A collection of eight short stories and a novella in the horror/thriller genre with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you. The nightmares include: LORD OF DARKNESS: Fred finds a large box on his doorstep with a horrific looking ebony stautue inside that terrifies him. He abhors scary things and takes it to the city dump for disposal. JACK IN THE BOX: Harold fixes up old houses and sells them for a nice profit. That is, until he bought the dreaded house on Dark Den Lane. FORTUNE COOKIES: Mr. Ryder receives two fortune cookies with his Chinese food this time. One says he'll be rich; the other says he'll be dead by midnight. MR. BLUE: Gillian receives a call with the news her mother has been killed in an automobile accident. When she returns to the old home place, shes finds her mother alive and rich, but Mr. Blue is killing elderly women.PAYBACK: Jason has located the whereabouts of the vampire who killed his wife and his son. He has three hours of daylight to find him and drive a stake through his black heart. POPEYE & LOVEY: Two users become friends on the net and decide to meet. One is not interested in a relattionship. He's told all the girls he's tortured and killed the same story.THE CANNIBAL: Linda's cat, Bluetooth, and her cocker spaniel, Dinky, are missing. She suspects three juvenile delinquents my be responsible in a neighborhood terrorized by The Cannibal, a serial killer, who has a taste for human blood.RESURRECTION: Joseph Hyde is a medical miracle. He's still alive after being pronounced dead, undergoing an autopsy, an embalming, and being buried for forty-eight hours.SUSPEND DISBELIEF: Two army buddies reconnect and become unlikely heroes in later life when sinister villians threaten their loved ones, and they are forced to be even braver now than they were as soldiers in combat.