Bill Freas

Voices in the Basement 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.