Rick Hautala – författare

A blizzard is slamming into Vermont, but it doesn't matter to Meg Clark. She knows she'll be trapped in her music store in the shopping mall overnight with a small crew of her employees doing one final inventory.But after they're locked in for the night, they realize this isn't a normal winter storm. Ghastly faces appear in the store windows and disappear in a swirl of wind-blown snow. Dark, mysterious figures loom in and out of sight in the darkened corridors of the mall. Ghostly voices shriek inside the howling blasts of winter wind. Soon Meg and the others are besieged by something too terrifying to imagine.Before the night is over, a terrible secret from Meg's past will come back to haunt her and the group's only chance to survive will be to go out into the raging storm that's trying to kill them...

It has been five years since Kip Howard saw his mother killed horribly by a blur of "e;little brown things."e; Five years of nightmares and a terror of dark places. Five years of struggling to overcome what must have been just his imagination…But the "e;untcigahunk,"e; the Indian word for "e;little brothers,"e; are no one's imagination. Hideous forest creatures who feed every five years on human flesh, the little brothers are about to emerge from underground once again. Only this time, there will be no escape for the young boy who witnessed their last feast.Untcigahunk -- The Novel is an updated version of Rick Hautala's classic novel Little Brothers. Also included are seven short stories about the untcigahunk:Little BrotherLittle Brother SpeaksRedmanChrysalisLove on the RocksDeal with the DevilsThe Birch WhistleOilman

Available for the first time, The Horror... The Horror provides a look into the life and mind of author Rick Hautala. From his days as a child in Massachusetts, to his days in college at the University of Maine in Orono, to the early days of his writing career along with Stephen King's involvement, and ultimately to where his life and career stood in 2009, his autobiography is a compelling read to be enjoyed by friends and fans alike.

This collection, from an acclaimed Master of Dark Fiction, consists of twenty-one tales with some being straight genre entries, others psychological terror and finally a few shorts that include science fiction elements. The first eighteen are short stories written solely by Rick and the final three are collaborations with Jesse and Matti Hautala, Matthew J. Costello, and Jim Connolly.The stories included are:The NephewsNightmare TranscriptNon-returnableDead LegendsI've Been Thinking About YouThe Man Who Looked Like MurphyToxic ShockThe CallGetting the Job DoneEvery Mother's SonKnockingHotel HellThe Compost HeapIron FrogSetupThe Gates of DawnOff the CuffThe Screaming HeadAbduction (written with Jesse and Matti Hautala)And the Sea Shall Claim Them (written by Matthew J. Costello and A. J. Matthews)Scared Crows (written with Jim Connolly)

HIDDEN TOYSThe old house in Maine gave Beth the creeps. She couldn't believe they were really moving in. If it weren't for the wooden doll she had found in the closet of her new bedroom, she would have been miserable. But the strange hand-carved figure fascinated her, and she sensed with a child's instinct that she had to hide it from her parents...HIDDEN EVILIt was a house of darkness and shadows, but with her secret doll, Beth wasn't afraid. Not even when she heard the scratching and whispering at night. Not even when the tall, massive stones of her dreams began to ooze with blood. For as she stared into the eyes of the wooden doll, she heard it call to her and felt the force of its evil power. And she knew that it was about to tell her what she had to do...

Previously published as Moon Walker and with a new introduction from Matthew Costello.In Dyer, Maine, the dead won't stay buried!The people of Dyer liked their quaint little farming community just the way it was. So they didn't question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town. No one talked about the hideous screams that shattered their sleep, nor asked why the lights at the funeral parlor blazed long into the night. And they never... never... discussed the eerie figures seen harvesting the potato fields by day — the slow, lumbering hulks with expressionless features and a blood-chilling deadness behind their eyes...Engineer Dale Harmon was unaware of the unspeakable evil that infested the sleepy New England village. But now Harmon and four others are about to face an unstoppable onslaught of bloody terror that will far surpass their most gruesome nightmares. For the siege is about to begin. And the army of the dead takes no prisoners!

ONLY THE DEAD ARE TRULY SAFE.A young girl killed on a desolate highway. A mother agonized by unceasing guilt.In the vivid light of day, in the nightmare depths of sleep, her daughter calls to her from the grave.And soon she'll know if the voices she hears are a warning from a loved one…or do they speak of a revenge beyond the limits of death itself?Don't believe your ears.

It doesn't end with death.David Robinson's life has taken several turns for the worse: first his daughter dies, then his marriage crumbles, and his career as a mystery writer falls apart. But after he is killed in a hit-and-run accident, David quickly learns that he will face his most harrowing challenges—as a Wraith in the Shadowlands.Unable to contact or influence the world of the living, David's agony is made worse when he learns that his ex-wife's relationship with a dangerous man named Tony Ranieri has put her life at risk. Tony possesses—and is possessed by—a relic filled with such awesome powers of destruction that dark forces within the Shadowlands will stop at nothing to obtain it. They'll even spur Tony to murder and manipulate the soul of David's daughter to force his cooperation.But David is already dead, and he knows that power is a blade that cuts two ways.