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WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS by HORNS and John Grover

Publication Date: October 11, 2013

The sunlight, oh how its warmth and soft radiance provides visibility and a pretend sense of safety against the night and the fiendish beasts who roam in the devilry of the darkest shadows….

A shy, bookish female sitting across from you on the bus—her satiny hair in a tight bun, those big, pretty eyes glancing nervously up at you from behind a pair of thick lenses, then a delicate draw of her lips shaping an uncertain smile on her plain yet elusively beautiful face when she notices you staring. You look away worrying she might suspect you’re a pervert who wants to do her harm. Yet WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS this same trepid woman walks confidently down the front steps of her apartment building wearing lots of makeup and a skintight outfit made of leather and lace with her feet squeezed inside a pair of stiletto heels. Her seductive figure slinks through the night, hurrying across the cooling pavement in search for prey. A streetlamp casts its light on her clutch bag and she pulls it hard against her body as she scurries back into the darkness where her wicked secrets are invited and safe. And for now only she knows about the large straight razor hidden inside the purse—its cutting edge stained with the blood of past victims.

Consider the local soul-caring priest who wishes you a blessed day or the middle-aged woman working at the grocery checkout counter who is always friendly and helpful. Regard the mailman who has reliably delivered letters and packages for decades to your doorstep or the neighbor who routinely smiles and waves each morning while helping his young daughter inside the car before heading out to school. Now heed the hundreds of individuals around you milling about in the sunlight—civil and sane.

What demons transform when the veil of darkness arrives and the streets blacken? What stories of terror and bloodshed will unfold?.... WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS….

From the publisher of THE PRICE OF FEAR: THE FILM CAREER OF VINCENT PRICE (In His Own Words) and the blockbuster novel THE EVERBORN comes this collection of hair-raising tales. WHEN NIGHT DARKENS THE STREETS brings together two seasoned horror writers — HORNS and John Grover — and together they fill the pages with prose frightening enough to summon the blistering attention of the baleful beings who swarm the night world should this book be used for purposes other than pure entertainment. Read at your own risk….

Each story is accompanied with an illustration created by the talented hand of Gary A. Gabbard.

This collection also includes a bonus story by horror master

Nicholas Grabowsky , author of HALLOWEEN IV

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Print Length: 218 pages
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books; 1st edition (October 23, 2013)
Language: English

CHOPHOUSE by HORNS_ Publication Date: May 28, 2010

A sinister night falls over the relaxed rural community of Dominic County, and a restless evil plots its escape from years of confinement. Before the light of day would return to the quiet woodland town, many came to believe that the gates of Hell had broken open and the Devil's minions were rampantly spreading terror and death there....a family on vacation....a sheriff with a tragic childhood....a curious young woman looking for love in the wrong place at the wrong time....an outsider ambulance driver who finds himself in dire medical straits....and a host of unwitting victims struggling against forces of madness and wickedness unlike anything they could've dared imagine. A diabolic freight train carrying insanity and murder is barreling down the dark, towering woods known to the locals as Horror Hill, and everyone in its way is getting a free-ticket ride to the other side. . . . The CHOPHOUSE is open!

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Product Details
Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: BLACK BED SHEETS BOOKS (May 28, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984213686
ISBN-13: 978-0984213689
Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 5 inches

STATIONHOUSE NO. 1 by HORNS _

The deserted fire house sits on the outskirts of what was once a prospering municipality. Stationhouse No. 1 was, at one time, the city’s pride and joy of fire and rescue services, but now it’s just a bad memory in the minds of some of Lombardy officials and many of its leisure-minded residents. Highschoolers Renie Palmberg, her boyfriend, Eddie Carpenter, and their friend Chris Egger happens to think the old building would be perfect for their upcoming junior firefighter group’s ceremony. But what should be a time of celebration and coming of age for all of them, turns into a night of blood and terror. What they don’t know, is that Stationhouse No. 1 is a landmark building with a dark, ugly past . . . and an even more frightening present!

In late 1959 almost the entire company of Stationhouse No. 1 was savagely slain, their remains burned. Could it be the building’s smoke-impregnated and bloodstained walls hold a negative energy that has soaked into the very fabric of its structure, unleashing a bloodthirsty, unholy essence? The reason why more deaths and misfortunes have blighted the place for decades? Or is someone, or some thing, dead determined to prove where there’s smoke there’s fire and where there’s murder there’s revenge?

CHOPHOUSE 2

Would you have the courage to face and fight your most terrifying fear head-on, especially if that fear was manifested in the guise of a diabolical man possessing the unusual power to invade, rape, distort and corrupt your mind and the minds of a legion of others?

The Mind Walker.

For retired Dominic County Sheriff, Jack Yuma, this difficult question becomes a life-threatening reality that turns his happy, new world into a living nightmare. He thought the horror had ended years ago on that one dreadful, deadly night where so many had lost their lives or had them changed forever. The chophouse sits deserted with the monster’s dying blood, dried and preserved, far below its rocky surface. Or so he believed. Because something has been reborn in an unholy womb filled with a mixture of syrupy blood and digested human flesh, thriving on fear and hatred, driven by savagery and revenge, and it is coming for him and his family and any other misfortunate soul who stands in its path of bloodstained death and destruction.

Now he must discover a heart-wrenching truth, which could change and darken him forever as the terror grows to a calculated frenzy of screams, blood, and grotesque acts of pure evil.

They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But as this tormented lawman learns, you’d better make sure you kill it instead or the strength it’s given you will be put to the test when it comes back for a second try.

CHOPHOUSE 2

Will you BECOME ONE with the terror?

NOVELS

Chophouse

Stationhouse No. 1

Chophouse 2

HORNS SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

When Night Darkens the Streets 

Exit the Light

ANTHOLOGIES

Read Us Or Die

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