Grinning Skull Press: 21 books

A religious order, believing themselves to be entrusted by God with certain secrets, will stop at nothing to keep those secrets safe A haunted movie theater holds the key to a famous Scream Queen's return to life In an attempt to recapture his glory days at the height of the apocalypse, a bitter,...

Conceived in darkness, it feeds off the host. It is poked at and prodded, all the while growing within the confines of the author’s mind until it reaches that point where it will no longer be contained. It forces its way through the porous openings in the skull, insinuates itself into the bloodstream,...

For some, death is not the end. There are those who are doomed to walk the earth for all eternity, those who are trapped between one plain of existence and the next, those who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not let go of the lives they left behind. These are the vengeful spirits, the tortured...

SHORT STORY: When years of Catholic upbringing conflict with a freshly turned zombie's new-found instincts, he is left with only one recourse.

Tim Ritter is dying. Cancer, the Big C, was eating him alive and he only had a few months left to live. Or did he?  When a gypsy at a country fair offers him a chance for a new, cancer-free life, he has to decide if he is going to live out the death sentence the doctors have handed him or if...

Twas the fright before Christmas And all through the town Not a soul stirred No one dared make a sound... Welcome to Deathlehem, where... ...Krampus, not Santa, brings the holiday cheer... ...the lights on the tree, so festive and bright, skitter and crawl and possess a lethal bite... ...malicious...

We survived The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Then came THEM!, It Came from Beneath the Sea, and The Deadly Mantis.  They were merely practice runs.  Now prepare for  ATTACK! of the B-Movie Monsters: Night of the Gigantis  Rampaging Rodents! Terrifying Tentacles! Bone-crushing claws! ...

"I killed my parents when I was thirteen years old."  And now, with the murder of Missy Blake twenty-two years later, it's time for Jack Greene to finish what he started.  When the co-ed's mutilated body is found, the police are clueless, but Jack knows what killed the pretty...

Deep beneath the streets of Detroit, someone — or something — is picking off the miners of the Detroit Salt Combine. The company appears to be more concerned with the protection of their equipment than with the safety of their employees, so the miners take it upon themselves to approach the Attican...

The Caribbean Sea, 1708 AD.  In Port Royal many have heard the legend of the Black Brig, a ship of the damned bringing a fate worse than death to the isolated colonies of the Caribbean Sea.  But few know the true story behind the tavern tales.  As the war between the Northern Alliance...

Lonely, haunted roads, insanity, ancient curses, and strange creatures that go bump in the night: these are the types of tales that make up the rich tapestry of Maine’s legends and lore, and they are exactly the types of tales you will find within these pages. Northern Frights is the first anthology...

Suffer the little children to come unto me… and be like goats in my parade The city of Portland, Maine, is preparing for a parade to end all parades, one that will usher in a thousand years of darkness. The only thing is, they don't know it. Four strangers will engage each other...

There’s something in Troughton’s Moss that's been there for ages. It speaks to the people of Ellsford, whispers in their ear, burrows into their minds, like a Brainworm, and it tells them what to do. THE MADONNA Twenty years ago it spoke to Paul Cunningham and set the wheels...

Lake Livingston: August, 1961. Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at...