Publisher's Synopsis
Thirteen stories of ordinary people having extraordinary and sometimes scary experiences. Many favorite fiends and phenomena appear in new contexts. If you like to read scary stories with some death and a little blood, then you'll have fun reading these short stories.
DESCRIPTIONS
"The Happy Home of the Furrowed Farmer"
A father, who precedes his family to their new home on a farm, meets with ghostly resistance to his presence.
"The Cadaver in the Closet"
A young man, working late at night in a college science building, disturbs the spirit of the old woman whose cadaver he peeked at in the lab closet.
"The Fan Connection"
A woman thinks she hears the voice of a kidnapped girl coming out of her electric fan and sets out to rescue her from a room with an exhaust fan "broadcasting" her voice.
"The Hellhound of Halloween"
At a church youth Halloween party, a boy encounters a demon who possesses the pastor who played a recording of the demon's exorcism.
"The Magical Papyri"
In love with her best friend's brother, a teen-aged girl tries to use an attraction spell from her classicist father's journal article about the Greek Magical Papyri.
"The Traveling Timepiece"
Feeling forlorn after his wife's death, the husband discovers an old pocket watch can navigate time and space and tries to change the past with disastrous results.
"The Giant Problem"
While camping on a mountain, three couples on a break from college discover a giant, who grabs one couple, whom the others must rescue.
"The Nocturnal Visitor"
One night a mother catches their cat licking their baby and not because of milk left on her mouth.
"The Well to Hell"
A busy father, who has no time for Trick or Treating with his son, falls through a well and finds himself trapped in Hell, a 1980's version of Hades, until he is able to learn the secret of getting back home.
"The Terrible Transplant"
After a man has a liver transplant, his wife is convinced the organ, donated by a bad man, has affected her husband's personality. Her fears are realized when the husband believes she's right.
"The Superior Serpent"
Cousins paddling a boat along the shores of Lake Superior are attacked by a water serpent seeking to prevent the theft of copper.
"The Revenge of the Hornets"
A beekeeper, living in rural Washington state, plots revenge against murder hornets for decimating his hive, only ending up needing his neighbor to avenge him.
"The Thirteenth Story"
A group of kids on Halloween venture to visit the thirteenth floor of a high-rise apartment building sealed off after the deranged son of the owner killed all the occupants.
