Nightmare Stories Series

Nightmare Stories presents five of C. C. Blake's most terrifying excursions into mystery and the macabre. Mad science and one man's desires mingle in Victorian Europe, seeking to find "Divinest Sense" from horror. The Inquisition demands an ingénue's pain while her lover races to her side in the contes cruels inspired, "Confess, Witch!" A World War I pilot is trapped in a terrifying war torn underworld, haunted by a spectral nightmares leading the way to destruction in "Bearing a Red Scarf." Concert going teens learn the chilling price for "Free Parking." This will be one killer show... And finally, a washed up journalist returns home and finds the biggest scoop of his life, provided he is willing to make "The Sacrifice."

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.

A descent through the stairwell of an apartment building turns into a tour of hell. A convenience store robber gets the munchies, and ends up on a strange evil's menu. A heist in Italy is tied to one thief's horrifying past, and offers him a terrifying future. While on the road chasing the love of his life, Cave gets drawn into a dirty work retrieving an ancient evil artifact from a corrupt cop's evidence shack. A man sees a vision of his own estranged daughter's murder, and sets out to save her . . . no matter the cost. In these five tales of supernatural terror, C. C. Blake presents readers with new chills and thrills as well as a reprint from his Vampires 2 days . . . Everyone is capable of performing dark deeds when they are pushed hard enough. These stories are merciless pushers, and the deeds they recount are dark indeed.

We are all on a journey that starts on the day of our births, leading inexorably toward the darkest destination of all: The Grave. Some folks have plenty of time, dying peacefully in their sleeps or due to medical maladies. However, a select few face the reaper through more macabre situations. Their journeys and brushes with death are the sources of tales that leave readers chilled to the marrow. In the five stories contained in this collection, thrillmaster C. C. Blake takes readers through regions rife with mystic danger and supernatural terror and takes his characters on fast track encounters with Death from unusual circumstances. When another body gets rolled out of a New York City apartment building, it could be the sign of hot blood and hotter emotions finally boiling over and ending in murder. The Big Apple sees a crime like that every hour of every day. Chuck Cave knows better. A maniac with a vendetta against the paranormal dwellers of the world is leaving behind a string of broken beauties. His dark deeds threaten to blow open the doors on the supernatural world, casting all the occupants there good and evil into danger. He must stop this maniac before all hell breaks loose in the Big Apple. So begins the first story in this chilling collection of short yarns, a cornucopia of homicidal specters, psychic assaults, and twisted psyches. This collection also includes: A victim of a psychic assault that leaves her teeming with terrors she never possessed before races to find the man responsible and make him pay before the fears become permanent additions to her psychological landscape . . . An acquirer of mystic trinkets for the Vatican finds herself attending her own midnight burial. She may not be dead, yet, but that won't stop her enemies from putting her in the ground . . . A hunter of ghosts and treasures learns the truth behind legends of gold hidden away in a house haunted by a past of vicious slaughter . . . A trio of college friends find themselves the pawns of a monstrous sexual predator with extrasensory powers and a desire to push them past the breaking point . . . In C. C. Blake's hands, the worlds of paranormal wonder and terror lurking alongside our own shatters the barricades holding it back, spilling tales of gruesome slaughter and terror into the sorts of familiar streets and parks found outside your window. Join him for these five journeys through the heart of darkness.