Scare Factory

Scare Factory is a collection of 20 stories for readers who love horror and appreciate a good scare. If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare. The nightmares include: DESECRATIONS: An after-hours intruder pulverizes the heads of two corpses with a sledgehammer at a local funeral parlor. THE METEOR: A meteor crashes into Newt's home carrying a tiny alien who loves to sing and dance. ARMAGEDDON: An alien calls Earth to speak to the commander in chief about a meteor that will incinerate the planet in less than two hours. VIRAL: A freelance photographer makes his living selling brutal photographs of victims at crime scenes to local newspapers and web sites. BORN TO BE WILD: After working with a renowned geneticist for five years, a young Harvard graduate is frustrated by his mentor's failure to publish any of their discoveries. CATS: The police investigate the home of an elderly woman with a houseful of cats who has not retrieved her newspapers for four days. BEWARE THE CLOWN: On his deathbed, Jeffrey's grandpa gives him a peculiar warning to Beware of the Clown, Not To Go In the Tent, and To Stay in the Dark. PRISONERS: US Marshals are sent to recover a busload of prisoners who have escaped into a huge national forest. THE TIME MACHINE: NASA hires Dirk to work on their project to teleport astronauts to a new planet, Vulcan, but first he plans to travel back in time to save his mother from a brutal murder. SOMETHING IN THE BED: Mildred awakes not recognizing her husband or her son. Nothing matters now but the hunger. THE MONTPELIER CLUB: A member of a university club tries to join a group of drinking buddies who he believes are vigilantes who fight crime when the system fails. UNCANNY COINCIDENCES: Ashley joins a dating club to find the perfect mate but is drawn to a member who resembles the man who murdered her mother. SURVIVOR: A woman contemplating suicide saves a young girl from committing suicide before all hell breaks loose. DÉJÀ VU: Madison has recurring dreams about the same man attempting to kill her time in different historical periods. BOPEEP: A consulting retired police chief attempts to extort money from a fortuneteller for scamming clients and gets more than he bargained for. SOMETHING IN THE TOMB: Former pizza parlor operators become tomb raiders and discover the sarcophagus of a pharaoh legend has as a vampire. BOBBY: A father receives a call that his son who disappeared ten years before will be returned to him for $100,000. ALLERGIC REACTION: Dr. Wishbone sends little Bradley to a retreat to see if his rash will improve while away from home. DREAMSCAPE: An introvert becomes a power hungry monster who rules his dream world like a tyrant after discovering lucid dreaming. RATT: Tammy is pregnant and on her way to an abortion clinic in a spooky neighborhood.