Michael Laimo Books in Order

Approaching retirement, detective Frank Ballaro follows a blood trail outside his apartment and discovers two mutilated young men who remain inexplicably alive. A strange object clutched by one victim introduces a mystery that threatens his assumptions about survival.

Moving his family to a new home in Ashborough, New Hampshire, Michael Cayle expects to begin a different chapter of life. Instead, he discovers that the town conceals a dangerous secret connected to the woods behind their house.

Richard’s sleep brings visits from dead loved ones and a threatening stranger, while nightmares begin invading his waking life. As the boundary between the two states deteriorates, his wish for an ordinary existence becomes increasingly difficult to sustain.

Bev Mathers fears he is losing his mind as violent visions and voices intensify. Discovering that some images are real suggests a more terrifying explanation, and seeking a demonologist’s help may offer either rescue or a path toward deeper corruption.

Eighteen-year-old Johnny inherits a rundown Maine farmhouse and sees a way to escape his unhappy family. He does not know its former owner died attempting a brutal ritual for immortality, or that his arrival offers that spirit another opportunity.

Renovations uncover a buried crate beneath a church and release forces that should have remained hidden. Father Pilazzo’s hopeful restoration becomes a nightmare of visions and demonic violence, while vulnerable people inside struggle to survive an approaching confrontation.

After narrowly surviving the horrors near his home, Dr. Michael Cayle must return to rescue his wife and daughter. Their captors are the creatures inhabiting the surrounding woods, and finding his family may reveal a fate worse than death.

A troubled Manhattan fashion executive photographs a stranger who kisses him and vanishes into the crowd. Obsessed with finding her, Peter searches the city using that single image, as longing and the damage of his earlier life shape an increasingly dangerous pursuit.

Twenty-one horror stories follow ordinary people whose unremarkable days become encounters with lurking terrors. Spanning three decades of Michael Laimo’s writing, the collection combines previously collected pieces with four new tales and other selections from across his career.

These stories move between supernatural horror, bodily dread and the surreal disruptions of ordinary life. Subway travelers, small-town residents and people confronting changes within their own bodies encounter unsettling threats, alongside an original novella influenced by Lovecraft.

This collection brings together horror stories about people encountering demonic threats, monstrous impulses and disturbing breaks in ordinary life. Priests, travelers, police and outcasts face dangers ranging from supernatural incursions to violence hidden within seemingly familiar places.