Pay Your Dues

Not all horror lives in the dark. Some of it sits across from you at a fire pit at 2am. Some of it wears your dead uncle's face in a liquor store. Some of it drives you to your destination.

In a worn notebook left behind by his grandmother, one man discovers a collection of stories gathered over a lifetime- each one stranger and darker than the last. Stories include:
The Deal: A man working a dead-end job makes a late-night deal with a strange figure who shouldn't exist.
Kinfolk: A family survives a national tragedy. As they journey on in hopes of starting over, the family realizes that past is harder to leave behind than expected.
Magnifico the Great: A librarian's event awakens something ancient… and hungry.
Cesar Steel Mill: A man is offered a chance to join an organization while working at a steel mill. A chance to be part of a fraternity- but at what cost?

These are the stories people told when they needed someone to listen.

Pay Your Dues is a debut horror anthology from Michael Alba Colbert and The Next Scare, rooted in folklore, family, and the quiet dread of choices that follow you. Thirteen stories. One notebook. And a price for every page.