Tim Curran

Books

Cannibal Corpse, M/C
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 96,200. Language: English. Published: March 18, 2023 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic, Fiction » Horror » General
FOLLOWING A MAJOR PANDEMIC, THE COUNTRY IS IN RUINS. WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS A HELLZONE KNOWN AS THE DEADLANDS. Here, bioengineered Corpse Worms rain from the blood-streaked sky, reanimating the dead. And here, atomic weapons have created legions of mutants, primeval monsters, and chaotic weather patterns. Enter John Slaughter. Hardcore outlaw biker. Blood member of the Devil's Disciples.
Bad Girl in the Box
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 93,590. Language: English. Published: December 5, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Birch Street. A beautiful neighborhood on a beautiful summer day. Then raw meat falls from the sky. People are at first offended, then intrigued. Once tasting it, they can eat nothing else. It becomes an addiction that owns them body and soul, releasing pent-up frustrations, secret desires, and nameless horror. And when the meat runs out,the monsters are loose on Birch Street.
Bone Marrow Stew
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 126,100. Language: English. Published: April 19, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
The dark feast is ready. The cauldron is smoldering. Ladle yourself a full of bowl of Bone Marrow Stew and savor every mouthful of gut and grue, every crawling strand of meat and maggoty bite of flesh. The gravy is thick, rich, and noxious, blood-seeped and foul beyond measure. The aroma that of bone dust and corpse slime, insects and puppet eyes, snake oil and the bile of resurrection.
Long Black Coffin
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 95,650. Language: English. Published: October 5, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
The Long Black Coffin is a '67 GTO. A street-eater and a life-taker. Like an open grave, it's hungry for death. Vic Tamberlyn committed suicide in it. His son Kurt asphyxiated in it. Maybe there's no connection, but Kurt's best friend, Johnny Breede, doesn't believe it. He begins seeing dark connections, convinced that beneath the skin of the Coffin there beats a black, terrible heart.
Sow
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 26,090. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
Holly is not herself. She was once a pretty young woman, healthy and strong, completely devoted to her husband Richard. When she became pregnant, he was ecstatic. They would finally have a child to complete their love. But then Holly began to change. The child she carries is not his. In fact, it's not even human. Holly is about to unleash hell into the world.
Nightcrawlers
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 60,720. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
200 years ago, the village of Clavitt Fields was burned to the ground. It was hoped that what lived there had perished in the fire. But they did not perish. They went underground … For generations, they lived and bred in darkness, adapting themselves to a subterranean existence. Now they are rising to the surface, and what they've become is a horror beyond belief, a crawling nightmare of evil.
Deadlock
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,840. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » General
Charlie is offered a chance: simply stay alone on a ship overnight to prove to its owner and potential crew that it’s not cursed nor haunted. Never mind the ship’s history of suicide, violence, mutiny and murder. Or how the ship’s past crews have gone missing or insane. The fact that no one has set foot on deck in darkness for years doesn’t phase Charlie one bit.
Doll Face
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 84,790. Language: English. Published: January 26, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
Six friends are returning home from a night out when they end up in a town called Stokes. They discover they are trapped there, as Stokes does not really exist. The actual town had burned to the ground more than fifty years ago. The Stokes they are in is a nightmare version of the former town, engineered by a deranged and undead mind, a supernatural machine of wrath that will destroy them.
Tenebris
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 29,490. Language: English. Published: January 4, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
It comes out of the night. It kills with animal stealth and viciousness, but with an almost human capacity for cruelty and sadism. And this time, it has left a witness. Jim Duchane watched it kill his two best friends. Now tormented by their deaths and skeptical of his own memories of that awful night, he is approached by two fringe monster hunters who are desperate to track the beast.
In the Flesh
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 87,300. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Available for the first time in a collection, three of Tim Curran's novellas—Worm, Blackout, and The Underdwelling
Blackout
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 31,800. Language: English. Published: December 31, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
In the midst of a beautiful summer, in a perfectly American suburban middle-class neighborhood, a faraway evil is lurking, waiting to strike the unsuspecting residents. First come the flashing lights, then the heavy rains, high winds, and finally a total blackout. But that's only the beginning…
Worm
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 31,590. Language: English. Published: December 12, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
On Pine Street, the houses begin to shake. The earth begins to move. The streets crack open and yards split asunder…and rising from subterranean depths far below, a viscid black muck bubbles up and floods the neighborhood. In it are a ravenous army of gigantic worms seeking human flesh. They wash into houses, come up through the sewers, through plumbing, filling toilets and tubs, seeking prey.
The Underdwelling
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,950. Language: English. Published: October 30, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
Digging a new drift down in Level #8, the lowest level of Hobart Mine, an immense shaft opens up. Boyd and a few others volunteer to explore it. Some 400 feet down, they find a passage that leads to an immense cavern from prehistory. A petrified world. A prehistoric graveyard. Then a cave-in traps them down there.
Corpse Rider
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 32,800. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » General
Christina is young, pretty and very alone. Her relationships seem cursed, each one turning to slow poison. Then one perfectly ordinary day, as an act of kindness, she pulls some weeds from an old derelict grave. Now she's no longer alone. For what has laid down in the cold black earth for decades has attached itself to her. For it, she will be the perfect wife and the perfect mother.
Symbiosis
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 78,090. Language: English. Published: September 23, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
When Flynn was sixteen, he was a new kid in a new school. At first, he was ignored. Then he was bullied, tormented, and beaten. Chad Reese offered him a way out. He introduced him to Toddy and Bones. They made Flynn's enemies their own. Before long, he was the most popular kid at school. But there was a price. When he wouldn't pay it, they took something he loved.
Fear Me
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,660. Language: English. Published: August 19, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Shaddock Valley. A maximum security prison that houses the worst of the worst: drug gangs, psychopaths, rapists, gangters, and outlaw bikers. In a place like that, a skinny little kid like Danny Palmquist doesn't stand a chance. It doesn't take long before the hardtimers move in on him. Then they begin to die horribly. In locked cells. When the lights go out, the nightmare begins.
Puppet Graveyard
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 26,550. Language: English. Published: August 2, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria's hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy. Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles.