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"Silent screams bounce around my head like an impending storm, brewing into a force that will escape in a wild dance of chaos and be lost forever if I don't stop to write them down."

For centuries, philosophers have pondered the Zen Buddhist koan: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" What, then, is the sound of one hand screaming?

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ALPHA WOLF. BETA HUMAN. BIG APPLE.
Michael Andrews seems to have it all. He's a successful author and a minor celebrity living in Manhattan. It's a pretty big step up from his humble Canadian upbringing.
Of course, his lycanthropy poses a bit of a challenge.
After waking up from his latest night of howling at the moon, he's naked, he's got a bullet...

HOW DO YOU KEEP AN INNOCENT CHILD SAFE FROM A PREDATOR WHEN YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THE BEAST THAT ASSUMES CONTROL OF YOU?
A train bound for Vermont leaves Manhattan at 11:35 AM. It takes approximately 9 hours to arrive. Sunset at the arrival destination occurs at 8:20 PM. How does Michael Andrews, a man on that train who is afflicted with a...

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE.
If New York is the city that never sleeps, then L.A. is the city where you have to sleep with one eye open.
Michael Andrews learns quickly that it's not just the cut-throat world of Hollywood you need to fear. There's something deeper, darker, and far more disturbing lurking just beneath the shadows of the city, waiting for...

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG WHEN A WEREWOLF NEEDS THERAPY?

Michael Andrews has suffered the slings and arrows of his outrageous fortune while living with lycanthropy. But the blackouts from when he transforms into a wolf and the latest loss of his one true love have finally pushed him over the edge.

In desperation, he checks into a secret and...

“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.”

That line, one of many quotable moments from Die Hard, was an on the spot insertion during filming by actor Bruce Willis and director John McTiernan. That’s just one of numerous ad lib or almost accidental elements added to the film which make it such a memorable modern classic.

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HER LOVE WILL BRING ABOUT HIS DEMISE.

Michael Andrews and Gail Sommers have finally found the love that had eluded them for so long.

But their romance has uncovered an ancient evil curse neither of them could have anticipated. It does more than bring down a plague on their houses - it unleashes something far more sinister that can destroy...

“Silent screams bounce around my head like an impending storm, brewing into a force that will escape in a wild dance of chaos and be lost forever if I don’t stop to write them down.”

For centuries, philosophers have pondered the Zen Buddhist koan: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” What, then, is the sound of one hand screaming?

Within...

The Prop Book That Keeps on Popping Up!

Yes, the cover of this book looks a lot like the one Del Griffith (John Candy) is reading at the New York airport in the 1987 movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. That same book also appears in 2018’s Deadpool 2. It was long believed that this was a prop book. But it was a real book published in the 1980s...

He’s an alpha wolf and a beta boyfriend.

She’s dated every monster in New York City.

It’s time for their Meat-Cute.

Michael Andrews, a Canadian living in New York, is learning to live with the side effects of lycanthropy. Other than waking up naked and bloody in Central Park once a month, he’s managing just fine. If only he could finish the book...

What happens when the villain wins?

Sick of dashing debonairs…?

Fed up of being blinded by shining armor…?

Sometimes, all a girl wants is a villain for a hero.

Dancing across morally gray lines, these stories are naughty, devious, and downright delicious.

How far are you willing to go to get what you want?

These rebellious tales...

THERE’S NO ESCAPING THE EVIL THAT RISES WITHIN OUR OWN HEARTS.

On a work trip to Los Angeles, Michael Andrews stumbles upon the rising underground movement of the Proud Fighters for America, a white-supremacist group hell-bent not only on vanquishing any outside their pre-defined definitions of the one pure race, but also on leveraging...

STOP SPREADING THE NEWS

THERE’S NO LEAVING TODAY

Not when the Big Apple comes under attack from an infectious worm threatening to rot it, and the entire nation, to the core.

Michael Andrews thought he’d found the perfect woman in Lex. A companion whose own powers neutralize his werewolf curse and bring the balance he has always wanted. But his...

Not content to merely thrill and chill readers, these eleven Halloween stories, edited by Mark Leslie, also enthrall, intrigue, disturb, and inspire. They tell of the people and traditions, the age-old rituals that send shivers down the spines of even the most up-to-date trick-or-treaters.

From a farm family confronting the slow death of their...

Are you looking for a few chilling and atmospheric tales to get into the Halloween spirit?

Join author Mark Leslie as he takes you on a moonlit walk in the brisk fall air and bends your ear with eerie tales involving the dead returning, a vengeful ghost, a wilderness bogeyman, and the bizarre side-effects of an over-active and fearful...

A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up sixteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse.

“The stories are all strong (not...

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE.

If New York is the city that never sleeps, then L.A. is the city where you have to sleep with one eye open.

Michael Andrews learns quickly that it’s not just the cut-throat world of Hollywood you need to be leery of. There’s something deeper, darker, and far more disturbing lurking beneath the surface of the city, operating...

The 1970s are back! What better decade to inspire a new anthology of space opera stories than the one that gave birth to a certain epic set long ago, in a galaxy far, far away?

Every story in this new book will feature the distinctive style of the 70s, transported to thrilling new worlds, fleets, and conflicts in the farthest and most exciting...

Screams echo through the thick darkness of night in this single volume collection of the eight books in the Nocturnal Screams short story series.

Fans of the eerie episodes of Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone or the stranger tales from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine are in for a treat in this collection of short horror tales from the dark...

Webster defines “obsession” as an “a persistent disturbing abnormal preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling.”

Obsessions sometimes include a hobby or collection that has gotten out of hand. Other times an obsession can drive a person to invent something new, cure a disease or attempt to right a great wrong. And at other times,...

Sometimes you see them. Sometimes you hear them. Sometimes they touch you. But you know they are there.

Ghosts, phantoms, spirits. Whatever you call them, however you think of them, they have haunted us since people first sat around the safety of a fire, sharing speculative stories of the afterlife and what might happen when we shuffle off this...

Not For The Faint of Heart!

Something wicked and slightly erotic this way comes.

Four short horror tales infused with erotica result in tales designed to simultaneously arouse and disturb, to both amuse and abuse your senses.

Feel an eager shiver of anticipation as you plunge into riveting tales of sex mingled with terror and marvel at the duality...

6 Speculative Tales by 3 Sudbury Authors

Sudbury is not only in our blood, but it also courses through our veins, is a part of the very breaths we inhale and exhale, the way that those deposits of nickel, gold, copper, and platinum, which slammed into the earth via a crashing meteorite some 1.8 million years ago enrich the very bedrock of the...

What is too macabre for Montreal? Are you sure you really want to know?

When working on the book MACABRE MONTREAL, the authors ended up with a few chapters that ended up being cut from the original manuscript because they were felt to be a little too dark, a little too disturbing, perhaps too close to home, and too controversial, to include in...

Are you ready to be infected?

The walking dead take center stage in these three decidedly different takes on the reanimated corpses of the recently deceased. These original tales are about mindless, flesh-seeking shells of former humans, about the still sentient undead, and about a unique and daring bet made on a boys’ night out.

THE ZOMBIE...

This collaborative sampler from Kevin Tumlinson and Mark Leslie combines a “Dan Kotler” archeological thriller with a “Canadian Werewolf” humorous thriller. These 15,000+ words are meant to introduce you to two different characters from two different thriller universes.

The Brass Hall - Kevin Tumlinson

What is a Celtic tomb doing in Egypt?

Dan...

Something Strange This Way Comes!

We have been told, from the earliest days of our childhood, to be wary of strangers.

From a fear of strangers who stalk their prey in their homes as darkness descends, and one mother’s valiant attempt to protect her family, to an eerie encounter of two strangers in a seemingly innocent chance meeting on a lonely...

Some are born to save the world. Most of us just dream about it.

What makes a hero?

Is a hero someone who puts on a mask and costume and rushes to the rescue? Is a hero someone who lands a crippled airplane? Is a hero someone who finds a cure to a wasting disease? Is a hero someone who uses their supernatural powers to help others? Is a hero...

You might never build another snowman again!

If you ever cast an uncomfortable glance over your shoulder when passing the silent snowy sentinels that stand looking at you as you pass on the icy sidewalk, if you’ve ever questioned what might really happen if the old silk hat placed on Frosty the Snowman’s head was truly magic, then these two dark...

A collection of ghost stories, eerie encounters, and gruesome tales from one of Canada’s most interesting cities.



Montreal is a city steeped in history and culture, but just beneath the pristine surface of this world-class city lie unsettling tales of uncanny phenomena, dark deeds, haunted buildings, and forgotten graveyards. The dark of...

The echo of screams haunt the night in this fourth collection in a series of short horror tales from the dark mind of Mark Leslie.

SPIRITS: People who haven’t died can still leave their spirit behind, tied to a place. Sally and Rob, two young lovers, are caught up in the legend of The Phoenix Baby, the ghostly crying that haunts a repertory...

THERE IS NO ESCAPING YOUR OWN SHADOW

Dark shadows hide some of the horrors, but not all of the screams in this third collection in a series of short horror tales from the dark mind of Mark Leslie.

THE SHADOW MEN: The bogeymen of the New Hampshire wilderness known as “The Shadow Men” lurk in the shadows of the trees and only come out at night in...

THE MOST TERRIFYING THINGS HAPPEN IN THE DARK

Screams echo through the thick darkness of night in this collection of three short horror tales from the dark mind of Mark Leslie.

Taste of Darkness: Sensory deprivation takes on a new meaning when you let the darkness completely consume your senses of sight, sound, touch and smell, leaving you with...

CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MOON AND NEW YORK CITY

Being a werewolf isn’t all about howling at the moon.

Or running carelessly through boundless fields feeling the wind in your fur.

Not when you live in the most populous city in the US.

For Michael Andrews, a Canadian living in Manhattan and afflicted with lycanthropy, there are odd side effects to being a...

Decades after his death, renowned Shakespearean scholar Dr. Marshall Emerson returns from the grave to seek vengeance on those who dared disturb his fitful sleep.

Emerson, whose specialty was the bard’s The Tempest and was nicknamed “Professor Prospero” could never be spotted walking the grounds of McMaster University without the precious 1861...

Fans of Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine are in for a treat in this collection of short horror tales.

If you enjoy fun & eerie jaunts into worlds where darkness mingles with the echoes of cries in the night, you’ll love these 12 stories.

VOLUME 1: Dark Cries

TASTE OF DARKNESS: Sensory deprivation takes on a...

A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums,...

“People who haven’t died can still leave their spirit in a place.”

Sally’s words set the tone for “Spirits” which is part ghost story, part mystery and partly about the undying passion between two souls.

Fascinated by the ghostly crying of The Phoenix Baby which haunts a repertory theatre house, Sally and Rob begin to unravel the mystery behind...

It’s not “boy meets girl, boy loses girl,” but rather “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy’s friends begin dropping like flies.” - Peter O’Mallick isn’t just having a bad day; he’s having a bad life.It’s bad enough when your girlfriend suddenly casts you a cold shoulder, your grades are slipping and those around you no longer understand what it’...

A small eastern community becomes over-run by a growing army of scarecrows.

This short story of approximately 8000 words was inspired by an actual legend from the Nova Scotia community of Necum Teuch.

A supernatural tour of the Ottawa region with ghostwatcher Mark Leslie as your guide.



Come along with paranormal raconteur Mark Leslie as he uncovers first-person accounts of ghostly happenings throughout Ottawa and the surrounding towns -- the whole region is rife with ghostly encounters and creepy locales.

Discover the doomed financier who...

If you go into the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise!

BUMPS IN THE NIGHT collects four short stories perfect for either sharing around a campfire or reading while on a sleepover. It contains two brief tales ideal for after dark storytelling, drawing upon classic motifs captured within campfire tales for generations, as well as two longer...

Una libreria che conserva più che tomi polverosi sui suoi scaffali, un arto fantasma che può raggiungere l’aldilà, un fumetto che colora le vite della gente col terrore, tombe incapaci di trattenere il loro contenuto, un collezionista di artefatti infestati che ottiene più di ciò che desiderava, un’autostrada del nord deserta che riporta a un...

Three stories which explore the darker side of the world of books.

In a style reminiscent of the old “Twilight Zone” television show, these three tales will take the book loving reader to a place that is somewhat familiar yet frighteningly surreal and disturbing.

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Peter O’Mallick isn’t just having a bad day; he’s having a bad life.

Walking around with a powerful death curse it seems like everyone Peter knows or gets close to meets an untimely fate. But when Peter realizes he can use his powers for good, being a harbinger of death might not be so bad.
Provided he’s not worried about collateral damage.

“...

A supernatural tour of bookstores and libraries around the world, focusing on the ghost stories from haunted locations.

Throughout history, books have inspired, informed, entertained, and enriched us. They have also kept us up through the night, thrilled us, and lured into their endless depths. Tomes of Terror is a celebration and an eerie...

There’s nowhere to hide when everybody you know or meet is trying to kill you.

Scotty Desmond’s day begins like any other until his boss calls him into the office, pulls out a gun and starts shooting at him. Scott manages to escape the surprise assassination attempt, but everyone else he meets, colleagues, friends and strangers alike are all...

Experience the cultural side of Canadian speculative fiction...

Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound is a speculative fiction anthology inspired by literature, music, art and culture.

Featuring short stories and poems by: Neil Peart & Kevin J. Anderson, Robert J. Sawyer, Ryan Oakley, Steve Vernon, Hugh A. D. Spencer, Sandra Kasturi,...

The magnetic aura surrounding Sudbury, for both the living as well as the once-alive, is the backdrop for tales of mystery, wonder, and outright horror.

“I tried to leave” is a common theme for those from the Sudbury region. People often vow to move away, but something about the Nickel City keeps luring them back. Whether it’s the taste of...

From the Hermitage ruins to Dundurn Castle, from the Customs House to Stoney Creek Battlefield Park, the city of Hamilton, Ontario, is steeped in a rich history and culture. But beneath the surface of the Steel City there dwells a darker heart â?? from the shadows of yesteryear arise the unexplainable, the bizarre, and the chilling. Lock the...

Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie and introduced by Robert J. Sawyer, Campus Chills features thirteen all original tales of terror by Kelley Armstrong, Julie E. Czerneda, Kimberly Foottit, James Alan Gardner, Sephera Giron, Michael Kelly, Nancy Kilpatrick, Susie Moloney, Douglas Smith,...

WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO SCREAM?

These screams you hear echoing through the thick darkness of night are an ode to the classic masters of short fiction and horrific tales.

MEMENTO MORI: A CURIOUS NIGHTMARE: Inspired by the short story “A Curious Dream” by Mark Twain, this tale draws from the same sentiment Twain was projecting regarding the ill regard...

Three stories which explore the darker side of the world of books.

In a style reminiscent of the old “Twilight Zone” television show, these three tales will take the book loving reader to a place that is somewhat familiar yet frighteningly surreal and disturbing.

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