title: Beneath the Surface: 13+ Shocking Tales of Terror
author:  Tim Deal 
description: Also featuring Jake Burrows, and Angeline Hawkes. Timothy Deal is the editor and publisher of Shroud Publishing LLC, a Milton, NH publisher of dark speculative fiction. In 2007, Tim launched Shroud Magazine, the Journal of Dark Fiction and Art (a Black Quill nominee), which in 2008 was selected by Ingram Periodicals for North American retail distribution through the Barnes &amp; Noble retail chain. He has edited three anthologies, two of which were simultaneously recommended for Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers' Association with BENEATH THE SURFACE ultimately garnering the nomination. Tim has authored more than 100 published stories, news pieces, features, and analysis in topics such as technology and business, entertainment, the arts, and film. He currently sits as the Publications head for the New England Horror Writers' executive committee. Prior to his career in writing and publishing, Tim was a police officer, paratrooper, and Army counterintelligence agent.
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  ## **TIM KIZER**
  
  
  ### Also
  
  
  by Tim Kizer:
  
  
  
  
  
  _Spellbound_
  
  
  _Mania_
  
  
  _The
  
  
  Mindbender_
  
  
  _Days
  
  
  of Vengeance_
  
  
  _Deception_
  
  
  _Intoxication_
  
  
  _Scorned_
  
  
  
  
  
  Hello!
  
  
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  suspense.com/contactme.html).
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  · [Dark Luck](part0000_split_000.html#darkluck)
  
  
  · [Hitchhiker](part0000_split_001.html#hitchhiker)
  
  
  · [Sixtus](part0000_split_003.html#sixtus)
  
  
  · [Sample chapters from Days of Vengeance](part0000_split_004.html#daysof)
  
  
  · [Other titles by Tim Kizer](part0000_split_000.html#other)
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2012 Tim Kizer
  
  
  
  
  
  _After winning a four-hundred-million
  
  
  dollar jackpot with the numbers he received from the future, Ted Duplass is as
  
  
  happy as can be. The fun stops when Ted learns that he's going to be murdered
  
  
  by the end of the year. Fortunatel