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Horror

Spidersight

Have you met Fred? He's the imaginary friend of 5-year-old Missy. Missy insists to everyone that Fred is real. No one believes her until Fred starts doing horrible things. Missy seems like any other 5-year-old except that she believes that she sees spiders that no one else can. Her parents are only mildly worried because every 5-year-old has a big imagination. But bad things start happening wherev ...

Scarlett

At five my parents died in a horrible car crash changing my life for the worst. I was thrust into a life I never expected and had to learn to adapt in order to survive, no matter the cost. Soon I was shuffled into the foster system becoming a lost child with no ties. My roommate and mortal enemy divulged a troubling rumor about my parents, forcing me to question everything I knew. Even worse I rea ...

Wolff's Haven

When Emily Wolff and her family inherit their ancestral farm, they want nothing more than a simple life in the quiet town of Wolffs Haven. But all is not as it seems, and soon the farm’s supernatural occupants threaten to use the Wolffs in their centuries-long battle of good versus evil. Emily may be the key to stopping this war and finally putting down an evil that should have died long ago.

His Game The First Time

Rachel's your average teenage girl, fresh out of high school, excited about the secret trip her boyfriend surprised her with. She's been waiting forever for him to pop the question. However, John isn't your average teenage boy. And his idea of a fun trip is far from a proposal. John's growing into his tastes. Tastes for things unmentionable in polite society. Read this coming-of-age story ab ...

Bloody Puzzle

From the author of ‘CROWLEY’S CULT’ (a New Apple Book Awards OFFICIAL SELECTION!), and ‘BLOODY LEGENDS’. Daniel is back, and he’s more evil than EVER! Oakville is in another panic! The most hideous serial killer the city has ever known has returned with a new theme. The murders are more violent. The deaths are more gruesome. Where will it all end? Follow the clues that Daniel leaves at each crime ...

It Gets Easier: A Short Tale of Comical Catastrophe

He'd never guess that his very courage to commit could be the cause of his own downfall. Jake's loved and lost, suffered failed relationships and felt real sorrow, but the new girl in his life may just be the one to finally put an end to that life. His girlfriend Samantha is sweet and kind, full of joy, and the kind of girl Jake can be perfectly content sitting in complete silence with. It's so co ...

Waiting in the Night

A terrorized little girl, a writer stalked by his own nightmares, and a pair of secret-keeping detectives are the kindling for page-burning suspense. On a cold night in Texas, nine-year-old Sally Kyles wakes to her mother’s ghastly screams. Alone and afraid, she quickly realizes someone else is in the home and now, he knows she’s there too. Budding Tampa writer, Jack Crumbwell, is the publishing w ...

MASHED: The Culinary Delights of Twisted Erotic Horror

It’s like Scary Movie meets 50 Shades on The Food Network!


MASHED is an anthology of 17 stories culled from over 200 submissions and includes authors from around the world. 

Each story is a unique blend of horror, humor, food and sex. Resulting in tales that will leave you both scared and slightly turned on, while laughing out loud and contemplating your next meal. ...

Club Cloud and Queen

Jed struggles to survive a dystopian hellscape where the only connection he has left with humanity is soul-crushing work and bad breakups. Vodka soaked nights bleed into sunless, gunmetal-grey colored days. So when a snake comes out of the ceiling fan one night offering a chance to escape and become a god, taking the deal is a no-brainer. Thrust into the heavens above, Jed becomes a breakout pe ...

Zombies in Saudi Arabia

Tegen Justice

After embracing her new Tegen existence, Sara Jones is determined to destroy her ex-lover’s organized crime empire, one link at a time. Along with her newly acquired skills of spider-climbing agility, self-healing powers, and the ability to eject poisonous needles came the haunting need to consume blood and flesh tainted by Tegen deadly spiders. Armed with her skills and using the alias Sall ...

End Time (The End Time Saga Book 1)

Protests in front of an embassy aren't what they seem... In the dark primal jungles of the Congo River basin, something is ravaging the local population. When protests turn violent in front of the US Embassy Kinshasa, only the foreign policy experts paid attention. Civil war erupts and people rip each other apart in the streets of the African capital. In an effort to avert disaster and preserve it ...

The Haunting of Seafield House

Gail agrees to spend the night in a haunted house. She wants to create some memories – if she survives the night - it is not something she will ever forget. 

Gail Parker never believed in ghosts and yet she knows her boyfriend does. Jesse saw ghosts as a child and has spent the last decade trying to reconnect with spirits. Every haunted house he has investigate has been a ho ...

Haunt: A Novel

A young woman who learns to become strong in the face of impossible circumstances, and a man who finds light in the midst of overwhelming darkness. Prepare yourself for the first book in a haunting new series...Loveletting. Fleeing from her home after escaping the murder of her mother, inexperienced and petrified by reality with her horse as her only companion - Charlotte is met by the most notori ...

Lake Of Sins: Hangman's Army

A rebellion is brewing in the world of the Lake of Sins while Hugh Truent sits in prison days away from his execution. After taking his findings about the genetic similarities between the classes to the Supreme Almighty and the Council, Hugh had been arrested for treason and all his evidence had vanished as if made from smoke. To protect his family, he cut off all contact with the outside world wh ...

The Soul Dweller

An ancient evil has returned…and it comes for the children. A battle between good and evil rages across otherworldly dimensions. Caretakers protect earthly souls—jumpers hunt them as prey. RG and Kacey Granville have made it their life’s mission to intercept and defeat these dark forces, but nothing could prepare them for the malevolent spirit they’re facing—a deadly jumper, plucking children from ...

Billette Hall

Will they make it to Billette Hall, or die by the hands of the murderous stalker that hunts them? Southern United States, 1858 Fifteen-year-old Marion knows what happens to slaves who don’t obey the rules, but when an auction ends in the separation of families, she’s forced to break a few rules. Armed with nothing more than a single shot in her revolver and just enough courage to forgo th ...

Perishables

“Stephen Colbert meets Stephen King” - Book Nerd’s Brain Candy Winner of the 2012 Laine Cunningham Award!

Withrow Surrett is more than just his neighborhood’s resident curmudgeon. He’s the self-declared vampire lord of North Carolina, a once-renowned painter, and he can make a mean batch of biscuits. After decades of pleasant solitude, Withrow finds himself on the board for his homeowne ...

Encountering Darkness

Do you enjoy Christian fantasy fiction? "Encountering Darkness," a christian fantasy and adventure novel, will take you on a thought provoking journey. In this nightmarish tale, Pete and Amy try to discover who or what to follow. As Pete and Amy hear many voices declaring "truth", which is the right one? The situation seems bleak, at best, especially for Pete. Pete, a successful Mayor, must make s ...

Redemption

Finding love is hard, but losing love is even harder. Redemption is a book about passion, revenge, and lost love, with a supernatural twist. Horror and black magic combine with an epic love story, leading to suspense and mystery when that love is torn asunder. How would you like to bring back a lost love and obtain justice from the individuals responsible for their death? Susie, a wife so upset ov ...

18 Wheels of Horror

Psychotic killers, devious ghosts, alien monsters, howling storms, undead creatures, and other dark forces haunt the highways and the truckers who drive them in these 18 chilling tales! A ghostly voice on a trucker’s CB radio knows more about his life than it should… Two drivers find their cargo gives them inhuman appetites… A boy in a truck stop encounters a supernatural force that threatens to d ...

Lake Of Sins: Escape

Hundreds of years ago, the Great Death desolated the planet, killing most humans and animals. The world that was reborn is filled with human-animal hybrids. The descendants of humans rule over the others using segregation and subjugation to enslaved and command. Trinity, a sixteen year old Producer, knows she won’t be chosen to stay in the encampment and breed. Instead, she’ll ...

The Games Monsters Play: a novelette of The Chosen

When corporate spy Colin O’Neill receives a personal invitation from his target’s CEO to join an elite high stakes game, he fears his cover blown. But Katarina Habsburg’s interest in him is superseded by deadly intrigues with her partners and she’s forced to focus on her own survival. With his time running out, Colin must choose between finishing his mission and making his escape before the game's ...

Tegens (3 Book Series)

From Book 1: Have you ever made a mistake that keeps coming back to haunt you?On the run from her ex-boyfriends powerful criminal family, Sara Jones hides in Billings, Montana. But when people around her start dying from poisonous spider bites after she receives a mysterious package containing a hidden spider, she worries that the family has found her. Can she escape?

From its gut- ...

The Hole

It starts with an odd hum that brings headaches and nosebleeds to the inhabitants of a remote, sleepy country town. Then a sinkhole begins to form…and out from that hole comes the townspeople's worst nightmares. Facing their fears and the growing madness, a group of survivors descend into the collapsed area in an attempt to save what is left of their town. Sacrifices will be required, but will the ...

Lost World (Broken World, #4)

With their shelter destroyed and their sense of security shattered, Vivian, Axl and the group set off in search of a safe place. But the group’s morale is at an all-time low, and they now know it’s not just the dead they have to fear. Weeks of wandering brings sickness, death and loss to the survivors, and Vivian soon finds herself losing hope of ever discovering a safe place to live. To make matt ...

Grey Daze

A Realtor, she’s smart and intuitive. A private investigator finds her uncle dead in his home. Haunted by the uncle’s bizarre past, Lance Underphal, a friend and freelance photographer steps in. With the help of Lance’s dead wife, serial killers are exposed. Outside the box of King and Koontz, it’s one in a new breed of mystery thrillers. As seen on NBC. Dark. Different. Cinematic. A murder myster ...

New World (Broken World, #5)

After weeks on the road and devastating losses, the survivors have finally found safety. But as winter falls on Colorado, it brings with it both new challenges and new hope. Axl and Vivian With supplies running low and animals scarce, not even the freezing zombies can make the future look bright for Axl’s group. And as the snow grows deeper, Vivian’s concern for Hadley and Jon only becomes m ...

What Immortal Hand

One crime leads to another; one time to a time before. Michael Oswald pulls it all apart as though tugging a thread on an old sweater. A theft to a murder to crimes beyond imagining, Michael Oswald doesn’t understand what he’s investigating. But he’ll remember. The tale begins unraveling when Michael embarks on a search for a missing truck. Michael is called of God; just not that God.

Run, Run, Baby

As the chatty classroom of kindergarten children excitedly awaits the final bell to release them for the weekend, Chloe, racked with exhaustion, desperately attempts to keep her eyes open. Nervously staring at the battered wooden desk, her six-year-old mind becomes fixated on the sound of the room's ticking clock. Emaciated and sleep-deprived, she reluctantly surrenders her consciousness. The inno ...

Monsters of L.A.

In these pages Bram Stoker Award-winner Lisa Morton reinvents the dark stars you grew up watching: Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback...all the silent ones and the first to find their voices are here, and they're even presented in roughly the order in which they first appeared on a silver screen. The Haunted House of the '30s gives way to the Werewolf of the '40s, the Mons ...

It Lives In The Basement: A Creature Feature Horror Story

A missing couples report and a mutilated body. Two years apart, same house. Coincidence or something more sinister?

When Lt. Flynn lands a missing couples case, he finds no evidence of anything amiss. There are no signs of a struggle or foul play. The only clue lies in a dog-eared notebook, but is it true?

Two years later, a mutilated body is found in the same residence. Lt. ...

Some Side Effects May Occur

Rachel Blum isn’t beautiful — yet. But she’s got it all figured out. All she has to do is save up enough money as a medical test subject to have her nose fixed, and make sure her friends and family don’t notice that she’s stopped eating. It’ll all be worth it if she can get chosen as a promising new talent by the Public Aesthetics Endowment, giving her access to all the loan money she’ll need to h ...

TEETH: The Haunting of Dansbury Plot

Nothing grows on Dansbury Plot—almost everybody simply calls it The Plot—where it sits on the very edge of the Township of Bridge Crossing, across a really wide street from the Little League fields. It’s a square of land about the size of two town blocks and it is barren and dry and dead-looking. Everything for miles around our town is green and flowery pretty much all year long, even during the k ...

Silent World (Broken World, #7)

When Jim ran out of that farmhouse in Forgotten World, not only did he leave the promise of safety behind, but he was sure he was about to meet a horrible end. Amira has lived most of her life surrounded by silence, and this new world has dangers lurking around every corner that could mean the end for her. When two survivors, never meant to meet, find each other in the middle of an apocalyp ...

The House on Atticus Lane

Four friends take a journey to the house on Atticus Lane, a haunted house talked about for generations in the neighborhood. They take the chance of maybe never returning to society and possibly getting lost in the house. What will they find? Will the stories be true or false? Follow Jacques, Cora, Jerica, and Ronald as they discover the hauntings of The House on Atticus Lane.

The Undead Pool

When former mercenary Mace Murdock is subjected to a humiliating and degrading experiment by the evil clown, Zarathustra, it leaves him with accelerated healing powers.

That sounds pretty good, right?

But when you throw an additional side effect of a thirst for human brains into the mix, suddenly the deal doesn’t sound quite so great.

Luckily Mace has enoug ...

Night Mares

To sleep, perchance to die Johann "Father" Gunter and Robert Durling find themselves in the small town of Clemons because of a dream that the news reporter, Belinda Carstone, had. The night they arrive in town, they know immediately something is amiss. The mayor of the town has died in a tragic accident in her home. Johann and Robert pose as members of the KMTN News crew to gain access to the hous ...

Katrina Hates The Dead

What would you do during the Apocalypse? How would you survive? Those are the questions that have plagued Katrina for years. All the good boys and girls were raptured up to Heaven, leaving the rest of humanity to ask a single, solitary question: “Why not me?” Hellspawn rose from Hell and rampaged across the world, eviscerating all they came across. It was bedlam, Hell on Earth. There was nothing a ...

Dead Ends

------------ Download Free Book through Author Site Links - Downloads as .EPUB file which can be used with any ebook app ----------------------- Three sinister stories—tales from dark places, where things don’t always end well. Recalculating: Maggie loves garage sales—the thrill of the hunt—as she might call it. Of course, some deals are too good to be true. Sweet Lenora: In 1930s Pe ...

Crowley's Cult

“Rosemary’s Baby meets The Sentinel … but much more erotic.” When Zane, a renowned painter, and his fiancée have their lives threatened by a stalker, the couple find sanctuary in a centennial building famous for its macabre history. But appearances can be deceptive, and Zane’s presence unleashes a dark shadow from the past. Zane and his fiancée find themselves thrown into a world of violent deaths ...

Half Past Dread

Shadows of a thousand years.
Rise again unseen.
Voices whisper in the trees,
nothing is ever as it seems.

Monsters exist, whether they be real or wholly in our minds. Some of us enjoy the fear of the unknown, the thrill of danger that comes from something we can't understand. Others like to delve into the deepest recesses of the human mind, to discover what lurks beneath ...

Shattered World (Broken World, #2)

Stranded in the middle of the Mojave Desert, surrounded by zombies, Vivian and Axl are sure they’re facing the end. The dead are closing in and the shelter they were promised is sealed tight. Just when they think they’ve run out of time, the doors are thrown open. Five years underground with all the provisions there for the taking. It’s almost too good to be true. With the promise of security, Viv ...

Port City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 3)

An Alec Winters Series is a dark-fiction, vengeance-driven 4-book thriller series, beginning with Prelude, a behind-the-scenes look at Alec’s life as a New Orleans teen-jock. In Crescent City, Alec redeems the innocent and exterminates those responsible for their suffering. Now, Alec’s job takes him to Mobile, Alabama in Port City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 3). There, Alec hunts down and mercil ...

The Haunting of Highcliff Hall

Catherine inherited a castle. She didn’t know who waited for her. She didn’t know why the village folk avoided her. She didn’t understand why the live in help moved out whenever the heir came home. She should have believed the Hag. When foreign correspondent Catherine Davis inherits her grand aunt’s castle, Highcliff Hall it is enough to convince her to leave her globe-trotting life behind and wri ...

The Halloween Challenge: The Last Image

The Rising : Awakening

What’s buried in the sand has slept for centuries. Some things should never be exhumed... When Egyptologist Samuel Clayton inherits a gold talisman with unusual markings, he’s driven to uncover its secrets. Where did it come from? What do they mean? And why when receiving it did a flood of forgotten memories and the ethereal red-headed beauty—who had seduced him in his youth—return with malice? Hi ...

Tembo Makaburi

In 1968 Walter Cravens, a big game hunter, is pursuing a mysterious bull elephant across the Serengeti plains. Accompanied by his Masai native guide, Cravens will stop at nothing in his pursuit of the elephant's ivory tusks. Even a dire warning from an old woman won't stop him from seeking the elephant's destination, Tembo Makaburi, the elephant graveyard.

Dead Is All You Get

After months of fighting the undead ravaging the town of Tres Marias, Dave Pulaski and his wife, Holly, catch a break when Black Dragon Security suddenly shows up to rescue them. But things are about to get worse. The virus is mutating. Now, driven to discover the truth behind the contagion while struggling to protect Holly and those closest to him, Dave is pushed beyond the limits of faith and ...

Sweet Serenity

Once in a lifetime comes the chance to know someone beyond love and desire. But can a soul reach from eternity and reunite with a forbidden and cheated love?
In 1887, during a full harvest moon, a baby is born, and two lovers die at the same moment. Over a hundred years after her death, Rebecca Connors uses her powerful love and strong desire to bring her lover, Frank Dodd, to her side. She i ...

Moonsleep and Other Stories

Prepare to be disturbed… A private investigator hunts for his client’s missing stepdaughter in a dieselpunk Los Angeles while keeping secrets of his own… A middle-aged recluse has a phobia about teenage girls… In a medieval England, what do the women get up to when all men and boys fall asleep every full moon? A young boy and his alchemist master try to find out… Will Charlotte B ...

The Darkness: A Short Tale of Uncommon Daring & Ultimate Defiance

Everyone's afraid of the dark. Now, there's a reason to be. Lux and his younger brother Lunam enjoy the full freedom of the simple life and all the childhood adventures offered by growing up in a small village in a picturesque glen. Life is tranquil, peaceful, and just about perfect—except for one formidable fact… Every day is followed by night. And, with the night, comes the DARKNESS. Slowly shro ...

Manifest Secrets

Tales of discovery and loss, laughter and terror. Think you know the world? Take a closer look. Strange figures emerge from the walls. Evil engulfs guilty and innocent alike. Nature and shopkeepers serve up deep meaning. And whichever way you turn, oddities are hidden in plain sight. In this eclectic gathering of thirty-one short tales by award-winning author Dale E. Lehman, you'll encounter ...

Shadows That Tempt

Hope Bonnet did not experience a single moment of human kindness during her upbringing in 19th century Northburry. Being deemed repulsive by her mother at birth set the tone for her treatment by the entire Bonnet household. Abuse and ostracization filled Hope’s every waking breath until a chain of gruesome events and a shadowy savior offered her the opportunity to be freed from her tormented life. ...

Bennytown

For nearly sixty years, Bennytown has been America’s most exciting family theme park destination. Under the watchful eye of cultural icon Benny the Bunny, the park has entertained generations of children with its friendly atmosphere and technologically innovative rides. Park founder Fletcher Dorian’s dream lives to this day, with Bennytown acting as a beacon of joy and wonder, where magic is real ...

Green Sunday

When TJ, a fat neckbeard small time youtuber living with his mom met a strange girl in his one note town, he thought his luck was changing. What he didn’t know, on her heels, a deepweb gameshow bent on bringing his hick mountain town to its knees, just for sport.

Unleashing flesh hungry zombies, feral survivors and monstrous abortions of science onto his once peaceful town. TJ is forced ...

Of Sudden Origin

Perhaps once in an epoch, events force evolution to take a giant leap and a life form arises that is aberrant to that from which it sprang. This process is known to science as Of Sudden Origin. Call them zombies if you must; America, is at the mercy of a ruthless infection that devolves the intellect into that of a simi ...

Crescent City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 2)

Some see Alec Winters as a breathtaking, amazing angel, a savior. Others see him as a mind-blowing nightmare, the most terrifying demon their minds could ever conjure. Alec Winters roams the gritty streets of New Orleans as hero and protector of the innocent while he annihilates wicked evil-doers in this very dark-fiction, vengeance-driven 4-book thriller series. Get a behind-the-scenes look at si ...

Witch Mirror

Reflections of a wicked witch. Bryce and I are trying to revive Alondra’s old metaphysical history class. We’re in college again, this time teaching. But it’s stressful under our former teacher’s shadow. Not only that, there’s a new demon-witch messing with my love life. So I’m going through that again. Well, at least this time I have Alondra’s magic to protect me. Actually, not only do I ha ...

Broken World (Broken World, #1)

A story of survival and horror, friendship and prejudice, Broken World will take you on an emotional journey that will leave you wanting more! When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian Thomas sets out for California in hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. But when her car breaks down she’s faced with a choice: give up or accept a ride from redneck brothers, Angus and Axl. Vi ...

Caligula Reincarnated: Killer with a Thousand Faces

A madman with unlimited power gains crippled immortality Each generation he is among us Hail Caesar, Emperor of Murder The insane Roman Emperor gains immortality by stealing a merchant's soul. Instant reincarnation provides endless lives for a never-ending reign of terror. Two-thousand years later, a reluctant psychic releases the merchant’s essence. The merchant, living in her mind, convinces her ...

(the complete collection): Eighteen suspenseful short stories

STORIES TO SCARE YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT

Enjoy eighteen suspenseful short stories of horror, supernatural, science fiction, thriller and mystery from the author readers are calling the next Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and the new Stephen King. These tales will delight fans of Tw ...

Premonition

The first book in a trilogy. Maddie’s parents flip when they find out she’s failing science. That’s her worst problem until she wakes up and finds they’re zombies. Now she must escape them and her house. With nowhere else to go, and the keys to her parents’ sailboat, she makes her getaway. Finding Bryce was a fortunate circumstance and the two take on zombies and set sail for parts unknown. This s ...

CANNY DANNY

MISERY meets CABIN IN THE WOODS and FIFTY SHADES in an erotic horror thriller that'll blow your socks off! Gerald Grimes, Failed Writer, needs a miracle to salvage his writing career and save him from becoming the next Assistant Night Manager at the local CrapMart. 'Canny Danny' Jackson is a fugitive serial killer with delusions of supernatural grandeur who wants to ensure that history records his ...

The Haunting of Brynlee House

Based on a real haunted house - Brynlee House has a past, a secret, it is one that would be best left buried. 

Emma has been hiding for a year. Hiding from an abusive ex who broke more than her bones. Now it is time to start again and she has been left an old house in which to make a new beginning.

Brynlee house is remote, old, and kinda creepy but she knows that ...

Dragged to Hell

Since the dawn of civilization, man has viewed the afterlife with equal parts fear and fascination. Stories of the Shadow Realm weave through myth and folklore, telling tales of pain, punishment, and purgatory. To this day, we wonder what waits on the other side of the veil. Will we walk the nine circles in Dantes’ footsteps? Will we burn in the land of the eternal fire? Will we dance with the ...

The Last Trace: a novella of The Chosen

Trace Pierre Tasman’s simple life as a mountain man in 1842 Montana turns into a living nightmare when a beautiful but vicious she-demon begins stalking him. The insatiable desire she ignites in Trace overshadows his dread of her brutal attacks, and as his attraction to her grows, he fears his only escape may be death.

The Thriller Suspense Horror Box Set

Over 100,000 Susan May dark thrillers sold in 2016.

THREE BEST-SELLING NOVELS ALL IN ONE
A freelance writer is caught up in a mass killing spree. During an arson trial a couple reveals a terrifying, unbelievable secret. To save her son Dawn must repeat the most painful day of her life forever.
 
Readers have likened Susan May to Gill ...

The Upside Down of Nora Gaines

Nora has visions of horrific things. Things that lurk in the shadows and feast on bones. After moving with her mother into an old farmhouse, Nora discovers a blank journal that fills itself with an ominous warning. A cursed beast is coming for her, and time is running out. When the lunar blood moon rises, so shall the beast. Local teen, Rebel, has his own trepidations about the house. His parents, ...

Crows

Annie Murphy can sometimes tell the future. It’s the past she has trouble with. 

Lost In The Lyrics

Working at the Desert Rose is just like any other job at a hotel and casino. Haunted corridors, murdered guests and hunky construction workers building a new pool.

The Doll Maker And The Hammer

It was happening again, just like before: in the middle of a downpour, just like the previous victims. As Detective Maria Sanchez drove toward the latest crime scene, she felt an unfamiliar feeling in her stomach; a feeling she wasn’t used to feeling, a feeling she would never admit to anyone. It was there, no matter how jaded all the years of law-enforcement had made her. FEAR—The teeth clinching ...

Mad World (Broken World, #3)

Vivian didn’t think things could get any worse than losing Emily, and getting to the shelter should have been their salvation. But once again their hopes where shattered when they found out things weren’t as safe as promised, forcing them to head into Vegas in search of supplies. Vivian But now Vivian and Hadley find themselves in a situation more threatening than even the dead walking the Earth. ...

The Troubles Keeper

HE SAVES OTHERS FROM THEIR TROUBLES. WHO WILL SAVE HIM? Bus driver Rory Fine has a gift. He can take troubles from others with merely a touch. On a rain-swept night he asks his glum passengers to leave their worrisome emotions in his palm. But when he touches one passenger's hand everything he knows about troubles keeping is shattered. Somebody aboard hides a deadly and dangerous secret. What bega ...

The Conversationalist: Horrorstruck Novella One

BEGIN A CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK, IF YOU DARE . . . 

On Patrick’s Pacific Northwest Island home, people whisper about his family’s sad history. Some feel sorry for him. Most want to help Patrick, as if he’s a song-less bird, make him their next project, and even set him up on a date with a best friend . . .

On one such date, Wendy sits across from Patr ...

Harbor City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 4)

Some see Alec Winters as a breathtaking, amazing angel, a savior. Others see him as a mind-blowing nightmare, the most terrifying demon their minds could ever conjure. An Alec Winters Series is a dark-fantasy, vengeance-driven 4-book thriller series, beginning with Prelude, a behind-the-scenes look at Alec’s life as a New Orleans teen-jock. In Crescent City, Alec rescues innocent victims and crush ...

A Lead Pill

My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes ...

Lullaby of the Dead

Are you willing to entertain a different vision of the afterlife? Landry Sinclair has a story to tell—listen carefully.

I played the professional career woman. Beneath the façade, I was lonely and ashamed. My plans for upward mobility were squashed when I fell into the hands of a ruthless serial killer. I became entangled in his rich web of heinous acts. After he slipped a ...

A Taker of Morrows

RG Granville has his whole life in front of him...but only twenty-four hours to live it.

Beyond life's boundaries, an enduring battle between good and evil determines the fate of earthly souls. Here, 'caretakers' guard and protect against the evil and vengeful 'jumpers' who slip back and forth between worlds to prey upon the living.

For one man, news of his impending demise s ...

CABIN IN THE WOODS

Jack and Amy are headed to their friend's cottage for a winter getaway. But things are not as they seem. Amy's indigenous and foster childhood challenges her ability to decipher fact from fiction. Is Jack telling the truth? After an accident on a remote, rural road, they encounter surreal strangers and a ghost cabin. This short story will make you wonder about the invisible world. Can we really t ...

Best Buddies

"Your son’s invisible friend is not imaginary." Kate’s little boy has a new buddy, one even he can’t see. Can’t hear. Can’t feel. Yet, it’s feeding him information about the world. And about the future. He is using this thing, this undetectable entity, to advance at school. And to help Kate gamble. Despite her addiction.

But, for every morsel of knowledge, his friend demands a favor in ...

The Book Of Witness, Omnibus Edition

Most of these stories in this book are true. Some are not, however. They are the exaggerations of fevered dreams and illusions. Deciding which is the truth and which is fiction is entirely up to you. Canyon County, Oregon is a place unlike any other. For as long as people have lived out amongst the creek beds, hills and hollers they have encountered strange phenomenon. They have been prone to unex ...

Prelude (An Alec Winters Series, Book 1)

Prelude is a prequel to Crescent City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 2). Get a behind-the-scenes look at sixteen-year-old Alec Winters, a New Orleans teen-jock, before his strange, supernatural transformation. Discover little-known facts about the cultural differences of the deep-south and a good-ole-boy society where ‘right’ is often seen as ‘wrong’ and the prevailing attitudes might surprise you. ...

Ramskull

A Scottish tale of terror. When Sergeant Dave Wilkes and his constable, John Campbell, are called out to a remote island, it is to investigate a simple case of sheep worrying, what they think is a routine job. But upon arrival at Leita, they find the community to be empty, the shops and houses lying quiet. Before too long, they find disturbing evidence of violence and mayhem. They get some of the ...

Forgotten World (Broken World, #6)

Forgotten World, book six in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own... After the longest winter of her life, Vivian is thrilled to have Ginny back at her side. But joy soon turns to shock when the group learns that not only is Hope Springs in contact with other surviv ...

Holiday Spirits: Six Frightful Winter Tales

Gather around the holiday hearth and share these six chilling tales by multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lisa Morton. In "The Christmas Spirit", a couple taking a holiday break in the countryside find their secluded cottage is anything but idyllic. "Daddy's Girl" pits a desperate mother against an intruder in a Christmas game of winner-take-all. "The Haunted House" follows a ghosthunting t ...

Bloody Legends

Are you afraid of urban legends? Prepare to be even more scared when they become real! Dr. Daniel Cooper is a vicious serial killer who finds himself bored with killing only prostitutes and homeless people. In order to indulge his most morbid and sadistic fantasies, he decides he’ll start to perpetrate his crimes by staging famous urban legends. His insatiable hunger for killing makes him plan eve ...

Haunted Nights

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween. In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover ...

Point Blank: A Short Tale of Macabre Family Faults

If you can't stand the pressure... ask your mother to stop pointing the gun at your head. Steven is a writer, by all accounts of self-proclamation. But no artist can be expected to work under serious pressure, especially not when the pressure consists of his own mother indenting his tender skull with the muzzle of the pistol held in her hand. Suddenly, it's write or die for Steven. He better tap a ...

An Evil Mind

How do you stop a serial killer who can escape from any prison? On December 11, fifteen-year-old Helen Hinton is brutally murdered in an abandoned house. Her killer, Edward Phillips, is caught and sentenced to death. Helen's blood was on Edward's clothes and shoes, the murder weapon has his fingerprints on it. Edward claims he's innocent. He's telling the truth. Two months after ...

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