Nightmares- Volume 3- A Billy Wells Horror Anthology

By Billy Wells

Nightmares- Volume 3- 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:
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS: Four friends make New Year’s resolutions to overcome phobias each of them has in the coming year. A month later, three of them have met with unexplained deaths, and the survivor keeps having nightmares that they were murdered.
THE REFRIGERATOR: A man finds a message for help in a used refrigerator that was once owned by vampires in the house where his father died ten years before.
THE TAXIDERMIST Louie finds a deformed taxidermist with outstanding credentials to mount his most prized kill from twenty-five years of hunting.
OFF LIMITS: June loses her job and moves in with her sister under the explicit condition her sister's bedroom is off limits.
SURPRISE! SURPRISE!: Jane has arranged a surprise birthday party for her boss at his funeral parlor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Billy Wells
• Release date: Mar 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005976910

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 3

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

New Year’s Resolutions

The Refrigerator

The Taxidermist

Off Limits

Surprise! Surprise!

About Billy Wells

Reviews in Today’s World

Other Books By Billy Wells

New Year’s Resolutions

Every New Year’s Eve since they graduated from college seven years ago, Ben and his friends, Frank, Murray, and Harold, met at the Purple Puma Lounge to make resolutions for the coming year.

In keeping with their annual custom, they were well on their way toward inebriation when Frank proposed the theme for this year.

"Did you guys see the movie, The Bucket List’?" Frank asked, and then belched.

Yeah, I saw it, Harold replied. It was damned good. Ben nodded in agreement, and watched a busty coed swivel by on her way to the ladies’ room.

Murray shook his head and said with disdain, Everybody said how great it was, and I wanted to see it, but somehow I never did.

One of the first things Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman decided to do before they kicked the bucket was to go skydiving, Frank replied. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had a bad case of acrophobia, the fear of high places. So…I’m making skydiving my New Year’s resolution for this year, and I propose we make a pact that each of us will eliminate something from our own personal bucket list this year we never thought we’d have the balls to do.

His friends looked at each other in dumbfounded amazement at this unexpected proposal to go skydiving.

Frank saw the shocked expressions on his friends’ faces and continued, After years of not being able to go on an airplane because of my fear of heights, I’ve decided not only to go up in a plane, but I’m going to jump out of one. I’ve been to a shrink, and he says I’m ready.

Skydiving, Ben said, pounding on the bar and laughing so hard, he couldn’t catch his breath. You’d better pick an alternative resolution, dear friend. Something you might actually go through with when you’re sober.

Yeah, Frank. Harold chided, Ever since you almost fell off the barn roof when you were ten, you’ve had trouble taking an elevator above the fifth floor.

Not anymore, Frank said with determination. I’m a new man. Come down to the airfield on January 2 and watch me go airborne at over 5,000 feet.

I’ve got $100 that says you won’t make the jump, Murray declared drunkenly.

The three of them teased Frank mercilessly about his insane idea of going skydiving the rest of the evening. No one thought he would actually go through with it.

That is, until they arrived at the small airport on that cold January morning. Frank looked like a little kid with a new toy, grinning from ear to ear in his blue helmet that looked much too big for his head.

Once the plane took off, and Frank was in the air, the three of them stopped laughing and stood spellbound as they watched the small aircraft get smaller and smaller as it climbed higher and higher into the sky.

After a time, Harold, whose nickname was Hawkeye because he had the best vision of the four of them, said, Shit, I think he just jumped out of the plane. At least, someone did.

Ben couldn’t see what Harold was seeing; he had the poorest vision of the four. Biting his fingernail into the quick, he shouted, What’s happening now?

He must have pulled the ripcord! The chute is spiraling downward, Harold screamed above the roar of another plane taking off.

I don’t know much about parachuting, but I don’t think you’re supposed to pull the ripcord that soon, Murray said, in a worried tone.

Oh, no! Harold squealed at the top of his lungs.

What? Ben shouted.

The chute didn’t open. It looks like a giant streamer trailing behind him. He’s freefalling, Harold shouted.

Murray said, trying to stay calm. "He’ll be okay. I read all about it on the Internet last night. Frank has a backup chute. If the primary doesn’t open, he’ll release it, and once it’s out of the way, he’ll manually pull out the backup on his stomach and let