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Night Visions: At The Crossroad presents eight tales of horror and dark fantasy by Richard Laymon, Chet Williamson, and Gary Brandner. Prepare to enter a world where your darkest nightmare can become a chilling reality...A world of Night Visions.

Karyn and her husband Roy had come to the peaceful California village of Drago to escape the savagery of the city. On the surface, Drago appeared to be like most small rural towns. But it was not. The village had a most unsavory history. Unexplained disappearances, sudden deaths. People just vanished, never to be found.

For Karyn, it was the howling. The howling that had heralded the nightmare in Drago, the nightmare that had joined her husband Roy to the she-wolf Marcia and should have ended forever with the fire. But it hadn’t. Roy and Marcia were still alive, deadly, and thirsty for the most horrifying vengeance imaginable.

They are man. And they are beast. Once again they stalk the night, eyes aflame, teeth flashing in vengeance. Malcolm is the young one. He must choose between the familiar way of the human and the seductive howling of the wolf. Those who share his blood want to make him one of them. Those who fear him want him dead.

Beautiful jet-setter: With her elegant, rich friends she traveled to world, from Acapulco to St. Moritz, skiing, gambling, and partying. International jewel thief: Unbeknownst to anyone, Sterling was a modern day Robin Hood, always one step ahead of Nicole Rulan, the Interpol agent determined to catch her.

It is a living hell. Murderous Mayans, reptiles that kill on contact, and creatures more deadly than crocodiles. No man has ever come back alive from Quintana Roo.

Cameron and his mother deal with their tragic past in different ways—she with alcohol, he with an imaginary friend. But that imaginary friend has become so much more—a deadly, hard-to-contain force, its primary objective no longer the protection of Cameron. An LAPD detective—struggling to solve a string of grisly killings—and a psychologist—trying to understand Cameron—work together to uncover the connection. But can they stop such an elusive, impossible evil? Or will it rip them to shreds?

Jay Baysinger is dead, or so everyone believes. Two years after his tragic death in a mysterious accident, his wife Kristy is rebuilding her life. But when a strange man shows up at her door claiming to be Jay—armed with intimate knowledge of their past—Kristy's world is turned upside down. Is this stranger suffering from delusions, or has Jay really returned? As unsettling questions unravel, Kristy is thrust into a chilling psychological web involving government secrets, violent killers, and a deadly conspiracy.

Prestige. Fame. Romance. Glamour. Sex. Money. In the tumultuous, cutthroat world of the tennis superstar, these are the goals that drive men to desperate lengths; ones that squeeze the last ounce of competitive spirit from them—that propel them into a high-pressure existence, where the only release is on the court—or in the white heat of passion. The Players reveals the behind-the-scenes lives of the sports heroes and their women...and the torrents of human emotion and raw physical urgings which sustain them.

Kyle Brubaker, a carefree California surfer, finds little to celebrate in a small Wisconsin town until he meets beautiful and spirited Marianne Avery. But their budding romance is snuffed when they are brutally attacked by three hoodlum brothers. With his life unraveling around him, Kyle accepts an offer of help from a mysterious carnival fortune-teller. Soon after that, things really go to hell....

The Pragers are Hawaii's golden family - they have wealth, power, land. They also have dark secrets and forbidden passions that threaten to tear the family apart. Meredith is in love with a pureblood Hawaiian but cannot face her father's unyielding disapproval. Dennis, the family's fair-haired boy, hides his true desires behind his hired mistress, Adriana. Marcus, the exiled black sheep, vengefully seduces Adriana, then realizes too late that he loves her.

Brian Kettering was six years old the day the horror began. That was the day he ran home alone from the church picnic in the park. The day the streets were strangely, utterly silent. The day he watched his father confront a hideous, voracious demon...and die. Now, Brian Kettering is a grown-up and a cop, and his life is crumbling. His wife has left him. His son has become a stranger and joined a cult.

In the small California town of Santa Marta, oil and water become an explosive mixture when the human elements of lust and greed are thrown into the crucible. When news of a major oil-well discovery in its channel leaks out, the quiet town is rocked by murder and terrorism...and naked desires are unleashed on every level.

In Milwaukee, a regular at Vic’s Tavern suddenly smashes a beer bottle and carves up the other customers. In Manhattan, an easygoing cabdriver goes berserk and hurls his cab into a crowd of pedestrians. In Seattle, a young bride slashes her husband in a busy restaurant, then flings herself through a plate-glass window. At first, these shocking incidents appear unrelated. Then a disturbing pattern emerges - the agonizing headaches, the violent tantrums, the faces erupting with sickening lesions, then the final, fatal outburst.

Insiders. Clever Alec. Arrogant Roman. Beautiful Lindy. The popular kids at school. They don’t know who they hurt. And they don’t care. Outsider. Frazier. Brainy, awkward, unloved. But he’s got something the other kids don’t. Astral projection. The ability to cast his mind long distances out of his body. Yet it fails to save him the night he falls victim to a prank that goes horrifyingly too far. Though Frazier’s body dies, his mind does not. It floats, buoyed for years by one thought. Revenge.

Astragoth is risen. From the dark night of the centuries he has returned. He will have his rightful bride or he will utterly destroy the Earth. He is the HELLBORN!

Joana was one of the dead. But she was brought back to life! That’s when people began trying to kill her. Nice people.... The last people in the world anyone would suspect of being capable of murder. People who were already dead....

He brings the dead back to life. He’s America’s newest hero. He possesses the most awesome gift any man can master. He can reach beyond the grave to awaken the dearly departed.

An ancient horror summoned from the obscene depths of the past returns to terrorize a community. A girl of the streets yields body and soul to a fate more vile than her darkest fears. A boy pays a fearful price for a secret older than time. A young wife and mother battles ageless evil in defense of her family. Quiet, prosperous Westbrooke explodes into chaos when the demon is roused from...

Billy Lockett: He was the king of rock ‘n roll - until a shocking accident cut short his spectacular career. Iris Ames: A nubile beauty who was the latest to be promoted by Billy from groupie to bedmate. Al Fenstra: Billy’s manager who guided his career like a father. His reaction to Billy’s accident: “Jesus Christ, I’m wiped out!”