Intrusive Thoughts by Ricardo D. Rebelo

Some thoughts you can't unthink. Some urges won't let go until they've had their way with you.

In this collection of eighteen stories, Ricardo D. Rebelo drags horror out of the shadows and into the messy, uncomfortable places it actually lives — a video store's forbidden back room, a cursed guitar pick pried loose from a dead metal god's skull, a killer carnival, a desert full of ghouls, a phone screen that shows you things you shouldn't see. These are tales of ghostly vengeance, urban exploration gone wrong, cannibal carnies, and ordinary people undone by their own worst impulses, all filtered through the gritty, blue-collar streets of Fall River, Massachusetts — a city Rebelo knows firsthand as a breeding ground for real-world dread.

Raw, unflinching, and often darkly funny, Intrusive Thoughts doesn't just want to scare you — it wants to get inside your head and stay there. Rebelo, a member of the Horror Writers Association and a fixture of the New England horror scene, writes horror the way it should be written: personal, uncomfortable, and impossible to look away from.

Some doors are marked Adults Only for a reason. Open them anyway.