Penulis: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

They were coming now, all of them, for Red could hear their excited breathing and rapid footfalls and the gnashing of their teeth—even as the power failed at last and everyone sighted their weapons. …

‘Take the fatal shot, ‘ said Horseshoe. He must have laid down his rifle because I remember him helping to steady my own. ‘Easy now, you’ll own this forever—’ I stared the thing in the eye and …

It was the first night of the Sacrificium, a night of sacrifice and death, a night when the black coins tendered in the Lottery would be tendered back. It was also the Hora Mille Semitis, the Hour of …

Naaygi found them waiting for her—as she somehow knew they would be—as the cage doors opened, their forward-facing eyes glinting the same hue as the lights in the sky and their dark, storm-colored …

As it never had before the Flashback, the supermarket slept, mostly. Although its exterior was covered with creeper vines and mossy growths, its interior remained remarkably unchanged—even its power …

He straightened his respirator and picked up his wide-brimmed hat, yet did not move further, remaining still instead, weighing the hat in his gloved hands, rubbing a blotch of tissue from its great, …

Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino?It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern …

Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino?It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern …

Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino?It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern …

Dr. Krantz served as a full professor of anthropology at Washington State University from 1968 until 1998. Though he was a popular teacher with an almost cult-like following and highly regarded for …

Now that the smoke had cleared, she saw that the bulge had burst open, and was hollow. Reams of tree sap dribbled from its fracture. She stared at it as piano music tiptoed up the hall—Maggie’s …

‘You know me to be a ferryman, ‘ I said, pushing the circlet up and over my forehead. ‘How?”Why, by taking one look at you, that’s how! You’ve no mask, that much is true, nor have you a scythe, as …

Lonny hesitated, trembling. ‘Y-you mean it’s just trying to scare us?’Handlebar tweaked his nose. ‘That’s right.’The fire returned to the young man’s eyes—almost. He looked around the shattered dock, …

He refocused on Blotto just as the smile faded from the man’s lips and his mouth drew tightly closed, as if he were desperately trying to stifle a belch. His eyes shown suddenly wide and intense, yet …

The hologram faded away and a silence fell over the glade as Dravidian reseated himself upon the rock. Sthulhu remained respectfully silent. In his mind’s eye Dravidian saw Pepperlung on the deck of …

‘We’ve stepped out of a safe line somewhere …’ A screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s celebrated story by Wayne Kyle …

Now that the smoke had cleared, she saw that the bulge had burst open, and was hollow. Reams of tree sap dribbled from its fracture. She stared at it as piano music tiptoed up the hall—Maggie’s …

A vignette of dream shimmers briefly in my mind. I remember I was crouched in a dark yard, this yard—staring at that same clothesline. I was cold, so cold, and frightened, and I didn’t know why. It …

A young man’s ‘blooding’ can haunt him for the rest of his life.Especially when he’s not even sure what he …

I had a dream. In the dream I was running, I and a thousand others, through the Nevada desert. It’s open range out there: no fences impeded us, but the cows scattering before us slowed our passage, …

Three went out in search of the Sound—Seeker, Teller, and Winder (though they weren’t called that then). Only Teller returned, living long enough, just, to tell the …

‘You’re gonna smoke it with me, aren’t you, Vic?’ he asked, following me.I stopped in the living room and kicked off my hiking boots.’Huh, Vic? How about it?’ He walked around me and plopped himself …

‘I stare at her through the rain. Somewhere a siren is wailing. From the streets below, angry words rendered unintelligible by distance are being exchanged. Gunshots follow. Then screaming. Car horns …

She supposed it was what they—or at least Sting of The Police—would have called synchronicity: that twangy guitar and soft-pedaled keyboard emanating so clearly from the RV’s speakers as she ascended …

He went into the kitchen and poured her a glass of water. “How long has it been since you’ve eaten?”“I’m not hungry, ” she said. She seated herself slowly, tentatively. “Two, maybe three days. Ever …

He hadn’t run far when he came across the first body, as well as the first raptor (the body laying slit open from throat to crotch while the raptor devoured its unspooled intestines), and Red …

“Jesus, Corbin, your window!” shrieked Charlotte—too late—as one of the beasts’ heads darted deep into the cab and began thrashing about violently. The Jeep careened against the shelves as Red lost …

Corbin snatched the rifle off his shoulder in a flash and everyone ducked—but he was pointing it at the ceiling, not the Chairman. “Shhh, ” he said, and cocked his head. “Just listen.”Charlotte did …

They were the kind of musical notes men and woman once swayed to—even worshiped to—or so Jasper had told him, ground from an instrument called an “organ”—which had once been common, or so he’d said, …

Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino? It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny …

The camera whipped back to focus on Dieter, behind whom the strange sky-lights moved, bleeding in and out of each other, like globs of wax in a lava lamp. “Alas, even our master race can, at times, …

Naaygi found them waiting for her—as she somehow knew they would be—as the cage doors opened, their forward-facing eyes glinting the same hue as the lights in the sky and their dark, storm-colored …

Charlotte popped the hatch and grabbed a couple baskets, began filling them with tuna. A cry sounded from somewhere near the back of the store which Red recognized instantly. Charlotte and he …

“Wow, ” said Annie, her arms tightening around his waist. “Are you feeling it too?” He focused on a dark shape hovering just above the wheat—several dark shapes—like hummingbirds, but big. …

Dusk, in the middle of nowhere. Beth pulls into a rest area and shuts off the engine. Helicopters can be heard in the distance; Frodo whimpers and whines. There is a drone of crickets as Beth leans …

There were three of them, their clawed hands and snouts covered in blood, only one of which had the strange comb of feathers that resembled a mohawk, and it was at precisely that instant that this …

That’s when she sees the Shape again. Sees it through the shattered passenger window—silhouetted against a flash of lightning, approaching over the desert hills, maneuvering impossibly. ‘No …’ she …

He begins trembling violently, turning this way and that, knowing he cannot find the truck, knowing that if he did it would not make any difference, it would not stop the ground from rolling or the …

‘Ha! The flu. You should see ‘em: pale and black-eyed as serpents, just lying there in the Rio Grande like zombies.” She leaned toward him over the bar again and he caught a whiff of her fragrance, …

Erik peered out the window at the corpse, noticing how the falling snow was beginning to cover it, as it had his forgotten toys, and noticing, too, that the monsters, the velociraptors, which bore …

She didn’t respond right away but only continued to stroke Ank, who’s stony texture seemed to fascinate her endlessly. At length she said, “Okay, ” and turned one of its dials, and the room was …

“You talk to yourself a lot, don’t you?” said Luna. Williams looked at her and finally smiled in spite of himself. “Or it just may be that he’s really talking to me, and you just can’t hear it.” …

“As for what it proves beyond that is anyone’s guess, ” said the woman, sounding suddenly tired. “That they’re experimenting on us as well as exterminating us? We don’t even know who they are, much …

“You’re worried about him, aren’t you?” Williams didn’t turn around. “Yeah. I guess I am.” He exhaled cigar smoke. “It’s not like him to be so …” “Morose?” “Yeah. I guess that’s it. You …

“This is who we are, ” said the man in the bandana, who stood next to him on the grassy hill. “And this, fellow paladin, is what we do. Beautiful, isn’t it?” Williams watched as the steeples of a …

“It’s okay, ” he said, softly, gently. “I know you belong to him. Like I said, we just got—carried away. That’s all.” She lay against his chest in silence for what seemed a long time. “I don’t …

She focused on her breathing, trying indeed not to hyperventilate, but feeling as though her heart might punch through her chest at any moment. The spot where he had touched her seemed to burn and …

They both felt it at the same time, even as the train lurched forward and the cars jolted thunderously—a tremor in the very fabric of things, like a ripple in a foam of potentiality which contained …

They streamed out from the tree line in a veritable blitzkrieg, the guns of the tanks rotating and firing, the foot soldiers alternately taking cover behind vehicles and squeezing off bursts, the …

Five new tales from the Flashback, from its initial outbreak to its effects months after. Featuring characters and situations that will feature prominently later in the series, Tales is both a …

The final book in the Flashback Saga … They streamed out from the tree line in a veritable blitzkrieg, the guns of the tanks rotating and firing, the foot soldiers alternately taking cover …

They streamed out from the tree line in a veritable blitzkrieg, the guns of the tanks rotating and firing, the foot soldiers alternately taking cover behind vehicles and squeezing off bursts, the …

“Those I can hear, ” said Luna—and began retreating up the stairs again. “They only talk when they’re about to attack.” Williams, meanwhile, had focused on Ank. “Jesus … it called me by name.” …

‘Did you see it? Did you see it?’ He catches her wrists in his hands and holds them—an overly intimate gesture she could be offended by, but isn’t. ‘I saw a jet, ‘ he says, staring into her …

Lightning flashed above them, and thunder cracked. It was a sharp, ragged sound—like the crunch of a busting tree trunk. The man flinched, and Napoleon turned to face him. The two of them stared at …

Handlebar stared at his own boots, which were soaked in blood. He seemed to be having some sort of internal crisis. He reached up with a trembling hand and twisted his mustache repeatedly. He came …

It was the first night of the Sacrificium, a night of sacrifice and death, a night when the black coins tendered in the Lottery would be tendered back. It was also the Hora Mille Semitis, the Hour of …

The end of the world comes not by disease or nuclear weapons or a comet–or even zombies–but by a devastating time-storm and a proliferation of dinosaurs across the continents. Everything …

The fog is very thick now. Beth tums and walks back to her car, gets in. Frodo whimpers and whines. Beth pets him, comforts him. She glances at the rail car in front of her: the door with the …

A reluctant assassin, a strange lake dweller, a pathological friend, a sea serpent, a dog creature–all will meet their fate in the game between the hunter and the hunted. ‘Take the fatal shot, ‘ …

“You talk to yourself a lot, don’t you?” said Luna. Williams looked at her and finally smiled in spite of himself. “Or it just may be that he’s really talking to me, and you just can’t hear it.” …

He shook his head, dismissing the issue. ‘I’ve no company, preferring instead the art of soliloquy and monologue. Joyung there is my only companion. We travel from town to town, up and down the banks …

When she awakened, there was a fly buzzing about her Jell-O and the ice-cream had melted. The storm was still on, but seemed farther away — so much so that she could hear the solemn ticking of the …

It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a World’s Fair. But …

He fell silent and doubled over as someone punched him in the stomach, then toppled completely as someone else shoved him. And then, suddenly, there was a cry—a cry that sounded as though it had come …

She sits back after a moment, stroking the dog’s neck, and rolls her head to look at the truck. It sits silently in the twilight about a hundred feet away: quiet as a tomb, with no sign of a driver. …

After breaking their sworn oaths in a fit of forbidden passion, a sacrificial bride (Shekalane) and her fearsome escort (the ferryman Dravidian) find themselves alone and on the run in the …

And then he was sliding down, down, leveling off briefly, then down again, and he couldn’t help but notice that the people he had planned to rule were fleeing now, and that the Nano-T had broken off …

In a future time and place … a gender war reaches its terrifying zenith. A dark fantasy fable for the ‘Me Too’ era. As for Jasper, he had proven to be an erudite and charming host in spite of …

There was a single, sharp tap of the drums followed by a rapid succession of beats as the crushed velvet curtains spread and the audience gasped: for Tran had taken her position in the box and was …

We’d walked about two miles when Tucker jogged to catch up with us. “Twenty dollars says I can get back here before you do, ” he said, trying to catch his breath. “That’s fine, ” said Danny. …

In retrospect, I wish I’d continued recording, for what I saw in that instant is difficult to describe, even now. Suffice it to say that it had a body like that of a manta ray—upon who’s tail the …

It was a moment that would stretch indefinitely until they lay naked and depleted in the over-cab bedroom of his fifth-wheeler, which was parked in the diner’s back lot, at which time she whispered, …

He looked up at his apartment window after he’d gotten out of his truck, he didn’t know why, and saw Sadie sitting in the sill, staring down at him, it seemed. Hey, you little psychopath, he thought, …

He’d stepped on the gas considerably—all that adrenaline from feuding with Tucker, I suppose—and no one noticed the buck standing in the middle of the road except me until— “Jesus, look out!” …

ABE: (looks around nervously) Swede…? He looks for SWEDEN again, and again sees only the tops of the bushes, roaring in the wind. A beat later there is another crack! Another splash! ABE whips …

When a comedian from New York offends an audience in rural Kentucky, he quickly finds himself on a highway to Hell … I let off the gas immediately and slowed down before veering into the lane …

I watched as Aaron approached one of the workbenches and fetched an intricately-crafted gold box. “Ah, yes. The shem, you see, is what gives the golem its power—thank you, son, a sheynem dank. It …

Elton John once sang, “And all this science, I don’t understand. It’s just my job five days a week.” That’s how it is when you’re a Crash Diver: you don’t need to understand blue holes or how they …

She steps to within a few feet of me. “The Power—do you have it? How about identity? Orientation? Do they know—the men, that is—do they accept it?” I hesitate, questioning my own motives. At last …

One wind is for a Jewish father, who calls up an unspeakable evil to avenge his son. Another is for an intersex hero caught up in a battle between men and women. Still another is for an astronaut …

That’s when I really noticed it, the fact that the landscape immediately around the car had changed; that it had—reverted, somehow. I can only describe what I saw, which was that none of …

I wish I could say that when Benson and his gang showed up we drew on some previously unknown strength and kicked their Rich Kid asses; that we chased them all the way back to their fancy cars and …

An omnibus of science-fiction, fantasy and horror stories from Wayne Kyle Spitzer, author of the Witch Doctor and Dinosaur Apocalypse series … It is raining. That’s the first thing I …

The exciting all-new prequel series to Flashback and Dinosaur Apocalypse … "There’s no footprints, ” said Tess, examining the ground. She looked up at him as though she felt …

Three futuristic landscapers battle nature, fatigue, and each other on a terraformed Mars … The medical rocket is wasted—its consoles smashed, its stores emptied—to the extent that …

He pauses, looking at the glass tubes, at the embryos floating in fluid. “Are you telling me that … those are all my daughters?” Again she just smiles. “What else? Yes, of …

The exciting all-new prequel series to Flashback and Dinosaur Apocalypse … “We’re going to get to the bottom of this, all of it, believe me, ” the President was saying, …

Williams stared at him for what seemed a long time before finally appearing to relent. “Okay, ” he said at last, and shrugged. “We’ll try to build a raft …” “Now you’re talking!” said Sammy. He …

A sci-fi/horror anthology. Beware: The natural (and the supernatural) world are red in tooth in claw …

The exciting all-new prequel series to Flashback and Dinosaur Apocalypse … “Is that really a good idea?” asked Coup, which at last caused her to turn around. “I don’t …

The exciting all-new prequel series to Flashback and Dinosaur Apocalypse … Still he continued: “The wall was necessary. It was necessary, okay? Look, we had to. We had to. People say the …

The exciting all-new prequel series to Flashback and Dinosaur Apocalypse … And that’s when she saw something she would never forget, three somethings, actually, one no more incredible than …

When a recently orphaned boy befriends a juvenile T-rex, complications quickly arise–leading to a fateful, impossible decision … He just looked at me, his little fore-claws opening and …

When a black road grader begins stalking the streets of Schenectady, NY, its residents soon find that the road to Hell is paved … in blood! ​​​​​​Detective Rowe: Let’s go back now—to …

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; …

I entered the building—which, despite its name, was just another steel barn—from the east, taking out my Maglite and turning it on. The chickens were there; sleeping (I presumed), …

The giant monster classic with a cover and interior illustrations by author and artist Wayne Kyle Spitzer You know that intermittent drowsing as one sits, the drooping of the head, the nodding to …

H.G. Wells' classic killer ant story with an original, one-of-a-kind cover (and interior art) by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. "Dey are a new sort of ant, " he said. "We have got to …

A tale of otherworldly terror and haunted wind turbines from Wayne Kyle Spitzer, author of Flashback and The Witch Doctor … … What on earth did you plan to do? Dunn: Well, the only thing we …

The original story upon which the film SHADOWS IN THE GARDEN is based … and 7 other tales. A vignette of dream shimmers briefly in my mind. I remember I was crouched in a dark yard, this …

One wind is for Ghost, a juvenile tyrannosaur who befriends a boy … until he develops a taste for human flesh. Another wind is for 'Black Betty, ' a road grader possessed by demonic aliens. …

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