Tim Curran Libros

The dark feast is ready. The cauldron is smoldering. Ladle yourself a full of bowl of Bone Marrow Stew and savor every mouthful of gut and grue, every crawling strand of meat and maggoty bite of flesh. The gravy is thick, rich, and noxious, blood-seeped and foul beyond measure. The aroma that of bone dust and corpse slime, insects and puppet eyes, snake oil and the bile of resurrection. Finish every last drop. You have been warned.Stories included in this collection:REIGN OF THE EATERRED SEATHE EYES OF HOWARD CURLIXTHE CHATTERING OF TINY TEETHNOT SUGAR, SPICE, OR ANYTHING NICEPIT CREWLONG IN THE TOOTHTHE RESURRECTION MANLITTLE MISS WICKEDTHE ARCHITECT OF PESTILENCENIGHT AND FOGQUEEN OF SPADESTHE WRECK OF THE GHOSTONE DARK SEPTEMBER NIGHT…MIGRATIONTHE PUPPETEERTHE LEGEND OF BLACK BETTY

Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria's hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy. Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles-a nightmare place where a dummy moves and speaks when his master is nowhere near him. Kitty suspects not only is there something wrong with McBane and his dummy, but a greater evil is at work as those named by the dummy are dying horrible deaths. And now she has been named by the same soul-eater that destroyed her sister.

The story follows Holly, who undergoes a terrifying transformation during her pregnancy, shifting from a devoted wife to a sinister figure. Her obsession with ancient texts and her connection to a mysterious midwife lead her down a dark path, causing her to become increasingly unrecognizable to her husband, Richard. As her condition worsens, it becomes clear that the child she carries is not only inhuman but also a harbinger of chaos, threatening to unleash unimaginable horrors upon the world.

Shaddock Valley. A maximum security prison that houses the worst of the worst: drug gangs, psychopaths, rapists, gangters, and outlaw bikers. In a place like that, a skinny little kid like Danny Palmquist doesn't stand a chance. It doesn't take long before the hardtimers move in on him. Then they begin to die horribly. In locked cells. When the lights go out at Shaddock Valley, the nightmare begins. When Danny Palmquist goes to sleep, something else wakes up. Something primeval. Something bloodthirsty. And if you mess with Danny Palmquist, it will find you. And in the darkness, nothing can save you.

Nothing stays buried forever at the Pole. In the frozen wastes of Antarctica, a research team discovers the frozen remains of an alien race in a mountain cave. They are dead, but not dead enough. At the bottom of a sub-glacial lake beneath the ice cap, a prehistoric city dating from antiquity is found. And what has waited there for hundreds of millions of years, has been awakened. These two events are the catalyst in an ancient conspiracy that will culminate in the extinction of the human race. Evil has waited forever. But it waits no more.

Set in the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed Clavitt Fields, the story explores the chilling return of its long-hidden inhabitants. Having adapted to a subterranean life for two centuries, these monstrous beings emerge from the darkness, transformed into a terrifying force of evil. As they rise to the surface, their insatiable thirst for violence poses a dire threat to the living. The narrative delves into themes of horror and survival, revealing the night as a realm dominated by these nightmarish creatures.

SIX YEARS AGO – NKUDBKAH, IRAQA small Republican Guard mechanized infantry unit and the isolated village near it is chosen by the CIA for a dreadful to test the potential of Project BioGenesis—a genetically modified organism designed to be a viable method of biological warfare. It was an unmitigated failure. When the team sent in for reconnaissance is attacked and eventually infected by the weaponized parasites, only one plan exists for such a result—utter annihilation of all infected organisms under a blanket of napalm and phosphorus, burning it with a cleansing fire…or so they thought.NOW – CHICAGO, ILLINOISDown on her luck, unemployed journalist Shawna Geddes witnesses the abduction of a homeless man by several figures in a white van. Instinctually, she follows and stumbles into one of the most horrific secrets in the history of the planet. Joined by her unscrupulous colleague Harry Niles, they find a string of deaths around Chicago all connected by one wriggling, mucus-covered tendril—an infestation spreading across the planet like wildfire—and they are thoroughly tangled in its coils. Unless something is done soon, it will be much too late to stop the horror of this vermicular monstrosity. Soon, all will fall under the swarming mass of…BIOTERROR,/b>

Montana Territory, 1878. Wolf Creek is under siege by a vicious, flesh-eating evil that stalks the night, leaving dismembered and devoured corpses in its wake. It is unknown, unseen, and unstoppable. Enter Joseph Longtree, deputy U.S. Marshal. He knows there is a rhyme and reason behind the killings, but to discover the truth will mean penetrating local superstition, corruption, and vice, which will ultimately bring him face to face with a monstrosity out of Native American folklore.

There's something wrong on Seagull Island. When the atmospheric conditions are right, a doorway opens to a primeval world of monsters. The locals won't talk about it. They live in denial. But that's all about to change. Johnny Horowitz, a much despised member of the paparazzi, has gotten a glimpse of something from prehistory and he isn't going to stop until he gets a photo of it. With Hurricane Amelia bearing down on the island, the doorway to the prehistoric sea is about to be thrown wide and Johnny plans on being there when it opens with camera in hand, regardless of the consequences.