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For Seth Roman, his younger brother Raymond and their friends, it was supposed to be a few days of relaxation and fun, a getaway from their dull corporate jobs and troubled lives, a week of card playing and drinking at a cabin in the remote woods of northern Maine. But when a young woman staggers into their camp with her clothes covered in blood, their lives are changed forever. The woman brings with her something ancient and deadly, evil and inhuman, and something secretly familiar to Raymond, a man plagued by inexplicable night terrors as a child, the horrors of which still torment him as an adult. As an unexpected snowstorm moves in, the night will unfold and come alive, changing the very nature of their lives and beliefs, the very nature of time, and the very nature of good and evil. A year later, with only sparse memories of that horrible night, Seth and the others struggle to hold their lives together while being haunted by vague but terrifying flashbacks. Something is pursuing them and their families, their friends, their coworkers, forcing them to question everything they see and hear and feel, everything they hold dear. As they begin to unravel the truth, the answers they find stretch the boundaries of their sanity and put the love of two brothers to the ultimate test of sacrifice and faith. Using fear, lies, deception and relentless paranoia as its weapons, it nests within them, stealing their bodies and minds. Now, it wants their souls. Held in the clutches of something they cannot even begin to fully comprehend, they must fight an all-consuming evil from which there is no escape, an evil born of the darkest corners of human existence, the darkest corners of DEEP NIGHT.

Evil is state of mind.Alan, Tommy, Rick, Donald and Bernard were inseparable best friends living in the small coastal Massachusetts town of Potter's Cove. A circle of five, their world was simple and happy until the day Tommy was struck by a car and killed. Nothing was ever the same. They were never the same. Years later, as the four survivors-all unhappy, unsuccessful and marking time-approach their fortieth birthdays, Bernard suddenly commits suicide. Within weeks of Bernard's death, one by one, the mutilated bodies of murder victims are found in town, and as the three remaining friends attempt to solve the riddle of Bernard's suicide, they come to realize that he may not have been who or what they thought he was. His entire life may have been a lie, and rather than the sad, lonely and harmless person they believed him to be, he very well may have been a savage ritual killer, a bleeder of young women who conjured evil to fulfill his own demented dreams. To find the truth, not only about Bernard, but themselves, they must delve into the darkness and those who inhabit it, a darkness that cradles an unspeakable evil so terrifying it could forever trap them in the shadows of the damned and shatter the very concept of their existence.Greg F. Gifune's THE BLEEDING SEASON, originally published in 2003, has been hailed as a classic in the horror genre and is considered to be one of the best horror/thriller novels of the decade.

"The journey will be dangerous, but you have to go. You have to take the chance. There's no other way…only, the answer you're looking for isn't where you think it is." Bartholomew Owens, the Forever Man, lies unconscious in a house in Michigan, afflicted by an unknown condition that has robbed him of his soul. The Veil that separates the living from the dead has weakened, and the damned now cross it to possess the living. Violence is spreading across the country, across the world. Former Police Chief Izzy Morris surfaces from her self-imposed exile to meet these new threats. Joined by friends old and new, she strives to find a way to repair the Veil and save Bartholomew Owens from his terrible fate. But to do so, she must travel to a place she never dreamt existed and attempt an impossible rescue. It will prove a challenge greater than any she has experienced. With Dark Rescue, Brian W. Matthews returns to the captivating world of the Forever Men, in his most chilling tale yet.

From the author of Bleed and The Rib From Which I Remake the World comes a triptych of historical horror novellas. A pair of Texas oil men strike something more valuable than crude that turns avarice to murder-and summons something that should never have been awakened-in "Black's Red Gold." In "Kennon Road," a disillusioned American corporal stationed in Baguio in the wake of the Philippine-American War discovers the gruesome truth behind the Filipino legend of the man-eating Manananggal. And on the lonesome desert highways of the American Southwest, a trucker befriends a haunted, hitchhiking Vietnam veteran with whom she confronts the horrors waiting in the hills and caves to feed in "Deadheader." Monsters both human and otherworldly converge in Ed Kurtz's At the Mercy of Beasts.

Dark Discoveries #38 - The Extraterrestrial Editorial Fiction Thursday Night Shift by Tananarive Due Ateuchus by Philip Fracassi Close to the News by Robert K. G. Temple Little Wing by Jeffrey Thomas The Run of the Town by Ramsey Campbell Blight by Peter Tieryas What About My Fucking Meatloaf? by Sylvain Neuvel The Distance Between Two Points by Rjurik Davidson Non-Fiction The Mysterious Beyond: An Interview with Robert K. G. Temple by Aaron J. French Two Featured Film Reviews by Colleen Wanglund Murmurs in the Dark: Carl Jung and the Lights in the Sky by Donald Tyson Yes… it was Aliens by Brett Talley What The Hell Ever Happened To… John Coyne by Robert Morrish Editor-in-Chief: Aaron J. French Cover Art: Steve Santiago Interior Design: Jess Landry

As Emily and Oliver Young head home from a party on a cold winter night, they have no idea that someone, perhaps something, is waiting for them in the darkness. When a strange man in a fedora steps in front of their car, what begins as an innocent accident becomes a crime, a hit-and-run that will forever change their lives and shatter the world they believe existed. It's midnight again in America. The country is divided, the planet is in turmoil. Hatred, distrust and anger run rampant. Fear-both manufactured and real-is a disease, and it's spreading. Now, that fear, that god of horror and mayhem, has taken shape. And no one is immune.