Cutting Block Books proudly presents the best of the Horror Library, Volumes 1-5. This collection honors a full ten years of excellence in short horror fiction. Selected and curated by the original team behind the three-time Bram Stoker Award(R) nominated Horror Library series, these thirty-three short stories should delight horror fans of all stripes. Nearly 150 superb short stories have appeared in the Horror Library-and the ones in this book are truly among the best and most distinctive. So come on in, browse around. The Library will be open all night... From the Publisher's Introduction: "In these pages you'll find starving people and hungry ghosts; silent invasions and mysterious travelers; burning lovers and patriotic cannibals. It's a book where gas stations aren't what they seem, and neither are door-to-door salespeople. It's a book where the end of the world doesn't have to be, well, the end of the world."

Author Biography

Editor R.J. Cavender is the thrice Bram Stoker Award(R) nominated editor of the +Horror Library+ series. Table of Contents: Lisa Morton - Foreword Rick J. Brown - The Puppet Show Sara Joan Berniker - The Exterminators Stephen R. George - A Chainsaw Execution Cameron Pierce - I am Meat, I am in Daycare Sunil Sadanand - Trapped Light Medium Marc Paoletti - Apple John Mantooth - Next Stop, Babylon Ron McGillvray - The Garbage Collectors Alan Smale - Bound Daniel L. Naden - Drawn Bentley Little - The Station Kealan Patrick Burke - After Michael Louis Calvillo - Consumed Michael A. Arnzen - Guarded Kurt Kirchmeier - Obsidian Sea C. Michael Cook - The Living World Charles Colyott - The Steel Church Jeff Strand - The Apocalypse Ain't So Bad Kurt Dinan - Into The After Lorne Dixon - Ash Wednesday Tracie McBride - Ghosts Under Glass Greggard Penance - Sporting the Waters of the Bermuda Triangle Kim Despins - Skin Jeff Cercone - Santa Maria Geoffrey L. Mudge - The Healing Hands of Reverend Wainwright Colleen Anderson - Exegesis of Insecta Apocrypha Ian Withrow - Jerrod Steihl Goes Home John F.D. Taff - The Immolation Scene Shane McKenzie - Open Mind Night at the Ritz Eric J. Guignard - Footprints Fading in the Desert Benjamin Kane Ethridge - The Vulture's Art Ray Garton - The Happiness Toy Danny Rhodes - Follower