Some Time Later: Fantastic Voyages Through Alternate Worlds edited by AJ Sikes, BJ Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff is an anthology of short stories from authors featured in Twelve Hours Later and Thirty Days Later. Three men discover the whereabouts of a vampire and a werewolf...

Laura McHale Holland's Just in Case: Twenty-one Bite-sized Stories is a collection of flash fiction bubbles with sentimentality, oddity, thrills, tears, and darkness. The stories’ premises are as diverse as their characters, varying from familiar to surreal. "Red" starts the collection, where six-year-old Tessie unhappily...

“I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember but I didn’t get down to it seriously until I retired to Spain. Some of these stories were written years ago, many were written specifically for a local magazine, Streetwise, and some for...

Vampire Stories and Poems by Glenn Stevens is an interesting collection of stories with vampire and Halloween themes and beautifully crafted poems that are delightful to read. And then there is a story about the vampire teddy-bear that bites as a bonus. Two cheerleaders are...

Perhaps if one were to come across the tattered remains of an abandoned book strewn across an otherwise barren, desert landscape, reading what survived might be similar to reading the so-concise-as-to-be-downright-miserly words of Robert D. Rice II in his collection of historically-based, short story fiction:...

The Spirit of Glassboro & Other Tales of Terror by Andrew Kraus is a collection of short horror stories. Short, to the point and spine-tingling. The Spirit of Glassboro will send shivers through your body; Serial Am I will have you cringing in terror, looking...

Without intending to disparage our contemporary writing world, I must observe that Silently in the Night by Clayton Graham harkens back well and fondly to the golden years of speculative short-story fiction collected from great masters like Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. In addition to clever...

The Devil and Dayna Dalton: A Bulwark Anthology (Book 9) is a short novella from the pen of author Brit Lunden. Dayna Dalton is known as what we might colloquially call “trailer trash”. She grew up in Bulwark, Georgia and like her mother had gained...

Six Stories Up by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson is actually a captivating collection of five very short stories and one short novella. I cannot remember enjoying a collection as engaging as this one in a long time. What makes it so good is the realistic characterization,...

Are you looking for a good, quick read that has a variety of stories and poems filled with suspense and intrigue? Look no further than The Shorter Things Collection: Poems, Flash Fiction, and Short Stories by D. Marie Prokop. This wonderful anthology includes a wide...