Through Darkest America-Extended Version
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The Transformed Mouse
Jack Ketchum
Here's something from the delightfully warped mind of Jack Ketchum! The Transformed Mouse: A Fable That's right folks, a fable! One for adults though, adapted from the 2nd century Panchatantra. And unless you're afraid of the elements, or of mice, there's nary a scare in it. Just good wacky fun!
Murder Mysteries: A Play for Voices
Neil Gaiman
In Heaven's City of Angels before the fall, the first crime has been committed: an Angel has been murdered. While the Angelic Hosts labor to create the universe, one of their number is mysteriously slain by one of their own. Raguel, Angel of Vengeance, is commanded to discover both motive and murderer...
Snow Glass Apples: A Play for Voices
Neil Gaiman
A young princess … her skin as white as snow … her hair as black as coal ... her lips as red as blood … an innocent young girl victimized by her evil stepmother.
Or is she?
Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples” turns the traditional “Snow White” fairytale on its head and tells the story from the point of view of the “wicked” stepmother, who knows the truth about this less-than-innocent girl and attempts to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter.
House Guest
John Paul Allen
Chastity Bream doesn't dance anymore. She also can't walk, speak or think. She's fed through a tube, turned twice a day and left alone in her bed. That is except for him - the one in her closet, who comes out to tend to her needs. And his.
Monkey Love
John Paul Allen
When Professor Sandra Rixx lost her husband in a terrorist bombing, she turned toward her work for salvation. When Richard kept his vow and returned three years later, she learned to mix business with pleasure. Sometimes we can't help who we love. Sometimes we can't help what we love.
Suffer The Flesh
Monica J O'Rourke
"Zoey Masterson didn’t know what pain was before, but she’s learning fast. Kidnapped off the Manhattan streets and whisked away from the safe, normal world she once knew, she finds herself the victim of one reprehensible man’s vision. "Somewhere between ecstasy and pain, learn to Suffer the Flesh."
Jasmine & Garlic
Monica J O'Rourke
A “routine” obstetric visit quickly becomes a nightmare for unsuspecting mom-to-be Cassandra. But even worse than the exam itself is what Dr. Windling has in store for her and her unborn child …
Mr Peepers
Akela Cooper
When her brother is mysteriously killed a young woman returns home to close his affairs. But when she gets an ominous warning from her brother, she has to stay and investigate his death which may have been caused by a malevolent demon masquerading as a cat.
Hallelujah
Akela Cooper
Mary is a young woman with a dark secret: she's got a demon living inside her. Literally. But it isn't the demon she fears, it's her father, a Baptist preacher who has tried everything in his power to break his daughter's spirit. But when her father's church is attacked by the Ku Klux Klan, Mary must call upon the demon to help seek revenge.
Tinder Box Blues
Akela Cooper
A confederate soldier gets more than he bargained for when he strikes a deal with an old slave woman. But when he tries to keep her most precious gift for himself, he finds treasure isn't the only thing hidden under Massa's tree.
Hard Night
Bram D Eisenthal
A twisted, terrifying, humorous and somewhat sexy short about a night almost 40 years ago when the lustful dead ravaged Quebec’s sleepy cottage country. Proof that radiation is to zombies what Viagra is to mortal men (and some women).