Rich Cole

Welcome to the twentieth volume of the Creepy Tales anthology, where the line between the hunter and the hunted is written in blood. In this collection, four relentless nightmares explore the brutal, the bloody, and the bizarrely terrifying. The horrors range from the fog-choked forests of the Pacific Northwest, where a group of ruthless poachers tracking a legend quickly realize they are the ones being hunted, to a desolate West Texas salvage yard, where a feral family uses a hydraulic car compactor to turn stranded travelers into building blocks for their scrap-metal fortress.
The carnage continues behind the locked doors of a college fraternity, where the deafening bass of a rush week party perfectly drowns out the screams of a nine-foot, razor-clawed massacre. And sometimes, the horror is purely cosmic-like a try-hard heavy metal band that accidentally summons the actual Devil, leaving a traumatized frontman with no choice but to trade his spikes and corpse paint for aggressively cheerful synth-pop just to survive the wrath of Hell.
Creepy Tales 20 delivers a gripping descent into isolation, monstrous appetites, and the absurd tragedies waiting in the dark.