Showing results by author "C. Dennis Moore" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Horror author C. Dennis Moore pays homage to the '80s slasher flicks of his youth with this next installment in his Holiday Horrors series. President’s Day is sure to make you rethink that next home improvement project!

Give her a kiss, the voice says in the night. David Reed’s life has been upended lately, and now a disembodied voice is about to herald an all-new low to which he can sink - as if that thing he made himself do six months ago wasn’t bad enough. But the tragedy David’s life has become since then is nothing compared to what this night holds. Because it’s not just a kiss the voice wants, but the kiss. The Devil’s Kiss. The source of all his troubles.

Five friends are about to enter the most extreme Haunt they’ve ever visited. And in a town like Angel Hill, that’s saying something. The Nightmare Corridor appeared overnight just outside of town and for John, Marcia, Sam, Malcolm, and Virginia, the promise of a thrill was too good to resist. But before the night is through, they will each be forced to face their worst fears, alone. These five Angel Hill natives have seen their share of the unexplained, but nothing can prepare them for the hell they’ll face in the Nightmare Corridor.

Horror author C. Dennis Moore brings hell on Earth in this dancing on a razorblade sampler, Maggie Andrews Gets the Facts. Maggie is a magazine writer, specializing in unexplained theological mysteries. Maggie is also about to be out of a job unless she can land a big story. Enter a mysterious rich eccentric who tells Maggie he’s admired her work and wants to share his find with her: he’s got the Devil locked away in an upstairs room in his house.

It starts with a dream, a warning. But it's a warning that arrives too late. The Gypsies aren't coming; they're here. His grandmother and nephew are the first to fall to the demonic invaders, leaving Mitch, his grandfather, and his uncle trapped in the barn while occult madness reigns outside. Chaos is the order of the day, and Mitch can only try to cope with the ghostly paranormal attackers. His grandfather, however, remembers the bloody day that first brought the wicked Gypsies to Earth...

It's New Year's Day, a time for new beginnings and setting the stage for things to come. Factory worker Kevin usually starts with a day off, but this year he's working the year-end inventory. He is disgruntled but doing as he's asked until he can get out of there and return home to his wife and kids.

For nearly three decades, one man has used his twisted sense of justice to rid the world of racism and hatred by very simple means: he finds and kills racists. But on his very first outing, one victim escaped his bullet. Now, 30 years later, that job left unfinished could very well be his undoing.

Paranormal investigator Will Castleton's psychic friend Mazie calls on Will to accompany her when she's forced to return to her horror-infested hometown of Angel Hill, Missouri - a town she fled decades before, having been psychologically shattered by a harrowing vision in the woods. A death in the family pulls Mazie back to Angel Hill, but soon after stepping foot on her native soil, she and Will are caught up by spectral forces that twist a ghastly crime from the town's past into an all-too-terrifying present.

Jim and his high school girlfriend Monica have just moved into a third floor apartment in a secure building to start a life together. Everything's going well at first, even though Jim finds adjusting to living with another person difficult. Then one night one of the residents in the building is murdered. With the security lock on the front door, and considering Jim was the only one in the building who couldn't prove his whereabouts at the time, all fingers point to him.

David Reed is struggling. He's working two jobs to make ends meet, trying not to resent the fact his wife makes so much more than he does, and to top it all off, he's just totaled his car after swerving to avoid hitting a very large animal in the middle of the road. But an empty bank account and no car soon turn out to be the least of David's worries, when he begins to think the animal he almost hit might be stalking him.

The Angel Hill Podcast explores the mysteries surrounding this strange Midwestern town, asking questions that shouldn't be asked, seeking answers best left unspoken. And someone, or something, has been stalking the podcast's host, hoping to stop his investigation.

Angel Hill has always been a place where the unexplainable is commonplace. The residents have accepted this in a don't ask, don't tell sort of way. But one man, Sean, feels these forces are out to get him. He can't go out. He can't make a noise. And when one of "them" walks into his apartment, he takes the only action he can in defending himself.