrise I will never see again. The thing inside my head is aware something is amiss, but it has yet to grasp the danger. It will all end here. My car slows as I glance in the rear view mirror. At this time of the morning the Interstate 40 bridge across the Mississippi River is quiet. The odd eighteen-wheeler roars by me, and those cars that do approach change lanes quickly to continue on with their business, oblivious to what I carry.
I pull over to the emergency lane, what there is of it, on the south side of the bridge, pop the hazard blinkers switch and sit for a second, listening to the click-click-click of the blinker relay. Fat raindrops begin to splatter against the windshield while the last strains of something by Led Zeppelin choke out of the radio. I kill the engine and open the door.
Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
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