Dive into fourteen tales of non-themed horror, with short stories and dark poems by some of the best horror writers in the world, including a story by the master himself, Graham Masterton.
Allow the very first instalment of Tales From the Lake to transport you to lakeside terror in "Lover, Come Back to Me," "Lady of Lost Lake," and "Game On"; journey to the basement of your local pet store in "Dead Pull" and your neighbourhood pub in "O'Halloran's"; experience the apocalypse in "Devil's Night"; travel to Africa in "Witch-Compass" and "The Reunion"; spend time with talking dolls in "Don't Look at Me"; experience the horrors of drug addiction from close up in "Junksick"; and climb a ladder to the heavens in "Perrollo's Ladder."
Tales From the Lake Vol.1 includes the winning stories from the 2013 Tales From the Lake Horror Writing Competition: a nautical tale in Jenn Loring's "The Art of Wrecking"; a bizarre story of strange addictions in J. Daniel Stone's "Alternative Muses"; and a cult horror story in the jungles of South America in William Ritchey's "Las Maquinas." Introduction by Rocky Wood - the late president of the HWA. Artwork by award-winning artist Ben Baldwin. Edited by Joe Mynhardt.
"This extremely neat, thoroughly edited anthology of carefully selected tales is another proud feather in the cap of Crystal Lake Publishing. For a collection of tales that will thrill, horrify, and generally captivate all readers of horror and dark fantasy, I highly recommend Tales from the Lake Vol.1 as a must-read!" - Ellen Fritz, Books4Tomorrow

Aron Beauregard is a splatterpunk award-winning author known for his extreme work, which can be found at abhorror.com.V. Castro is a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominated Mexican American writer who writes horror, erotic horror, and science fiction. S.B. Caves is the international bestselling author of I Know Where She Is, A Killer Came Knocking, and Honeycomb.Adam Cesare is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Clown in a Cornfield series, the graphic novel Dead Mall, the YA psychothriller Influencer, and several other novels and novellas.Clay McLeod Chapman writes books, comic books, children's books, as well as for film and television. His most recent novels include What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters. Rachel Harrison is the national bestselling author of So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.Jonathan Janz is the writer of the ghost story The Siren and the Specter(selected as a Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Horror), Children of the Dark and The Dark Game(both chosen by Booklist and Library Journal as Top Ten Horror Books of the Year).Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood.Red Lagoe is the author of the In Excess of Dark as well as the forthcoming novel Bloodstains by Gaslight. She has authored three horror collections, including her most recent, Impulses of a Necrotic Heart.Carissa Ann Lynch is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of The Traitors, The Bachelorette Party, The Summer She Disappeared, Without a Trace, Like Follow Kill, and more.Graham Masterton is mainly recognized for his horror novels but he has also been a prolific writer of thrillers, disaster novels and historical epics. His novel The Manitou was adapted to film starring Tony Curtis playing the lead, and three of his short horror stories were filmed by Tony Scott for The Hunger TV series.Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of dark fiction.Duncan Ralston is the author of the cult smash-hit Woom and Ghostland and more than 15 other books that aren't the cult smash-hit Woom or Ghostland.Hunter Shea is a lifelong horror hound and writer of over thirty books of monstrous mayhem, ghostly frights and newfound terrors. Some of his bestselling books include the critically acclaimed Creature, They Rise, and The Montauk Monster, the nostalgic Money Back Guaranteed series, and Jessica Backman's Death in the Afterlife trilogy.Thomas Tessier is the author of many novels, novellas and short stories of horror and psychological suspense, including The Nightwalker, Phantom, Finishing Touches and Rapture.Bev Vincent is the author of several books, including The Road to the Dark Tower and Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences.Tim Waggoner is a four-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and has published nearly sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original horror and dark fantasy as well as media tie-ins.