Ian Thompson
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The first in the series of my new quick-read horror tales, aiming to get your heart racing and your mind guessing.
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?
“...thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish.” - From a 5-Star Review On Amazon
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My second quick-read horror tale.
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 is only skin deep. Horror goes right through to the bone.
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My third quick-read horror tale.
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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My fourth quick-read horror tale.
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..?
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My fifth quick-read horror tale.
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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My sixth quick-read horror tale.
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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My seventh quick-read horror tale.
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Mr Slowly is a deadly, ruthless hitman. He never fails in an assignment - never fails to kill his target.
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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 killer 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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Is this Mr Slowly's final assignment?
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My eighth quick-read horror tale.
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The Burning Rider - childish legend or merciless supernatural executioner?
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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.
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IModern-day investors don’t want to believe the old legend. They want to quickly prove that the apparition doesn't exist and start developing the land...
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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.
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My ninth quick-read horror tale.
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A friend in need... A bizarre house... A terrible secret... Who will survive the 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 even 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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My tenth quick-read horror tale.
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Frozen suicides, gunshot victims and shredded corpses. What the hell is going on in Shilsville? And what are the Little Men?
Two men investigate: Dave Renfield, a Native American detective, and Nick Guggenheim, a retired old cop. A combination of tough youth and grizzled dedication. What begins as a series of baffling deaths evolves into a desperate battle for survival against a horror the police can barely believe in. The Little Men have been unleashed and their sole purpose is to slaughter...
It’s kill or be killed – with the lives of an entire town hanging in the balance. A single Little Man is lightning-fast, vicious and utterly deadly... Dave and Nick face a horde of these grotesque beings. The pair emerge from one conflict wounded and exhausted, only to rush for a final lethal showdown...
Can they destroy their relentless aggressors or will the town of Shilsville be exterminated in a wave of relentless carnage?
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How far will a mother go to protect her infant child?
Marcie Hall is a victim of the recession and now lives in a creepy old house in a run-down area of town. She hates the house, the street outside and her unfriendly neighbours – and she’s very afraid at night. Her greatest joy is her four-month-old baby Nicola. While her husband is away at work, she cares for her beloved child and works from home to add to their meagre income...
A frantic knocking on her front door heralds the arrival of the Cold Callers – and a night of harrowing terror begins for the mother and her baby. Marcie finds the house under siege by creatures than are neither human nor animal... Creatures with horrific intent...
Marcie is outnumbered and her attackers are stronger, faster and vicious. Her greatest weapon is her own maternal instinct – her frantic need to keep Nicola from harm. To have any hope of saving her baby, Marcie will have to overcome her fears and fight with greater courage than she ever realised she possessed.
Can love and desperation defeat savage, malignant evil?
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Seven people aboard a bus during a nightmarish rainstorm...
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The terror begins to grow when they realize the rain isn't water - it's a lethal acid...
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Beyond their windows, they witness the hideous effects of the rain... Destruction, screaming, chaos, panic...
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As the rain begins to eat its way into the battered vehicle, the survivors are trapped in a situation of utter horror and desperation.
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Worse still, this night holds a final revelation so awful it might shatter their sanity.
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Adam Farrisher, President of Avernus Studios, has created a new TV show – and people are dying to watch it. Over a hundred have been murdered so far.
Mr Slowly is an assassin plagued by nightmares of the victims of his own deadly work. He no longer kills people, and instead eliminates supernatural threats. His new mission: to stop Farrisher and the TV show dead.
Entering the studios at night, Mr Slowly is baffled by what he finds. The building is a ruin, filthy and decrepit. There are no signs of Farrisher’s workforce. And grotesque, flesh-eating horrors prowl the dark corridors…
Mr Slowly will need all his lethal skills to succeed and survive the night… Yet some evil force in the studios is wearing him down – making him sick, wracking him with terrible pain and twisting his mind. The longer he spends inside, the weaker and more vulnerable he becomes…
Can Mr Slowly solve the mystery, kill his target and get out alive?
(Mr Slowly first appeared in ‘Kill Him, Slowly’, the seventh Short Horror Tale)
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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.
The scene is almost too grotesque, even for a veteran officer such as Conway. There are over a hundred people dead – many torn to pieces – and just a handful of traumatized survivors. Alongside cops like the volatile Sergeant Belasco, old-timer Gausman and the ever-reliable Becka Holson, Conway maintains a cordon around the building. Their orders are to wait for a team of heavily-armed soldiers to arrive and destroy the robot... However, when Leon Crawford makes a frantic call by cell phone from inside the mansion, the police have no choice – they must attempt a rescue immediately…
The robot’s return to action results in another eruption of death and devastation. This killer machine is lightning-fast and possesses unbelievable strength. Bullets only seem to enrage its controller and to result in worse atrocities.
Conway and the survivors of his team become trapped in the mansion, still searching for Leon, whilst being hunted by the near-indestructible robot. Any sounds they make will bring the steel monster’s wrath down upon them. No hiding place is safe. No barrier will hold back the machine for long…
Away from the Crawford Mansion, rookie officer Anne DeLacy has been sent to collect Leon’s mother. What should be a routine assignment turns into a nightmare. She finds herself severely wounded, struggling to remain conscious and fighting desperately for her life.
Who is controlling the robot? Why is he killing? And can the machine ever be stopped?
‘Mechincarnation’ features of return of Dan Conway, who first appeared in the third Short Horror Tale ‘Chained’. It is a dark, violent horror thriller and the longest in the Short Horror Tales series so far… A story crafted to grip the reader with rich characters and snappy dialogue; rising tension and a twisted narrative; and vivid, visceral action scenes.
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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...
After a fight, he finds the woman wounded and unconscious. She needs hospital treatment soon or she might die. Scared and close to panic, the man drives the victim towards Clarrington Hospital... Unaware that her attacker will stop at nothing to reclaim his prey. A desperate chase begins...
Suddenly things get far, far worse. The reluctant rescuer finds himself facing an enemy beyond the limits of his understanding: something grotesque, with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. A supernatural abomination which is almost unkillable...
Can he survive the Vengeance Of The Manananggal?
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A daring exposé… or something far more sinister?
Fifteen-year-old Becca Robbins loves to see celebrity lies and dirty secrets revealed. Tonight, she watches a live online show, which promises to prove that three celebs ruined the life of TV star Bob Vanut. It’s been a year since Vanut was accused of a horrible crime and #cancelled across the internet. No solid proof of his guilt was ever found, and he was never put on trial. Devastated by worldwide condemnation, Vanut committed suicide.
A masked broadcaster – the Golden Cherub – has kidnapped the three celebrities from the Vanut case. He offers proof of their guilt and shows how each person gained from their lies. A story is presented of greed and vicious cruelty. Millions are watching and commenting. The thrill of this dark narrative is addictive…
Next, the Golden Cherub plans to move from accusation to punishment… from an internet trial to live execution…
Becca wonders whether any of this can be real. Is it a macabre joke, a twisted hoax..?
As the night progresses, two dramas unfold: a mystery from the past, being pieced together like a puzzle… and the nightmare of the present, growing ever more menacing and terrifying…
What is really happening? Is the Golden Cherub an internet hoaxer, a masked vigilante, or does he have a dark secret too?
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When a book collector buys an ancient diary, he has no idea that it contains a dark and macabre story...
In 1861, Dr William Tomberton receives an urgent call from his old friend Police Inspector Evans. Lord Carmichael is dead – murdered in a way no one can understand. They examine the man’s corpse – there are no signs of an assault, but the body has been hideously changed.
Tomberton and Evans go to the Carmichael mansion, which remains as silent as a grave. No one has seen Lady Carmichael or the house staff. Two policemen who ventured inside never returned. There is no choice but to assemble a small team and investigate the building...
In Carmichael’s home, Tomberton, Evans and their two companions find more victims transformed to death by a malignant force. What kind of entity can have the power to
restructure every part of a person, from their clothing and outside appearance... to all their internal organs? An awful brooding atmosphere fills the mansion – and the four investigators continue in dread of the abhorrent, lurking slayer. Also, the sight of what has happened to the mirrors almost shatters their courage.
What is the entity inside the Carmichael mansion? How was it unleashed upon the household? How do the murders in 1861 relate to events in 1502... and to the genius Leonardo da Vinci?
As the investigation turns into a seemingly hopeless battle for survival, Tomberton and Evans find normal weapons are useless against their enemy. Is there any way to stop the lethal symmetries?
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The hunter is now the hunted.
Mr Slowly, a lethal assassin turned monster slayer, is recovering from his latest battle against supernatural forces. Injured, exhausted and in constant pain, he is only alive thanks to the care of his companion Pearl. She has them hidden in a remote derelict house – a place where no one should be able to find them...
But vampires have discovered the pair, and seek revenge for Slowly’s execution of an undead Lord. A kill team of monsters, supported by human snipers, arrives at the building... When night falls, the vampires will lay siege, determined to capture their prey and torture them to death.
Slowly and Pearl have two hours to prepare for assault. They have few weapons – mainly just what the crumbling house contains. Seventeen blood-hungry horrors against one
untrained woman and an ailing assassin are lousy odds. There can be no escape, only a desperate fight to the death...
Luckily, death is Mr Slowly’s trade. And business will be very good tonight. Can he overcome his weakness and the nightmarish numbers to defeat the unholy invasion..?
His greatest threat will be the Vampire Lieutenant Valen Stokier. A century-old, seven-foot-tall mass of raw destructive power, fuelled by rage and hatred. Even if Mr Slowly was in peak condition, he might not be able to stop this inhuman fiend.
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Are you afraid of the dark..?
Young advertising executive Gemma is hard-working, clever and compassionate. She loves to go hiking in her free time. Fresh air, gorgeous locations and serene isolation offer her a perfect break... Until a brutal assault leaves her dumped, left for dead, deep underground...
Badly injured, she’ll have to combine her problem-solving skills and her dwindling strength, if she’s to have any hope of escaping this grim prison. And without a light source, Gemma will have to navigate the terrifying labyrinth in pitch blackness.
Every route taken threatens disaster – from pitfalls to the risk of becoming lost forever. Gemma has no idea if there really is a reachable exit. Crawling and searching saps her stamina. Pain, hunger and thirst weaken her further. Dead ends and despair erode her will to live and challenge her sanity...
And what’s worse than being wounded, lost and all alone in the dark?
Discovering she isn’t alone after all.
Because somewhere in the dread darkness there is a shrieking, hunting abomination.
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Six mercenaries seek an ancient relic – before cultists can unleash the demon that dwells inside it.
The team is led by Turner, a veteran soldier with a haunted past, and includes: Venny, a female throat-slitting infiltrator; Flomo, an over-enthusiastic Liberian explosives expert; and Kurt Neumann, an ex-special forces cold-killer. Their mission takes them deep into a South American jungle to assault the cultist’s hidden shrine. Outnumbered and possessing little knowledge of their enemies, the team will have to rely on their lethal skills to survive...
Conflicts and slaughters are just their first problems. When the demon escapes its prison, Turner’s team is almost massacred by the monster’s unholy supernatural powers...
Worse still, the hellspawn begins to unleash catastrophes upon the world. Death, destruction, insanity and torment erupt like plagues across the planet...
Only the survivors of Turner’s expedition have any hope of stopping the threat. Following a desperate, near-suicidal plan, the elite killers must square off against this force from hell – with the lives of billions at stake...
Yet how can they defeat a creature which cannot die?
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Ryan Bell wakes up screaming...
He's suffered a horrific dream in which a ravenous creature tore him apart... But Bell now finds himself alive, in bed, alone inside his holiday trailer in the woods. The nightmare is blamed on his recent breakup with his girlfriend.
In mere minutes, Bell is attacked and slaughtered by a grotesque monster.
He wakes up screaming once more... and his true nightmare begins.
Again and again, the man suffers brutal deaths, only to awaken unharmed. He tries to escape, to hide, to fight – and every effort seems in vain. Bell comes to the conclusion that he's trapped in some kind of awful time loop, being murdered, restored and sent back in time to just before the last attack...
Yet he is wrong. The truth is far worse – and so terrifying it may shred his sanity.
Can he unravel the mystery in which he’s snared... and defeat his murderous nemesis forever? Or is he fated to an eternity of vicious death cycles?