Cold Storage

COLD STORAGE is a horror anthology containing nine original stories based on the theme of the undead. It has a stunning cover by Mike Bohatch. The introduction for the book is written by the legendary author Graham Masterton.

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The new edition of COLD STORAGE is now available. The book has a better cover; it's bigger and cheaper than the first edition.

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I watch the chick make her way toward my cabin, stopping when she reaches the fresh dead body between us. You have to use some sort of distraction to play the game. Scoring is dangerous without something to occupy the dead bitches. I know people who try to score without using a distraction, but it just ain't a healthy situation, if you know what I mean. The dead girl takes the bait. She'll be easy, I can see that already. She kneels over the corpse and bends down to eat from the open wound in its stomach, pausing now and again to lick the blood from her thin, crusted lips. Her attention is completely focused. She won't even know I'm there. I can score and be gone before she even finishes her meal. -- From "Scoring" by Carl Hose Andrew Parkins was well-known by the emergency room staff at both Good Hope and Mercy General Hospitals. Life Longevity, Inc. was an officially government-registered OPO -- Organ Procurement Organization. The presumably non-for-profit organization was one of the most efficiently run, administratively conscientious of the lot and it seemed that Andrew Parkins was consistently on-scene whenever availability for possible organ donation presented itself. But Parkins had the reputation as one of the most compassionate, giving, and sympathetic procurement agents the hospitals had ever dealt with. He really seemed to care. The paramedics wheeled in the young motorcyclist on a blood-spattered gurney. The victim was motionless and his multi-colored helmet lay in two pieces between his bare feet. The face was unrecognizable, the skull split in the center of the forehead, what was left of a ruined brain protruding. You're fucked, bubba, Parkins thought gleefully. He noticed that the unfortunate young man was still being artificially respirated. Keep the goodies nice and fresh, guys. -- From "Parts" by Walt Hicks They drifted quietly for a while. Raymond kept looking at the box, trying to figure out what was wrong with it. Finally he realized what he'd been looking for. "There's no nails or screws in the top of this box," he said. He reached out and pushed at the top panel, but it didn't move. "How do you think it's fastened?" "I don't care," Manuel said. "I am getting hungry. Maybe I will cut a piece at a time to keep you alive until I have to kill you. I like my meat to be fresh. I could cut off a leg below the knee tonight, the other tomorrow, then the arms --" -- From "Dining at Sea" by Steven E. Wedel

About the Author

The several authors in the book all have different tales, but Paul Fry (the editor) began writing horror stories in August of 1999. His love of reading short stories and novels by great authors such as Richard Laymon, Ray Garton, Bentley Little and Graham Masterton, spans back over a decade.

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