Author: Kelvin V.A Allison
Jack Stone; a middle-aged North London gangster, recently released from over two decades in prison, seeking to leave his violent past behind him. Then the brown-eyed, dark-haired Sissy enters his life. And Hell follows with her.
An extreme horror novel that reads like a mash-up of Natural Born Killers, The Crying Game and Snatch.
Read more “Sissy by Kelvin V.A Allison Available January 1”Author: Amber L. Werner
When magic comes at a terrible cost, who will pay the price?
Kayda grew up believing she was only destined for a loveless political match. But when she overhears her bullying stepbrother plotting behind her beloved grandfather’s back, she vows to stop him. Even if it means mastering dangerous magic and allying herself with savage beasts.
Conall only wanted a simple life. But after a wolf rescues him from a deadly betrayal, he learns of a plot that endangers his sister, Lark. Now he’s determined to save her from trading years of her life away. A chance encounter lands him a traveling companion who offers to help, but can he afford to give her his trust?
Lark’s always dreamed of becoming a healer. She jumps at the chance to train with the Palisade Mages, only to stumble into a trap. Now escape is all that matters. Can she outsmart her captors before being sold into slavery?
To the east, an ancient evil sleeps. When its cage threatens to crumble, the Kingdom of Dracwood may never be the same…
Read more “Shadows That Bind Us (Palisade Trilogy 1) by Amber L. Werner Available January 1”Author: Terry M. West, Regina West
Self-Consumed contains the title story as well as Bagged, Tagged, & Buried. Both tales were featured in the out of print Journals of Horror anthology. They are both reprinted here for the first time and have been polished and edited. In Self-Consumed, a wealthy businessman who killed a young girl while drunk-driving discovers that guilt isn’t the only thing that will eat someone alive. In Bagged, Tagged, & Buried, project Sideboard is a secret division of the FBI that investigates cases of the bizarre and often unexplainable. The cases are called Black Files, and when the upper brass decide to dissolve the department, the downsizing turns gruesome.
Read more “Self-Consumed by Terry M. West, Regina West Available January 1”Author: Eli Freysson
The gaslit streets of Fluvi are in turmoil, and idealistic journalist Sam Todd does what he can to be a voice of reason. But the violence takes on a different character when strange murders and disappearances start occurring. And when Sam witnesses one of these himself, things get personal.
His research team includes a former soldier, a street kid, a thief, a disgraced aristocrat and a musician, and arrayed against them are people with dangerous connections, and a small army of street killers.
The further they dig, the darker things get. Beneath a civilised veneer, a depraved secret society is carrying out human sacrifices in the name of forgotten gods. Eight innocent people have mere days to live, and only Sam’s rag-tag team is in a position to do anything about it.
Read more “The Rot Beneath : A Dark Gaslamp Fantasy (Days of the Watcher Book 1) by Eli Freysson Available January 1”Author: Calvin Demmer
Inside, the red raged. Its true intentions had united with near-surface primal instincts. It wanted to hunt, kill, and devour…
A short story.
Read more “Red by Calvin Demmer Available January 1”Author: Phillip H Voss
Perfectly Dark is the story about what happens when 17-year-old Katherine Knox runs away from home and has a chance encounter with her idol, a horror writer named Kyle McLendon. Kat’s world is turned upside down when she discovers how Kyle acquires the exquisite gory details that set his novels apart from all others. Kyle had been struggling with the worst case of writer’s block he’s ever experienced in his life until Katherine lands in his lap like a present from the Grim Reaper. The serial killer and victim are exactly what each other needed and their lives take an unexpected turn resulting in lust, love, danger and bloodshed.
Read more “Perfectly Dark by Phillip H Voss Available January 1”Author: Karen Bush
Fifteen ripping yarns about why Paradise was really lost, plus ghosts, vampires, wars of words, plenty of dogs, knights in shining armour and other assorted characters… all for less than the price of a cup of coffee!
Read more “Paradise Flossed & other fanciful tales by Karen Bush Available January 1”Author: Riley Odell
Behold a twisted trove of oddities.
A woman is tormented by evil bananas. A man investigates the mystery of his disappearing genitals. A husband and wife fight to save their children from the Easter Bunny. In these wild tales of humor and horror, you’ll discover bloody mishaps, anatomical absurdities, and more weird sex than you can shake a dick at. Do you dare explore these odd ordeals?
Read more “Odd Ordeals : Bizarre Dark Comedy by Riley Odell Available January 1”Author: Alexa Nichols
Sheila’s mother was bright, optimistic, and full of life – which is why her rapid deterioration and suicide shook Sheila to the core. Determined to discover why her mother took her own life, Sheila takes off school with her best friend to confront her mother’s widowed husband, and stumbles upon a world she never imagined existed…
Read more “The Mirror People by Alexa Nichols Available January 1”Author: E.D. Lee
How far are you willing to go to change your fate?
Cress Glass is a young Princess, next in line to rule the Kingdom of Myrik. An overbearing father, a sister who rivals for the throne, and a missing brother all stand between her and her destiny.
A shadow kissed figure haunts her dreams, taking over the recess of her mind. His words and wisps of power call to her, drawing her across the sea to him with promises of home and love.
Her world faces challenges as she unlocks a secret power that she can’t control, one handed down from generations. Cress uncovers hidden truths in her family that cause her to rethink her life and the people she has in it. Will she have what it takes to truly change her fate and that of the world?
Read more “A Kingdom of Glass and Fyre (Book One of the Shadowfyre Duology) by E.D. Lee Available January 1”Author: J.D. Null
Sent from home as a civil war ravages her country, young noblewoman Victoria Amodeus arrives under suspicious circumstances at the home of a mysterious host, Lord Hubert Venand. As she tries to piece together the circumstances leading to her current situation and the secrets of her host, Victoria uncovers a far more dark and frightening world than she could have ever imagined. Why is she here at Venand Manor? What lurks on its grounds? And who is Lord Venand?
Read more “Initiation (Fell Blood Trilogy Book 1) by J.D. Null Available January 1”Author: Gary Wrenn
A simple to-go order at an infamous barbecue restaurant turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Read more “I Know What You Ordered Last Week by Gary Wrenn Available January 1”Author: Anni Sezate
When you die and become an angel you don’t expect there to be so much paperwork.
At age seventeen, David Garcia fell to his death and has spent the past ten years filing papers for dead people. His uneventful afterlife is thrown into chaos when he’s attacked by a pernicious demon called Malum. Frozen in terror, David does absolutely nothing to prevent the demon’s escape. Blaming himself, he joins a group of demon hunters intent on recapturing Malum before he destroys the world. Armed with ten years of receptionist training, mediocre fighting skills, and non-stop self-deprecating sarcasm, David soon learns he is in way over his head.
Read more “I Fail at the Afterlife (The Afterlife Trilogy Book 1) by Anni Sezate Available January 1”Author: Jeff Noon
At first glance, Leonard Graves’ death was unremarkable. Sleeping pills, a bottle of vodka, a note saying goodbye.
But when Detective Henry Hobbes discovers a grave in the basement, he realizes there is something far more sinister at work. Further investigation unearths more disturbing evidence.
Scattered around the old house are women’s dresses. All made of the same material. All made in the same colors. And all featuring a rip across the stomach, smeared in blood. As the investigation continues and the body count rises, Hobbes must also deal with the disappearance of his son, the break-up of his family and a growing sense that something horrific happened in the Graves’ household.
And he’s running out of time to find out what.
Read more “House with No Doors by Jeff Noon Available January 1”Author: Arwen-Wynter Oakley
Hospital of Horrors: A Menagerie of Medical Maladies by Arwen-Wynter Oakley is a creative fiction novella set in a post-pandemic world where receiving adequate, safe and compassionate medical care is a luxury of the past. Experience medical torture, the liminality of coma, and the profoundness of death. Join me, close your eyes, and count down from 10 — you’re about to wake up in the Hospital of Horrors.
Read more “Hospital of Horrors : A Menagerie of Medical Maladies by Arwen-Wynter Oakley Available January 1”Author: Kealan Patrick Burke
After the death of the woman who raised him and the realization that the girl he loves will never love him back, young Mark Callahan decides it’s time to leave the small harbor town of Miriam’s Cove for good. All that remains is one last shift at The Windcrest Hotel, a seaside resort that has seen better days.
Tonight, with a ferocious winter storm bearing down on them, there are few staff and fewer guests, until a last-minute booking takes everyone by surprise. There’s a small yellow tour bus bound for The Windcrest and soon the hotel will find itself under siege by something much worse than the storm.
Read more “Guests by Kealan Patrick Burke Available January 1”Author: Gwendolyn Grimaldi
As winter encroaches on the city of Buffalo, New York, a familiar foe resumes his sinful work of hunting and murdering youthful males attending the local arts college, adding more names to the ‘Buffalo Boys’ victim list—although a new duo of detectives has been assigned to this infamous case, the sick man finds his attentions pulled elsewhere, a fateful meeting unconsciously arranged that leads him straight into the arms of an indifferent, masochistic yet captivating Classics student, Konstantin Nabokov. Bodies begin to pile up as winter swells to a shivering high, staining the season’s first snow with pools of red as the resolute detectives, Antonio Perez and Dominique Taylor inch closer and closer to uncovering the violent lovers, but the fates of Kostya and his beloved murderer remain in their own hands, and their hands alone.
A daring story portraying the horrors, hopeless philosophies, dark desires and violent urges of mankind, hidden beneath veils of poetic language capable of deceiving even the most tenacious of readers.
Read more “Greater Dangers by Gwendolyn Grimaldi Available January 1”Author: William P. Robertson
GHOSTS REVISITED 4 contains William P. Robertson’s most intense ghost stories yet. A murder-suicide fuels an American Legion tale while a lumber baron’s deal with the devil drives the Litch House legend. There are plenty of poltergeists, too, who slam doors angrily three times in succession and pin people beneath toppled furniture. Those who burned to death in tragic fires also return to cause havoc. East Otto Cemetery, meanwhile, is home to two headless specters and their ax-wielding killer. Hit-and-run victims, a murdered clerk, and a grieving mother refuse to rest after death, as well. Many incidents were told to the author by those afflicted by troubled spirits. That makes these tales more personal and ultimately more terrifying. What’s revisited will make your skin crawl!
Read more “Ghosts Revisited 4 (The Ghosts Revisited Series) by William P. Robertson Available January 1”Author: H J Turner
TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
Revolutionary fervour is rising. A terrible winter looms. And now the Tsar is being menaced by nightmares maddening as they are chillingly prophetic.
General Nadalia Brezna has been brought out of retirement to help. Travelling to the Tsar’s secluded dacha, Nadalia hopes to pay back her debts and right some of the wrongs of her bloodstained past. Yet Cazandra House holds horrors worse than even her lifetime of war.
As the days darken and the bodies pile up, as the past crimes of the Motherland and her own career rise to the fore, Nadalia must come to terms with a grim truth of the world and her bloody role in it.
Because the Motherland faces an abyss.
And the dead do not go quietly.
Dark and quietly cosmic, Ghosts of the Tsar draws from shadows of the past to ask questions of our future, and the fates we might change.
Read more “Ghosts of the Tsar by H J Turner Available January 1”Author: Calvin Demmer
A pair of big game hunters on an unsanctioned hunt through an African reserve learn too late the importance of following their guide’s directions.
A short story.
Read more “Forbidden Fruit by Calvin Demmer Available January 1”
