Nightmares- Volume 2- A Billy Wells Horror Anthology

By Billy Wells

Nightmares- Volume 2- A Billy Wells Horror Anthology
A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone.
If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare.
The nightmares include:
FIDO: George lost his job and needs to leave his hometown to start a new life. A rich recluse seems like an easy target to get fast cash except for a sign on the wall surrounding her estate, "Beware of Fido.”
THE MONSTER NEXT DOOR: An apartment dweller is convinced his next-door neighbor is a monster.
THE VAMPIRE CLUB: Something big in the basement has devoured Mike’s neighbor’s cat on loan to catch a mouse.
FAIR GAME: After pushing a commuter into a subway train, a serial killer stops at a bar for a beer and strikes up a conversation with a stranger he decides to kill as well.
THE PARTY: A man crashes a Halloween party mysteriously held in a dilapidated mansion unoccupied for decades.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Billy Wells
• Release date: Mar 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005937836

Billy Wells

I have published eleven collections of horror stories with surprise endings, Check out my latest video for the gory detailsI have written 238 short stories so far in my quest to exceed Ray Bradbury's 400 short stories. It goes without saying it will be an uphill climb.Stephen King is my favorite horror writer, and I admire what King has accomplished in the horror genre in terms of movies made from his considerable volume of work.My channels on You Tube has amassed over 7,000,000 hits, mostly from my "Dead Celebrities" videos and have over 13,000 subscribers.I love movies and had seen over 1,500 by the age of 13 when there was snow on 13 channels after midnight.I read constantly and have rated over 700 books on Goodreads.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 Cussler, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Lee Burke, Richard Matheson, Lee Child, and Jack Kilborn/Konrath.Since reviews are the life's blood of every author, I would greatly appreciate a review of any of my books and hold anyone who does in high esteem for all eternity.

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Nightmares-Volume 2

A Billy Wells Horror Anthology

Five Selections From

Black As Night, Shivers & Other Nightmares, Don't Look Behind You, Scary Stories-Vols. 1-5, Midnight Snacks, Scare Factory, and Stories To Make Your Skin Crawl

Copyright © 2021 by Billy Wells

Published by Billy Wells at Smashwords

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This story is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

Contents

Fido

The Monster Next Door

The Vampire Club

Fair Game

The Party

About Billy Wells

Reviews in Today’s World

Other Books By Billy Wells

Fido

George stood in the cover of the stand of trees eyeballing the eight-foot high brick fence surrounding the property. He'd passed the old Nightshade house countless times but had never seen a living soul in the window or in the yard.

He remembered hearing the old timers at the local store say an old woman lived here who married a rich man who owned oil wells in Texas. On their first night at home, after returning from their honeymoon, some psychopath had broken into their house and hacked her husband to pieces with a hatchet. He could be mistaken, but he thought someone said the murderer had put the young bride’s eyes out with a screwdriver before he left.

George was severely down on his luck, and he was desperate. His boss had just fired him from his high paying job as Director of Road Kill in Prince William County. After years of shoveling up hundreds of maggot-infested carcasses all over the back roads of Woodbridge and Occoquan, he had been promoted to director when his mentor, Mr. Harris, had passed away.

None of his so-called friends had congratulated him on his promotion when the commissioner announced it. They were thoroughly pissed off they didn’t get chosen for the job. Larry Donahue, one of his best friends, even told him to his face he was an idiot and would never last as director. He was so mad he threw his paperweight against the wall and stormed out of the office to get drunk. George thought it amazing how his achieving such a lofty position in the county had completely severed his relationship with all his old road kill compadres.

After he moved into his prestigious office with a desk, a chair, and two file cabinets with a panoramic view of the new sewer plant, George waited for something he could use to get even with good old Larry.

Finally, one day, like a bolt from the blue, it occurred to George that Larry was overstating the mileage on his expense accounts. In every case, George found that Larry had doubled the mileage to every location, and over a five-year period, had cheated the county out of $131. He knew this because he had done the same thing for years just like everyone else who drove his own car occasionally on county business. The only difference was that Larry Donahue had made that snide remark about George’s promotion, and he had to pay.

He would never forget the look on Larry’s face when the guard escorted him out of the building on that final Friday. He wouldn’t even let him access his computer after working there for more than ten years.

After five years as director, George ran the Road Kill Department like a tyrant until his fetish for flashing women in the parking lot finally led to his termination.

The coup de gras was when the last woman he flashed, instead of running off screaming like the others, snapped a picture of his manhood in all its glory on her phone and reported him. The first time a woman had filed a complaint, one year earlier, he had disputed the woman's accusations as a malicious attack on his character to advance her own career in the Road Kill department. The Board of Sanitation took George’s word as director over the lowly administrative assistant and fired the troublemaking female without even a hearing.

This time he’d been caught with his pants down, literally, and the picture and the record of the previous complaint in his file had sealed his doom.

Just like Larry, his old drinking buddy, the guard wouldn’t let him access his computer either when he escorted him to the parking lot on his final Friday. Looking back on that pivotal day in his life, he couldn’t stop asking himself the same question. Why had he exposed himself in the parking lot where he worked? What was he thinking? Why hadn’t he driven twenty miles away to the mall in Fredericksburg to expose his penis to