New York City Fashion Executive Peter Delmonico has had a rough life. Physically abused by his father as a child, and mentally abused by his wife as an adult, he sees no choice but to let his inner demons guide him through life. Obsessed with photography for as long as he can remember, he takes a detour one afternoon into NYC's Bryant Park, where he snaps a photo of a beautiful woman who bumps into him, and then kisses him, only to vanish into the crowd as mysteriously as she appeared. Determined to bring true love into his life, Peter sets out on a journey throughout Manhattan to find her, his only real lead the photo he took of her in his camera.Missed Connection is an intense erotic thriller filled with twists and turns, a raunchy, funny, sexy, satirical, and somewhat diabolical look at life in Manhattan through the eyes of a damaged man who only wants to love, and be loved.

See the feature film's premiere in October 2012 on Chiller!For Johnny Petrie, the dilapidated farmhouse in Maine meant a way out. When he inherited an estate from a man he'd never heard of before, Johnny knew he could finally escape the hell of living with his religious zealot mother and drunken father. He didn't realize that the hell he was moving into would be far, far worse.

Dr. Michael Cayle wants the best for his wife and young daughter. That's why he moves the family from Manhattan to accept a private practice in the small New England town of Ashborough. Everything there seems so quaint and peaceful at first. But Ashborough is a town with secrets. Unimaginable secrets.

Frank Ballaro, police detective, is retiring shortly. Or is he? A trail of blood on the curb outside his apartment leads to an alley where two young men have been severely mutilated. But they're not dead. Something keeps them alive. In the hands of one is a strange object, something he holds onto for dear life. Something he calls...atmosphere.Review"Michael Laimo is a writer on the rise. his stories are filled with effective intensity and oddity." -- Tom Piccirilli, author of Hexes and The Deceased** "Michael Laimo is able to draw out the tension and suspense until it is almost unbearable" -- Edo van Belkom, author of Death Drives a Semi, and Writing Horror** "Michael Laimo, in my mind, is the Alpha Male in the pack of new horror/dark suspense writers." -- P.D. Cacek, author of Canyons**About the AuthorMichael Laimo is a 36 year-old author from Melville, New York. He has authored over 100 short stories in the horror genre, all of which have seen print in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including The Book Of All Flesh, Dark Whispers, Whispers And Shadows, The Asylum 2, Darkness Rising, Redsine, Unnatural Selection, and many others. Two collections, both published in hardcover formats, brought together a selection of these stories, Demons, Freaks, and Other Abnormalities, published by Delirium Books, and Dregs Of Society, published by Prime Books. He has completed his second novel, Sleepwalker, and is currently working on a third, entitled Deep In The Darkness, based on his cult-favorite Golden-Eyes Trilogy published by Flesh & Blood Press. His third collection, as yet untitled, will be released by Delirium Books in the near future. Michael also edited the hardcore horror anthology Bloodtype, published by Lone Wolf Publications, and co-edits Space & Time Magazine. He is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.

This Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection features an introduction by Tom Piccirilli. Cover art is by Dan Verkys. Contents include: DEMONS * A western town has dreadful plans for all those who stumble in for a visit. * A priest battles an ancient evil in effort to preserve a small South American villa. * Two Florida-bound college students stop in for a fill-up, and get more than just gas for their money. FREAKS * A man earns more than just a living by exploiting strange and horrible pictures on the internet. * Two deranged homeless men battle for supremacy on the street. * A NYC cop discovers just how far infants will go in order to survive. ABNORMALITIES * Its suddenly storming outside the Quik-Mart. But something other than rain is falling. * A young man wishes to confess something horrible. Unfortunately Gods in a real bad mood today. * A neighboring hotel room yields strange thumping sounds and a faint voice summoning a guest toward the presence within. New for this digital edition: The Chicken Man

Richard Sparke has no trouble sleeping. It's what he does after he falls asleep that gets him into trouble. There's the nightmares, his dead mother coming to visit, and then the return of his daughter, who was only an infant when she died. Among all of this, the man in black tries to murder him in his sleep. Soon the waking world falls prey to nightmares, and the two worlds become very difficult to tell apart for a man who simply wants to live an ordinary life . . . if anyone will let him.