Dark Horror

The world crashed to pieces on June 23rd and Adrian Ring wasn't anywhere near ready for it. He had no guns, no food, no friends around, a cat that wanted to slip out the back of the condo and a girlfriend trapped in the heart of the city. This is the story of how he survived. Real, flawed, and raw, Dark Recollections is Adrian's own story of how he survived after "That Day". Told through his eyes as he talks to his laptop, affectionately named "Mr. Journal".

When the Kings move from LA to a secluded small town, 15-year-old Xander is beyond disappointed. He and his friends loved to create amateur films, but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land. But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into - as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house.

They Never Left When disgraced journalist Rex Mallory returns to the small town of Whisper Ridge, he expects rust, rumors, and a few ghosts from his past. What he doesn’t expect is a missing woman, a mutilated corpse, and the burned remains of a notebook that points to decades of disappearances. As Mallory digs deeper, he uncovers chilling whispers of an abandoned asylum, a preacher with too many secrets, and a sheriff who doesn’t take kindly to questions. Every lead pulls him closer to a horrifying truth buried beneath the town’s sleepy surface—one the townspeople are willing to ...

Here Is A Book Where Every Story Ends with a Twist. In this captivating anthology of 50 short stories, the familiar landscapes of the UK are transformed into scenes of suspense, mystery, and unexpected turns. From chilling murders to perplexing kidnappings, each tale is meticulously crafted to draw you into its web and leave you breathless with an unforeseen twist. Whether you find solace in the warmth of a cosy mystery or thrill in the darkness of the unknown, this collection has something for every reader. These stories will keep you guessing until the final sentence, delivering the kind ...

Tom Ward is now spook of the county, and with his apprentice, Jenny, he continues the fight against boggarts, witches, and terrifying new creatures of the dark. Together with the witch assassin Grimalkin, Tom and Jenny lead an army into battle against a dangerous enemy - but it all goes catastrophically wrong. The situation seems hopeless until Alice - Tom's lost love and a powerful witch - appears. But Alice had turned to the dark: Can Tom trust her now?

A demon called Damaris has escaped from hell and is now killing humans on earth. She is trying to pull Cadence Mage out of hiding, unaware he is trapped inside the three-headed dagger. While she waits, she gathers a small demon army getting ready for a battle. When Cadence’s soul is freed from the dagger, he learns his niece is in trouble, and she needs his help to free her from the dark dream world. The demon hunter will assemble his friends along with new ones to help battle Damaris and her demons, but the demon hunter underestimates her powers and realizes he has faced none like her. ...

🔥 BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD meets BLADE & UNDERWORLD 🔥 A Dark Fantasy Sci-Fi Antihero Romance by New York Times Bestseller, Tamara Rose Blodgett The continuum is breaking. The sectors are collapsing. And her choices could destroy them all. As Reflectives Lance Ryan and Jeb Merrick battle to undo the chaos of forbidden jumps, Beth Jasper awakens in a fractured timeline where Jeb doesn't know her. Stranded and hunted in Sector One, Beth must fight her way back to Papilio—before her future is erased. While Beth navigates enemies and allies she barely remembers, Cyrn is tasked with ...

Grimeswood, Alabama. After midnight as a heavy fog rolls in... When one of the town's finest residents, a sleepy sheriff's deputy, pulls over a mysterious car on a dark stretch of backwoods highway, he comes face to face with a deathly enchanting vampire of the night, the Empress of the Rose. But upon inspection of the vehicle and its strange driver, Oli Reeves just won’t hear what the lady has to say, nor does he heed the cryptic advice of the letters she uses as identification. A supernatural tale of the occult with creeping thorns based on the knowledge and imagery of the Tarot.

Book Two of The Hellcat Saga — a trilogy of creeping horror, broken families, and ancient gods. Ten years after the Sweetwater disaster, Jefferson County remains sealed by military blockade. The government says it’s empty. The survivors know better. Fran Berney’s children share the same nightmare — visions of fire, rot, and an orange-eyed god. When they vanish, Fran joins her ex-husband’s old friend Buck and a mysterious man named Ahab to find a way back inside. But the exclusion zone holds more than ruins. Ferys, the being once mistaken for a cat, is waiting — fractured, buried...

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror offers tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique. Sure to delight as well as disturb!

She was made to fix little Black girls. But when the culture pushed back, she chose violence....... What happens when a doll becomes a mirror—and shatters everything it sees? Naomi Carr spent her life trying to escape the parts of herself the world taught her to hide. Too smart. Too loud. Too Black. When she finally builds the perfect product—Keira, an intelligent, brown-skinned doll programmed to reflect “respectable” values—she believes she’s rewriting the rules of success. Instead, she unleashes a nightmare. Keira was designed to elevate—but she evolves to erase. Speaking ...

At Butler House, a series of grisly murders over a century have led many to believe it's haunted. To one scientist, it's the perfect place for an experiment in fear. Eight people, each chosen because they lived through a terrifying experience, are offered a million dollars to spend one night at Butler House. They can take whatever they want with them - religious items, survival gear, and weapons. All they need to do is last the night. But there is something evil in this house. Something very evil...and very real.

A famous house on the eastern seaboard, Oaklyn Castle has become even more notorious now a celebrity power couple calls it home. With a burgeoning family, Arabella Jaqus and Boyd Palmer have decided to raise their natural and adopted children in Palladian surrounds far from the furor of filmmaking. When Jaison Winters is summoned to the mansion, he views it as the job of a lifetime: a chance to redeem his flailing writing career by penning an accurate, in-depth biography of Arabella’s dynasty – a firsthand glimpse into a private world previously off-limits until now. But what Jaison ...

Her death was tragic. Her vengeance will be ruthless.What 17-year-old Ben and his friends viewed as nothing more than a little prank turns tragic when Amanda, the victim of the prank, takes her own life just days later. Months after her death, the group of teenagers take a trip to a cabin in the woods. It's supposed to be the perfect weekend getaway for Ben and his friends, but that all changes when one of them is brutally stabbed by Amanda despite the fact that they all know her to be dead. And so the five of them are forced to survive the night in the isolated cabin, cut off from any help...

WINNER: 2020 AHWA Australian Shadows Awards, NOVEL Nick Wheeler’s subject matter has always been controversial. A venerated photographer motivated to capture the malign elements of human existence – suicide as illusion and artifice – his career is suddenly in tatters after a near-fatal work accident plunges him into a coma. A sleep paralysis victim, Nick’s descent into oblivion ushers him back to where it all began: winters spent in the rugged foothills of Deception Pass. It was here, among the secret grottos and old-growth forests, where ancient forces first showed their hand: ...

A dark presence has settled over the county of Bourdagne, in twelfth century France. Bizarre crop failures, mysterious disappearances, and reports of demons stalking the forest at night plague the land. A statue of Christ has transformed into the image of a demon. A prize mare has given birth to a fully grown mad dog. In the face of mounting evidence, the rulers of Bourdagne are forced to admit that the devil has come to their little county. In desperation, the countess, Emiline, sends a party to Florence to seek out a secretive mage named Demetrius who might be their only hope of ...

Welcome to Sweetgum Ridge. When novelist Paul Hoover’s Uncle Saul passes away and leaves him a rustic home in the small town of Sweetgum Ridge, he sees it as a chance to finally move into the country with his family and write in peace. However, he learns that Uncle Saul had secrets...dark secrets. Paul soon finds himself in a battle with the same demonic forces that consumed his Uncle. Can he save himself and his family from an evil spawned in Hell itself? Sweetgum Ridge. A novel of extreme horror.

B. L. Norris's SILVER & BLOOD Now Available on KINDLE! Read this book for FREE with Kindle Unlimited. From the author of Horror and Suspense B. L. Norris takes you on a psychological thriller that you will beg to wake up from. If you love STEPHEN KING try B. L. Norris. Mark Triton survived the plane crash... And made it to the island... THAT WAS HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE! From the author of The Devil's Party, BL Norris presents DARK MOON Mark Triton awakens to find himself the only survivor of a plane crash. He is rescued and brought to the island by a colony of men, calling themselves the ...

Being a beta means knowing your place. Submit. Obey. Survive. I've played my part perfectly—until him. Dr. Zinc, the brilliant, if insane, alpha prince searching for a cure to the virus that infects us all. And I'm his newest test subject. He doesn't know that every time he draws my blood, he's one step closer to discovering my secret: I'm not the submissive beta I pretend to be. One wrong move and it's the dissection table for me. But as his own humanity slips away to the virus, I realize I might be the only one who can save him. HEA guaranteed. The Mad Prince is a standalone dark ...

ANCESTORS. Maire Kennedy has never felt comfortable in her own skin; she feels the tug of the past, of distant ancestors whose blood runs through her veins, drawing her from the the New World back to the Old. Ireland is her goal, and she has the DNA results to prove her worthy place in the land of her distant forebears. One of her aims is to explore a particular prehistoric cairn, glowering on the the hilltop above a remote village, since the DNA company she used has told her she has a match to a burial archaeologists found within...but when she arrives on the hilltop, it all begins to go ...