RESTLESS SHADES takes us through ten different tales of lurking horror at its finest. The scarefest begins from the start of the book and doesn?t let the reader off the rollercoaster ride of shrills and thrills until the final page. If you?re looking for a feeling of dreadful enchantment, Paul Melniczek’s book RESTLESS SHADES can satisfy an appetite for horror. His tales are beyond what the generation X?rs are raised on - the typical slasher and gashers... RESTLESS SHADES is sure to send those chills down your back and send horror connoisseurs into a heart-thumping of fun!

"Frightful October" takes you across shadowed cornfields and along the twilight streets of suburban neighborhoods, beneath dark forests and through haunted houses, in this short story collection centered around Halloween and the darker aspects of the fall month. These chilling tales can be whispered before an autumn bonfire, or in the confines of an evening chair, but regardless of the surroundings, the terrifying atmosphere has already been set in place, and you're the invited guest. You'll have shivers crawling your spine, as you turn each dreadful page of this wickedly delightful book.

Herman Melville said it best when he proclaimed that every path eventually leads to the sea. For it is the sea that holds our most sacred and terrifying fears, yet it also holds a glorious mysticism over us as a race, an attraction so strong that most of us flock to beaches, river banks, creeks, and lakes at every opportunity to stare out into the vast blueness and wonder: what's out there?

Take my hand, Dear Reader, and swim with me through this journey of sixteen tales of watery terror. As we swim, if something reaches out of the darkness and gropes for your ankle, if something pulls you deeper into the depths of liquid madness, if your breath is stolen from you and you find yourself inhaling nothing but muddied water... do not fear, for it is just the ocean reclaiming what is already hers: your soul.

Throughout mankind's history, there has always been a fear of the dark and the strange. A terror of things which hide within shadows, and what may emerge from inside them... Perhaps another world brushes against our own, leaving a doorway open for something fantastic and malevolent to enter. Legendary creatures - have they ever existed? And if so, do they still walk the earth, in perpetual twilight, unknown and dangerous?