When Benton dreams, people die… Every time Benton sleeps, he becomes a trapped passenger within a murderer’s skin; able to hear, see, and feel every part of their kill. When he wakes up, he knows it’s only a matter of time before his dreams become reality. No matter how hard he tries to stop the murders, it always ends the same way – with death. After ten years of constantly relocating, his parents have decided to settle in Fort Wayward. A quiet Albertan town where Benton could focus on graduating high school and living an idyllic teenage life. That is, until he finds a dead body in his backyard. Benton’s hopes for normalcy come crashing down as something new begins stalking his dreams. Something that’s not human. And, for the first time, he’s not the only one watching. As his dreams and reality collide, Benton finds himself facing a monster beyond his understanding. In his fight for survival, Benton soon discovers why death follows him, why monsters draw close, and why he always wakes up screaming.

Every night just a little after midnight screams echoed all through Castle Webly that were unbearable for any of the guests to get a good night’s rest. The owners of the castle forewarned any guests who stayed the night that blood-curdling screams would go on through the night until morning. The guests were also unaware that the owners Sir Arthur Webly and his wife Elizabeth were dead and buried in the family crypt. The reason Sir Arthur Webly and his wife Elizabeth were among the living dead was because of a guest at their party who was a vampire by the name of Count Drac Von Stoller the prince of darkness. Count Drac Von Stoller chose Elizabeth as his vampire bride and entered her room that night and bit her on the neck while the count was sucking the blood from her neck her husband had dozed off down in the kitchen while drinking some wine and woke up to a scream. He dashed upstairs to his bed chambers and burst through the bed chamber doors where his beautiful wife Elizabeth was sleeping and Count Drac Von Stoller turned around with blood dripping from his mouth and the two fought but Sir Arthur was no match for the Count and the Count bit Sir Arthur on the neck thus turning him into a vampire just like his wife Elizabeth and from that day forward Sir Arthur Webly and his wife Elizabeth roam the castle as the living dead looking for victims to quench their thirst for blood as well as the Count’s.

Back in the year 2000 , a small community in Arkansas was shaken after a serial killer had murdered dozens of families and slit the troats of 10 young girls. Only one girl survived.The sheriff dept hunted the murderer down and shot him to death in the swamps of Arkansas. Now in 2010 the killer has returned killing all across the country. Coming for the one girl he left alive 10 years before.

The movement of the old woman’s hands is quick and youthful as she works the dough for tamales on Mars’ dusty, dry surface where their cohete broke apart and crash landed. She, her husband and their only son survive, and the old man curses the coyotes who took his money for a rocket not built to accommodate his family of eleven. A storm is coming, and he rails at his wife that she’s wasting her time. “We’ll be dead by the time you finish your goddamn tamales.” This riveting collection of horror stories—and four poems—contains a wide range of styles, themes and authors. Creepy creatures roam the pages, including La Llorona and the Chupacabras in fresh takes on Latin American lore, as well as ghosts, zombies and shadow selves. Migrants continue to pass through Rancho Altamira where Esteban’s family has lived for generations, but now there are two types: the living and the dead. A young man returns repeatedly to the scary portal down which his buddy disappeared. A woman is relieved to receive multiple calls from her cousin following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, but she is stunned to later learn her prima died the first night of the storm! There’s plenty of blood and gore in some stories, while others are mysterious and suspenseful. Contributors include Ann Davila Cardinal, V. Castro, Ruben Degollado, Richie Narvaez, Lilliam Rivera and Ivelisse Rodriguez. In his introduction, editor Richard Z. Santos writes it is no surprise these stories are brilliant and terrifying, given cartel violence, a history of CIA-backed dictatorships in Latin America, increasingly scary rhetoric from American politicians, decades of institutionalized racism and the demonization of Latinos in the media. “After all,” he says, “we are the faceless horde, invading zombies hellbent on upturning the world and replacing it with something foreign, accented and impossibly different.”

It's a jungle out there. It's even more savage inside the twisted minds of murderers who conceal their malevolence behind smiling masks and strike out without pity. This spine-tingling collection contains 23 new stories of suspense from some of the bestselling authors in the genre. Authors include Clive Barker, Lawrence Block, David Morrell, Ray Bradbury, and many more.