Sometimes They Come Back

Five Complete and Unabridged Stories

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Love Undying

Pumpkin Face

The Other Self

Specter of the 1-2-3

A Soul for a Silver Dollar

Twisted, bloody tales of revenge from beyond the grave with stories set in the 1880s, 1960s, 1980s, and present day.

Read below for a synopsis for each story and exclusive snippets from each of the five tales.

Sometimes They Come Back available now on Amazon: Kindle and softcover. And Barnes & Noble: Nook Book

Artwork by Romolo Tavani

Edited by Kevin Fern

Love Undying, previously unpublished...

“GRANDMA’S DEAD, ISN’T SHE?” How do you explain to a loved one they died, when they refuse to believe you? This short is a quirky tale of a spry grandmother who just refuses to let go of her mortal coil.

The Scary Stuff Anthology is at heart a tribute to the kind of scary stories we grew up on. Twist endings, weird monsters, morality plays in microcosm. The kind of stories that keep you up at night and make you wonder just what that noise you heard in the basement really was.

Snippet from my story, “Grandma’s Dead, Isn’t She?”:

Mrs. Morrison was too busy to die. At 96 years old, she was the captain and star of her 4-person bocce team the Weirton Knights. The team was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Hall in the town she lived in since the time she had been born...

World War Dead Virtual Book Tour

Silver Dagger Book Tours presents World War Dead Book Tour and Giveaway!

World War Dead
by TS Alan
Genre: Apocalyptic Horror 

Graphics courtesy of Silver Dagger Book Tours, Copyright 2020.

World War Dead Virtual Book Tour presented by Silver Dagger Book Tours

Dates: Monday, July 13 – Thursday, August 13, 2020

Full Tour Schedule at:

Silver Dagger Book Tours World War Dead Book Tour and Giveaway.

“THE LAST STOP” is a bizarre and harrowing tale of a train trip gone wrong, taken by four friends as their last hurray before college. They’ll wish they never got off!

Ghosts, Spirits, and Specters: Volume 2 is second volume in HellBound Books Publishing’s popular anthology series is a superlative collection of fifteen spine-chilling, marrow-icing ghost stories that will have you hiding beneath the covers and reaching for the comfort of your nightlight’s glow.

Snippet from my story, “The Last Stop”:

Stepping off the train car and onto the platform the two were greeted by a sky that had an eerie sepia glow to it. Weston could only compare it to a scene from the movie Blade Runner 2049. He looked down the platform. Tara and Kyle were standing face-to-face...

World War Dead book signing – Buffalo, NY

Date: Saturday, January 18, 2019
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm (in the private room)
Place: Sorrentino’s Spaghetti House
5640 Main Street (at Mill Street)
Williamsville, NY 14221
(716) 633-2150

• Books will be available for purchase at the venue for the price of $10.00 (tax included). A limited number The Romero Strain books I & II will also be available for $10.00 (tax included).
• Free pizza during signing.
• Cash bar will be available during the event.

World War Dead Book Signing – New York City

Date: Sunday, December 1, 2019
Time: 1:30 – 3:00 pm.Place:
The Thirsty Scholar
155 Second Avenue (btwn. 10th & 9th Sts.)
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-6514

• Books will be available for purchase at the venue for the price of $10.00 (tax included).
• Cash bar will be available during the event.

PREFACE

World War Dead was never intended to be a novel. My original idea was to write five stories as short novellas — Battle of the Dead, Night of the Living Tokyo Dead, Escape from the Dead, Queen of the Dead, and War of the Dead — set in different locales around the world that would connect to each other. They would connect not only in theme but also with the characters. The ones that survived were to be in the final novella.

However, by the time I began work on the fourth story, my editor suggested I instead turn the stories into a novel. He also suggested that I not include Night of the Living Tokyo Dead because it contained too much dark comedy and no longer fit the tone of the other stories...

Silence of the Apoc: Tales from the Zombie Apocalypse

Nobody knew how it began.

Nobody knew how it would end.

All they knew was that they had to survive another day… and another night.
Silence of the Apoc: . Volume Two of the Tales from the Zombie Apocalypse series.

About TS Alan’s story:

“Yakuza Dead”

Originally intended to be part of my upcoming novel World War Dead, the dark humor of the dialog and character situations did not fit the overall theme. Tannhauser Press was kind enough to include it in their anthology as a stand alone short story .

Two rival yakuza clans and a horde of the living dead are the center point of this gruesome, action packed tale of revenge and escape, which is mainly set in a ten-story hotel on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Yakuza boss Kudo is out for revenge over t...

The Romero Strain has been given a re-release as The Romero Strain (Author’s Edition), including a previously unpublished chapter. Out now in paperback and eBook. Read below for all the details.

INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

For me, getting creative story ideas from mind to paper isn’t hard. The difficult part is stringing the words together to make logical sentences that are entertaining — then having my editor tell me to go back and rewrite it so it makes sense.

I revised this novel because at the time I did not have an editor. The final corrections were to be done by my publisher. They were not. Eventually, the rights to The Romero Strain reverted back to me. I felt my fans deserved a better book.

I want to acknowledge my associated writers at Books of the Dead Press: Julie Hut...