Horror

As a boy growing up in 1953, Kevin Hull enjoyed playing games with his group of boyhood friends, like the game of "ledge." After one such game with his friend Billy Hawkins, the two find themselves involved in a terrible accident that will forever change their lives. A work of short psychological horror from our Spectres line.

Ankhesenaton's ghost will never rest until the world knows the truth of her and her family's murders. Faye Summer has been haunted by a three-thousand-year-old-murdered Egyptian princess, one of the five daughters of Nefertiti and the doomed pharaoh Akhenaton, since she was a young girl?and has glimpsed her desperate ghostly face in darkened mirrors and heard her whispers in her dreams. Whispers begging for Faye's help in uncovering the true story of her and her family's long ago disappearances ... more info>>

Sometimes, not even death itself can deliver you from heartache. There are some things that you can't un-do. You have to face the result of your actions and move on, but what if you were forced relive those moments over and over again, experiencing the horror of your past mistakes as if they had just unfolded? For Corey Aston, this nightmare has become his reality after waking up in his bathtub, his wrists slit. A phone call from a mysterious stranger reveals that his wife has left him and taken... more info>>

Vampires are among us? Julian Frost is alone. Having lost his parents to murder, and his sister to a car accident, he finds himself frequenting a late night coffee shop in hopes of treating his insomnia. It is not until he discovers a mysterious woman who watches him every night that he begins to feel intrigue. He soon discovers that he is in the presence of a vampire. He falls in love with her as he learns the truth about her dark secrets, including the constant fear of being found by a fierce ... more info>>

Evil has awoken. When an isolated mining colony sends a distress call, a search and rescue team arrives on the scene to investigate. As they enter the colony, only blood and death await them. However, as their search for survivors continues, something begins hunting them. It is ancient beyond counting. Evil beyond comprehension. With the cold resolution of death itself, it moves towards one goal: Escape. Excerpt: Command was dark. Command was cold. The rain beat hopelessly against the bleak ex... more info>>

There hasn't been a story this scary since The Exorcist All Jack Torrence wanted in 1965 was to be as successful as Steven Duke, the leading horror fiction writer in the world. But how did Duke come up with those bestselling plots? Torrence learns the answer is that Duke conjured the demon Legion and allowed himself to be possessed when he was writing at his cabin in Burlington, Vermont. But Legion is stronger now and Duke is weaker. Soon, the demon will take over the author's mind, body and s... more info>>

Love is a bloody triangle Danie only wanted to be loved. She found pain, suffering and mourning instead. Two lovers changed her life. They conjured her darkest hours. One taught her the art of pain. The other deceived her, and then committed a heinous act against her. Death found both men. One returned to her. Will he save her? Or will he cast her into eternal night? Excerpt: Something glimmers beneath the small lamp by my side. It's the broach I wore to my brother's funeral. I reach for it, g... more info>>

Sometimes the past just won't stay dead and buried? James Barker is a happily married man. He thinks he has it all -- until one morning when he witnesses a gruesome suicide. Haunted by the death, James embarks on a journey. Who was this man? Why did he kill himself? Now haunted by visions of the dead man in his home and in his nightmares, James begins to wonder if he is losing his mind. Surely the dead can't return? As James uncovers the terrifying truth of the stranger who died at his own hands... more info>>

There are places where dead is better. Dead Town is a novel based on actual events. A decade ago a serial killer and practicing Satanist tormented the small New Mexico Town of Truth or Consequences. Suspected of torturing and killing sixty women, he was sentenced to one hundred and eighty years in prison. He eluded justice by dying in only eight months. Leaving behind the girlfriend and daughter, also suspected of participation in the killings. A decade later a young artist purchases the nearby... more info>>

Chaos reigns. Princess Jaqueline has fallen into ruin, losing her humanity to the powerful demonic forces arrayed against her people while her brother rallies the human survivors of the kingdom to combat the forces pouring forth from the eldritch pit and Hallis and Brahm continue to hunt for allies? but will their efforts be in time to stave off the final darkness?

After three hundred years of unlife, vampire Zara Lain has seemingly done it all, and she's now making a living as a successful thief-turned-assassin. Her newest assignment seems simple enough--kill the aging leader of the O'Connor Coven and his only heir, and she'll have another ten million in the bank. But in the dangerous world of the supernatural, few things are ever "simple." When a massive assault decimates the continent's population of powerful witches and warlocks, and its orchestrator... more info>>

Fleeing the painful, horrific events that she's just endured in Pinewick, New Jersey, monster hunter Wendy Markland heads south for Florida. Upon arrival in the Sunshine State, however, Wendy realizes that she's being followed. Her tail turns out to be Colm Pryce, a slightly older, more experienced hunter. Why has Colm been following her? Because he has a message for her -- a warning. According to Colm, Wendy is being pursued by a group of vampires calling themselves the Kindred of Malignity. Wh... more info>>

"Fuchs is an exceptionally fluid writer with a keen inventiveness and proficiency sadly lacking in the works of many writers of today." - Nicholas Grabowsky, author of Halloween IV and The Everborn Many summers ago, an evil presence known as a Bloodan visited Camp Silverway, a peaceful summer camp for teenage girls, and nearly killed a young girl named Shelly. Mary Thompson, a girl on a bunk bed near Shelly, watched as the creature made from blood and darkness, began to sink into Shelly and beg... more info>>

What do you do when one of your ancestors has a curse placed on him and you and your friends find yourselves trapped on an island with that curse? Connie and her friends face such a situation and must battle a reanimated Shaman, Zombies, and an Elemental if they are to survive Destiny Island.

Disgusted with his long, bloodthirsty existence, Jon Sharpay discovers a fresh challenge--the last living descendent of the arch-enemy who nearly destroyed him a century ago. He travels from New York City to Princeton University to hunt down Kat Van Braam, a curator at the university's art museum. But Sharpay is also being hunted, by two men: one determined to avenge the death of his pregnant young wife, the other a foreign agent out to recruit Sharpay's paranormal skills for an international c... more info>>

While on a morning jog, a man suffering deep personal sorrow hears voices of dead children asking for help, to be set free. Are they real, or something else?feeling he must have answers, he begins a quest and in doing so learns more than he ever anticipated. Yes, after several unusual encounters he is finally able to learn the truth and what he must do to help -- the tiny voices.

Human/Esper detective Erik Knight has kept his bargain with the United States Government by functioning as an undercover operative and CIA Cooler for over two years. Erik has been using his inhuman abilities to clean up terrorist hotspots and break narcotics trafficking rings throughout the United States and countries with US political interests. While away on assignment, Erik's life is shattered when he learns his wife died in a car accident. Though he attended her funeral and burial, Erik can... more info>>

The nightmare begins when Stephen Miller's tortured body is found in an open field. Police had been looking to question him in connection with the murder of his five-year-old daughter, Christina. After the body of a second victim, Kenneth Collins, turns up, police begin to suspect a serial murderer. Police wanted Collins for molesting his daughter, Jennifer. The same methods of torture were used on both men, and each victim had a pentagram tattooed on his chest. Encouraged by her husband, Ernes... more info>>

Still living at home with his narcotic-addicted mother, Cole Carney longs to find a way out and begin his career as a school teacher. After a strange incident, the mysterious Father Stanton gives him a job at his old elementary school, but he soon finds that more than just the decor has changed. As he uncovers the atrocities each room of the school presents and solves the mysteries surrounding each inhabitant, he unlocks the dark secrets of his own past. Along with a fellow teacher and a fiery j... more info>>

In his first collection, Brandon Ford delivers 18 brand new, never before published tales of the dark, twisted, and macabre. Buried within these gnarled pages, you'll discover jilted lovers, cheating spouses, bizarre fetishes, acid trips, and roaming sleepwalkers. You'll meet noisy neighbors, struggling writers, vengeful females, and even a monster or two. With Decayed Etchings, you'll dive headfirst into a world of ghoulish delights that will surely satisfy even the most jaded gorehound. In th... more info>>

Evil has many names? Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy and now the Man with the Lightbulb Head. Louie Lewis (Louie, Louie to his friends), a small town private investigator, just wants to knock back a few beers, tell a few jokes and take a breather after a long, tedious, but rather mundane insurance investigation. However, when he starts to rekindle an old flame, he crosses paths with the new face of evil.

A Home can be a Dream? or a Nightmare. Our neighbors are living so close every day and yet do we really know them? Buying a dream house leads to a path of conflict and tragedy for a young couple. The houses in their development hide secrets. The secrets overwhelm and control their lives. The fallout is one they will never forget. Excerpt: You might recognize me. Then again, you might not. It's been a long year and we, my family and I, are leaving the spotlight. The networks have stopped ca... more info>>

Behind the lovely façade of a grand old theater?a bloodthirsty vampire family lurks and kills. For years the vampire family lived in the shadows, hidden by the night and people's disbelief; feeding on animals or throw away people who would never be missed. But as the family moves into an old theater, and uses it to cover up their crimes, the youngest of them are restless and determined to live as they like. Reckessly. Killing and feeding when and where they want. Feeding on who they want. Only t... more info>>

Tamsyn Hallert, an artist, exists in a vicious circle of addiction and recovery, fueled by her husband Sean's long-time secret affair. The affair ended in his lover's bizarre suicide, but not before she left a surprise on Tam and Sean's doorstep--Kevin, the son Sean never knew he had. Sean moves them to the country, to his familial home near the crumbling Wraithborne Estate, the massive old house with a terrible mythos. The twisted attempt to save their marriage only makes matters worse as Sea... more info>>

The easiest path usually leads straight into a minefield. Eddie, a young, pretty single mom, is trying to do the right thing by her three-year-old daughter. She really is. With no education, no job, and a string of loser boyfriends behind her, she faces hard decisions every day. Gas for the car, or food for Joy? She's already been forced to move back into her mother's decrepit old trailer in Shady Acres Trailer Court in rural Arkansas. Should she get a normal job working long hours for minimum ... more info>>