Out in the darkness a mournful whistle howls, the ground shakes, and steam hisses as the Fright Train rumbles into the station.
Featuring stories by: Amanda Dewees Christopher Golden Scott Goudsward Bracken MacLeod Elizabeth Massie James A Moore Lee Murray Errick Nunnally Stephen Mark Rainey Charles R Rutledge Jeff Strand Tony Tremblay Mercedes M Yardley And Classic Stories by: Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle.
Just a willingness to travel to places unknown.
You don\'t need a ticket.
Don\'t worry about the shadows in the car or the strange-looking passengers.
Your seat is waiting.
Anyway, the conductor keeps glancing at his watch.
None are boring.
Many are terrifying.
One or two are humorous.
Some are just plain creepy.
They vary from Victorian-era ghost stories to contemporary chillers to dark fantasy.
We wanted a wide range of stories, and we got them.
Send readers on many dark and dangerous journeys.
That\'s what we hope to do with this book.
Those switches were used to direct trains to different sets of tracks, sending them to varying locations.
We decided to call ourselves The Switch House Gang, after the small buildings where manual track switches were housed.
The following summer at the North Eastern Writer\'s Conference, aka Camp Necon, we firmed up the plans, and Scott Goudsward joined as third co-editor.
We said we\'d enjoy writing that kind of story, and writer/publisher John McIlveen joined in and said he would publish such a book if we could get enough stories.
This anthology came about because co-editor Tony Tremblay and I were having a social-media discussion of horror stories involving trains.
Clive Barker took us for a ride on The Midnight Meat Train .
Manly Wade Wellman wrote about The Little Black Train , which comes for a sinner\'s soul.
Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, wrote of The Hellbound Train in the fifties.
Charles Dickens\' story The Signalman is considered a classic of horror.
Writers have long known the macabre romance of trains.
It is a mournful howl from a soulless traveler on a night journey to destinations unknown.
Don\'t think so? Anyone who has ever been awakened late at night by a distant Train whistle knows there is no lonelier sound.
There is something inherently creepy about trains.
Climb aboard and let 13 of today\'s best and two classic horror writers take you on night journeys to destinations unknown.
From the Victorian Age to contemporary times, fear rides the rails in these tales set on and around trains of all kinds.
Out in the darkness a mournful whistle howls, the ground shakes, and steam hisses as the Fright Train rumbles into the station
