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A flash fiction with elements of horror and suspense.

A short story with elements of fantasy, horror and suspense.

A short story with elements of humor and horror.

Doctor David Porter has found a tunnel into the deepest recesses of the human mind. Using hypnosis he’ll apply his secret techniques on three previously incurable patients. The signs say stop. His thirst for knowledge won’t let him. Little does he know that what’s waiting for his patients could be worse than what brought them to him in the first place.

In this installment of the series, Doctor Wolfstone visits Jimmy Shepard on Death Row. The evidence against Jimmy is clear and overwhelming. But he claims not to remember killing anybody. Why does Doctor Wolfstone believe him? What does the hypnotist see in Jimmy?

Two men awake within the confines of an electrified chain-link fence. Machine guns point at them from every direction. Fanged beasts stalk the outside. An hourglass shows they're running out of time. They have no idea why they're here.

Introducing a man with hypnotic methods that can lay your mind out like an open book. Doctor Wolfstone knows more about his clients than they will ever know about themselves. He can find their demons and try to get them out.

Something is disturbing Dennis Harkum's sleep. Is it real? Is it only in his head? Will he figure it out in time?

Something has come out in the night, and it's waiting down the road.

These stories are also published as individual short stories or small collections and have now been brought together.

Portals are opening up all over the place.

Introducing a man with hypnotic methods that can lay your mind out like an open book. Doctor Wolfstone knows more about his clients than they will ever know about themselves. He can find their demons and try to get them out.

An Oklahoma tornado drops from the sky to sweep up Sully Jacobson and his car. Weeks later, he awakes from a coma with a crippling fear of driving. Horrid visions resist Sully's attempts at facing his fear, and glowing people haunt his dreams. Meanwhile, loved ones are keeping secrets from him, and people are dying. Can Sully find a vital connection in all of this, or will the deaths continue?

A ghost story on a maternity ward.

Psychologist Jonah Singer has a few issues of his own. He has obsessive-compulsive disorder, chain smokes, and is haunted by a blurry past with a crazy mother. Enter Tate Powers, a mental-health counselor with a wicked laugh and uncanny ability to get inside Jonah’s head. Tate shows him the path to the most horrific depths of the human psyche. Inside his mind, Jonah will find much more than the tools to heal. He’ll engage in a battle that goes far beyond him, with ramifications for the entire planet.

After his parents die, Stephen Seibert, 13-years old, is forced to live with his uncle. Uncle Rick, a former jock, has little interest in the brainy Stephen, but dreams of developing Stephen’s older brother, Jonnie, into a great quarterback. All of this could be acceptable to Stephen. He doesn’t mind being ignored. Unfortunately, Luke, Stephen’s older cousin, has taken a sinister interest in him, forcing Steven to hide for most of the day. To make matters worse, Stephen senses another presence, something either supernatural or part of his mind breaking with reality.

Amos Lee has never played well with others. He prefers to live his life alone. When the mother he’s never known dies and leaves him a remote trailer house on a few country acres, he jumps at the chance to live life as a hermit. But there seems to be more to this property than he bargained for. Memories he thought were gone return, bringing feelings he didn’t know he had. A couple of people from the area seem way too interested in him. He’s hearing and seeing things that can’t be real. What has gotten into him? Can he survive it?