Most of these stories are about murder. Murder of a stranger or a relative, murder in a quiet English town or in a crowded American city. It happens everywhere, it seems, for all kinds of reasons.
In these stories by some of the finest modern crime writers in English, we see what can drive a person to murder - and that trying to catch them can be complicated and extremely dangerous!
A collection of nineteen original tales by today's masters of terror includes novellas by Dean R. Koontz, John Coyne, and F. Paul Wilson, and stories by Robert R. McCammon, Rick Hautala, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, and others.
One rain-swept night when he was 20-years-old, Joey Shannon, a young college boy, took the wrong highway. From that moment nothing ever went right for him again. Exactly 20 years later Joey finds himself at the same crossroads looking down the road never taken, odd since that road no longer exists.
The work of creation has begun again. Only now things will be different. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future—he’s ready to populate it. Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans—the perfect melding of flesh and machine. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him.
Grady Adams lives a simple, solitary life deep in the Colorado mountains. Here the thirty-five-year-old carpenter works out of a converted barn, crafting exquisite one-of-a-kind furniture. There's little about this strong yet gentle man to suggest the experiences that have alienated him from the contemporary world. But that is about to change. One day, while hiking, Grady spots a pair of stunningly beautiful furred animals unlike anything he's ever seen.
