A pregnant woman experiences her fetus’s bad dreams in NIGHTMARES and NIGHTMARES REVISITED. Cartilage creatures grow from bony craniums that hail from the sky when a farmer and his son plant them like seeds in their cursed south field in SKULLS. A patient hears and feels every terrifying moment of his open heart surgery in AWAKE IN A BAD DREAM. A therapist is haunted by the faces of pareidolia in THEY WATCH ME WHEN I SLEEP. Bodybuilders discover an unusual array of cuisine at MEATY’S DIETARY SUPPLEMENT STORE FOR HEALTH-CONSCIOUS CANNIBALS. True love lasts beyond ‘till death do us part’ in KISS ME. Night after night he dreams of the dead man who is coming to kill him, and with each nightmare the corpse is getting closer and closer in A REOCCURRING NOCTURNAL MENACE. Genetically altered creatures are luring humans to their desert lair in SMALL BITES, and a man wages war against his dead wife’s mangy cat in CAT & MOUSE. These ten terrifying tales are from J.D. Allen, author of THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA! and PENTAGRAMS.

Alien skulls? Demonic skulls? When the bony orbs fall from the sky like hail in a winter storm onto the tilled ground of his cursed south field, Carl Cressel has no idea what they are, or what to do with them. When the farmer acts upon his compulsion to bury them like spectral seeds in that malignant dirt, an unholy crop of cartilage creatures soon sprouts, and a deadly harvest awaits the midnight hour. SKULLS is an all new tale of terror from J.D. Allen, author of THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU, BARBARA!

DARK TALES is a collection of J.D. Allen’s most haunting and imaginative stories. From science fiction terrors to body horror frights, from haunted dolls to premature tombstones, these dark tales will haunt you long after you’ve read them. Included in this tomb… er… excuse me, I meant, ‘tome’… are four shocking novellas:CONJOINEDThe job offer? Spend this winter on the remote, private island of the mysterious Dr. Castor Pollux, as a companion to his surgically abused daughter, Gemini. Sounds like the start of some demented horror story? It is! Lured onto the operating table, and into madness, by the hypnotic silver eyes of a sadistically predatory nurse, you’ll donate every organ to terror as you follow young Danielle on a horrific journey into a medical nightmare where no one escapes unaltered.SILVER SKYWatching a loved one drift away from illness becomes a literal nightmare for the family and friends of those afflicted with Silver Sky Syndrome, as victims become immune to the laws of gravity, and ascend into the heavens, in this metaphorical horror story.TOMBSTONESOut at the old cemetery, in the quiet town of Luna Vista, mysterious tombstones are rising up out of the swampy ground in an unused and cursed field, and gruesome deaths are predicted for the unfortunate townsfolk whose names can be found carved into their rocky surfaces! Who will be next?CAN SUSAN COME OUT AND PLAY?Some ghosts won't allow the living time to properly mourn the dead.Some hauntings begin with the very last heartbeat.And sometimes the living can haunt us too.This is a ghost story about the living.