Ian Thompson
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New from July 2016 - Short Horror Tales in Book Bundles! Enjoy the stories & save money.
Get an omnibus of three tales for a terrifyingly reduced price compared to single releases.
"...Thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish"
- 5-Star Review for Glancing Blow
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"Great short story"
- 5-Star Review for Ignition Source
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My series of quick-read horror tales, aiming to get your heart racing and your mind guessing.
BOOK BUNDLE 1
Glancing Blow
Late at night, a man drives through a hellish storm on a dark, secluded forest road. When a creature lunges out in front of his car, he strikes it a glancing blow... Resulting in a nerve-shredding drama of pursuit, violence and suffering as his unintentional victim seeks revenge. Can he survive this grotesque beast?
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Hooker
Nigel Fawson is down on his luck - he's lost his job and his family - and so he sets out to get drunk in a seedy bar. Soon Fawson is comforted by a beautiful girl named Valerie. When he discovers that his new friend is a prostitute, he decides to throw caution to the wind and return to her apartment with her... And that's when his night turns from awful to utterly lethal.
Beauty can be only skin deep. Horror can go right through to the bone.
Chained
A derelict building. The police find forty-two human skeletons... and one man chained to a wall. He is barely alive. He looks helpless, starved and possibly tortured. What happened to him? What did he witness? What is responsible for all the horrors of this house? And what is the reason for the victim’s strange, desperate request?
Why not join the police at the crime scene and uncover the horrific truth that lies there?
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BOOK BUNDLE 2
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Ignition Source
Late at night, at a huge warehouse, a disabled security guard expects another boring, routine shift of work. He is utterly unprepared for the horror and terror he will have to endure. First there are intruders, then a raging fire, horrific murders... and a monstrous secret that is both alive and utterly lethal. In the face of a challenge which makes him doubt his sanity, can he survive..?
House Of My Dreams
Sometimes the worst monsters are human. Luke remembers nothing from the first ten years of his life – but whatever happened causes him hideous nightmares. Was something done to him... or did he do something terrible? Dr Maybury can cure Luke, but at what cost? And what does Luke’s newest, most awful nightmare mean?
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Bug Hunt
What's worse than a deadly virus..?
Something has gone terribly wrong at a secret bio-weapons facility. Inside the underground installation, scientists and security staff have been slaughtered by an unknown aggressor. Have members of the research teams gone insane? Has some awful virus escaped? Or is the reason even more disturbing..?
A small team of mercenaries are sent down to investigate and eliminate any living threats. These expendable men are superb, efficient killers...
What they will encounter is far deadlier than they are.
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BOOK BUNDLE 3
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Kill Him, Slowly
Mr Slowly is a deadly, ruthless hit man. He never fails in an assignment - never fails to kill his target. His new job is to kill Joshua J. Woods, a millionaire who lives in a secluded mansion. Woods has security measures - including teams of guards and trained dogs... but Mr Slowly doesn't see these as an obstacle. One problem the assassin couldn't foresee is that Woods isn't human. He's a supernatural horror, surrounded by his evil brood... And bullets aren't going to stop him.
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The Burning Rider
A childish legend or a merciless supernatural executioner? For over three centuries, no one has entered the village of Lydchurch at night and survived. There have been over six hundred reports of the apparition, and untold numbers of deaths and disappearances. When a small team investigates the abandoned village at night, their task begins with grisly discoveries and evolves into nightmarish horror. Soon the survivors are trying desperately to escape the molten wrath of the Burning Rider...
Troll
An urgent message sends Steve rushing to the home of his old friend Tom Howard. He expects to find Tom relapsed into drug addiction, but instead finds something far more sinister. The condition of the house is grotesquely, unnaturally strange. And Tom is living in the basement, almost starved to death and totally fixated upon the internet. Tom tells a story so incredible that Steve doubts his sanity – until he sees the truth for himself... The Troll is coming, to feast on misery, pain... and human flesh.
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The Little Men
Frozen suicides, gunshot victims and shredded corpses. What the hell is going on in Shilsville? Two men investigate: Dave Renfield, a Native American detective, and Nick Guggenheim, a retired old cop. What begins as a series of baffling deaths evolves into a battle against a horror the police can barely believe in. The Little Men have been unleashed and their sole purpose is to slaughter...
Cold Callers
How far will a mother go to protect her infant child? Marcie and her baby are alone in the creepy old house they call home. A frantic knocking on the front door heralds the arrival of the Cold Callers – and a night of harrowing terror begins for the mother and her child. The house is under siege by creatures than are neither human nor animal... Creatures with horrific intent...
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Acid Rain
After a weekend stopover in the big city, the passengers of a double-decker bus encounter a truly hellish storm… This rain is raw, searing acid. Just a drop on human skin is enough to inflict an agonising burn – anyone caught in the downpour suffers horrendously. Chaos consumes the streets as victims go wild from excruciating pain. Vehicles collide in the panic and the bloodshed escalates…
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Kill The President, Slowly
Adam Farrisher, President of Avernus Studios, has created a new TV show – and people are dying to watch it. Over a hundred have perished so far. The assassin Mr Slowly is given a new mission: to stop Farrisher and his TV show dead. To succeed, he will have to overcome a sinister mystery, prowling flesh-eating horrors, a debilitating sickness … and his own worst nightmares.
Mechincarnation (novella-length!)
When Police Lieutenant Dan Conway arrives at Crawford Mansion, he finds a gruesome massacre. Someone has taken control of a robot created for sick, wheelchair-bound Leon Crawford – and has turned it into a war machine. This mechanical killer is lightning-fast and possesses unbelievable strength. Who is controlling the robot? Why is he killing? And can the machine ever be stopped?
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Vengeance Of The Manananggal
If you saw someone being attacked, would you stop to help them? A salesman driving on a late-night errand sees a thug assaulting a woman on the side of a forest road. The driver is an ordinary guy, he's no hero, but he can't just allow the victim to be hurt or killed – so he stops his car and rushes to her defence... And a dark nightmare begins.
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#Cancelled
Fifteen-year-old Becca Robbins loves to see celebrity lies revealed. Tonight she watches a live internet exposé... Its host recounts that years ago TV star Bob Vanut was accused of a horrible crime and #cancelled. He committed suicide. Now Vanut’s innocence will be proved – and the real culprits will be punished before millions of viewers... Is this a macabre joke, a twisted hoax or something far more terrifying?
Lethal Symmetries
In 1861, Dr Tomberton and Police Inspector Evans investigate the mystery at the Carmichael mansion. A corpse has been found, hideously transformed by a malignant force. The Carmichael household and two policeman have seemingly vanished... What is the entity inside the mansion? How was it unleashed? How do the murders in 1861 relate to events in 1502... and to the genius Leonardo da Vinci?
Slowly, Under Siege
Injured, exhausted and trapped in a derelict house, the assassin Mr Slowly finds his hideaway under siege – by a kill-team of vampires seeking vengeance. Seventeen blood-hungry horrors against an ailing assassin and his untrained companion Pearl are lousy odds. There can be no escape, only a desperate fight to the death... Luckily, killing is Mr Slowly’s trade. And business will be very good tonight...
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