It's New Year's Day, a time for new beginnings and setting the stage for things to come.

Factory worker Kevin usually starts with a day off, but this year he's working the usually year-end inventory.

He is disgruntled, but doing as he's asked until he can get out of there and return home to his wife and kids. But not everything is business as usual on this New Year's Day as Kevin discovers an old evil has returned to pick up where it left off and the only thing it wants is to help him be a better person, no matter how much blood it has to spill in the process.

Kevin is forced to take a hard look at his life and decide if this is it for him, if this job, this home, this family, is what really fulfills him, or if there's more he could be doing.

And how far is he willing to go to reach his potential?

This is the first of C. Dennis Moore's Holiday Horrors, a series of short stories based around every holiday of the year.

Years ago, John Darrow split into five different personalities, all with their own unique gifts. Now, John uses those different selves and their gifts to help those in need, while working to integrate all of them into one complete whole.

When the one person who is able to help make him whole again disappears, John has to reach into his past and face a secret buried so deep it just might destroy everything he's worked for.

ALTER is a super-hero comic told in prose by C. Dennis Moore, author of the GRIM LEGION III series, THE NIGHT, and THE AMERICAN WAY VS. DR. BRAIN.

The Blood Bitch comes in the night to eat children through the mouth in her stomach.
When Jason wakes up in the middle of the night to feel himself being suffocated, his father, Allen, tells him the Blood Bitch is coming for him. This story is based on the idea that belief and fear is where monsters get their powers. The more we believe in monsters, the stronger they are.
But in this case, Jason and his mother Stephanie discover the Blood Bitch might not be as real as Allen thinks, at least if the bottle of prescription medication they find in the garage is any indication, a medication that's supposed to stop Allen's hallucinations. Now Jason and Stephanie aren't sure where the real danger is coming from.
If Allen believes in the Blood Bitch enough, does that make her real?
This 6000-word story is named after the Cocteau Twins song of the same name, and is perfect for fans of MASTERS OF HORROR.

The end isn't nigh. It's here. When Stacy wakes up one morning after a pretty bad drunk, she wonders where her husband and son have gone. Then she wonders where her neighbors have gone. Then the rest of the town. She wanders into the street, trying desperately to find someone, anyone, and when she finally hears a voice calling for her, the story it tells chills her, confuses her, and leaves Stacy questioning everything.

Everyone's gone, Randy—the teenage former stock boy—says. They were taken in the night when Jesus came down from Heaven and took away the righteous and the believers. Why wasn't she taken, Stacy wonders, and how can she be expected to go on living in an empty world knowing she'll never see her husband or son again?

Readers of his dark fantasy novel REVELATIONS are familiar with horror author C. Dennis Moore's take on the end of the world, but with AFTERMATH the rules are changed and this all new look will leave readers wondering how much...]]> Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:20:27 +0200 https://anthologies.library.land/c-dennis-moore/156666-the_flip_an_angel_hill_novel.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-dennis-moore/156666-the_flip_an_angel_hill_novel.html
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