Dreams from the Edge of Reality: 27 Frightening, Funny, and Fantastic Tales

Meet the desperate and the devious, the tortured and the treacherous, the courageous and the corrupt. A fugitive breaks into an old country chapel to escape from something far more terrifying than prison.Gods and mortals unite in combat against slithering demons in famine-stricken Finland.A man with the uncanny ability to hear death approaching acquires a haunted car with a sinister past.Travel to Ireland where an ancient artifact regenerates severed limbs while healing old family wounds.A boy and his dog remain loyal to one another until the bitter end... and beyond.At a Halloween festival, a distraught young woman confronts her past traumas in a haunted corn maze.A young couple steals away over the holidays to become engaged—until reality disintegrates around them.And much more.----"Phil Giunta weaves a tapestry of real magic with these tales of darkness, hope, fear, and wonder. Dreams from the Edge of Reality takes us from the shadows of the heart to the farthest reaches of nightmare!” — Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Red Empire and Ghosts of the Void and five-time Bram Stoker Award winner----“Lots of people write scary stories. It takes a writer like Phil Giunta to find the humanity in them. You'll never look at a ghost the same way again.” — Michael Jan Friedman, New York Times bestselling author----“Phil Giunta’s diverse and delightful collection of stories is truly a literary smorgasbord—and you won't leave hungry.”— Weldon Burge, author of Harvester of Sorrow----“Dreams from the Edge of Reality presents twenty-seven "What if...?" tales spawned by the prolific imagination of Phil Giunta. Ranging from mysterious to macabre, fantastical to funny, this collection should entertain any reader with the fortitude to follow that fogbound road deep into Twilight Zone territory.” — Howard Weinstein, New York Times bestseller and author of Galloway's Gamble, winner of the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Read more