Body Horror

In this short prequel to The Preserve, J. L. Williams reveals the first glimpse into the life and times of young mortician, Jackson Lucid. Just another day and another dead body for Jackson to retrieve from the hospital. He doesn't know it will be the one to turn his entire perspective of death upside down. At this point, he's just following the routine his mentor taught him. But now that Morris has recently passed on, Jackson finds himself alone in the world. He makes friends at the funeral home, but not many worth mentioning except Serena, a girl who's been through her own fair share of ...

"The Pressure" unfolds a haunting narrative centered around Trevor, whose very essence undergoes a malevolent transformation with each change in the weather. In those fleeting hours, which can extend to agonizing days, Trevor is consumed by a torrent of anger and violence, leaving his loved ones grappling with the aftermath. As the story unravels against the backdrop of the fiercest winter storm to pummel upper Ohio since 1978, the Wendt family finds themselves thrust into a chilling predicament. While the community braces for the impending tempest, the Wendts brace for something far more ...

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor In this steamy hot, sexy taboo short story, a frustrated woman named Diane on a long-haul flight meets a charismatic man, who is not at all what he seems. There is something inhuman about this handsome stranger, and Diane won't figure it out until she is in the restroom 30K-feet up in the air -- with him. 3,500 words of sensual, sexual, erotic paranormal action!

If you're a fan of Pretty Little Liars or The Lying Game by Sara Shepard or any of the RL Stine thrillers then check out this book! Chloe is excited about spending her senior year of high school in California with her friend Jake's family. Even the usual dread of being the new girl can't bring her down. That is, until she stumbles across the dead body of the most popular girl in school, Lora Kelly. Now she's receiving threatening notes...will she be next? Everyone is a suspect. There's her childhood friend Jake, who she's known forever and there's his girlfriend, Kate, who is insanely ...

Some houses whisper. This one bites. Daniel thought he was getting a fresh start when he moved into a run-down rowhouse on the edge of town. But the strange chattering sounds in the walls won’t stop. And when he peels back a layer of old plaster, he finds something impossible—a row of human teeth embedded in the wall. As the house’s hunger grows, so does its grip on Daniel. Doors vanish. Rooms shift. And the walls begin to whisper things only he can hear. From Rick Brink, author of The Meat House, comes a terrifying new entry in the Terror Novellas series—a claustrophobic tale of ...

A twisted tale of desire, transformation, and forbidden pleasures awaits in this provocative erotic sci-fi thriller. When a mysterious alien parasite infects college roommates Akakia and Sophia, their ordinary lives spiral into a seductive abyss of intense cravings and taboo delights. Akakia, a naive vegan lesbian, and Sophia, a bold e-girl with a penchant for pushing boundaries, find their bodies and desires irrevocably altered by the parasitic invasion. As their pseudopenises awaken new hungers, they embark on a journey through a world of evolving identities, steamy encounters, and dark ...

Leo Bates knows what's behind every corner in her hometown, where she's lived her whole life. Some disjointed memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous. Nothing unexplainable. But the familiar becomes strange the longer you look at it. When Tate Mulder goes missing and Leo is pinned as the prime suspect, she can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her.

In the cyberpunk megacity of Noveris, living biotech tattoos are the ultimate body augmentation - bestowing superhuman abilities on the elite...for a price. When struggling artist Alex defies warnings and undergoes a forbidden ritual to receive the rumored "Progenitor's Kiss" tattoo, they unleash an ancient symbiotic force bent on transcending the boundaries of human existence itself. Reborn as the godlike entity Ankhrava, Alex finds themselves at the center of a metaphysical maelstrom. Their unstoppable new powersattract the terrified scrutiny of Noveris' rulers, pitting Alex against a ...

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor When Lorna walks in on her husband cheating on her with a fake sex doll, she decides that she needs to stretch out at a hot yoga retreat. Her best friend Gale tags along, only on the way they accidentally hit a mountain lion on the highway. They try to save the beast and take it with them to the retreat, where the spiritual master yoga guru tells the ladies they need to engage in a sexual ritual ...

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the 16-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.

In the New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences, real-life serial killer David Parker Ray was a man with a Satanic mission – to ritually sacrifice sixty-six women in the name of his Lord and Master. In 1999, some sixty killings later, one of his intended victims managed to escape and he was apprehended and sentenced to 224 years in prison. His 'toy box,' where he had tortured and murdered the women, became a by-word for evil incarnate. In 2002, David Parker Ray died, six deaths short of his quota. Not long afterwards, in Cuchillo, a town fifteen miles outside Truth or Consequences, ...

This follow-up volume to the bestselling Ghosts from the Library resurrects forgotten tales of the supernatural by some of the most accomplished mystery authors of all time. Close the windows. Draw the curtains. Just don’t let the lights go out…

Winner of Literary Titan 'Gold Award' Winner of Reader Ready Award 2025 'Top Pick' Dying was just the start of his problems... David Harris was murdered—shot in the head after unveiling INCARNEX, a compound that defies death. Eight years later, he wakes up in a new body, resurrected by the very creation that cost him everything. But INCARNEX is failing. Every revived person, including David, is on borrowed time. As society teeters on collapse, he has one chance to fix his mistake—before millions, himself included, shut down for good. Hunted by a ruthless CEO, underground rebels, and the...

Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it’s the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who've fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet, as though someone tried to claw their way out...and failed.

As his tender touch continued to excite me, I started breathing more heavily. My curves continued to grow, and I found myself wondering when my body would finally stop expanding... Shelby knows she shouldn't be sneaking a peek at her husband Sam's laptop, but she can't help herself. With her hectic schedule, she hasn't had any time to spend with him, which means they haven't made love in weeks. She suspects that Sam has been watching erotic videos online. When she discovers what he's been watching, she's shocked. It turns out that Sam has a fetish: extremely busty women. Flat-chested Shelby...

Eden Carmichael was hoping for a nice winter vacation to her new boyfriend's family cabin in Silver Falls, Montana. Instead, they're met with carnage, monsters, and Eden's family secret that comes clawing to the surface. Over the River and Through the Woods is a bloody reminder that you can never escape your past no matter how far you run.

It was a blind date to a lonely cabin, but Ash got more than we bargained for when a psychological manipulator swapped bodies with him. Will Ash get his body back, and escape her clutches?

Eric Turner, a journalist specialising in accounts of the paranormal, investigates a healing well associated with a saintly abbot in the rural village of Scratchbury. Here he finds evidence of astonishing, miraculous cures: a blind woman who can see; a hunchbacked schoolgirl whose spine has straightened. But why is everyone else in the village so deathly ill? Why is a gangster so obsessed with shooting a movie in the ruins of the old monastery? Who are the ruthless order of monks who will defend their secret at any cost, even murder? As Eric investigates. he discovers to his horror that an ...

In this tale of suspense and horror, a young painter looks for work in a mysterious place under the shadow of the mountains, in the rural area of the city of Serra Negra – SP. Strange noises, feverish dreams and unspeakable horrors await in the strange location.