Some people collect stamps or rare books, but C. C. Blake gathers nightmares. Care to see his collection? In it, you will find: A nerve center conducting espionage maneuvers between ancient adversaries for the fate of the world...

A madman with the power to choke the life from unwary captives seeking a new victim...

A tomb in the Egyptian desert hiding a terrifying secret that could swing the balance of World War II...

A pair of world weary bloodsuckers deciding to stage the ultimate hunt in the hopes of reinvigorating their blood...

A deadly dogfight over the trenches of France revealing a macabre adversary, notable for more than his blood red scarf...

A woman with unearthly powers caught in an epic bloodbath with gangsters, balancing vendetta with the lives of a pub-load of innocents...

A doctor seeking treatment for his wife's decline into madness pinned between super science and superstition...

A down and out reporter looking for his missing childhood sweetheart, only to find an impossibly strange scoop...

These stories and more await you in C. C. Blake's Collected Nightmares.

Since 2005, C. C. Blake has been thrilling readers with his twisted, pulpy yarns in the pages of magazines like Man's Story 2, Vampires 2, and more. Collected Nightmares gathers twelve of his best stories. Eleven of these stories appeared in the first two volumes of his Nightmare Stories collections. This omnibus gathers those yarns as well as a brand new piece "Outer Dark Ops."