Be warned: These are The Tales of Terror and Torment – novellas, novelettes, and short stories designed to shock, challenge, and awe you. Brutal, beautiful, and thrillingly unique, they will drag you – kicking and screaming – to familiar, everyday places and beyond: to train stations and suburban streets; to hidden, sun-kissed islands; to the halls of Hell; deep into the past; far into the future; and even across the galaxy. But wherever they force you to go, you’ll always return hooked, hanging, and deliriously dreaming of being bled just a little longer.

Take a chance. Turn a page. Begin your journey, if you dare. But remember: the next Tale of Terror and Torment might very well be your own.