Midnight Walk

This all-original horror anthology features 14 tales of terror and suspense: Jodi Kaplan Lester's "The Guixi Sisters" describes three Chinese-American children who have an especially strong connection to their heritage; Armand Constantine's "Monsoon Devil" offers up an American stranded in India seeking a legendary demon; in "The Tennatrick", John Palisano creates a wildfire-starting monster in Southern California; a young boy undergoes a Halloween rite of passage in Richard Grove's "Silver Needle"; in "The Measure of a Man" by George Willis, 19th-century Zulu warriors fight something far worse than British invaders; Mike McCarty's "The Grieving Process" offers a middle class husband learning to cope with more than just the death of his wife; Vince Churchill's "Late Check-In" puts a new spin on the classic ghost tale set in a lonely, deserted inn; "Inside Out" by Lisa Majewski gives a vain model a particularly loathesome come-uppance; in the novelette "Diana and the Goong-si", Lisa Morton provides a look at 19th-century China seen through the eyes of a British noblewoman in search of her missing husband; Del Howison's "Alley Oops" is a vicious little twist-of-fate story about an elderly woman and a robber; Kelly Dunn's "The Mysterious Name" rips the veneer of wealth from a well-to-do small town and finds evil lurking beneath the surface; in "Eddie G. at the Gates of Hell", R. B. Payne limns a serial killer trying to survive a road trip; "The Bear Who Swallowed the Sky" by Jason M. Light mixes Native American folklore and contemporary dread as a man fights to save his family; and Joey O'Bryan's "The Svancara Supper Society" is a novelette set in a future where synthetic food becomes all too addicting. The book also includes an introduction by Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton.