Books by Joe McKinney

Lake Livingston: August, 1961.Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at the hands of giggling teenage girls.But the piney woods above Lake Livingston are dark at night, and hold many secrets for an impressionable youngster on the cusp of becoming a man. And one night, after skinny dipping in the lake with a mysterious local girl, Mark Gaitlin's life takes a crazy turn into the fire and brimstone religion of backwoods snake handlers and abandoned villages haunted by old family secrets. If he can survive the snakes and the ghosts and his own family's dark history, he just might make it out of the woods alive.And something else...he just might become a man.

Creatures of the night are everywhere.Sometimes they make themselves seen, while other times they stay in the shadows, a glimpse out of the corner of your eye all you might catch.However, once in a while, if we are lucky, things that shouldn't exist make themselves known to a chosen few.These are the stories you will find within this tome.Some are bloody, some are supernatural, some are horrifying, but all will entertain.So get comfortable, make sure the doors are locked, and join us for another trip into the world of horror.For it's only a book, and monsters aren't real . . . or are they?With stories by: Terry Alexander, David Bernstein, Eric S. Brown, John C. Foster, David H. Donaghe, Anthony Giangregorio, Michael D. Griffiths, Dane T. Hatchell, Joe McKinney, Rick Moore, Jesus Morales, Matt Nord, Mark Rivett and William Todd Rose.

Destruction, chaos, death....Life as we know it is wiped away in the blink of an eye; starvation, disease, and rubble all that is left behind.Would there be any survivors? Or would the dead be the lucky ones?What would you do if everything around you was lost in a natural disaster so large it altered life on Earth?Would you be able to handle the hardships of life after a nuclear war that changed the very environment of existence?Can anyone stay sane after a plague wipes away all the people they love, leaving them alone in a world void of humanity?In this fifth installment of the End of Days series, we explore some of these scenarios of death and destruction.Life, and the world, is going to fall apart eventually. Will you be ready? Or will you fall apart like everything around you?