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|  | | A Dark and Deadly Valley
Twenty acclaimed authors of fantasy and horror explore fantastic elements of the Second World War.
From "At Angels Sixteen" by Lawrence Santoro in A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY, Silverthought Press, 2007.
The booze must have been on my tail because it caught up, jumped inside and left me drunk again, but it was all so damned beautiful. There was music, light and singing as wave over wave of air washed out from the bursting bombs like wet wrinkles. I would have stood to conduct if I'd had that talent, but I didn't. So I lay and breathed it in.
When the old guy standing next to me in the dark ditch howled like a steel-cutting saw, I about jumped out of my skin. By bomb's li | |  | | Hell in the Heartland
"Hell in the Heartland" from Annihilation Press is an anthology of horror stories by writers from Illinois.
| |  | | Just North of Nowhere
"Just North of Nowhere" is a contemporary fantasy novel set in a small town in the upper Midwest.
"…diabolical and redemptive, as all great works of dark tale-telling should be. With gratitude to Larry, this jewel is ours. May we use it wisely." -- Nebula Award winning author Richard Chwedyk on "Just North of Nowhere.
| |  | | Sex Crimes
Sex Crimes takes the topics of sex and crime, then adds 15 cult and underground authors to the mix to relate tales of depravity, abuse and terror. From mainstream authors like David J. Schow, Lawrence Santoro and Wayne Allen Sallee to comic book outlaws Joseph M. Monks and Hart D. Fisher the project collects a group of "orphans": stories with no homes; stories other publishers were afraid to print. Gruesome and relentless, Sex Crimes straddles the genres of crime fiction, thriller and erotic horror supported by illustrators such as comic mainstay John Cassaday to Stephen R. Bissette and Stephen King's frequently tapped collaborator Bernie Wrightson. The goal of co-editors Monks and Fisher was to unleash some of their favorite authors on an unsuspecting audience. The result is Sex Crimes.
From, "Catching" by Lawrence Santoro, in SEX CRIMES, edited by Joseph Monks and Hart Fisher.
It had been a lousy week in a boogie life.
When it began, she'd had a nice heat vent down Michigan Avenue, a little place in an alley between a couple of buildings. A loading dock sheltered it from the Hawk off the Lake and from the pig eyes on the main stem. There had been lots of boxes, too, big ones and dry. Good to curl up in or to stretch out, ones would hold the heat that rose in white swirls from the building vents.
Downtown was class. There, she could move among | |  | | Tales From the Red Lion
The Red Lion Pub is the most haunted place in Chicago. These are tales -- real and imagined -- set in this wondrous old joint!
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Mozart
by Debra Kraft
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 (Short Story) Her first desire had been to purge the darkness from tortured human souls. Will her last desire be to purge her own? |
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