The Siege (60 page)

Dear Tasha,

By the time you reed this I’ll be dead. This is no idal threat, it’s reel. You were wrong and I was rite. I just finnished talking to Bates. He says he did check into me and found out a lot of stuff. Not everything tho. He says I’m gonna have to go back to the hospittel in Georgia, that that’s where I’ll be safest—for me and everyone else. But I can’t do it. If I gotta be in a hospittel it’s just like being in jail so I’m gonna kill myself. I just wanted to say GoodBye and that I was rite and you were wrong. But because I’m not gonna tell them about you being with me all along I’m gonna ask you a favor. I don’t know how your gonna do it but you have to make sure once I’m dead I
stay
dead. Okay? I think when it comes right down to it, your the only person I’m gonna miss but so what? huh?

Your friend, sort of,

Roy Moulton

“
Hocker
”

UNTCIGAHUNK: THE COMPLETE LITTLE BROTHERS

It has been five years since Kip Howard saw his mother killed horribly by a blur of "little brown things." Five years of nightmares and a terror of dark places. Five years of struggling to overcome what must have been just his imagination…But the "untcigahunk," the Indian word for "little brothers," are no one's imagination. Hideous forest creatures who feed every five years on human flesh, the little brothers are about to emerge from underground once again. Only this time, there will be no escape for the young boy who witnessed their last feast.

Untcigahunk
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The Novel is an updated version of Rick Hautala's classic novel Little Brothers. Also included are seven short stories about the Untcigahunk:

Little Brother

Little Brother Speaks

Redman

Chrysalis

Love on the Rocks

Deal with the Devils

The Birch Whistle

Oilman

OCCASIONAL DEMONS

This collection, from an acclaimed Master of Dark Fiction, consists of twenty-one tales with some being straight genre entries, others psychological terror and finally a few shorts that include science fiction elements. The first eighteen are short stories written solely by Rick and the final three are collaborations with Jesse and Matti Hautala, Matthew J. Costello, and Jim Connolly.

The stories included in this collection are:

The Nephews

Nightmare Transcript

Non-returnable

Dead Legends

I’ve Been Thinking About You

The Man Who Looked Like Murphy

Toxic Shock

The Call

Getting the Job Done

Every Mother’s Son

Knocking

Hotel Hell

The Compost Heap

Iron Frog

Setup

The Gates of Dawn

Off the Cuff

The Screaming Head

Abduction (written with Jesse and Matti Hautala)

And the Sea Shall Claim Them (written by Matthew J. Costello and A. J. Matthews)

Scared Crows (written with Jim Connolly)

BEDBUGS

From the subway tunnels of Boston to the rain-swept streets of Quebec City to the deepest snow-filled forests of Hilton, Maine, no one in these chilling stories by horror master Rick Hautala is safe from the darkness or the dangerous things that lurk in the shadows. Waiting for us. Reaching for us...

Over the years, Rick Hautala's stories and novels have terrified and captivated millions of readers around the world. Bedbugs is a career-spanning collection of stories that whisks you away on a guided tour of the darkest reaches of the human mind and soul — a tour that could only be conducted by someone with Rick Hautala's ability to make your blood run cold.

The stories included in this collection are:

The Back of My Hands

Schoolhouse

The Voodoo Queen

Surprise

Tunnels

. . . from a Stone

Crying Wolf

The Sources of the Nile

Silver Rings

Colt .24

Bird in the House

Cousins’ Curse

Speedbump

Rubies and Pearls

A Little Bit of Divine Justice

Karen’s Eyes

Master Tape

Breakfast at Earl’s

Closing the Doors

Worst Fears

Winter Queen

Late Summer Shadows

Hitman

Perfect Witness

Piss Eyes

Served Cold

MOONBOG

THE EVIL GLOW OF THE MOON...

lit the path as twelve-year-old Billy Wilson walked past the bog. He knew he shouldn't have gone near the inky shadows of the swamp — but something forced him to come closer to the yawning darkness, the suffocating tangle, the flesh-tearing brambles of Holland Bog.

THE MURKY DEPTHS OF THE BOG...

sucked the boy into its fetid earth and claimed its human sacrifice. But one child wasn't enough. It needed a second, a third — and then nothing could stop the unquenchable hunger, the raging bloodthirst of the MOONBOG.

GHOST LIGHT

Cindy Toland knows that her sister's violent death was no accident.
 
She knows her abusive brother-in-law too well... knows the dark, brutal things he's capable of doing.
 
That's why she took her niece and nephew away into the night—away from a dangerous and twisted madness called home.

But ten-year-old Billy and his kid sister Krissy know something their Aunt Cindy doesn't.
 
It's about the blue lady who comes late at night and whispers strange things.
 
Billy and Krissy aren't scared of the lady.
 
Even though she lives beyond the grave.
 
But there's something else out there.
 
Something much more terrifying.
 
It's daddy.
 
And he's coming to get them.

Look for more Rick Hautala titles coming soon from Crossroad Press

Cold Whisper

Dark Silence

Impulse

Shades of Night

Twilight Time

Writing as A.J. Matthews:

The White Room

Looking Glass

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Unbroken