The summer dwellers left, abandoning them to the island's harsh winter. Ravenous hunger and violent rage have brought them together under a cunning, ferocious leader. Man has betrayed his best friend--now the dogs will have their day.

"It was just an ordinary garbage dump on peaceful Cape Cod. No one ever imagined that conditions were perfect for breeding, that it was a warm womb, fetid, moist, and with food so plentiful that everything creeping, crawling, and slithering could gorge to satiation. Then a change in poison control was made, resulting in an unforeseen mutation. Now the giant mutant cockroaches are ready to leave their nest--in search of human flesh!"-- Back cover.

In these 13 stories, the everyday domestic world is invaded by the bizarre, the uncanny, and the horrific.

It has many names: Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch. But whatever it is, it's out there in the woods and leaving a trail of blood and severed heads behind it. John Moon, a half-mad Indian, worships its power and he'll kill to protect it. For Raymond Jason, killing it has become an obsession. When the two men finally corner their quarry they set loose a flood of terror and destruction that may leave no survivors.

As a soldier in the jungle of Vietnam, Chris Stiles learned how to fight against a deadly enemy. Now the war is over, but when his brother is slaughtered in Central Park, Chris finds himself called back into action, this time to battle a different kind of foe: an army of the undead! His quest for the creature that killed his brother brings him to Isherwood, Indiana, home to 800 people - and one ancient vampire. As all hell breaks loose and the townspeople...

Three bodies have been found in the Potomac River with their throats brutally slashed. Homicide detective Harry Picard's investigation catapults him into a roiling morass of passion, sexual intrigue, violence, and primordial fear as he faces an enemy as powerful, and as horrifying, as mankind's oldest superstitions!

Jeff loves Georgianne. Jeff has always loved Georgianne. Now, years later, Georgianne is as beautiful, as magical as ever--and ripe for terror. Because a love like Jeff's makes a man crazy, he'll do things he'd never have dreamed possible. Even target, stalk, and possibly destroy everyone Georgianne loves: her faithful husband, her attractive teenage daughter. Until Jeff is all she has left.

Angelina Watson, a vampire, is lonely after her parents die and meets Boyd, who, learning her secret, is determined to prevent her from killing again.