"With Ruthless, Shane McKenzie has proved yet again that politesse is overrated, that it's not necessary to be smooth and restrained, that sometimes horror needs to be rough and messy...this is the real deal. Hardcore, kick-ass, take-no-prisoners horror. It's gross, it's disgusting, it's rough, it's raw."-Bram Stoker award-winner Bentley Little This shocking short story collection includes sick and twisted tales by the following disturbed authors: John McNee, Daniel Fabiani, Lucas Pederson, Danny Hill, Jessy Marie Roberts, Shane McKenzie, Jared Donald Blair, Lesley Conner, David Bernstein, AJ Brown, Tom Olbert, Nate Burleigh, John "Jam" Arthur Miller, Thornton Austen, Aaron J. French, Eric Stoveken, Alec Cizak, D. Krauss and Airika Sneve. With introduction by Bentley Little.

Cecilia will do anything to have a baby. Anything. Cecilia has tried everything to have the one thing she wants most—a baby. She's been through every procedure, taken every medication. Nothing seems to work. Her body simply refuses to grow the life she so desperately yearns for. Her jealousy is making her lash out at the pregnant women around her. She's starting to worry about her sanity. But all is not lost. There is still one way. And Cecilia will do whatever it takes. Even if it means inviting an ancient creature into her bedroom.

This isn't your grandmother's bingo game.One day, mysterious fliers appear on all the doors in the neighborhood, announcing a new bingo hall, Big Time Bingo. Players are lured in by the promise of free money and big prizes. Like all the other kids, Chris and his friends Oscar and Jay are dragged along by their moms and other relatives, but Chris gets the nagging feeling that something is very off about the strange man who runs it, Mr. Big. As the nights at the bingo hall pass Chris and Oscar realize something horrible is going on. No longer are the patrons there to have fun. They now play bingo to WIN, and become extremely sore—and violent—losers when they lose. As the adults get hypnotized by the game, it's up to Chris and his friends to stop Mr. Big before their town is driven completely crazy by greed and chaos.This book has been previously published.

Mama had always forbade Mike from going to the old house...she said it was pure evil, that the devil lived there. Grandmamma did, too, back when she could still think straight. Hell, everybody in the poverty and crime-ridden Oak knew to stay away from it. But when a drug deal goes bad, and Mike is left penniless and desperate, he and his younger brother, James, do the unthinkable. In the dead of night, they sneak onto the unkempt property in search of rumored treasures. Beneath the thick shadow cast by the deserted home, they find what they are looking for. But brothers get greedy. Enticed by the promise of enough riches to get them out of the doomed neighborhood, the pair enters the house. And soon discover that the truth can be much worse than legend. Time is ever rotting, and the flies and maggots will devour every moment before it passes. "Shane McKenzie has a wonderful grasp of the dark and terrible. He truly understands what terrifies us and his love for the horrific comes through in every ghastly sentence he composes." -Wrath James White, Author of THE RESSURECTIONIST