Dark Cities: Dark Tales

Welcome to the weird and wild world of DARK CITIES. You won’t find it on any map, but you will find it between the covers of this book.DARK CITIES: DARK TALES is the realm of Michael McCarty’s three novellas and four short stories. Inside you will find out why zombies stumble across the state of Illinois in the snow; what happens when an aspiring novelist has an affair with a sexy vampire from Florida; who will win -- four teenagers from Texas or giant spiders trying to rule the world in a prequel to Ed Wood’s Plan Nine From Outer Space; the truth about alien sludge creatures that live in the New York sewers; why trolls dwell beneath a stone bridge in a small Midwestern town; and why an Iowa truck driver is delivering a demon south.Welcome to DARK CITIES, but be warned … you’ll enjoy it so much, you may never want to leave!

About the Author

MICHAEL McCARTY is a five-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and winner of the David R. Collins' Literary Achievement Award from the Midwest Writing Center. McCarty is the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including I Kissed A Ghoul, A Little Help From My Fiends, Dark Duets, Liquid Diet & Midnight Snack, Monster Behind The Wheel (co-written with Mark McLaughlin), Dracula Transformed (with Mark McLaughlin), Lost Girl Of The Lake (with Joe McKinney), the vampire Bloodless series: Bloodless, Bloodlust, and Bloodline (with Jody LaGreca). McCarty is also the author of the mega-book of interviews, Modern Mythmakers: 35 Interviews With Horror And Science Fiction Writers And Filmmakers, featuring interviews with Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, John Carpenter, Richard Matheson, Linnea Quigley, Joe McKinney, Elvira, and many more. With Mark McLaughlin, he co-authored the nonfiction book, Ghosts Of The Quad Cities.

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