HellBound Highway: Anthology of Traveling Terror

By Ann O’Mara Heyward, James H. Longmore, Jane Nightshade

We invite you, fellow horror aficionados, to take a ride on HellBound Highway - a terrifying trip into the darkest recesses of the human mind you'd care to discover, your ticket to ride provided by a bunch of the very best authors writing on the independent horror scene today.

Of course, it's not your ordinary ticket, it's a boarding pass to twenty-eight sinister tales about terror excursions you most definitely wouldn't want to experience first-hand.

We present to you, for your ghoulish delectation...

- A family's pleasant, end of summer road trip to a waterpark turns into a nightmare when they happen upon a car that bears an uncanny resemblance to theirs, its occupants uncomfortably familiar...

- A fleeing highway convoy of ragtag vehicles keeps just fifty-seven miles per hour ahead of a constantly mutating mega-monster that devours everything in its path. If the speed drops below 57 mph, it's certain death. Meanwhile, gas and food are running perilously low...

- A woman with a guilty secret, desperate to leave town, steals a train ticket from a ragged elderly passenger. . .and encounters a sentient train cabin that inexplicably adjusts itself to her crimes...

- A hitchhiking waif finds herself in a truck stop diner where the management posts a sign telling customers, "Warning: Gators Ahead." She's thumbing her way through bone-dry Wyoming. . .where alligators don't exist. Or do they?

- A desperate, unemployed dad really, really needs to catch a plane to Florida. But his wife chooses to use the terminal's ladies' room only a few minutes before boarding time. When she doesn't come out, his two-year-old son runs after her...

So, please do immerse yourself in HellBound's bone-chilling anthology of traveling terror, curated by indie horror superstars Jane Nightshade and Ann O'Mara Heyward, and featuring stories by:

James H. Longmore, Ann O'Mara Heyward, Jane Nightshade, Todd Mitternacht, Damon Nomad, D.W. Milton, Michael Penncavage, John Wolf, Andrew Adams, Ross Baxter, D. Winchester, Ricardo Rebelo, S.J. Townend, David Bartlett, Nicola Lombardi, Blake Kourik, R. D. Davidson, Harley Carnell, Kevin Hollaway, Eliza Hyde, Mason Gallaway, D. C. Kugtima, Patrick Wright, Sean Seebach, Eldon Litchfield, Meg Belviso, Jay T. Levy, and Randall Drum.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966296223
• ISBN13: 9781966296225
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Hellbound Books Publishing LLC
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"