The Skittering
(2026)(A book in the Collected Nightmares series)
A collection of stories by Matthew Doggett
A collection of twenty stories featuring flesh-burrowing insects, killer critters, and many-legged creepy crawlies, along with a curated selection of other horrific tales to fill you with implacable dread.
The Skittering: The hole in my abdomen appeared in the middle of the night. Then the bugs started pouring out of it.Insecticide: A group of prisoners wake up in a forest to find that they’re being hunted by giant flying insects.
Heartless: One aging small-town sheriff has to find out why people are dropping dead, their hearts missing without a trace.
The Buzz of Flies: A new breed of coffin fly threatens to expose a man’s darkest secrets, sending him on a path of death and destruction.
I Can’t Stop the Spiders: A man’s sister complains that she can’t stop the spiders. He thinks she’s going insane … until he opens the door to her apartment.
And fifteen more stories of infestations, infections, supernatural killers, and bloodthirsty monsters.
Turn on all the lights, grab the biggest bottle of bug spray you can find, and settle in for a chill-inducing collection of horror stories.
Genre: Horror