Four Critically Acclaimed Short Novels in One Dark Fiction Collection
Bad People brings together four gripping short novels that explore the darkest corners of human nature and survival. This collection showcases psychological thrillers and horror stories that will keep you turning pages late into the night.
Box of Bones
Jim is an American expat teaching English in the Philippines. After a night out with his girlfriend in one of the country's remote provinces, he wakes to find himself in a pitch-black coffin--and quickly running out of oxygen. With only his cell phone and his own wits to rely on, it's a race against time to escape the claustrophobic death trap.
Six Bullets
The end of civilization arrived in the form of a giant asteroid thirteen months ago. For Burt James, a survivalist, it was not a complete surprise. He'd spent much of his adult life prepping for such a catastrophe. Consequently, while the majority of the population scoured the post-apocalyptic landscape for water and food, regressing into primitive killers, he bunkered down in his fortified hilltop home in a small town in the middle of the Australian Outback. But now he's out of food and down to his last six bullets, and he will have to make the most difficult choice of his life.
The Mailman
Los Angeles, 1985. Never was the motto sex, drugs, and rock n' roll more apt than the scene on the legendary Sunset Strip with the arrival of the underground Hollywood glam bands.
While Mick Freeman, a record executive with a major label, works tirelessly to sign five toxic rockers whom he believes might flip the entire music world on its head, his wife, Jade, spends her days bored and alone at home, struggling with a midlife crisis that threatens to topple their twenty-year marriage.
And then she meets the new mailman. Young and handsome, he sweeps her off her feet--straight into a nightmare the likes of which she could never have imagined.
Re-roll
In the near future, breathtakingly humanoid robots called Mechs are for sale, and they're designed to fulfill whatever role you want: husband, wife, best friend, slave. Manufacturers allow new owners one free "roll" to randomly determine their Mech's three leading characteristics. But as everybody knows, scoring your ideal traits is a crapshoot, though you can always re-roll--at a price.
Perfect for Thriller and Horror Fans
This collection delivers intense psychological suspense across diverse settings--from the claustrophobic terror of burial alive in the Philippines to post-apocalyptic survival in the Australian Outback, 1980s Los Angeles noir, and dystopian near-future scenarios. Each novella explores human nature under extreme circumstances, making this an essential read for fans of dark fiction and psychological thrillers.
