"Norchug Mot Losiat, Chuggie to his friends, is walking Drought. When, in his rambling, he stumbles upon the remote city of Stagwater, he finds love, temptation, and treachery. He fights against men, demons, and his own nature to battle the sinister forces threatening the city. But Chuggie? All he wants is a boat."--Back cover.

Ruben "Ruby" Thomas and his mother moved to the little town of Bluehills at the beginning of his freshman schoolyear, and since then he's been branded a troublemaker by teachers; the class clown by students. School is out for the summer, and Ruby doesn't know how he'll fill his days. Ideally, he'd just pass the time watching movies with his pal Cludes... and Cludes' lovely cousin Justine.Whatever he does, he'll want to keep away from the neighbor up the road, a man known around town as Psycho Joe. If the crude flyers posted all over town are to be believed, Psycho Joe is a dangerous man - especially to young people. He never leaves the house, except to chase people away with a shovel or crossbow. Unfortunately for Ruby, to get to Cludes' house he has to go past Joe's.Ruby's curious nature drives him to find answers about his mad neighbor, but each answer leads to deeper, darker questions. What is Psycho Joe hiding? What are those symbols painted on his house? Just how dangerous is he?Ruby should have listened with they told him...KEEP AWAY FROM PSYCHO JOE.

A starship is separated from its fleet, and the captain must resort to desperate measures. A man wakes one morning to find out everyone in the world has dreamed of killing him. The embodiment of drought has a disastrous adventure at sea. Children are offered to, and sometimes taken by, the thing that lives beneath the sand. A killer seeks redemption and freedom on a mountaintop. An energy station near the sun aims to permanently address mankind's energy needs. A cloud of strange and deadly radiation has appeared in Earth's orbital path. An alien presence teaches an amateur surgeon the true value of friendship. These tales and more await you inside the Doomsday Furnace, a collection of 14 catastrophic yarns by Brent Michael Kelley.

When a man desperate for money accepts $20,000 to retrieve a key buried with a body in a shallow grave--and the body turns out be alive, armed, and dangerous--he realizes that he should have held out for more money.

One day, while instructing a swim class, Luke Rhodes hears a strange ballad in his head that twists reality. After a series of terrifying events, he escapes through a black curtain and leaves a living nightmare behind. The ballad hasn't left him though. Pieces remain. And when the song surfaces... the nightmare returns. Joined by Luke's two wives and his miscreant friend Johnny Cruz, they resolve to discover the source of these "Lifemares," and, more importantly, how to escape them. But time is against them. Innocent people are dying and these freakish disturbances are devastating the world they know. Will Luke and his family find the singer of the Ballad before it's too late? Or will horrifying nightmares roam the world... forever?

Private Investigator Steve Rockfish needs cash, like yesterday. The bad news is that yesterday, a global pandemic raged, and Maryland was headed toward a lockdown that would ultimately lead to cheating spouses no longer "working late," and hence a lack of new clients. Rockfish's luck changes when a Hollywood producer reaches out, but the job is two states away and involves digging up information on a child trafficking ring from the 1940s. What he uncovers will be used to support the launch of a true crime docuseries. He grabs a mask, hand sanitizer and heads for South Jersey. On-site, Rockfish meets Jawnie McGee, the great granddaughter of a local policeman gone missing while investigating the original crimes. As the duo uncover more clues, they learn the same criminal alliance has reformed to use the pandemic as a conduit to defraud the Federal Government of that sweet, sweet, stimulus money. It's not long before the investigation turns up some key intel on a myriad of illicit activity over the last eighty years and Rockfish rockets toward a showdown with the mafia, local archdiocese and dirty cops. COVID-19 isn't the only threat to his health.

Readers of Jeremy C. Shipp's fiction will be familiar with his minimalist, breakneck pacing, his surreal forays into political satire, and his seamless blending of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Now, in his fourth book, the Bram Stoker Award finalist expands on what many critics and fans alike have long considered the most compelling aspect of his work--relationships. This story collection explores how a person's desire can infect their every action and interaction with others. The desire to protect. The desire to hurt. The desire to be desired.Fungus of the Heart explores what happens between people when society breaks down and the rules go out the window. Haunting and heartbreaking, pithy and potent, the quirky inhabitants of Shipp's bizarro world will carve an indelible line from your funnybone to your spleen to your emotional core.