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Elizabeth Engstrom
Dark, haunting, and unforgettable.
Within these pages lies some of the most amazing, cutting-edge fiction you’ll ever read.
In this collection of handpicked stories from Elizabeth Engstrom’s archives, you’ll take…
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Carjacked at gunpoint by a young female desperado, middle-aged Darlene Martin drives the girl far away from civilization to a place unlike anything in Darlene’‘s experience. The girl and her…
When a dead guy falls off a train just yards from Yorktown, a hobo camp near West Wheaton, California, all manner of forces begin to collide.
Three men live in…
In this gritty, hard-hitting story, a young mom gets caught up in a complex web of drug smuggling and money laundering, unwittingly putting her son's life at risk.
Peter and Tess, damaged by their encounters with family and love, meet in a bar and go back to his place for the night. There, they discover the freedom of…
Veteran author Elizabeth Engstrom dives into the horrific stories of seven serial killers, along with a glimpse into the maggoty world of forensic entomology. Why do these killers do what…
Left without parents in a post-apocalyptic world, fifteen-year-old Parker tries to provide for himself and his little sister, but he faces obstacles even more challenging than merely finding food. In…
Good sex scenes are a must in today’s novel, and they don’t just happen on their own. There is a structure, a method, and boundaries to be drawn. Whether you…
A hundred years ago, a young woman stood accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother in a crime so heinous that it became a benchmark in human tragedy. A…
While hydrologist Adam Swan is engaged in humanitarian efforts to bring water to a small, isolated village in the Congo, he is kidnapped by rebel thugs and thrown into a…
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Three college girls go looking for excitement in a cowboy bar. After their car breaks down, they enter a campground closed for the winter where three older guys are drinking…
This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness…
A collection of other-worldly stories that paint an unusual picture of the unsettling lives in a fictional community where the uncanny is commonplace.
Angelina is a killer. You’d never know it to look at her–until you look into her eyes. Angelina doesn’t kill out of hatred or fear–she kills out of love, bringing…
Elizabeth Engstrom,Lisa Tuttle,Steve Rasnic Tem
Since 2005, Valancourt Books has unearthed and republished almost 500 lost and neglected works from the 1760s through the 2000s, and now for this long-awaited fourth volume of the acclaimed…
Originally published in hardcover by William Morrow in 1985 –Copyright page.
Eric M Witchey
Includes 7 previously unpublished stories.
Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community analyzes both how complex, interpersonal relationships were both depicted in and were influenced by television programs in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
