Nightmare Stories, Volume 2

By C. C. Blake

C. C. Blake returns with six more thrilling tales of supernatural suspense delivered in the old school pulp horror tradition of Hugh B. Cave, Richard Laymon, and Robert E. Howard.

Prepare to encounter a perverse maniac using magic to savage his lovely victims, a bloody showdown between a vampire and an army of gangsters, a decidedly demonic MMA match in the heart of Detroit, two ancient evils squaring off in the ultimate hunting experience, a newly risen vampire in need of a few unlife lessons, and a decidedly strange tale from the African theater of World War II pitting Allied forces against Nazis and ancient mysticism.

Prepare yourself for the nightmares to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Twice Told Tales II
• Release date: Nov 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311876355

C. C. Blake

C.C. Blake has lived across the United States, starting in the suburbs of Detroit, to Massachusetts’ second largest city (Worcester) to the country’s seventh largest city (San Antonio, Texas, that is). He’s has a variety of jobs, working as a substitute teacher, the graveyard shift dishwasher at a haunted Denny’s, lab research monkey and teaching assistant at a second tier college. Currently, he works as an automation consultant for a chemical company on the Northeast side of SAtown (which isn’t as Hellish as it sounds). Blake’s most popular character, irrepressible adventurer Chuck Cave, has appeared in over two dozen stories, including the 2005 Man’s Story 2 Story of the Year Award winner “Chuck Cave and the Vanishing Vixen.” The character’s supernatural thriller stories (which began with the seminal “Cave and the Vamp”) are all being released as a part of Vampires2.com’s initial foray into e-books. These new versions are presented in expanded and revised versions, all are the author’s preferred texts. Be sure to collect them all! In addition to his pulp stories for the 2-Empire (Man’s Story 2, Vampires 2, Androids 2 and Paranormal Romance 2), Blake’s fiction has appeared in several anthologies, including Unparalleled Journeys II (from Journey Books Publishing) and Fearology: Terrifying Tales of Phobias (from Library of Horror Press).

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