Ashbury Creek Media: 15 books

Randy Baxter is an aspiring chef who dreams of better days ahead. He’s come to work as part of the kitchen staff at Ashbury Creek Asylum, a federally funded institution for the criminally insane. Randy’s not crazy but he does harbor a past filled with psychological issues including the need to cut...

Your name is Robert Moore but everyone you know calls you Robbie. You’re an abused young boy lying comatose in a hospital bed, lost to the real world. Within your damaged mind you are also lost, trapped in a massive farmer’s field of your imagination’s making. In this special, perhaps magical...

THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEARMeet John Taylor, a man plagued by phantom voices – or translators, as he calls them – that have shared his head ever since he was abducted as a 10-year-old boy. On that fateful day in 1986, John lost not only his father and his childhood innocence but perhaps something...

Abby Hawkins was never normal. Born with a birth cowl — a rare birth defect thought to predict psychic abilities — she is haunted by horrible visions. Shortly after her 13th birthday, Abby’s parents call in the mysterious Crowley to help their daughter. His interventions rid her of the visions…...

In 1963, Professor Leonard Harris was on a field expedition to El Oriente and accidentally walked into the middle of a four hundred-year-old religious war between two prominent tribes in the area. The Huaorani (the forest dwellers) who worshiped the magnificent Jaguar as their most powerful deity, and...

A BROKEN MAN DOWN ON HIS LUCK…Michael Fox is a homeless man living in a garbage dumpster beneath the Carver Street Bridge in Buffalo, NY. He’s bitterly depressed and ready to commit suicide; anything to put an end to his miserable existence.AN OFFER TOO GOOD TO REFUSE…When...

During the great depression, a small backwoods community in Iowa face even more difficult times than most, having to endure the slowly fading sanity of their leader, Reverend Joshua Miller. When it's clear the man has slipped beyond the edge of reason and perhaps signed a deal with the devil, the citizens...

War can do terrible things to the hearts and minds of even the best of men, but for U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Tyrone Banks the senseless deaths and unnecessary violence in Vietnam have beaten him down and smothered the compassion and good that was once inside of him. Grief-stricken and suicidal; the...

Since storytellers first put pen to paper, religious dogma and spiritual beliefs have always played key roles in the various genres of dark fiction. Humanity's obsession with mortality and what might or might not happen after our inevitable deaths has long been tantalizing fodder for authors and dreamers...

Since the dawn of time, man has told stories about fear. The dark fiction genre is filled with spine-tingling tales of bloodsucking vampires, flesh-eating zombies, and other ghastly creatures that mercilessly stalk the night.THE FLESH WILL ROT AND THE BLOOD WILL FLOW...Now collected together...

They say time can heal all wounds, but we all know that isn't necessarily true. Throughout history, storytellers have looked to our ancestors tragic past and hypothesized about humanity's bleak future as ways to try and explain or contemplate the myriad problems we face today.PAST OR FUTURE, FEAR...

It is the year 2039. On January 19th an explosion ripped through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia unleashing a virus killing over 60 million people in just 3 weeks.Enter Timothy Meek, a loner, and sufferer of Mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs.) Meek...

Wilson Kemp is a man living a lie in Billington, Pennsylvania. He's been in hiding for a long time, running from a dreadful secret that has forced him to change his name, move to this small secluded town, and abandon what had once been a stellar career. Once, he'd been a talented escape artist on the...

SONS OF THUNDERKilling was nothing new for the Thunders'. They'd lived by the gun since the day they were old enough to pull the trigger...A SIMPLER TIME WHEN FAMILY MEANT EVERYTHINGPop Thunder had brought his boys up to know that nothing was free and that anything they wanted would...