FROM Dark Ink Books

In a unique anthology of monster, folk, paranormal, and psychological horror as glimpsed through the lens of the latchkey generation, twenty-two voices shine a strobe light on the cultural demons that lurked in the background while they came of age in the heyday of Satanic panic and slasher flicks, milk carton missing and music television, video rentals and riot grrrls.

These Gen-X storytellers once stayed out unsupervised until the streetlights came on, and what they brought home with them will terrify you.

Featuring brand new fiction from Kevin David Anderson, Glynn Owen Barrass, Matthew Barron, C.D. Brown, Matthew Chabin, L.E. Daniels, C.O. Davidson, Douglas Ford, Phil Ford, Holly Rae Garcia, Dale W. Glaser, Tim Jeffreys, Derek Austin Johnson, Eldon Litchfield, Adrian Ludens, Elaine Pascale, Erica Ruppert, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, Rob Smales, Mark Towse, Thomas Vaughn, and Thomas K.S. Wake.

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Horror written by the authors it created.

Generation X-ed is brimming with bold, imaginative tales of horror that are as uniquely independent and relentlessly resourceful as the generation that wrote them.

Daily Dead

The Storytellers

Kevin David Anderson

“Get Away From Me” A romantic excursion into film nostalgia takes a hard right into real terror.

Glynn Owen Barrass

Kevin David Anderson

"Paper Dolls" The viewing of a banned movie leads to a curious adventure for three student friends.

Matthew Barron

Kevin David Anderson

Matthew Barron

“Subdivision” Annie and Ted thought they were on a leisurely drive to a party, but twisting suburban roads run them in circles around abandoned, cookie-cutter houses while an eerie moan foreshadows the nightmare to come.

C.D. Brown

Matthew Chabin

Matthew Barron

“The Walk-In” A pastry chef finds the rat in his restaurant's walk-in refrigerator haunts his every move.

Matthew Chabin

"Maya" Jack is getting older, but the girl who used to babysit him hasn't aged a day, and she's everything he wants and fears.

L.E. Daniels

Matthew Chabin

"Birnam Hall" Macbeth scorned part of the witches’ words: that he would fall from power when Birnam Wood approached his castle. Like the prophecy of the oak and sycamore trees, the layers of historical, cultural and sexual violence that shaped Generation X foretell the movements to come.

C.O. Davidson

"The Shade" A quiet, psychological Gothic horror story, centering on a high-school aged boy, Christian, who is haunted by his recently dead brother, Patrick. Southern Louisiana, near New Orleans; the alternative music of the late 1980s and 90s inspired this story, particularly, “Lullaby” (The Cure), “The Great Below” (Nine Inch Nails), and “Atrocity Exhibition” (Joy Division).

Douglas Ford

C.O. Davidson

“Sacrifices” When his parents leave for the night, Ian hopes he can finally watch Humanoids from the Deep, but instead, an unwanted babysitter offers revelations about rituals and local kidnappings.

Phil Ford

C.O. Davidson

Holly Rae Garcia

“Splitting Maul” Three suburban kids seek an adventure in the woods and stumble upon something sinister.

Holly Rae Garcia

“Regulators” A man stalks a young woman as she leaves a VHS rental store in 1994.

Dale W. Glaser

Holly Rae Garcia

Dale W. Glaser

“Parker Third West” College freshman Sean is having trouble adjusting to campus life in the fall of 1993, but his roommate Dennis is going through struggles of his own with potentially grave consequences.

Tim Jeffreys

Holly Rae Garcia

Dale W. Glaser

“Stand Beside Me Now” Thirty years after grunge music supplanted hair metal, bringing an end to Dan's rock star aspirations, a visit to a stately home reputed to be haunted will force Dan to revisit his spoiled dreams.

Derek Austin Johnson

“Movie Call” After watching an unmarked videotape in a rented VCR, four college students find themselves pursued by unknown forces.

Eldon Litchfield

Derek Austin Johnson

“Prey Heed to the Preacher Man” Nostalgic for a time when one didn’t rely on a phone to make a turn, a man travels using an old fold-out map instead, only to discover forgotten roads that lead to the Preacher Man.

Adrian Ludens

Derek Austin Johnson

Elaine Pascale

“In From the Cold” In a crowded bar, Abby tells Rick about the night her brother disappeared, and the Polaroid photo she shows him turns his life upside-down.

Elaine Pascale

Kristi Petersen Schoonover

Elaine Pascale

“Naming the Band” Chad may not know why he dates Jenn, or how he can become an MTV star, but he knows that something demonic is knocking on his attic window.

Erica Ruppert

Kristi Petersen Schoonover

“Waiting for the Worms” A teenaged girl deals with the burdens of adulthood and the terrible changes to her family with the help of her VCR, The Goonies, and Pink Floyd's The Wall.

Kristi Petersen Schoonover

"Nothing to See Here" On the heels of the Challenger disaster, Doreen’s dying mother warns her of the approach of a deadly cloud—but the real danger lurks in a place she doesn’t expect.

Rob Smales

Thomas Vaughn

Rob Smales

“How I Met Kurt Russell” Sneaking into the release party for Big Trouble in Little China seems like a great idea until things go horribly awry.

Mark Towse

Thomas Vaughn

Rob Smales

“Tough Break” Sometimes you don't see what's coming, no matter how hard you look.

Thomas Vaughn

Thomas K.S. Wake

“A Genealogy of Hunger” Bunny Girl comes from a family that has a real appetite for genealogy, the type of research that gets your fingernails dirty.

Thomas K.S. Wake

“The Crimson Church” Two filmmakers venture deep into the woods in search of a cryptic Crimson Church, in hopes to kick-start their dwindling careers, but what they discover is something they couldn’t have even dreamed of.

Chas Mandala

Thomas K.S. Wake

Chas Mandala

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