The Orangefield Cycle Omnibus
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Other books by Al Sarrantonio
Al Sarrantonio’s Book of Holidays
New in digital, a 5000-word collection of macabre holiday-themed short stories from Al Sarrantonio.
Spend the Holidays — all the Holidays — with horror master Al Sarrantonio! In this very special little book, Al Sarrantonio presents a battle between Mr. Old and Mr. New Year, a bizarre love poem for Valentine’s Day, a St. Patty’s Day from hell and more! Easter, the 4th of July (Boom!) and of course Halloween — they’re all here! And to round out the year, there’s a murderous turkey bent of revenge on Thanksgiving, and Santa’s secret list that goes way beyond naughty and nice. A whole year’s worth of horror wrapped in one twisted little bow!
Campbell Wood
STAY OUT OF THE WOODS
…or fall prey to the wrenching horrors of nature’s darkest secret, lurking in the trees and lunging from the shadows…
STAY OUT OF THE WOODS
…or surrender to the savage fury of a last race, whose unearthly reign over a terrified community demands the soul of your only daughter…
FOR GOD’S SAKE- STAY OUT OF THE WOODS
…or sacrifice life and limb to a flesh-rending legacy of evil.
Halloween & Other Seasons
Here, to treasure, a new story collection from award-winning horror master Al Sarrantonio. In Halloween and Other Seasons you’ll find:
Summer that never ends…
A sleepover that turns into an unending nightmare…
A summer camp that offers a one-way ticket…
The strangest Halloween ever…
All this and much, much more in Halloween and Other Seasons: there’s a neighborhood rivalry that grows to monstrous proportions; a hedgerow with an appetite; the ultimate Charles Fort story; and the end of the world from the beginning.
Halloween and Other Seasons contains 18 gems of weirdness, including Al Sarrantonio’s very first published story.
Stories included in this collection:
SUMMER
SLEEPOVER
EELS
LETTERS FROM CAMP
ROGER IN THE WOMB
THE RETURN OF MAD SANTA
BABY BOSS AND THE UNDERGROUND HAMSTERS
TRAIL OF THE CHROMIUM BANDITS
THE MAN IN THE OTHER CAR
HEDGES
THE SILLY STUFF
THE NEW KID
AHEAD OF THE JONESES
THE ARTIST IN THE SMALL ROOM ABOVE
THE DANCING FOOT
LIBERTY
DUST
THE PUMPKIN BOY
Hornets & Others
The things that live in the Earth… A haunted computer… A fragrant flower that signals the end of the human race… Billy the Kid’s killer beginnings—in the womb…
Here, then, are 17 remarkable horror stories by Stoker Award winner, World Fantasy, British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Award finalist Al Sarrantonio.
In Hornets and Others you’ll find a murderous jar of moonshine, a blood-red wind, a green face that commands carnage, a possessed coat that turns its wearer into a psychotic slasher. Plus two brand new stories, about a man made of glass and a horror beyond the stars!
Also the title story: the acclaimed novella “Hornets,” the very first tale in the Orangefield cycle, about the warmest Halloween ever, and the orange-and-black-striped insect that brings death to the town of Orangefield.
And much more…
Hornets and Others is a veritable feast from a practitioner of the art of modern horror who has been called “A true creative wonder. An artist.” (Horrorstruck magazine), “A very talented writer.” (The Washington Post), “A marvelous writer!” (Ed Bryant), “A writer of great stories!” (Raymond E. Feist)
House Haunted
A thousand years ago, something evil made a bold attempt to cross into this world. Now it’s ready to try again. She’s eternally young, lovely and lethal. Her cry for help is heard by a teenage boy in Bermuda. A confused orphan in Montreal. A political prisoner in Poland. A raging paraplegic on the Pacific coast. And a bloodthirsty psychopath in New York City. Each of them is lost, confused, alone. Too weak to resist her siren call.
They come cutting a path of carnage across the globe. And at last they meet. In a lonely mountain mansion. A place of unutterable evil. A place they are never meant to leave.
Moonbane
When amateur astronomer Jason Blake and his son are out star-gazing one night, thousands of meteors suddenly fill the sky. Some of them fall nearby, but when Jason and Ritchie go to investigate, they are attacked by a werewolf-like creature, and Ritchie is injured. This is a novel of relationships, of apocalyptic adventure, and very personal sacrifice. Fast-paced and gaining speed with each page, Moonbane is a poetic novel that works on a number of unexpected levels, running the gamut from taut suspense to outright mayhem.
“A novel with real style, informed by a wry and sometimes chilling point of view. Moonbane is not quite like anything you’ve read before!”
— Ed Gorman, author of Rough Cut
“Al Sarrantonio’s Moonbane is a stylish B-movie of a novel. Fast paced and poetic, and scary in the old-fashioned sense of such fine B-chillers as The Cat People and I Walked With a Zombie.”
— Joe R. Lansdale
October
The dying season
It’s a time of ripe apples and falling leaves, a time of raging bonfires and leering jack-o’-lanterns, a time of homecoming for human and demon both.
OCTOBER
Professor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to fill a teaching position at the local university and a long-held ambition: to revive interest in the town’s most illustrious citizen, author Eileen Connel, and her neglected masterpiece, Season of the Witches. But first he must uncover the horror locked away inside the old woman’s failing mind - a horror that had its birth one tragic Halloween night over forty years ago. Now, as October once again returns to upstate New York, so does a species of evil so monstrously alien it can only wear a human mask.
Skeletons
In Moscow, the sound of bones echoes across Red Square. In America, skeletons patrol the streets of Manhattan and blood stains the cornfields of the Midwest. While in Washington, D. C., Abraham Lincoln is heading for his third term in the White House.
The best-and worst-of humanity are back with a vengeance, a skeletal army hell-bent on conquering the living and uniting the world under the banner of the dead.
Against this bloody backdrop of global horror, a small group of refugees find themselves drawn together by a single vision and a shared fate: to determine whether the last two humans on earth will survive or join the ranks of the newly risen.
SKELETONS
Terrifying and outrageous, Skeletons is a roller coaster ride into the fibrillating heart of darkness by one of horror’s scariest writers.
The Worms
A young couple travel to the girl’s hometown and are plunged into a living nightmare of evil — an evil from deep in the past which appears in a shocking and deadly form.
Provine, Massachusetts, is one of those picturesque New England towns where nothing ever seems to change. At least that is how it has always seemed to Felicity Cramer. So when she brings Paul, her fiancé, to Province to meet her family, the last thing she expects is for anything out of the ordinary to occur.
Under the sleepy surface of Province lies a devastatingly sinister fate, a fate sealed three hundred years ago when Granny Brind was burned as a witch. Now, the horrifying legacy Granny Brind bequeathed to Province is about to explode with a murderous vengeful power, from which there will be no escape.
The Worms elicits the kind of heart-pounding response fans of horror and fantasy fiction crave. The knockout pace of this terrifyingly suspenseful story will leave you gasping for breath.