Michael Bailey
Gary A. Braunbeck
Michael Scott Bricker
Cory Cone
Roby Davies
John DeChancie
Louis Dixon
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Felicia Lee
Bentley Little
Lisa Mannetti
Richard Christian Matheson
Robert McCammon
Donna J. W. Munro
Stephanie Pendley Paul
Bill Pronzini
Stephen Mark Rainey
Lucy A. Snyder
Daniel Waters
Tim Waggoner
Paul Wilson
Leo Zaccari
For your consideration, here is a little teaser from “Escalation”:
The elevator doors slid open, revealing paneled walls the same dark color as
the guestroom doors. Greg stepped in. After hesitating a moment, Hager
followed.
Inside, there were only two buttons — one for up and one
for down. None for individual floors.
The doors slid shut. The car
did not move.
Hager glanced up, saw no floor indicator above the
door. He pushed the up button. With a smooth whir, the car slid into motion,
and Hager felt his stomach lurch. They were going up, all right. And fast.
“How
many floors are in this hotel?”
“I’m not sure. Twenty, maybe.”
“Jesus.
We're really moving.”
The car kept going, and Hager felt his knees
going wobbly. "How the hell high can this thing go?”
“We can't be
moving as fast as it feels.”
“But we are. We
are.”
“This is fucked up.”
The car kept going.
