Voices in the Basement

by Bill Freas

From the darkest corridors of one of the most haunted literary minds come eleven tales concocted specifically for those readers with a rather deranged demeanor. A reluctant team is called upon, in the middle of the night, to locate and destroy a sly vampire demon in the basement of a funeral home, in the eerie story “It Waits Among Us.” Two high school lovebirds in 1979 take the amusement-park ride of their lives – and deaths – in “Knolin’s Mouse Trap.” In the chilling tale “Intruders on Geer Bluff,” a commercial fisherman is pulled into a terrifying, time-bending alien abduction once he arrives back home. “In the Stalking Hour” tells the gritty, suspenseful story of a brutal, monstrous psychopath who violently escapes a prison transport and hunts down the traumatized urban couple that got him sent to prison and put on death row three years earlier. In “Snowquest,” a simple post-Christmas family gathering erodes into a snowy apocalypse when a supernatural blizzard rolls in to end mankind. A struggling teen’s vengeful wish comes true when a gang of vicious and uncontrollable evil entities are unleashed on some unsavory locals responsible for his father’s financial ruin, in the grisly story “Visions of Darkness.” These are only a few of the horrifying tales told in this nightmarish collection of the truly macabre. When the voices call for you in the basement, you better not answer.

180 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2017