Virginia Creeper (The Mystery House Series Book 10) by Eva Pohler Available January 1

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Author: Eva Pohler

Colonial Williamsburg has secrets.

During the holidays, Ellen, Tanya, and Sue want to go to the most Christmassy town in America, which Google says is Williamsburg, Virginia. While they’re enjoying the magnificent light display at Busch Gardens and touring Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown, they sense someone following them. They quickly realize the creeper is not among the living.

At first, their efforts to communicate with this unknown entity provide no answers. Little do they know that he will share his message on his own terms, in his own way. The unsettling truth he shares will rock their world, but it may give them a chance to bring peace to dozens of American Revolutionary War heroes who have been lost for centuries–that is, if they can convince the creeper that they are on his side.

Sydney West by David B McKinsey Available January 1

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Author: David B McKinsey

Sydney West finds a new beginning in the college town of Colorado Springs. The only catch – his memory has been wiped clean of everything but the uncanny ability to read people and suspicion it’s all part of a bigger plan.

With the help of an unwitting English major who claims to have met him just before his memory begins, they explore Sydney’s interactions with others, as well as within himself. Society assumption and baseline sanity rendered meaningless, the further they investigate, the further reality bends.

When does knowing yourself become worse than ignorance? Is it when the oddly relevant hallucinations start, or maybe the feeling he’s forgotten something horrible? Science and supernatural begin to blur, but no one is talking. By the end, he’ll have to decide if who he once was still matters, and if he’s still dangerous.

Sissy by Kelvin V.A Allison Available January 1

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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.

Shadows That Bind Us (Palisade Trilogy 1) by Amber L. Werner Available January 1

December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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…

Self-Consumed by Terry M. West, Regina West Available January 1

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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.

The Rot Beneath : A Dark Gaslamp Fantasy (Days of the Watcher Book 1) by Eli Freysson Available January 1

December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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.

Red by Calvin Demmer Available January 1

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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.

Perfectly Dark by Phillip H Voss Available January 1

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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.

Paradise Flossed & other fanciful tales by Karen Bush Available January 1

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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!

Odd Ordeals : Bizarre Dark Comedy by Riley Odell Available January 1

December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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?

The Mirror People by Alexa Nichols Available January 1

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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…

A Kingdom of Glass and Fyre (Book One of the Shadowfyre Duology) by E.D. Lee Available January 1

December 29, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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?

Initiation (Fell Blood Trilogy Book 1) by J.D. Null Available January 1

December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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?

I Know What You Ordered Last Week by Gary Wrenn Available January 1

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Author: Gary Wrenn

A simple to-go order at an infamous barbecue restaurant turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

I Fail at the Afterlife (The Afterlife Trilogy Book 1) by Anni Sezate Available January 1

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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.

House with No Doors by Jeff Noon Available January 1

December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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.

Hospital of Horrors : A Menagerie of Medical Maladies by Arwen-Wynter Oakley Available January 1

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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.

Guests by Kealan Patrick Burke Available January 1

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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.

Greater Dangers by Gwendolyn Grimaldi Available January 1

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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.

Ghosts Revisited 4 (The Ghosts Revisited Series) by William P. Robertson Available January 1

December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

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!

Ghosts of the Tsar by H J Turner Available January 1

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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.

Forbidden Fruit by Calvin Demmer Available January 1

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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.

Faster by Calvin Demmer Available January 1

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Author: Calvin Demmer

Brock Johnson made a deal to return home from the war—alive. It’s a contract that follows him throughout his days, a contract he can’t escape. Or can he? One night on the road, he must decide whether to keep running or surrender. . . Either choice has its price.

A short story.

Fairydale by Veronica Lancet Available January 1

December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

Author: Veronica Lancet

“I might be evil personified, but you’re the only one I’ll ever be good to.”

August 1955,

When Miss Darcy O’Sullivan, an orphaned English teacher from Boston, receives a letter that her biological father passed away, she is surprised to find herself included in his will.

There is only one condition.

She must travel to Fairydale to attend his funeral.

With the promise of a sizable inheritance, Darcy decides to journey to the small coastal town that holds the secrets of her birth. But the moment she steps foot into Fairydale, things start to go amiss.

Odd residents. Odd rumors. Odd…deaths.

Everything about Fairydale is odd.

Including brooding Caleb Hale-part of the infamous Hale family.

During the day, she falls deeper and deeper under his spell as he forces her to step out of her comfort zone and embrace her inner sensuality.

But at night it’s another man who haunts her dreams-Amon d’Artan, a nobleman who lived two centuries ago.

Amon is sweet and suave where Caleb is intense and dangerous, and Darcy feels more torn than ever. Soon, she finds herself embroiled in a web of lies, deceit, and inexplicable events that make her question her sanity.

When an ancient evil threatens the town and everything Darcy holds dear, she must make the ultimate choice.

Eldritch Beasts : The Queen of Filth by Primary Hollow Available January 1

December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

Author: Primary Hollow

The corruption spreads.

Haunted by the shadows of her past, policewoman Keri returns to work after a year-long absence.

As she tries to piece her life back together, she soon finds out that the horrors that spelled ruin for the town of Exter have followed her into the big city.

With ghastly events happening all around, the inhabitants of Atheta gradually succumb to the malign forces festering in the decaying sewer system.

Will someone arise brave enough to delve into the pungent depth and slay the malign beast that made it its domain? Or will the Queen of Filth turn all the residents into mindless abominations, living only to do her bidding?

[This is the second book in the series.]

Don’t Fade Away : A Ghost Story by Natalie Pearce Available January 1

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Author: Natalie Pearce

For Elle, haunting a share house comes with a unique set of challenges. Living tenants come and go, leaving her with nothing to fill her days except a crush on longstanding housemate, Dean, who literally doesn’t know she exists. Talk about unrequited love.

Just as she despairs at being stuck halfway to the other side for the rest of her afterlife, the newest resident sparks hope for something more than the humdrum of everyday death.

As far as mediums go, Ethan barely knows he is one. He just wants a place to knuckle down and finish his medical degree. But as soon as he moves in, he senses a presence. He tries to ignore it – but Elle is insistent…

The more Ethan uncovers about Elle, the more he suspects her death was no accident. Can he help her move on, or will greater forces intervene?

Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee Available January 1

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Author: Elizabeth Lee

A dark and dazzling feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials

Lancashire, 1620. Young Sarah Haworth and her family live as outcasts.

They are ‘cunning folk’, feared by the local villagers by day, but called upon under cover of darkness for healing balms and spells. Against the odds, love blossoms when Sarah meets Daniel, the local farmer’s son. But when a new magistrate arrives to investigate a spate of strange deaths, his gaze inevitably turns to Sarah and her family.

In a world where cunning women are forced into darkness by powerful men, can Sarah reckon with her fate to protect all she holds dear?

Clark Street by Sean Padula Available January 1

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Author: Sean Padula

Welcome, to the beginning of it all. The back stories of our main characters and the infamous Clark Street. This book is going to take you on a roller coaster of emotions. This isn’t your traditional book. Of course there is going to be plot twist and what not but this isn’t for all readers. This story takes place in 2032 on the infamous Clark Street. For those of you that don’t know, Clark Street is located in a small town in Nebraska.

The Book of Supernatural Law: Blood Crimes by El Fisher Available January 1

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Author: El Fisher

It’s time for Cambrook’s lovable but clumsy witch, Molly Giles, to prove that she can run The Board. Her first assignment is to take charge of an important and dangerous mission. There’s just one problem—Molly’s malfunctioning powers are more erratic than ever!

Thankfully her brother, Scott, will be there to keep her from cracking under the pressure. If anyone can keep her grounded, Scott can.

With a team of clever sorcerers, werewolves and vampires to back them up, Molly and Scott prepare to take on the terrifying, sadistic vampire, Jed Parsons. But none of them, not even the notoriously intimidating Smith brothers, are quite as prepared as they should be.

Jed’s cruelty and need for power has devastated the lives of many, and now he has his sights firmly fixed on Molly.

One of his past victims, Stella Knight, reaches out to The Board in a desperate plea to be freed from her tragic past, but how can they hope to help Stella now that Molly is missing? Even easy-going Scott will have to overcome some unforeseen challenges before he truly accepts his responsibility to The Board.

Blood Crimes will be committed. Much will be lost. Is there still hope that Molly can free herself from Jed’s brutality and maybe even save Stella as well?

The Bogatyr & the Cursed Parcel (The Adventures of the Bogatyr Book 8) by Charles Moffat Available January 1

December 29, 2022December 30, 2022 4 Evil Eyes

Author: Charles Moffat

Someone is playing games with the Bogatyr Knight. They sent him a parcel containing a cursed book, forcing him to hunt down the hag that lives in Silkrest Swamp, a task far more dangerous than it first appears. But who sent him the cursed parcel and why?