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This is one of those second-person point-of-view vignettes that many writers claim can't be done well. To top THAT off, it's in the present tense. Strike two, you groan! Go ahead, roll your eyes - but read it anyway. You just might enjoy it. If you don't tell, no one will ever know. *wink*

Business as usual down at Dracs funeral home - so they say. But there was one thing wrong with this picture: Dracs funeral home hasn't been in operation since old man Wethers' funeral home was shut down because a brand new funeral home was built across the street from Dracs....

Esther is getting old. No, she is old. Aging with every blink, with every breath. After a life full of power and purpose, she is met with the harsh reality that she is now obsolete, and her fragile moments are short. On the eve of the last night in the city she has called home for years, Esther and her lover Jacob share their fears and their romance for this world over one last meal, as they wait in fearful unrest for what is coming.

One day some of Luther's friends dared him to dance on and desecrate a grave located deep in the woods near a stream by an abandoned house. It was the grave of a man that, legend had it, was a real werewolf. The werewolf's wooden tombstone read: "Whosoever disturbs my sleep when the moon is full will surely die by the hands of the werewolf." This would be Luther's last dance on anyone's grave forever.

A student needs to find a quiet place to study for his exams. He wants to be totally alone. He goes to the train station and picks a destination he has never heard of. He finds the ideal house. It hasn't been lived in for years. There is legend that surrounds this abode, and explains why it is unlived in. He of course ignores this, and since the rats don't bother him he takes up residence. Unfortunately by the time he realizes his mistake, it is too late to escape.

It was a dark and starless night when a schooner becalmed in the Northern Pacific is a approached by a rowboat whose occupant although nonthreatening refuses to be seen. We find out who this hideous appearing creature is, and how he and his fiancée came to be marooned on an island inhabited by a strange fungus.

Sit back, turn the lights down low, and get ready for the scare of your life, with eight bloodcurdling short stories from 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead, written by Drac Von Stoller. "Its Dead Leave it Alone", "The Haunted Hearse", "Tales from the Funeral Parlor", "The Black Cat", "Cemetery of the Living Dead", "Deathmas Day", "Grim Reaper", and "Tunnel of Death" will have you hair standing on end! Read by Mike Vendetti.

Brian Dalrymple returns home after three weeks of pursuing the retreating Germans at the end of World War I. His hometown considers him a hero, and gives him a hero’s welcome. After basking in his quickly disappearing notoriety, he goes looking for job. Seems all those wonderful offers have gone away, and Brian takes a job as a stock clerk in Mr. Macy’s wholesale grocery. It doesn’t take Brian long to find that advancement is going to be difficult, and he is stuck in a no-win job with few prospects.

In Gold Rush-era California, Jim Smiley, a minor who loves to gamble and will bet on anything, obtains a frog. Sniley spends three months training this talented amphibian athlete to become a champion jumper. Smiley finds his mark in the form of a stranger who comes to town and shows an interest in the frog, and would love to bet but if he could find his own frog. "No problem, you hold my frog and I'll go find a frog for you." When hustler meets hustler, the results can be interesting. You might say Smiley didn't know his frog was loaded.

Rigid! Locked! Enslaved!: That was our Earth in 2200. East and West had merged at last, so there were no more wars, no more political differences. Citizens everywhere could concentrate on working off their TAX DEBTS! If you were capable and industrious, you might be able to make freeman status for the last few years of your life. No one questioned. No one spoke out. No one rebelled until one bright morning Citizen TRH-247 decided not to go to work - and worse than that, became desirous of a girl below his own classification!

The small farming town of Hypothermia, Minnesota makes world news when a '62 Chevy Implala is discovered in a trailer full of grain. Government agents quickly impound the Chevy, down playing the incident. Yet when agricultural cooperative photographer Bob Putnam attempts to follow up with a story about the elevator manager who found it, he and his writer/partner uncover an unbelievable plot.

The world is full of self-made men and women, but try to find a self-made bum. The Book of Proverbs 23:7 says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” This was a truth over 2000 years ago, and is true today. An hour spent listening to this audiobook could change and your life. You are what you think.

Drac Von Stoller's fascination for the horror genre began when he was a little boy watching his favorite actors - such as Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi - on his little black-and-white television alone in his dark room. This chilling collection includes: "It's Dead Leave it Alone", "Haunted Hearse", "Tales from the Funeral Parlor", and "The Black Cat".

Ichabod Crane, a city slicker from Connecticut becomes the pedagogue (teacher) of a small school in the Catskills of New York. Interestingly enough the area is haunted by a Hessian trooper who was beheaded by a cannonball, and he roams at night, probably in search of his head. When Ichabod attempts to woo the only daughter of a wealthy farmer, he must contend with a local hero. This classic American short story has been a staple in classrooms for well over 100 years.

A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens. From the author's preface: "I have endeavored in this ghostly little book to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put any readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly." First published in December 1843, the story has been in continuous print ever since. A true treasure that never grows old.

Unspeakable rituals are performed by an occult group residing in the Red Hook region of New York City in this haunting short story by H P Lovecraft, and told by Mike Vendetti.

Forbidden love in name baronial estate. An evil man dies with an evil smile upon his face believing his evil secret is going with him to the grave. And there it remains until the lovers creep into the crypt shortly after the stroke of midnight. An erie tale certain to creep you out and keep you in suspense.

The world has turned. Plague-infected, flesh-eating zombies now infest the earth. Black ops agent Chad Halverson of the CIA's top secret National Clandestine Service and a motley band of survivors must do everything they can to survive one more day, even as they try to find out what caused the pandemic.

Johnny was Gravendale's grave digger and embalmer who loved his job, especially picking a special spot that he thought the deceased would be proud to be buried at. Johnny was a little weird because during the embalming process, he would sit beside the cold slab the body was lying on, and as he was inserting the hose into the deceased body to drain their blood, he would read stories to them and talk to them as though they were still alive.

This short story first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1920, and later became part of Flappers and Philosophers. Fitzgerald was the master of exposing the underbelly of the aristocracy and the pompous, and here, Horace the prodigy falls in love with Monica the dancer. Horace puts his lofty goals on hold to pursue a more lucrative career as an acrobat, while Monica writes a book.