Publisher's Synopsis
- During the Great Depression, a young boy confronts zombies - In the present day, a software salesperson discovers that he can commune with the dead at airports. - A business trip is cut short when three corporate colleagues stray into a den of vampires near a major interstate. - A Russian gangster makes a killing in America---murdering romantic rivals for hire. These are just a few of the bizarre scenarios that you will find in the pages of Hay Moon and Other Stories... Sixteen modern tales of horror and suspense. ***Hay Moon*** In the summer of 1932, the undead invaded a corner of rural Ohio. Nearly eight decades later, one man still lives with the nightmares, and a horrible promise left unfulfilled. ***Giants in the Trees*** Jim knew that his older coworker, Paul Taulbee, had a checkered past. But he was unprepared for the horror he discovered on the night he gave Paul a ride home from the office. ***The Vampires of Wallachia*** Three corporate employees on a business trip stop at the wrong place for a late-night dinner: a restaurant in central Ohio that hides a terrifying secret. ***Bitter Hearts*** Have you been wronged in love? An Internet company promises to make things right for you---for a price. ***Gate Time*** Traveling software salesman Josh Gardner had never been afraid of airports---until he discovered that some of his fellow travelers were not what they appeared to be. ***By the River*** The old man who lived on the houseboat warned people about the shadows lurking beneath the waters of the Ohio River. But some failed to heed his warnings. ***The Girl She Used to Be*** Thirty years ago Allison disappeared on the night that her college boyfriend was planning to give her an engagement ring. Now Allison is back--- but she's not the girl she used to be. ***The Caliphate*** When a terrorist organization stages a bloody takeover of a Canadian city, two friends are forced to confront their innermost demons---and each other. ***The Wasp*** Leo had always been afraid of wasps---especially wasps that learn to assume human form. ***The Red Devil*** A security guard at a car dealership learns that death lurks in the nocturnal hours in a city torn by gang warfare. ***The Robots of Jericho*** Pete Greer suspected that the industrial robots purchased by his company were more than mere machines. Alone in a West Virginia factory with them over an extended summer weekend, the robots threaten his sanity---and his life. ***Last Dance with Emma*** University of Minnesota graduate students Eric and Randy travel back in time for hedonistic purposes. But when they visit New Year's Eve 1978, Randy unexpectedly falls in love. Determined to secure an impossible future with a doomed young woman named Emma, Randy battles his friend, and the cruelty of a random universe. ***Gaia Cried Out*** When Kara Teller met Nicholas Naretti in the student union of her university, she believed that she had found the ideal man. But there is something horribly wrong with Nicholas's friends...And Kara reluctantly discovers that Nicholas harbors sinister intentions of his own. ***Citizens*** Robert and Susan Craig discover that the politics of the twenty-second century in America can be deadly. A leisurely time travel voyage lands them in a cell in the bloodiest days of the French Revolution. Condemned to the guillotine by the Jacobins' Committee of Public Safety, they suspect the hand of the rising American demagogue, Senator Barry Olsen. ***Whatever**** Corporate middle manager Greg Hensley simultaneously desires and loathes his new subordinate, Jessica Tanner. A bit of research into Jessica's past reveals that Jessica may be dangerous. But Jessica may not be the only one who is hiding evil secrets. ***The Dreams of Lord Satu*** Rapid GeoWorks salesperson Marc Jonas is ordered to visit the remote planet of Kelphi, where his customer is a spiderlike alien that preys on human flesh.
