Body Horror

The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found.Violet can sense the echoes of those who've been murdered and the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Only those closest to her know what she is capable of, but when she discovers the body of a young boy she also draws the attention of the FBI, threatening her entire way of life. As Violet works to keep her morbid ability a secret, she unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession.

Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals - for centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly, all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.

New from Mike Albanese, author of the award winning "Werewolf's Apprentice" and "Black Mailbox". Rick Ziewig creates synthetic characters for Cloud-9 productions. One day he meets Diana in a coffee shop. Problem is, she's one of his creations. Turns out there are more of them like her out there. Lots more. She's from from a place where every story ever told is retold a thousand times. A creature born of the best and the worst products of the human imagination. Rick's little monsters are bleeding into the real world. And not all of them are A-List romantic leads.

Since the publication of his first novel 30 years ago, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life real figures. The Body Artist is DeLillo's haunting and profoundly moving new novel.

It’s Halloween, and Ruby is looking forward to a party at China Bayles’ house and a busy holiday weekend at her New Age shop, the Crystal Cave. But her holiday plans are interrupted when Jessica Nelson, a crime reporter at the Pecan Springs Enterprise, shows up with a hard-to-believe story about a serial killer who is targeting the terminally ill. Jessica claims that the killer’s calling card - a card picturing Azrael, the Angel of Death - comes from a deck Ruby once carried in her shop.

What if the most dangerous voice in your head... wasn't your own? Elena Rodriguez is a struggling actress desperate enough to accept an unusual role: become the public stand-in for Catalina Anderson, a reclusive bestselling author who never appears in public. The job pays exceptionally well and seems straightforward—master Catalina's mannerisms, make carefully selected appearances, and maintain absolute discretion. But something sinister lurks beneath the surface of this arrangement. As Elena begins experiencing vivid memories she never lived and thoughts that don't feel like her own, she...

President Crown's second term has come to an end and with it an unprecedented era of American politics. His transgressive, norm-violating style has unleashed chaos on a global and national scale. The flashpoint will be January 20th, when his successor -- President Elect Young -- takes power reversing and undoing his agenda and taking the country and the world in a direction some think may be even more perilous. The question on everyone's mind is What Will Crown Do To Hold On To Power? The answer: Anything Necessary. Including the ultimate 'trump card' -- a secret so dangerous and so ancient...

When Beatrix Brighton—a New Hampshire professor with expertise in demonology—receives a desperate call from her father about a fungal plague consuming his home, she expects to find another easily explained phenomenon. Instead, she discovers a city in the grip of something inexplicable: toxic spores blanket every surface, buildings sprout through with yellow growths, and the residents are slowly changing, their minds colonized by something that lurks in the bayou's depths.

Matteo, an aerospace engineer, returns home after working on a recovered spacecraft, expecting a sense of accomplishment. However, an unsettling feeling gnaws at him, and he can't shake the sense that something is amiss. Despite a reassuring doctor's report declaring his health normal, Matteo's unease persists. As he succumbs to exhaustion and drifts into sleep, Matteo awakens to a reality beyond comprehension. No longer in his own body, he finds himself inhabiting the unfamiliar form of another being. Bewildered and disoriented, he discovers the shocking truth: his body has been hijacked ...

Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors - nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared.

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.

Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades—the perfect daughter. And then Jackie's family dies in a freak car accident and she has to move cross-country to live with the Walters—her new guardians. Now Jackie must trade in her Type A personality and New York City apartment for a Colorado ranch and all the wild Walter boys who come with it. How can she fit in and move on when she needs to keep her parents' memory alive by living up to the promise of perfect?

"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 ...

“I’m fine.” That Southern expression which says, “I am spiraling madly out of control, but don’t you worry, sweetheart.” Welcome to Liberty, Georgia. Population 2,424. Sweet old Ruth Chambers passed away after a lengthy illness, so that number might be off by one or two. The sign hasn’t been updated in a while. Everybody knows everybody and their business. There’s a town square and two traffic lights. One on the way into town and one on the way out. Nothing bad ever happens here. Frances Hunt is at her breaking point. She has a hellraising teenaged son and a mother, who is ...

Full body transplants on sale here: the more you pay, the better the body. But can an expensive upgrade really fulfil the life-changing expectations of demoralised mortician Caroline McAleese? Caroline is desperate to be promoted to the sales team - but she's overweight and over 40, and in a world where attractiveness is prioritised ahead of intelligence, her prospects are slim. Then she hits the jackpot in the Citizens' Lottery, and gets the chance to trade up to the perfect new body: one that's young, lithe and beautiful.

John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the midwest—but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use, and meanwhile Brooke's fractured psyche teeters on the edge of oblivion, overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of dead personalities sharing her mind. S

It started with a single hair...and grew into a living nightmare. Greg is a call center worker in San Francisco, just another faceless voice helping disgruntled customers troubleshoot their smart appliances. He wears gloves, long sleeves, and a mask—he says it’s for hygiene. But the truth is growing harder to hide. Literally. As hair begins to sprout from places no hair should grow, Greg struggles to keep his body—and his life—from unraveling. But this isn’t just some bizarre medical anomaly. This is something older. Something deeper. And something that will not be denied. Uncanny...

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 Ciedre is just a young professional woman in the big city when she meets the hunk of her life named Shane, who rescues her from a gang of vampire aliens who are hell-bent on harvesting the blood of all earthlings. And to the victors go the spoils. After Shane saves the day, Ciedre demands he show her the ancient art of the erotic fist. And this mutant's fists are bigger than any mortal male's...

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!

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 ...