Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone.
The horrors include:
SURPRISE! SURPRISE!: Jane has arranged a surprise birthday party for her boss at his funeral parlor.
THE TOMB: The museum director has offered Brian one last chance to keep the job he has held only because of his father's legendary accomplishments. His must find the last undiscovered Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb, despite ancient beliefs that breaking the seal will bring death to all mankind.
SOMETHING IN THE DARK: A woman plagued by recurring nightmares that have plagued her since she was a little girl seeks help from the most expensive shrink in NYC to effectively save her life.
THE TAXIDERMIST: Louie finds a deformed taxidermist with outstanding credentials to mount his most prized kill from twenty-five years of hunting.
THE CLOWN AT MIDNIGHT: Charles likes to watch horror flicks by candlelight with his monster mannequins.
THE AX: A warlock has sworn to return on the anniversary of his burning at the stake three hundred years ago.
WORLD DOMINATION: Barry believes a young man in the window seat is orchestrating Armageddon on his laptop computer game.
RED HATS MASQUERADE BALL: A retired psychopath's favorite past time is wreaking havoc on people she doesn't know. She can't wait to blind and disfigure a group of ladies with an exploding gag gift at their upcoming Halloween party.
THE SHELL GAME: An elderly man loses his faith in a snowstorm on the last day of his life.
GOR: An alien seeks revenge when a hunter enters the forest where he has made his home and kills three of his animal friends.
CHARLEY: Mandy is the only one who can see her imaginary friend who lives in the swamp.
THE BOY WHO CRIED BOOGEYMAN: John returns to the house where the boogeyman tried to eat him when he was ten years old.
A SHORTCUT THROUGH THE WOODS: Mason hears a gun shot in the black woods while taking a shortcut home.
YOU REMEMBER, I'LL FORGET: A serial killer, who killed thirteen children as a youth, is released after thirty years of rehab in an asylum.
SOMETHING IN THE TOMB: Former pizza parlor operators become tomb raiders and discover the sarcophagus of a pharaoh legend has as a vampire.
GENIE IN THE BOTTLE: Three college friends find a strange bottle in the surf and make a wish that comes with a price.
THE BLIZZARD: Helen's Christmas holiday with her husband at her parents' secluded estate is disrupted by the worst blizzard in over thirty years on the very night a maniac has escaped from the local asylum.
RESURRECTION
Joseph Hyde is a medical miracle. He's still alive after being pronounced dead, undergoing an autopsy, an embalming, and being buried for forty-eight hours.
HANGMAN'S OVERLOOK: A scam artist wagers $800 he will spend the night on Hangman's Overlook and live.
THE CALLER FROM HELL Clyde Bottoms is receiving calls from a disconnected phone last used by the Morningside Cemetery twenty-five years ago in Hell Massachusetts.
BOBBY: A father receives a call that his son who disappeared ten years before will be returned to him for $100,000.
If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare.
The average Amazon review rating on all Billy Wells Horror collections is 4.3!
