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These are tales of unrelenting horror and terror from the mind of Bryan W. Alaspa, author of RIG, Sapphire, Storyland, S.P.I.D.A.R., and other tales of horror, terror, and suspense. These five stories will make you wonder what lurks - when the night comes out.

For Garland, the move to California is just what his family needs to finally find comfort and success. After years of failed businesses, this may be their last chance. However, making the journey across the dangerous Sierra Nevadas is potentially deadly business in the 1800s. The journey is long and arduous.

Chicago, 1957. Two sisters, the Haines sisters, have gone missing and the entire city is in an uproar. As word of their disappearance spreads across the country, two police detectives are assigned the arduous tasks of finding them alive or bringing their bodies home. However, as the two hardened cops begin to investigate, they soon find that things are not as cut and dry as they thought. This is not a simple kidnapping.

Rig 42, the largest and most advanced oil rig the world has ever known, has just hit something. The airwaves fill with the sounds of screaming, terror, and torture, and then there is silence. Now, the biggest oil rig in the world sits quietly. But something evil has infiltrated the massive structure. The company is desperate to find out what's happened. A team of mercenaries and oil rig experts is dispatched to determine what the danger is and if it can be eliminated.

A strange man walks up to the customs counter at O'Hare International Airport. He carries a passport, driver's license, papers, all of it looking legit. There's just one thing that causes the customs agent to raise the alarm - the passport and license are from a country that does not and has never existed. Then he vanishes.

***A CHILLING SHORT STORY OF 3,000 WORDS*** The universe makes mistakes. The horrific thing is what happens when it finally decides to fix those mistakes. One man tells his story of the young man he met in college. The lessons he learned then, are chilling about how the universe works. A chilling, strange, short story from the author of The Man From Taured, Storyland, Sapphire, and The Revisionists.

The town of Whittier is isolated in Alaska, and the people all live within towers once used by the military. The tourist season is over, and winter is on the way. Then, a body washes up on shore. A body that says it's from the government facility across the sound at Esther Island. With a storm coming, the citizens of Whittier have to deal with this on their own. They put the body in the basement of the towers, but their doctor wants to find out what killed this man. Was it a disease? How dangerous is it? Then, the horror begins.

When Ned wakes up one morning he finds that his childhood best friend Martin Brace has brutally murdered four people - in front of a child. It seems to have come out of nowhere, but for it to have happened in the same town where a young boy named Billy Marsterson vanished decades before, it seems like horrific bad luck. Ned heads home, to find answers, compelled to go because of memories that the story causes to surface and he cannot recall fully. What happened all of those years back when Billy vanished? What did it have to do with the role-playing game he and Martin played as a child called Storyland? Why can't he remember?

Warren Hollis is a seasoned true-crime writer. He likes to submerge himself in the local culture when he writes, so he packs his essentials and heads to Knorr, Pennsylvania. It's a tiny town in western PA, the kind of town most people on their way to Pittsburgh or New York would drive right past. It's a town full of friendly, smiling people, but it hides a dark past. Years ago, a man began sneaking into the bedrooms of young girls and taking them under the cover of night. Days later, a grisly calling card would be left for the families to find.

When successful author Jeremy Liden takes his friends up to his vacation cabin in the wilds of Wisconsin, he was hoping for a relaxing weekend. What he gets instead is a never-ending ordeal of snarling terror as he and his guests become trapped inside by an unrelenting menace that does not understand mercy. By the time the night is through, not everyone is going to make it home in one piece.

Deklan Falls is a broken man in a corrupt city. Once he was a cop in Oldtowne, a small city in eastern Ohio that most people don’t know about, and those who live there wish they could forget. Then he became a corrupt cop. Then he became a crusader private eye, and then, when his world blew apart, he crawled into a bottle to die. Then, one day, a filmmaker walks into his office because Deklan can be bought cheap.

The town of Darrick, Illinois, is buried in snow. A crippling blizzard has covered the small town, bringing it to a standstill. The next morning, as the residents try to dig themselves out, a strange thing is seen on the horizon. Three men, dressed in black, walk down the center of the only road in and out of town. Why do they instill fear in all who see them? What are their intentions? Who can help, when the world is buried in feet of snow? This is a day the town of Darrick is not going to forget.

Kiersten’s just a hard-working lawyer who loves to shop yard and garage sales for a bargain. However, she gets a lot more than she bargained for the night she stops at a yard sale held by a woman and her weird, mysterious, grandmother. She finds a very old ornate box and within is a pair of very old sunglasses. She’s told they’re probably the oldest sunglasses she’ll ever find. Except that when Kiersten puts these glasses on, it does more than block out the sun. They’re coming now. They can see her. And they’ll come right through Kiersten to get into our world. A short story ...

**A HORRIFYING SHORT STORY BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MAN FROM TAURED** Stockboro Island is located just off the coast of Maine. Idyllic, peaceful. A tourist attraction during the summer months. When a biological disaster on the mainland begins to spread across the globe, the residents watch in fear. What will happen to them when they can’t communicate with the mainland? More importantly, what happens if the mainland tries to reach out to them? The residents of Stockboro will need to make some very hard decisions quickly. How far will they go to protect themselves? Their island? How far will ...

Cal Trove is one of the most powerful men on the planet. He runs the most successful technology company every built. Everyone owns a Trove phone, laptop or some other Trove technology component. Now, Trove has invited his old college friends to his Island home base to talk to them about a new piece of technology. Something which will change things.

A horror fiction anthology podcast featuring the writing of horror author Bryan Alaspa and the narration of voice talent Allie James. Support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/whenthenightcomesoutBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/when-the-night-comes-out--5341722/support.

Totality is the most luxurious resort the Hart Hospitality Organization has ever built. Located on the beautiful tropical island of St. Andrews, this is set to be the biggest resort property the company has ever created. There's just one problem; the man they've put in charge of it - a man named Silas Kirs - just might be insane. The Hart Organization sends one man to spy on Silas for them: report back, tell them what's happening, and do what he can to make sure the resort opening during a total eclipse of the sun goes off without a hitch.

One day, Nick Winters gets a package in the mail. Inside is a hat. However, this hat is more than just a black fedora. It is infused with the latest technology that will enhance Nick's already amazing abilities to near-superhuman levels. The problem is that some other people want that technology back. People who helped design it but now want to use it for nefarious purposes. Oh, and each time he uses the hat, it's also slowly killing him.

Deklan Falls, private investigator and former cop, works for the DA to try to clean up the police force while also hoping to stop the coming gang war that threatens to destroy the city. Now, a billionaire industrialist is bringing the process known as fracking to Oldtowne with the promise of jobs and prosperity. Threats have been made, and the DA wants Deklan Falls to figure out who's threatening and why. Then someone ends up dead. Deklan soon finds that, as per usual, nothing is clear cut in Oldtowne.

In October of 1933 a plane carrying seven people exploded and crashed over Chesterton, Indiana, on its way to Chicago, killing all on board. The crash shocked the small community of Chesterton, but what really shocked the country was the revelation that it was a bomb that brought the plane down. The airline industry was new, and the news of a bomb was potentially disastrous to an industry still trying to prove itself safe to a skeptical public.