C. Dennis Moore

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  • Bibliography:
    80 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2004
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 80 titles

  • Camdigan

    Horror author C. Dennis Moore (author of THE THIRD FLOOR and REVELATIONS) takes you to the streets of Camdigan, a town literally in the middle of nowhere, the place where the dead come to live.David has wound up there by accident, but a chance encoun...

  • The Book of Monsters

    Ten of the most talented new horror authors rise to the challenge of creating original fiction using the classic monsters of the genre. Contributors include Adrienne Jones, Steve Vernon, Alex Severin, David Bain, and Cullen Bunn....

  • Terrible Thrills

    Horror author C. Dennis Moore returns with his first short story collection, the one that prompted CEMETERY DANCE magazine to call him "an author worth keeping an eye on." When the original publisher went out of business, the book went out of prin...

  • Coming Down the Mountain

    A group of explorers seeking the ancient Greek gods atop Mount Olympus find what they're looking for, and more in horror author C. Dennis Moore's Coming Down the Mountain.Goodmanson, Seamoon and Toomey didn't believe Barrett when he said he'd found i...

  • Cuneiforms

  • Icons to Ashes

    In a time when the undead bloodsuckers of legend have become a shadow of their former selves thanks to watered-down romance novels like TWILIGHT and the SOOKIE STACKHOUSE series, horror author C. Dennis Moore returns the icons to their forme...

  • Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment

  • Renovation

    Jack just wants to spend the day job hunting online and taking care of his young son Max, who’s napping up in his room. Everything is going as well as can be expected when a noise in the house catches Jack’s attention.It’s just the dryer, he t...

  • Short Stuff: 5 Stories



  • Maggie Andrews Gets the Facts

    Maggie is a magazine writer, specializing in unexplained theological mysteries. Maggie is also about to be out of a job unless she can land a big story. Enter a mysterious rich eccentric who tells Maggie he’s admired her work and wants to share h...

  • Revenge of the Roach King

    He'd said the noises were finally too much for him. Said he couldn't sleep with the constant scritching and scratching in the walls and over the floors.In Revenge of the Roach King, an exterminator is called to the apartment of his brother Jerry, who...

  • Love in the Time of Science

    Martin is a brilliant man who has been harboring a grief he can't express in words, but one he is trying to overcome with science.In Love in the Time of Science, horror author C. Dennis Moore turns his attention to science fiction when Clara discover...

  • Blood Bitch

    The Blood Bitch comes in the night to eat children through the mouth in her stomach.When Jason wakes up in the middle of the night to feel himself being suffocated, his father, Allen, tells him the Blood Bitch is coming for him. This story is based o...

  • Dancing on a Razorblade

    DANCING ON A RAZORBLADE, is 45,000 words of intense, hard-hitting horror fiction that refuses to let up until the bloody end.Starting with the first story, “Cuneiforms”, which finds a quartet of carpoolers following a strange school bus full of s...

  • In the Veins

  • The Legend of Mr. Cairo

    Morghan Stanley thinks today is going to be just another typical day on the job--until he's knocked unconscious. And then he wakes up, bound in a basement, and the beautiful woman beside him tells him she's going to exorcise the demon living inside h...

  • The Son of Man

    Three friends discover a very strange shape in the clouds hanging above their neighborhood. By the time they realize it’s not going away--in fact, it seems to be growing--it’s too late; the words of fate have already begun to ring in their ears....

  • Illusion is a Synonym for Dream

    Are You Dreaming Your Life Away?In Illusion Is a Synonym for Dream, horror author C. Dennis Moore takes the reader on a surreal trip through a world that is part dream, part reality, but never really either. Our narrator has been convinced from an ea...

  • Plaything

    Philip Gordon is having a long, tiring night at work. But it only gets worse when he looks up from the break room table to see himself walking into the room.Horror author C. Dennis Moore's Plaything is a story that delves into the question of identit...



  • The Man in the Window

    **REVISED AND EXPANDED**Angel Hill is not a place to be taken lightly. For many, it's the sort of town you escape from, not one you move into. And those who do often find the ghosts of their past have a way of following them. When Todd Morgan finally...

  • Raw Materials

    Horror author C. Dennis Moore's short story Raw Materials takes place in the forgotten town of Ockerville, Missouri when Simmons takes the wrong exit and finds himself lost in the maze of the town's streets. When he stops to use the bathroom in a loc...

  • The Caterpillar

    It was only supposed to be temporary, a place to stay when he returned home, just until he got back on his feet. Then he woke up to find his cousin and her husband gone, vanished in the night. But that was only the start. What they left behind was so...

  • Five Fates

  • Five Fantasies

    A collection of stories from the deadly realm of the fantastic. This book contains 5 reprints from TERRIBLE THRILLS, "Coming Down the Mountain", "Luck of the Draw", "In the Town of Broken Dreams", "Angel of No Me...

  • Safe at Home

  • Two Tales

    Angels have been the subject of stories and novels since the beginning of recorded history, and humanity is still no closer to finding out the truth about these creatures. Are they sent here to help us? We certainly hope so.In horror author C. Dennis...

  • Working for the Fat Man

    What if Santa’s list served a more selfish and sinister purpose? The Christmas season has never seemed so bleak as Santa scans his list searching for those few possibilities, the children who will be able to serve his purpose best, the purpose of ...

  • Genres

  • Revelations

    A MAN FROZEN IN TIME... Geoffrey was an experiment in cryogenics. But someone forgot to wake him up...fifty years ago! Now he's awake and finding out the world isn't exactly the way he left it. HELL ON EARTH... The Lord led the righteous to Heaven an...



  • With Just a Hint of Mayhem

    This book collects in one place C. Dennis Moore's first three short story collections, "Terrible Thrills", "Icons to Ashes" and "Dancing on a Razorblade". Over 350 pages of short horror fiction from the author Cemetery Dance Magazine called "an au...

  • Welcome to the Trust

  • Biscuithead

    Cody thought he could get away with it. But he forgot what his mother said happens to bad children.Horror author C. Dennis Moore (the Angel Hill series, the Monsters of Green Lake series, the Holiday Horrors) brings you this 4500-word story for fans ...

  • The League of Liars

    Trevor grimaced when the eggs suddenly started beating like tiny yellow hearts. With these words, horror author C. Dennis Moore begins one of his strangest tales yet.After an encounter with a mysterious stranger, Maya wakes in the next town over with...

  • Epoch Winter

    RUNNING FROM HIS PASTYahto is a Lakotan man trying to escape the sins of his past by throwing himself headlong into a forced solitude in the Canadian Rockies. Haunted by the memories of bloodshed at Little Big Horn, he is trying desperately to forge...

  • The Third Floor

    Hell House. The Amityville Horror. The Haunting of Hill House.Horror author C. Dennis Moore invites you to the newest haunted house on the block, a place so mean, even in a town where strange is the norm, the stories surrounding this house are legend...

  • Into the Darkness

    INTO THE DARKNESS was first published as a magazine in the mid-1990s by David G. Barnett, and included stories by now-respected names in the horror fiction world: Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob, John Everson, Gerard Houarner, D.F. Lewis and dozens more. A...

  • Martin Luther King. Jr. Day

    For nearly three decades, one man has used his twisted sense of justice to rid the world of racism and hatred by very simple means: he finds and kills racists.But on his very first outing, one victim escaped his bullet. Now, thirty years later, that...

  • New Year's Day

    It’s New Year’s Day, a time for new beginnings and setting the stage for things to come. Factory worker Kevin usually starts with a day off, but this year he’s working the usually year-end inventory. He is disgruntled, but doing as he’s ask...

  • Aftermath

    The end isn’t nigh. It’s here. When Stacy wakes up one morning after a pretty bad drunk, she wonders where her husband and son have gone. Then she wonders where her neighbors have gone. Then the rest of the town. She wanders into the street,...



  • The Dichotomy of Monsters

    Horror author C. Dennis Moore returns to the short story form with this latest collection, THE DICHOTOMY OF MONSTERS, fifteen terrifying tales of things that aren’t what they seem. Moore’s reality will leave you questioning your own senses and d...

  • Just One Fix

    In this sort of prequel to IT'S OVER, Dwayne and Scott are headed to an out of the way place to make a score on a hot Texas afternoon in 1977. Dwayne is in dire need of a fix and as the day wears on he's not entirely sure if the hallucinati...

  • Underground

  • Groundhog Day

    Oscar has finally had it. The vermin have done enough damage to his yard, and it’s time to settle the score. But extermination isn’t enough. He wants revenge. So during the winter, while the creatures are sleeping, Oscar has come up with a pl...

  • The Fish in the Fields

    Work on the farm never ends. With his father laid up in bed with a brain injury, and his brother Stu finally returned home and lazy as ever, it's up to Wyatt to don his gloves and gather up the fish that appear in the fields every morning. They're la...

  • Five Fictions

    Five Fictions is a sampler of short stories from horror author C. Dennis Moore’s various collections, Terrible Thrills, Icons to Ashes, Dancing On a Razorblade, The Dichotomy of Monsters, and What the Blind Man Saw.The stories in this book run the ...

  • The Ghosts of Mertland

    Mandy is about to start as a caregiver at the Mertland Childrens’ Home in Angel Hill, Missouri, a town that keeps its secrets by hiding them in plain sight. For the Mertland Home, this means ghosts.Word around town is the place is haunted, and for ...

  • Three Sides of the Same Coin

    Less than a month after being published, The Third Floor was the #1 novel on Amazon’s GHOST chart, a position it held for over half of 2013. Since then, the Angel Hill novels--which include The Third Floor, The Ghosts of Mertland, The Flip, and Th...

  • The Flip

    HARD TIMES.After almost two decades, Mike finds himself out of a job. With no prospects in Angel Hill, he decides to go into business for himself. He and his friends, Brian, Steven and Keith, form a company to buy cheap houses and flip them for qui...

  • Grim City

    The Justice League. The Avengers. The X-Men. These are four color fantasies. In the real world, things aren't always pretty. Fifty years ago, three of Earth's most powerful heroes joined forces to repel an alien attack. A decade later, a new roster t...



  • Carlotta Valdez

    There are many ghosts that wander the halls of the Mertland Childrens’ Home in Angel Hill. The story of what happened to Carlotta Valdez has grown into legend, but the truth is very, very different. For one angry young woman, Mertland has a way o...

  • David Bain Must Die

  • The Night

    There’s a darkness falling over town, and it’s trying to wipe out the worst of the worst. High school student by day, vigilante by dark, THE NIGHT is part Batman, part Spider-Man, with only one goal: clean up his neighborhood and his city.But ho...

  • The Return of Alison Wonderland

    They’re Retrieval Specialist, and they’re the best there is.Snow and Cinder, operatives of an organization called The Kingdom, have been tasked with one of their most dangerous missions: find former teammate Alison Wonderland and bring her back a...

  • David Bain Must Die(t)!

    David Bain is a writer who has lost his motivation. And if that's not bad enough, his friend is writing a story in which David dies. Or diets? He's not really clear on the outcome. Either way, he leaves their weekly writers' lunch feeling no bett...

  • Love Jones

  • The Werewolves of Green Lake

    David Reed is struggling. He’s working two jobs to make ends meet, trying not to resent the fact his wife makes so much more than he does, and to top it all off, he’s just totaled his car after swerving to avoid hitting a very large animal in the...

  • Woolly Muffler

    For eighteen years, Jason has heard the talk around town, but he’s never actually seen any of Angel Hill’s ghosts. Until one night at a Senior party, he hears a noise upstairs and decides to check it out.He tells himself the key to freeing a gho...

  • Flagpole Sitta

    Angel Hill has always been a place where the unexplainable is commonplace. The residents have accepted this in a don’t ask, don’t tell sort of way. But one man, Sean, feels these forces are out to get him. He can’t go out. He can’t make a...

  • Ash Wednesday

    Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting for the faithful when they receive the sign of the cross in an effort to bring others to the church.But when 14-year-old Mary Western received the sign, something happened and she was suddenly seeing a series of gris...

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

    For nearly three decades, one man has used his twisted sense of justice to rid the world of racism and hatred by very simple means: he finds and kills racists. But on his very first outing, one victim escaped his bullet. Now, thirty...

  • What the Blind Man Saw

    Fifteen stories of hellish horrors come together in C. Dennis Moore’s latest collection, WHAT THE BLIND MAN SAW.Rudy finds a dead baby in his trash can.Another man will do anything to escape Hell and take vengeance on Heaven.Cody has done a bad thi...

  • Private Helicopter

    The Angel Hill Podcast explores the mysteries surrounding this strange Midwestern town, asking questions that shouldn’t be asked, seeking answers best left unspoken. And someone, or something, has been stalking the podcast’s host, hoping to stop...

  • Housequake

    Oliver Mark has found the perfect house. Old, abandoned on the outskirts of Angel Hill where no one lives, it’s the perfect place for he and his girlfriend to make a life together. But when Oliver breaks into the place to explore his new treasure, ...

  • The Vampires of Green Lake

    The werewolves were dead and David Reed just wanted life for his family to return to NORMAL. But a mysterious wooden box found in the woods suggests that word has a whole new meaning, one he’s not prepared for. As he tries to uncover the secrets of...

  • HORROR HAS A NEW HOME

    WELCOME TO ANGEL HILL *Angel Hill is not a place to be taken lightly. For many, it's the sort of town you escape from, not one you move into. And those who do often find the ghosts of their past have a way of follo...

  • Five Furies

    The stories in Five Furies run the gamut of larger collections, but the theme is undeniable. We all have our breaking point and these stories explore those times that bring out the darkness inside all of us. Whether it's a survival instinct kick...

  • Invasion Agents #1

    Blackbird is on the hunt for the serial killer known only as The Hangman. The Hangman, meanwhile, has found a new target for the night, a homeless man and his young son, taking refuge in an abandoned building in downtown Capital City. But...

  • Invasion Agents #2

    Fate has brought them together-according to Red Bear-and now their fifth member has appeared out of nowhere. He has no memory, but thinks he knows where to look for answers. But first, reluctant Agent Jack runs into some trouble with a qu...

  • It's Over

    Theology professor Mary Cortez is saved from certain attack at the hands of two drunken frat boys by a homeless man in a fur coat. Evangelical preacher Nathaniel Brymstone snorts a line before an otherworldly meeting with the devil himself....

  • Kung Fu Sasquatch

    Susan Rogers just wanted one thing to go right this year. After the untimely loss of her husband, she can feel their son slipping away. So Susan, in an effort to reconnect, schedules a mini vacation like the ones he used to take with his dad eve...

  • Problems and Bigger Ones

    T had one mission in life: keep her friend Tracey from getting into too much trouble. Fine job she did, though. First they start running drugs for a local dealer, and then they start skimming off the top, thinking he won't notice. But Jun...

  • 5:53

    “They’ll take whatever you’ve got,” Jamie says, “and if you don’t have enough, they’ll take you.”Horror author C. Dennis Moore brings you one of his most Twilight-Zone-inspired short stories yet:Sean Le...

  • The Nightmare Corridor

    Five friends are about to enter the most extreme Haunt they've ever visited. And in a town like Angel Hill, that's saying something.The Nightmare Corridor appeared overnight just outside of town and for John, Marcia, Sam, Malcolm and Virginia, the pr...

  • The Storybook

    In the wake of absolute destruction, a new religion has taken hold, the religion of TeeVee.Nathaniel Brymstone is the President of a ruined nation, ruling with an iron grip and a hired gun.But there are forces at work to take down Brymstone and his a...

  • The Witches of Green Lake

    Give her a kiss, the voice says in the night. David Reed’s life has been upended lately, and now a disembodied voice is about to herald an all-new low to which he can sink--as if that thing he made himself do six months ago wasn’t bad eno...

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  • Playground of the Gods

    C. Dennis Moore, author of the Angel Hill series and the Holiday Horrors, brings you a dark horror short, Playground of the Gods.What is the secret language hidden in the hopscotch and foursquare grids of every school playground?Just who, or what, is...

  • In the Town of Broken Dreams

  • The Envy of Falling Leaves

    WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?What if you spent your entire life in search of one singular goal? What if your only wish was granted? What if that realization turned out to be a living nightmare?In horror author C. Dennis Moore's 4100-word standalone shor...

  • Valentine's Day

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    Valentine’s Day was never Valentina Crawford’s favorite holiday. With a name like Valentina, the teasing was endless. She could take it if that was the extent of it, but Valentina Crawford has been teased her whole life for a variety of r...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C. Dennis Moore has published 80 books.

C. Dennis Moore does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Envy of Falling Leaves, was published in March 2023.

The first book by C. Dennis Moore, Camdigan, was published in May 2004.

No. C. Dennis Moore does not write books in series.
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