Darker Corridors

There are hallways along which most mortals will never walk. Most think the safest path is the one most brightly lit. But some of us have already seen them in dreams: darker entities searching for cracks in the walls of forever, wishing to do us harm. The truer souls among us know it is wiser to stand, to bravely stumble forward and acknowledge the night. Those seeking the truth of this world...and the many worlds which overlap and run parallel beside it...are destined to explore the...
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There are hallways along which most mortals will never walk. Most think the safest path is the one most brightly lit. But some of us have already seen them in dreams: darker entities searching for cracks in the walls of forever, wishing to do us harm. The truer souls among us know it is wiser to stand, to bravely stumble forward and acknowledge the night. Those seeking the truth of this world...and the many worlds which overlap and run parallel beside it...are destined to explore the DARKER CORRIDORS.

David Bain, author of GRAY LAKE and the Will Castleton series (DEATH SIGHT and the forthcoming PURGATORY BLUES and RETURN TO ANGEL HILL (with C. Dennis Moore)) presents 18 chilling, suspenseful tales of horror, fantasy, crime and science fiction, four of them new and previously unpublished, written specifically for this volume (*marked below with an asterisk*).
Tales in this volume include:
Ghosts on the Way to Gray Lake - Tonight, as the boys drive through the worst fog of the year, the ghost stories they love start creeping in on them like the mist itself.
The Trunk: A Killer Ghost Story - Mike''s done a shady deal or two and now he''s locked in the trunk of a car with the ghost of one mean dog. A ghost can''t bite you, can it?
Morbo The Clown Comes to Town - Everyone loves a circus, but when Morbo juggles, lives literally hang in the balance...
The Mold of Memory - None of your deepest, most private secrets are safe in this wild, genre-bending tale of top secret government nanotech experiments run amok.
The Demon Wind* - It''s mayhem at a Modesto, California 7-11 when a customer comes in carrying a demon inside him.
Companion - A roadside encounter with a bad, bad man changes everything for a disgraced high school teacher.
Walking Woes* - In the not too distant future, being athletic, fit and trim is a detriment...
The Streetlight Filled with Flowers - The bum standing under the streetlight out in the parking lot only mutters nonsense - but might hold the keys to grand visions
Graven Images* - The alien visitor only wants to "register" Amishman Levon Stoltzfus, but Levon hasn''t even heard of the invasion yet.
Finding Tim - Can the fantasy art on a particular author''s paperbacks help find his twin brother, kidnapped all those years ago?
The Pit of Cormair - Skulk the Skull-faced and Shin the Sorcerer travel to the ends of the earth to cure Skulk of his addictions.
Bearing Bad News - It''s the worst part of a sheriff''s job, bearing bad news to formerly happy families - but Sheriff Guy Ames is about to receive the worst news of all...
Hellcat Prom Night - Some girls will go to sadistic lengths to have a perfect prom night ... and some men don''t know when to stop hitting on a stranger they don''t even know...
Phone Sex on the Nightside - A traveling salesman discovers the number in the back of the strange porno mag will redefine his definition of phone sex forever!
Under an Invisible Shadow - The zombie apocalypse happened twelve years ago ... but what happens when the dead themselves start dying?
Cauldron Car - An action-packed, high octane, rock and roll novella concerning a sorcerer''s junkyard, undead bank robbers, and a magic cherry red convertible...
The Story of O and the Dragon - The Dragon Fry must answer for his sins when a wizard questions details of his story...
Bonus Story: Island Ghosts: A Will Castleton Adventure - Psychic U.S. Marshal Will Castleton races a hurricane and a murderer and his past to save a woman''s life!
David Bain is also the author of the Will Castleton psychic crime detective series and several short story collections including SHADOWS, WHISPERS, SHIVERS and NIGHT WRITING. He is the co-author, with C. Dennis Moore (author of the #1 Amazon Horror bestseller THE THIRD FLOOR) of the short rock n'' roll horror novel BAND OF GYPSIES and the collection TERROR IS OUR TRADE.