In Dyer, Maine, the dead won't stay buried! The people of Dyer liked their quaint little farming community just the way it was.  So they didn't question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town.  No one talked about the hideous screams that shattered their sleep, nor asked why the lights at the funeral parlor blazed long into the night.  And they never... never... discussed the eerie figures seen harvesting the potato fields by day — the slow, lumbering hulks with expressionless features and a blood-chilling deadness behind their eyes... Engineer Dale Harmon was unaware of the unspeakable evil that infested the sleepy New England village.  But now Harmon and four others are about to face an unstoppable onslaught of bloody terror that will far surpass their most gruesome nightmares.  For the siege is about to begin.  And the army of the dead takes no prisoners!

Cindy Toland knows that her sister's violent death was no accident.  She knows her abusive brother-in-law too well... knows the dark, brutal things he's capable of doing.  That's why she took her niece and nephew away into the night—away from a dangerous and twisted madness called home. But ten-year-old Billy and his kid sister Krissy know something their Aunt Cindy doesn't.  It's about the blue lady who comes late at night and whispers strange things.  Billy and Krissy aren't scared of the lady.  Even though she lives beyond the grave.  But there's something else out there.  Something much more terrifying.  It's daddy.  And he's coming to get them.

From the subway tunnels of Boston to the rain-swept streets of Quebec City to the deepest snow-filled forests of Hilton, Maine, no one in these chilling stories by horror master Rick Hautala is safe from the darkness or the dangerous things that lurk in the shadows.  Waiting for us.  Reaching for us... Over the years, Rick Hautala's stories and novels have terrified and captivated millions of readers around the world.  Bedbugs is a career-spanning collection of stories that whisks you away on a guided tour of the darkest reaches of the human maind and soul -- a tour that could only be conducted by someone with Rick Hautala's ability to make your blood run cold. Stories in this collection are: The Back of My Hands
Schoolhouse
The Voodoo Queen
Surprise
Tunnels
. . . from a Stone
Crying Wolf
The Sources of the Nile
Silver Rings
Colt .24
Bird in the House
Cousins’ Curse
Speedbump
Rubies and Pearls
A Little Bit of Divine Justice
Karen’s Eyes
Master Tape
Breakfast at Earl’s
Closing the Doors
Worst Fears
Winter Queen
Late Summer Shadows
Hitman
Perfect Witness
Piss Eyes
Served Cold

THE EVIL GLOW OF THE MOON... lit the path as twelve-year-old Billy Wilson walked past the bog.  He knew he shouldn't have gone near the inky shadows of the swamp — but something forced him to come closer to the yawning darkness, the suffocating tangle, the flesh-tearing brambles of Holland Bog. THE MURKY DEPTHS OF THE BOG... sucked the boy into its fetid earth and claimed its human sacrifice.  But one child wasn't enough.  It needed a second, a third — and then nothing could stop the unquenchable hunger, the raging bloodthirst of the MOONBOG.

Most people who visit coastal Maine see only the stark and rugged beauty of the pine groves and rocky beaches.  But for those that live and work there, it's very different.  THE COVE tells the tale of a family, deeply rooted in Maine, and of a town where corruption and the Mob play a dark counterpoint to the idyllic postcard images. Ben Brown comes back to Hudson's Cove after serving in Iraq.  Fighting PTSD and a sense of failure, he finds his hard-drinking fisherman father running drugs, his sister struggling in a violent marriage, and his brother sullen and withdrawn.  He falls quickly for Julia, a woman "from away," who has a devastating secret.  As Ben tries to unravel the secret and help his family survive, events in The Cove pull him like a rip current toward a final cataclysm.   Rick Hautala's only mainstream novel draws heavily on his own experiences growing up in a coastal town, where fishermen struggled to make ends meet and things were not always as they seemed.  Rich characters and a gripping story reveal what life at the edge of the sea really is...