Blood Lite II Overbite [Paperback]

From the Horror Writers Association comes a brand-new collection of darkly humorous tales!

The Big Questions of Life (and Death)

Can a killer’s basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertainment)?Not if Vlad the IRS agent nails him first in Heather Graham’s Death and Taxes.

What does a pack of hungry she-wolves do to solve their man troubles?Ladies Night Out takes a wicked turn in Dog Tired (of the Drama!) by L. A. Banks.

How far will an elite call girl go to beat a murder rap?Stuck with a dead client in a luxury L.A. hotel room, she might strike a costly bargain with a woman of unearthly powers in Allison Brennan’s Her Lucky Day.

Who actually writes those tabloid stories about Bigfoot?Meet a journalist of the unexplained (she’s 50 percent demon) and her boyfriend (he’s 100 percent thief), as they heat up a museum exhibition that’s also a soul-snatching battleground in Lucifer’s Daughter by Kelley Armstrong.

Plus tales from

KEVIN J. ANDERSON & JANIS IAN • SAM W. ANDERSON • MIKE BARON

EDWARD BRYANT • AMY STERLING CASIL • DEREK CLENDENING • DON D’AMMASSA • BRIAN J. HATCHER • NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN • NANCY KILPATRICK • J. A. KONRATH • JOHN R. LITTLE • SHARYN MCCRUMB

SCOTT NICHOLSON • MARK ONSPAUGH • AARON POLSON • DANIEL PYLE

MIKE RESNICK & LEZLI ROBYN • JEFF RYAN • D. L. SNELL • LUCIEN SOULBAN

ERIC JAMES STONE • JEFF STRAND • JORDAN SUMMERS

JOEL A. SUTHERLAND • STEVE RASNIC TEM • CHRISTOPHER WELCH


Dark Carbuncle
KEVIN J. ANDERSON AND JANIS IAN

A graveyard. Night. Lurid branches scrabble across the blood-red moon. Silence, whispers, then a hush of anticipation. Fifteen boom boxes encircle a grave. Giant woofers (removlÓÆ