Showing results by author "Shawn Weaver" in All Categories

The life of a graverobber has its up and downs, and over the years Mel Maay has led a comfortable life. Not needing much in the ways of comfort. Just a roof over his head and food on the table. Like everyone, years on the job take a toll on one’s body and Mel was no different. So, the need to change the ways on how he robs graves. Instead of digging, he began to break into mausoleums where he could rob at his leisure. Using the cover of a cold wintery night, Mel knew that he could take his time breaking into a mausoleum in the Oak Hill Cemetery. The possibility of a huge hall sits before ...

After destroying William Carpenter, the Master Vampire he followed from London to America, Jack Morrow, also known as Jack the Ripper, finds that his foe had powerful allies in New Orleans who mean to avenge their fallen leader. He soon finds himself tangled in a dangerous web of vampires and Vodou cultists who will stop at nothing to kill Jack the Ripper and end the wrath he has brought upon them. Among the Ripper’s new enemies is a powerful vampire who appears as a nine-year-old southern girl, determined to avenge her fallen Sire. She calls upon Victor, a Vampire Elder and his devious ...

Devastated by his failed sneak attack against a powerful mage in the Valley of Kenosh, Lord Jason Tolbridge finds himself behind enemy lines. With only weeks to spare before winter sets in. He must make his way across ruthless mountains to get back to the kingdom of Ishtabar. Along the way, he finds himself on the outskirts of a devastated town, surrounded by the tombstones of the unfortunate victims of Rose Marie. Worn and beaten, Jason soon finds himself on the wrong end of Marie’s claws, and is left for dead in the center of town. Rescued by an old couple, Jason is torn between leaving...

A routine high school field trip to the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home goes awry when the dead cease to adhere to the rules of the living. Is it safer to stay where the dead go for their final preparation, or to run into the streets to a quickly changing world that none can recover from. The short story, Chicago Undead 3: A Bad Way To Start Your Day. In combination with the novella, Chicago Undead 4: Field Trip. Create the novel, Chicago Undead Encounters. Read alone, or combined, to take a glimpse inside the last days of Chicago.

The entire "Ripper Trilogy" in one volume. London - 1888 The infamous Jack the Ripper makes headlines when he brutally murders women on the streets of Whitechapel. The papers claim these women to be the innocent victims of a madman, but if the world only knew the truth behind the grisly executions, perhaps they would understand… Jack the Ripper knows that a dangerous Vampire clan inhabits Whitechapel, and he is determined to destroy them to avenge the death of his fiancée who died at their hands and now languishes in Purgatory. Fueled by a deep passion to free his love, The Ripper will ...

The undead have taken over the streets of Chicago while Robin Briggs slept. Unaware of the changing world, he starts his day only to find himself trapped on the eleventh floor of his apartment building. Through his windows he sees the world go to hell as the world famous Navy Pier is overrun with the dead. But he’s not alone. There’s something on the eleventh floor with him. Walking the halls and in the other apartments. Is Robin is the last of the living? Will he survive what’s beyond the door to his apartment? Or will he succumb to the teeth of the dead?

Dive into the Chicago Undead experience. The combination of Chicago Undead 5: Ashes along with its prequel- Dust. A mix of love, romance, then horror as the undead start to rise on the streets of Chicago Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust DUST: No one knew what was coming in the month of July. But in the months prior, Pastor Dan Sullivan is leading his first congregation in the quiet Chicago suburb of Fox Lake. Little did he know that burying his predecessor, Pastor Daniel McGregor, would be such an arduous task. The church had little money and finding it would be hard. Knowing this, Pastor Dan ...

The undead have risen and the city of Chicago is their hunting grounds. Within the pages of UNDEAD OMNIBUS you will follow the path of Chicago’s final days with stories of raging horror.Chicago Undead: On the eleventh floor, the first in the groundbreaking story of one man’s journey as he wakes up to a city gone mad.Chicago Undead 2: Deep Freeze, follow the events as a lone survivor in the Chicago’s suburbs tries to survive the first winter after the end of the world.Chicago Undead 3: A Bad Way To Start Your DAY, take a step into the mind of John Khan as he wakes up on the slab in the...

The dead have begun to rise in the streets of Chicago. Unbeknownst, a school trip to the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home find themselves in caught with the dead inside, and outside, of the building. Quickly they come to realize that their only options are to hold up and wait for help, or try to escape to the local police station. Time is running out, and there is no telling if they will survive the morning. All the while a lone John Doe wakes on the other side of life. And finds himself struggling with what has happened and the need to feed. The novel, Chicago Undead Encounters, is a working ...

Everyone wants to have a good day. But its early in the morning in Chicago, and all is not right. Things are happening citywide, and as a John Kahn leaves his favorite coffee shop near Chinatown. He finds that being robbed and then attacked is A Bad Way To Start Your Day. Especially after he wakes in a funeral home during a high school field trip. Unable to move and ask for the help that he so desperately needs. He finds that there is there is nothing anyone can do for him. Take a step inside John’s mind as he fights between what he knows is right, and the need to feed. The short story, ...

Winter has fallen over Chicago and the dead blanket the land. Survival for most was counted by mere hours. Except for one teen who has been on the run since the first attack, just a few months ago. Now just outside of Chicago. She must hold up before the worst of winter sets in. Short of food, shelter and companionship, she finds that there is something worse than the dead wandering the streets. Something that want’s more than to devour her flesh. Will she make it to spring, or will the dead be the only thing escaping the city.

Jack wanted nothing more than to spend the weekend fishing with his family on the Mississippi River. Little did he know as he returned home after stocking up for the fun weekend ahead, that the world he knew had turned upside down. The dead have risen thrusting him into a fiery clash. Destroying his home and all he loved, leaving him with nothing more than his houseboat and a broken fishing line. Can the safety of the great Mississippi protect Jack, or will the dead follow him along its shores till the world is overrun. Included this this short story are first chapter previews of Shawn ...

Unaware of the vile task his partner in crime has planned during their last heist. Shane Clemis finds himself lost in a maze of darkness. While Don Williams tries to assault the woman who they think is sleeping in a bedroom upstairs. Little does Don know, the woman is not as defenseless as he expects. And when he opens her bedroom door to attack. He finds himself in a world of pain that there is no escaping from. Neither man can resist her. And only one will make it out Before Sunrise.

The circus is coming to Widows Hill. Bringing excitement to a rural Wisconsin town, and the possibility of romance for Paul Phillips and the girl of his dreams, Ja-an Mitchell. But something else is coming. Meteors crash just outside of town. Destroying Mr. Harpers chicken farm, and rapidly mutating spiders across the city. Leaving the unsuspecting citizens of Widows Hill scrambling to survive.

6734 word count short story. Sitting on the back porch of his home in Little Valley, Wisconsin, Chester Low is giving the interview of a lifetime. Speaking of how a lonely janitor ended up with a garden full of toxic waste, and the mutilated bodies of young women. Restless bodies buried deep in the ground asking for revenge. Speaking to Chester every night, calling to him to do what is right.

After the world that he had come to know and love came crashing down around his feet, Lord Jason Tolbridge, former Commander of the Royal Legions of Ishtabar, strove to find himself. This he did as he settled down into the life of a hermit on a lone island far from his homeland, though a force came all too soon that would change Jason's life forever. Steel, a brazen young solider determined to make a mark within Ishtabar's Royal Legions, arrives on the back of a young red dragon. at his father's dying request, Steel seeks out Jason to ask if he will train him in the ways of war for he longs...

For the first time in paperback, Shawn Weaver gives you six tales of horror. MISSISSIPPI DEAD: Follow Jack Piccoulty as a family weekend fishing trip turns deadly along the shores of the Mississippi River. IN THE GROUND: Sit on the back porch of a home in Little Valley, Wisconsin, and hear the tale of why there are so many women buried beneath a garden. CHICAGO UNDEAD 2: DEEP FREEZE: A young girl tries to survive the first winter after the undead rise. SALEM: Hear the lovelorn dream of a lonely man during the winter of 1693, and the death of his wife in the Salem witch trials. BEFORE ...

After the Union's devastating loss at Chancellorsville, the few surviving men of the 23 Illinois Regiment find themselves separated from the bulk of the Union army and behind Confederate lines. Alone and tired, this ragged band desperately try to make it back into friendly territory. With danger at every crossroad, they find themselves hunkered down at an old farmhouse, unaware the prior tenants have not moved on. One-by-one, the men of the 23 Regiment are cut down by beasts only spoken of in campfire stories. Within hours, the remainder of the regiment is decimated and only Johnathan ...

Every twenty-five years women go missing in Plainfield, Wisconsin. A city haunted by the legend of the deranged murderer Ed Gein. On the fiftieth anniversary of the destruction of homestead where Gein did his despicable deeds, paranormal investigators Kay Stanley and Anita Harper set out on a day time investigation just to see what evidence they could collect. That is, if any souls still haunted the graveyards and places that Ed Gein did his dirty work. Little do they know that the shocking photographic evidence that they accumulated would lead them on a trail of fear and a realization that...

Little did Jay Briggs know that the world was coming to an end when he set out to deliver ashes to the Saint Beda Catholic Church in Fox Lake, Illinois. The fourth of July weekend was approaching and all he wanted to do was get this done and party. But the world had other designs as he was thrust into a new experience in delivering the dead to their final resting place. The only problem was escaping the quiet church and cemetery that suddenly turned a place of God to a house of horrors.