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Self-Consumed contains the title story as well as Bagged, Tagged, & Buried. Both tales were featured in the out of print Journals of Horror anthology. They are both reprinted here for the first time and have been polished and edited. In Self-Consumed, a wealthy businessman who killed a young girl while drunk-driving discovers that guilt isn't the only thing that will eat someone alive.

The unhappy man sits in a motel room with the call girl. The only thing that makes the unhappy man a happy man is a strange and dark fetish. But it does make quite a mess.

Lucas Glover is a local psychic who assists the police. Lucas' supernatural abilities are faltering, and his health has been greatly affected by his gift. He is brought in by the police commissioner to help profile and track down the Keepsake Killer. The Keepsake Killer is a mass murder who has eluded the police for almost two decades. Lucas is partnered with William Harlson, a hard as nails, skeptical and terminally ill homicide detective who sees stopping the killer as his last hurrah.

What Price Gory? is the new horror collection from Terry M. West, the critically-acclaimed author of A Psycho's Medley and the filmmaker best known for Flesh for the Beast. What Price Gory? is a collection of weird supernatural stories. Monsters and demons dwell in these tales.

Prepare to scream forever! Howie Payne and Nick Enlow work the midnight shift at Big Carl’s Video Transfer and Media Services. An odd AVI clip begins to appear in their public drive on a nightly basis. At first Howie and Nick think it’s a serialized art house horror film someone on the day shift is sending them in secret. As the clips progress, however, the now obsessed duo discover something deeper and darker in the videos.

Beneath a dead, forgotten city in north central Texas, an ancient evil strengthens. Guarded by a collection of monsters, demons, and freaks of nature, Gate 4 is our only defense. As long as its dark keepers remain on our side. Part One: The Eater: Paul Marrane is a forever man cursed with the bite that never heals. The hunger that never ends. Ambushed outside a honky tonk in Lake Worth, Texas, Paul is taken to the deep underground bunker of Gate 4 where the secrets of his past and the purpose of the gate intersect.

Now a part of Gate Four, the cursed slackers Cecil and Bubba are sent in to flush out the god of the woods. The Rose Man torments Billy Monroe. Mr. Blickenderfer brings the hunter to life. Dunlavey confronts Binh Pham.

At a quiet Honky Tonk on the night of a dark anniversary, Dunlavey discusses his journey to Gate 4 with a dead companion. The Rose Man makes a move. A familiar duo is recruited.

Billy Monroe is a shadow man who lives hidden in the forest with his young sister Susie. Billy wears many masks to convey his moods to his sister and to conceal the monster that can barely restrain its appetite for human flesh. A brilliant scientist before the lab explosion that killed him and then brought him back as a blue specter of death, Billy is hunted by Lucas Glover and Paul Marrane. They must risk everything to reach the man trapped in the deranged mind of an unstoppable zombie.

A road buddy from Paul Marrane's past creates an army of zombies at a commune near Boyd, Texas. Mr. Blickenderfer digs up a new threat for the gate. Billy Monroe discovers a horrifying connection between the lab accident that killed him and the energy emitting from Gate 4.

In a dark, lustful, and treacherous world where monsters exist among us, Gary Hack is a drug addict and pornographer living in New York City. Having lost everything to his addiction, Gary begins a dangerous and soul-stunting descent into the world of underground monster fetish porn.

During a furlough in the high Chancellor's bunker, Dr. Morgan is hailed a hero and taken off the front lines. But he soon realizes that someone has altered his lifebrand and lifted the veil that concealed the greatest deception ever perpetrated. Dr. Morgan has just become the most dangerous man in the wastelands. And when he discovers who the real enemy is, the revelation unleashes a fury strong enough to destroy what is left of the earth. All of the Flesh Served is a disturbing vision of what could one day come.

After a mid-season break, Gate 4 returns with a bloody bang! Part 6: "From a Place Hell Fears" picks up where Part 5 ended. Part 6 is a double-sized episode. Lucas' first two encounters with the demon known as the Car Nex are recounted. Dunlavey's actions in Binh Pham's cell drives a wedge between him and Lucas. Paul Marrane and Dottie Tenner are affected in a strange way by Hattie Mae Reynold's charms. Billy Monroe's newfound sanity is tested. Blickenderfer finds The Rose Man. Dreg meets a kindred monster.

In the small Texas town of Pleasant Storm during the summer of 1985, Chuck Beall embarks on a journey of brutality and madness. Convinced he's possessed by a demon that compels him to kill, Chuck's murderous attention shifts from random transients to those he blames the most for his abusive past.

Liam and Pierce live in a country ravaged by a strange sickness. It’s called the CRUD, and it turns its victims into rabid killing machines known as the "plaguers". The authorities wage constant war to keep the plaguers from overrunning the towns, boroughs, and cities. Liam and Pierce are plumbers sent to the infected zones to keep the taps and sewers flowing. They preserve the dwindling resources of their homeland.

In this highly-acclaimed horror novelette by Terry M. West, Calvin Winslow is an unhappily married man who takes a late night exit and finds a hellish back road.

In a decaying world that's lost its battle against the undead, a group of desperate survivors search for shelter deep in the Texas woods. But they discover something far worse than the dead that command the world. Prepare to meet the Him Deep Down! Authors Chad Lutzke ( Night as a Catalyst) and Terry M. West ( What Price Gory?) team together to offer a zombie novelette with a different kind of bite.

The Giving of Things Cold & Cursed is a haunting tale by critically acclaimed horror author Terry M. West. Baker Johnson is a flawed parapsychologist in the year 1925. After the death of Richard Johnson, Baker inherits his uncle's estate and moves into the legendary psychic researcher's home. But he soon discovers that the Black Room of the property, the place where haunted items are safely contained, has been emptied. This is a brand-new and never-before-published short story.

In this follow-up novella, Cecil and Bubba spend what they think will be an uneventful Halloween night at McGee's Gas, Garage, and 24 Hour Convenience center, until they are joined by a new and unlikely ally. Soon after that, a pair of FBI agents brings a van in for emergency service work. The agents are hauling a weird cargo and Rosalita's curse soon causes an ancient evil to rise and walk the earth once more.

Pleasant Storm Entertainment, Inc., presents a blood-soaked collection featuring some of the most disturbing horror fiction that author Terry M. West has ever written! These stories revolve around the human monster known as the psychopath. West closely examines the twisted souls and crimson fantasies of these killers. Take this journey through terror that is all too real and you may never feel safe again!