Short Story Collections

Russell James delivers a new collection of horror and suspense short stories in Dust and Bones. This collection has all these thrillers set in the past. Some of the tales include:

  • In the frontier West, a prostitute meets a rich client, and sees her ticket to a life of leisure. What unfolds for her is something completely different.
  • Signing aboard a sailing ship plying the slave trade in the 1800s seems like a great adventure for one young man, but horrors beyond imagination await him and the entire crew.
  • A World War I pilot flies into a strange cloud, and exits into World War II.
  • During the Civil War, Union Army deserters arrive to ransack a plantation mansion. The doctor they encounter within makes them wish they had never left camp.

These and ten more shadowy stories from the past wait between the covers of Dust and Bones.

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Five more short stories from the galaxy’s edge, including an Eddie Kane Adventure.
– Alien telepaths join with humans in a desperate battle against an encroaching empire.
– A teen schemes to join her mother at an orbiting artists’ colony.
– The security officer on a remote space station must solve a murder before the killer strikes again, but he has no suspects.
– Castaway kids on an unknown planet fight for survival against a fatal disease.
– Eddie Kane and his wife Allison get more than they bargain for when they agree to a salvage mission aboard an abandoned warship.

Power up your ion drive and prepare to explore the Outer Rim.

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Russell James returns with a second collection of thirteen horrific short stories.

• A mysterious pinball machine arrives at the mansion of an aging porn king. He finds that this gift has itself a gift to give. Accepting both may be his last mistake.
• In rural Alabama, Crystal Caverns, an old roadside attraction, gives new meaning to being billed as a family experience.
• A Central Pacific Railroad executive sets out to San Francisco through newly finished Tunnel Number Six, where an entombing, catastrophic avalanche is just the start of his nightmare.
• Timmy Wayne, a magnet for good fortune, is living large on a stream of Las Vegas winnings, but it looks like his luck has finally run out.
• One couple tests the limits of what they’ll do to care for their pet dog.
• Someone is desecrating the graves of World War II veterans as they die, veterans who discovered something unholy outside the gates of Auschwitz.

These and seven other tales document Russell’s descent Deeper into Darkness.

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Tales From Beyond contains all new horror short stories.

  • A killer stalks truck stops along the Interstates.
  • A naive boy signs aboard a slave ship in 1808.
  • A woman adopts an elephant with a questionable past.
  • An author finds the path to writing true horror.

These and more, including previews of Sacrifice and Black Magic, are all Tales From Beyond.

In softcover and Kindle Select at Amazon.

From the author of Out of Time and Still Out of Time comes six more fantastic time travel short stories:

•A psychologist tries to cure an agoraphobic patient of his belief that passing through doorways accelerates time. Can he do it before a construction project brings the house down on both of them?
•Charlie, a lab technician, gets caught in a failed warp bubble experiment, which completely alters his perception of time.
•Jet lag takes on a whole new meaning when Josh Mullins’ solar panel experiment lands him at the feet of Chronos, the Roman god of Time.
•A couple discovers that their blind date years ago was orchestrated by a man claiming to be from the future. Was he really?

These and two more thrilling stories await you. Start reading now, because eventually you too will be Forever Out Of Time.

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