Shivers and other nightmares is a compilation of 30 stories, Most are in the horror genre and most with surprise endings. The nightmares include: Shivers: The last thing Steve remembers is stopping at the rest stop off the interstate.Under New Management: The meat at Big Mama's Restaurant is extremely fresh.Tattoo: Since Marla got her tattoo, her friends are dying.Genie In the Bottle: Three college friends find a strange bottle in the surf and make a wish that comes with a price.Dominance: The Simmons family encounters an escaped madman who looks like the devil on a camping trip in the Adirondacks.Something In The Car: Jasper and his wife Nancy are the victims of a large buck crashing through the windshield of their car. Nancy has no vital signs, but her eyes keep popping open.The Vampire Club: Something big in the basement has devoured Mike's neighbor's cat on loan to catch a mouse.The Troll: Lieutenant Ramsey is on the trail of a strange woman who kidnaps seven children every ten years and eats them to stay yoiung.The Rapture: A televangelist predicts the end of the world is coming in six months.Drip. Drip. Drip.Rasgus is having trouble with a leaky faucet in Times Square on New Years Eve after a headless body is found near his fire escape. A Shortcut Through the Woods: Mason hears a gun shot in the black woods while taking a shortcut home.Spiders: Charlie needs to change a fuse in the spooky basement full of spiders.Vampires and Werewolves: A charter plane to Atlantic City lands at a remote private airport near Lake George, NY.What The Cat Dragged In: Little demons land on Earth during a meteor shower.The Love Room: Someone has discovered the serial killer's love room and wants some payback.And 15 others...Shivers and other nightmares is a compilation of thirty stories where the protagonists dare to take a walk on the dark side into shadows where evil lurks and midnights stay. Come with me now and feel the terror that waits just beyond the door in spaces where the subtle shades of black are imperceptible in the gloom. In a forest where the silence is so profound it suggests the awakening of an enormous beast from a long sleep with a mission to rip apart any bird, animal, or insect that dares make a sound. In a tomb where the children of the night seek fresh, warm blood, and the wind howls and the wolf bane blooms under the full moon. Into fields of sorrow where scarecrows walk, monsters crawl and awful things go bump in the night. Go to those creepy places you never thought you'd go where the whisper of a spider's web lingers on the back of your neck too long and the icy fingers of something dead send shivers up your spine that makes your blood run cold.
About the Author: I was controller for one of the world's largest architectural firms in Washington, DC and New York City. Although pursuing accounting as a career path, I have always had a great interest in creative writing. I have written more than 200 songs, writing both the music and/or lyrics and collaborating with numerous writers and musicians through the years. I signed 39 publishing agreements with a host of publishers and almost realized a cut on Vanessa Williams' "Sweetest Days" album; however, 39 times my dreams did not come to fruition. I have written many poems and short stories and one screenplay. I love movies and had seen over 1,500 by the age of 13 when there was snow on 13 channels after midnight. I have always enjoyed horror and from an early age wrote numerous short stories in that genre. Some of those early stories are in my first book entitled "Black As Night. My favorite horror movies are Halloween, Night of the Living Dead, and the Evil Dead. My favorite movie of all time Is Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life with James Stewart. My favorite authors are Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, John Sandford, Michael Connelly, Robert B. Parker, Clive Cusler, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Lee Burke and Richard Matheson.