psychological fiction

Rainmaker Hank Beecham agrees to a request to return to St. Elmo, California and save his hometown from drought on the condition that he get credit for every drop of rain that falls from that day forth, but what the city fathers did not realize is that Hank, bitter about his experiences in St. Elmo, intends to unleash a flood upon the town.

"Iris is sorry. Sorry that she no longer hangs out with her BFF. Sorry that she's not closer to her mother. But most of all, she's sorry she makes Mick angry. If all the world's a stage, then Iris's life has become a violent drama, starring a man whose fists are at odds with the eloquence of his words"--Back cover.

Dexter Morgan returns from his honeymoon in Paris and gets to work perfecting his disguise as the perfect husband, father, and investigator, and wondering if he will be able to put his homicidal tendencies to rest, but when a new serial killer is identified, Dexter is once again drawn into the battle for fitting justice.

Serial killer Dexter Morgan, who limits his victims to others killers, discovers that he was seen while committing a murder and is now being followed and mimicked, while at the same time a cop killer is targeting Miami's police detectives and leaving behind battered and bloodless corpses.

Dexter Morgan, a Miami crime scene investigator who is sometimes moved to commit murder himself--goaded by a reptilian voice he calls his Dark Passenger--gets a clue that something is very wrong when he is called to the scene of a double homicide at the university campus, only to have Dark Passenger go into hiding.

Hollywood actor Robert Chase comes to Miami to begin filming a new police drama and decides that he needs to follow blood splatter analyst Dexter Morgan, and when the body of woman is found in a dumpster the Hollywood crew gets excited but Dexter gets a really sinister feeling about this killer.

In two related narratives Krista Diehl and Aaron Kruller describe their emotions and opinions about the murder of Aaron's mother, Zoe, each blaming the other person's father for the killing and eventually coming to terms with their obsession over the case and one another.

Joe Middleton, also known as the infamous Christchurch Carver serial killer, is serving time in prison but he does not remember killing anyone, and while he waits for the psychiatrists to save him from execution, he is the target of sinister forces inside and outside the prison.

Twelve-year-old Allison, having watched her father almost kill a man, a crime for which he spent years in prison, comes to a new understanding of his actions at the age of forty when her daughter dies in a senseless accident during a summer marked by the burnings of the churches of historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Contains nineteen original stories, inspired by the television series "Twilight Zone" in which characters journey into the unknown and confront the strange, unique, and frightening.