DARK RIDE

DARK RIDE features 23 stories, over 90,000 words of short horror fiction, personal introductions to each story, and a special introduction by horror novelist Brian Keene.

DARK RIDE will be signed by Michael Laimo and Brian Keene, and numbered - a gorgeous limited edition hardcover of 450 copies.

Available March 08 2008 from Borderlands Press

FIRES RISING



Leisure Paperback

The church waits in darkness. It looks abandoned, forgotten. It has no congregation, but it is not empty. Under its floor, in a pit dug long ago, lies a wooden crate that was never meant to be unearthed. But the church is finally being renovated and workmen have found the pit. How could they realize what they have done? How could they know the forces they’ve unleashed?

Father Pilazzo is overseeing the renovation of the old church. His dream is to see it restored to its former glory. But his dream is becoming a nightmare. He’s begun to see horrific visions, unholy images of death and warnings of terrors to come. And within the church forgotten men fight to survive against impossible demons, while sides are drawn for the ultimate battle …

Available Feb. 2008

DEAD SOULS



Leisure Paperback

Dorchester Publishing Company (January 2007)

It was Ed. More mysterious than waking up in the driver's seat of some van amidst an alien field of wheat, was being confronted by this death-mockery of her husband. His face was a bloated mess, as bloodlessly white as his hands were black. His cheeks were hollow and gaunt, caked with blood and mold. His eyes, a clouded gray-blue, were loaded with dreadful intellect, dreadful consciousness. His lips split open and produced a Velcro-like tearing sound. Black blood oozed from the corners of his mouth in twin rivulets. A pair of plastic sunglasses dangled from his right ear like a wind-torn branch...

When Johnny Petrie inherits an estate from a man he’s never heard of before, he knows he can finally escape the hell of living with his religious zealot mother and drunken father. He doesn’t realize that the hell he is moving into will be far, far worse. The previous owner was Benjamin Conroy, a man obsessed with securing eternal life for himself and his family—even if he had to kill them to do it. Conroy’s perverse ceremony of blood and butchery went hideously wrong, denying him and his family the immortality he sought. But with Johnny’s arrival, Conroy’s spirit has a second chance…

THE DEMONOLOGIST



Leisure Paperback

(Mass Market Paperback - May 2005)

Delirium Hardcover

Is Bev Mathers going crazy? He's been hearing chilling voices in his head, seeing nightmarish visions that just can't be true. And it keeps getting worse and worse. No, unfortunately for Bev, he's completely sane. What's taking control of him is far more terrifying than insanity. And it has an unimaginable purpose...

Bev has become an innocent man in an infernal game, a victim of hellish forces beyond understanding. His visions of blood and dabauchery are growing more ghastly every day. Some of them — the most shocking — are real. Bev can feel his mind, his body, his very soul slipping away. Will his only hope or his eternal damnation come from... the demonologist?

SLEEPWALKER


Delirium Hardcover

Delirium Books; Sgd Ltd edition (October 2004)

Richard Sparke has no trouble sleeping. It's what he does after he falls asleep that gets him into alot of trouble. Throw in the nightmares, his dead mother coming to visit. And then his dead daughter, who was only an infant when she died. And the man in the black, who tries to murder him in his sleep. Soon the waking world falls prey to the nightmares, and the two worlds become very difficult to tell apart for a man who simply wants to live an ordinary life...if anyone will let him.

Cover by Alan M. Clark

DEEP IN THE DARKNESS



Leisure Paperback

(Mass Market Paperback - Feb 2004)

Flesh & Blood Hardcover

Deep in the Darkness is based on the concept created in the Golden Eyes Trilogy, originally published by Flesh & Blood Press. Flesh & Blood Press published a limited edition hardcover of Deep in the Darkness with a run of only 200 copies and a cover by Alan M. Clark.

In January 2004, Leisure Books published the mass market paperback edition, which is still available in bookstores everywhere.

Dr. Michael Cayle wants the best for his wife and young daughter. That's why he moves the family from Manhattan to accept a private practice in the small New England town of Ashborough. Everything there seems so quaint and peaceful at first. But Ashborough is a town with secrets. Unimaginable secrets. Many of the townspeople are strangely nervous, and some speak quietly of legends that no sane person could believe. But what Michael discovers in the woods, drenched in blood, makes him wonder. Soon he will be forced to believe, when he learns the terrifying identity of the golden eyes that peer at him balefully from deep in the darkness.

ATMOSPHERE



Leisure Paperback

Leisure Books (September 2002)

Delirium Hardcover

Published by Leisure Books in September 2002, and a Nominee for the Bram Stoker Award!

New York City police detective Frank Ballaro is returning home one night when he notices a trail of blood on the curb outside his apartment. It leads to an alley from which a naked man aces in a frenzy. An oncoming cab ends the man's life, but not before he whispers a last, dying word - atmosphere! In the alley, Frank finds a second injured man who desperately clutches a bizarre object, which he guards with his life. Frank soon discovers the hideous meaning behind the word "atmosphere"...and the unspeakable terror that comes with it. He can only pray that it spares his life.

Short Story Anthologies

Demons, Freaks, and Other Abnormalities

Paperback

Demons, Freaks, and Other Abnormalities

Hardcover

Michael Laimo's first short story collection, DEMONS, FREAKS, AND OTHER ABNORMALITIES. Filled with tales of monsters and ghostly entities, this collection reveals Michael Laimo well on the brink of mastering supernatural horror fiction

DEMONS

A western town has dreadful plans for all those who stumble in for a visit.

A priest battles an ancient evil in effort to preserve a small South American villa.

Two Florida-bound college students stop in for a fill-up, and get more than just gas for their money.

FREAKS

A man earns more than just a living by exploiting strange and horrible pictures on the internet.

Two deranged homeless men battle for supremacy on the street.

A NYC cop discovers just how far infants will go in order to survive.

ABNORMALITIES

Its suddenly storming outside the Quik-Mart. But something other than rain is falling.

A young man wishes to confess something horrible. Unfortunately Gods in a real bad mood today.

A neighboring hotel room yields strange thumping sounds and a faint voice summoning a guest toward the presence within.

Plus two other tales that will leave you peering over your shoulder and wishing for daylight.

Published 1999 by Delirium Books

Introduction by Tom Piccirilli

Artwork by Keith Minnion

C O N T E N T S
"Five Minutes of Video"
"Gila Way"
"Slugfest"
"Banalica"
"Bite of the Meso"
"Night Fuel"
"Room 412"
"The Layover"
"11:11"
"The Alley Man"
"Murder in the Eyes of God"

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Shocklines

DREGS OF SOCIETY

Michael Laimo's second short story collection, DREGS OF SOCIETY. We see a different side of Laimo, one filled with personal terrors that don't rely on made-up monsters or other supernatural entities to frighten. Here, the horrors are quiet, discreet, born of human mind and soul. Psychological. The stories travel many roads: dark, light, simple, intricate, all laden with genuine frights. Not to be misunderstood: spooks do make an appearance, as evident in the Golden Eyes Trilogy, printed together here for the first time in one volume

Published October 2001 by Prime Books

F E A T U R I N G
"The Smart Society"
"Tapestry"
"Anxiety"
"Off The Hook"
"Urban Sabbatical"
"Standing Silent Without Heart"
"Last Resort"
"The Water's Call"
"One Last Breath"
"Sweet Dreams"
"Milk"
"The Happiest Man Alive "

Plus The Golden Eyes Trilogy:
"Within The Darkness, Golden Eyes"
"A Matter Of When"
"For The Infestation Of Maggots"

Still available through Amazon.com

Novellas

Desecration

Bloodletting Press Hardcover

Chapbooks

Within The Darkness, Golden Eyes

published by Flesh & Blood Press (1999)

"Within the Darkness, Golden Eyes is all a good horror story should be, because it has everything a good horror story should have. Laimo is able to draw out the tension and suspense until it is almost unbearable."
— Edo van Belkom, Bram Stoker Award- Winning Author (From his introduction to Within the Darkness, Golden Eyes)

The Twilight Garden


Miranda-Jahya Publications (1998)

Short Stories

"Comforts of Home" from Lost On The Darkside, ed by John Pelan 2005

"George" from Eulogies: A Horror World Yearbook, ed by Nanci Kalanta 2005

"Contents" from In Delirium ed by Brian Keene 2006

"Ultimo Recurso" from El Libro de los Zombies ed by James Lowder 2004

"Grassland" from Apex Digest Fall 2006

"Dance: The Devil's Orgasm" - Strange Bedfellows: Hot Blood 12, edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, October 2004

Sleepwalker (Excerpt) - Black October Magazine 6, October 2004

"Till Death Do They Part" - Inhuman Magazine 2

"My Wife" - The Edge Magazine 20, Final Issue

"Within Darkness, Golden Eyes" - Epitaphs, Final Issue

"Something in the Air" - A Walk on the Darkside, edited by John Pelan, September 2004

"End of the Line" - Shivers 3, edited by Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance Publications, August 2004

"The Rash" - Vivisections, edited by William P. Simmons, Catalyst Press, Summer 2003

"Gila Way" - Best Of Horrorfind 2, edited by Brian Keene, Summer 2003

"Five Minutes of Video" - Underworlds 1, Winter 2003

"Soils of The Witch Garden" - Whispers and Shadows, edited by Jack Fisher, Cosmos Books, Winter 2002

"Enchantment for the Mummy" - Extremes: Darkest Africa, edited by Brian A. Hopkins, Lone Wolf Publications, Winter 2002

"The Exploitations of George Frederick Leighton" - The Asylum, Volume 2, DarkTales, Summer 2002, and Prime Books, Winter 2003

"Brothers Of Passion" - Redsine 8, Fall 2002

"Pool" - The Edge: Tales Of Suspense 15, Fall 2002

"Snuff's Enough" - The Dead Inn Volume 1, edited by Shane Ryan Staley, Delirium Books, Summer 2001

"Urban Sabbatical" - Darkness Rising Volume 1, Summer 2001

"Last Resort" - The Book of All Flesh, edited by James Lowder, Eden Studios, Fall 2001

"Anxiety" - Horrorfind, Fall 2000; Reprinted in The Best Of Horrorfind, October 2001

"Summer Fling" - Unnatural Selection, Fall 2000; Reprinted in Unnatural Selection, Prime Books, Fall 2001

"1-800-SUICIDE" - The Edge: Tales of Suspense 9, Winter 2001

"Night of the Rage" - Whispers from the Shattered Forum 5, Winter 2001

"Water's Call" - Parchment Symbols, Spring 2001; Reprinted in Midnight Gallery, Summer 2001

"The Body Shop" (with T. A. Marko) - 1000 Delights Vol. 1 Issue 1, May 2001.

"Milk" - The Edge 6, January 2000

"Imperfection, and the Bowing" - Delirium Magazine 1, January 2000

"Scarred For Life" - Something Wicked 1, January 2000

"Roaches" - Welcome to Nod 21, January 2000

"Off the Hook" - Hoodz 2, Spring 2000

"Banalica" - Electric Wine, Summer 2000

"For the Infestation of Maggots" - Flesh & Blood Magazine 6, Summer 2000

"Run of the Dead" - Cabal Asylum 16, Winter 1999

"Big Bertha" - FrightNet 12, April 1999

"Night Fuel" - Dread 7, Spring 1999

"I Exude In Partials" - Fantasque 2, Spring 1999; Reprinted in The Pedestal, Winter 2000

"Bite of the Meso" - A Midsummer Night's Terror, Summer 1999

"Slugfest" - Crimson 3, Summer 1999; Reprinted in Scars, Fall 2001

"Standing Silent, Without Heart" - Twilight Showcase, Summer 1999

"Tapestry" - Deadbolt 4, Summer 1999

"Outside Looking In" - Darkness Within 1, Summer 1999

"A Matter of When" - Flesh & Blood 5, December 1999

"Murder in the Eyes of God" - The Darklands Project, March 1998; Reprinted in Alternate Realities 4, July 1998

"Memories" - Shadowlands, Spring 1998

"Final Exam" - FrightNet Online Magazine, May/June 1998; Reprinted in The Reaper 2, Summer 1999

"The Policy" - Classic Pulp Fiction Stories, June 1998

"Call of the Siren" - The House of Pain, July 1998; Reprinted in Silken Ropes, December 1998

"Contact Lenses" - MindMares, Summer 1998

"Alley Man" - The Edge Magazine: Tales of Suspense Issue 2, Fall 1998

"Upside Down" - Weird Stories, November 1998; Reprinted in Goblin Muse, Summer 2000

"Grass Land" - Burning Sky 1, Fall 1998

"Sir Robert, the Dragon, and the Princess" - The Twilight Garden 1, Fall 1998; Reprinted in EOTU Magazine 2, Summer 2000

"Sweet Dreams" - Goddess of the Bay 5, Fall 1998

"Open Season" - Altered Perceptions 7, December 1998

"Room 412" - The Edge: Tales of Suspense 3, Fall 1998

"Mosquito Summer" - Knightmares, March/April 1997; Reprinted in The House of Pain, November 1997

"Body Bumps" - Cabal Asylum, Spring 1997; Reprinted in Stump, April 1998

"Icky" - Knightmares, September 1997; Reprinted in Raise the Dead, December 1997

"The Wave" - Vampire Dan's Story Emporium, October 1997; Reprinted in Startling Science Stories, August 1998

"Within the Darkness, Golden Eyes" - Epitaph Magazine, October 1997; Reprinted by Flesh & Blood Press in chapbook form

"To Be" - Crossroads, October 1997

"Feels Like the First Time" - The House of Pain, December 1997; Reprinted in Stump, January 1997, and Gathering Darkness, October 1998

"All Hallows Three" - Crossroads, Fall 1996

"Contents" - In Darkness Eternal, Stygian Vortex Publications, Winter 1996; Reprinted in GenrEZone, May 1999

"One Last Breath" - PLOT Magazine, Fall 1996

"The Layover" - Rictus, Fall 1995; Reprinted in Dark Whispers: An Anthology of Terror, October 1998

"Mouse in a Maze" - Outer Darkness, Fall 1995

"The Visitor" - Lost Worlds, January 1994

"11:11" - Heliocentric Net, Summer 1994; Reprinted in FrightNet Online Magazine, October 1997, and Goddess of the Bay Editor's Edition, Fall 1999

"The Happiest Man Alive" - Pirate Writings 4, Summer 1994

Collected Works

"Sir Robert, The Princess, and The Dragon" , "To Be", "The Baby", "Sweet Dreams", "Growing Up with A Murderer" appeared in the Twilight Garden Chapbook Issue 3, Summer 1999

"Five Minutes Of Video", "Gila Way", "Slugfest", "Banalica", "11:11", "The Alley Man", "Room 412", "Murder In The Eyes Of God", "Night Fuel", "Bite Of The Meso", "The Layover" appear in the collection, Demons, Freaks, and Other Abnormalities, out in hardcover from Delirium Books. 1st Edition published 1999. Reprinted Fall 2002.

"The Smart Society", "Tapestry", "Anxiety", "Off The Hook", "Urban Sabbatical", "Standing Silent Without Heart", "Last Resort", "The Waterâ€--s Call", "One Last Breath", "Sweet Dreams", "Milk", "The Happiest Man Alive", "Within The Darkness, Golden Eyes", "A Matter Of When", "For The Infestation Of Maggots" appeared in the collection Dregs Of Society published in hardcover from Prime Books, Fall 2001.