- A collection of six short stories by Drew Brown. Take a macabre journey from the Colorado wilderness to a Victorian cemetery and meet toads, robots, ghosts and grave robbers along the way. Toadlickers Two college kids get more than they bargained for in a quest for free drugs… The Washroom Secrets are explored in the Bloomington College Hospital washroom… and four more tales of horror. - Welcome to Horror Shorts, a collection of my short stories. I could, perhaps, have spent more time  coming up with a name, something snazzy or catchy, maybe even a little menacing, but to me a spade is simply a spade. Why call it something else? I did think long and hard about whether to write an introduction to this collection, after all Hollywood directors don’t hang around outside movie theatres telling you about their film as you wait in line with your ticket (at least, they don’t around here - but maybe they do in Hollywood).  In the end, I decided that a brief one would be fine. Certainly not one where I yap on about all six stories, explaining where and when they were written, or where the idea first came from. I don’t pretend that these stories are some kind of high-art, to be discussed and analysed, or probed for some kind of deeper meaning. They’re simply stories, entertainment. And there’s nothing wrong with that.Some of them have been gathering dust in my desk drawer for too long, trapped in limbo between taking form and being discovered. They were stuck in a no man’s land between author and reader, and now this is ready I’m glad to have them out in the open. It is a collection of tales about toads, robots, killers and ghosts, and each one is special to me in their own way. There is a small sample of my novel LAST HOPE contained at the end of this book, but you should feel under no obligation to read it. After your check-up with the good Doctor Hawthorne, you can turn off the light and call it a night. If, however, you have enjoyed this taster of my work, perhaps you’d consider taking a look at it. Or not, the choice is yours.