Rick R. Reed WRITER

The Old House at the End of a Dead End Street was More of a Dead End Than Any of Them Realized...

They were five misfit kids who had banded together in their small Ohio River town. Over the years, they had organized various clubs and now they had formed the Halloween Horror Club. The premise was simple: each week, each teen would spin a horrifying tale and at the end of five weeks, the scariest story won a prize. The twist: the stories had to be told in the infamous and abandoned Tuttle house, where, fifteen years earlier, an entire family had been murdered in their beds. The idea seems like a good one, until the kids begin to realize they may not be alone in the Tuttle house. Is someone—or something—watching them? Is it Paul Tuttle, the teenage son who disappeared fifteen years ago, the night his parents and sister were killed? Or is it something even more sinister?
 
With each story (each a short, original horror tale that stands on its own), the tension mounts...and so does the fury of this mysterious inhabitant of the house. And his rage could mean a real dead end for those who dare to invade his home...

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A secret sex life...

 

A handsome, twisted stranger...

 

And a journey into a nightmare.

 

Beth Walsh seemed like such a demure housewife. But while her attorney husband was away at work, she engaged in countless encounters with strangers...until she met the one stranger who would change everything--for the worst. Abbott Lowery was every woman's dream; but the monster lurking inside his handsome, chiseled exterior was terrifying. And Beth's behavior is about to unleash the rage and madness inside.

 

High Risk is a story of secrets, tainted histories, murder, and kidnapping--with an ending so searing and brutal, readers will be left breathless.

 

 

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In the Blood is a tragic vampire love story about three very urbane, art-loving vampires whose love for visual art nearly surpasses their lust for blood. When their paths cross with Elise, a Chicago streetwalker by night and twisted, but gifted, artist by day, an explosive love triangle is set in motion. The book has been praised as "dark and eerily romantic"; "masterfully written"; and a "gripping, brutal vampire tale."

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"A harrowing ride through cutting-edge psychological horror, this one's got a vicious bite. Rick R. Reed's Obsessed is a twisted nightmare." Douglas Clegg, author of The Attraction and Afterlife.

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I kill, therefore I am…

 

Voices go slamming through the corridor of his wounded mind. The words of his dead sister cry out to him. His parents’ taunts fill the silent room where he sits and waits—waits for the murderous rage to come washing over him, filling him with strength, driving him to kill, to touch the cold flesh, taste the warm blood—to feel alive again…

 

A witness has seen him, but his killing only turns her on and now she wants to protect him. His wife suspects him, but the private detective she hired cannot stop him. Joe fears nothing—except that he may no longer be human. The thirst that drives him to his bloodletting is relentless, moving deeper and deeper into his own shattering, private realm, where each murder is a delicious new gift of life, where revulsion is beauty, and the obsession will never let him go.

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Bound by misery. Marked by sin. Set free by death.

 

Tough, cynical Jimmy. Little T, who's fifteen and looks twelve. Avery, the overweight con artist. Young Miranda in lace and alcoholic hopes. Without homes. Without families. They dwell in shadows cast by neon, the violent eddies of urban America. They trade their innocence for food, abuse their faded hopes, and then a monster comes among them, stalking…

 

He lives in the suburbs. In a house like any other. But he does not belong. It is their fault he has lost his wife, his family. Everything. Cruising Chicago's uptown, he vows to cleanse the streets of them...

 

Jimmy makes a desperate pact with a man of the cloth stained by his own sins. Together, the street hustler and the priest search for the madman whose suburban basement has become a chamber of horrors, the terrifying home for those who have no home...

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A modern-day version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

“Reed is able to produce a book that is brutally honest with its reader and doesn't flinch in the areas where Wilde had to look away…A rarity: a really well-done update that's as good as its source material.”  (Thomas Deja, Fangoria)

 

"Reed does himself, and his source material, proud... A penetrating morality tale, a trip into the very heart of darkness." (Hank Wagner, Hellnotes)

 

A young man bargains his soul away, while his painfully beautiful hologram mirrors every sin and each nightmarish step into depravity...even cold-blooded murder. Take a thought-provoking tour of the darkest sides of greed, lust, addiction, and violence. Named best novel of the year by QueerHorror.com.

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"Reed's prose is lush...and the reader should find him or herself easily swept up in the world he paints." (Fangoria)

Step into a nightmarish world where truth is always stranger than fiction, where real monsters mingle with fantasy, and where the dead taunt the living in the most bizarre ways.

Lizzie Borden conspires with a beautiful vampire seductress

A young man pines for the embraces of Jeffrey Dahmer

A woman discovers a vampire chat room fraught with desire and, perhaps, death

A couple whose honeymoon ends in a brutal attack finds the devil is in the details

An obese vampire searches for a solution to his escalating weight gain...and his soul mate

Discover them all in Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror...where heroes, heroines, and villains alike all have one thing in common: they're all twisted.

 

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