Dark Horror

There's no escaping a Reaper. I'm an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I'm coming for you.... I'm a warrior. My unbreakable determination, my backbone of steel define me. As a Reaper who does Death's bidding, weakness is a word I don't understand. Until a stunning librarian stirs emotions deep within me I've never felt before. Her soft curves blunt the sharp edges of my soul, crushing my defenses - yet make me stronger.

Blaise is a shifter collared from birth to keep her from her abilities. It's been her dream to get the collar off and vanish into the countryside. Working as a highly paid whore has gotten her close - she can almost taste it. Until her Mistress dies, and the new Master burns her contract. Now everything is gone, and Blaise has to fight just to keep herself out of his hands. Keepers are charged with keeping the peace amongst shifters, mages, and humans. The Six Horsemen are an elite, high ranking, team, but to those who rule the kingdom, these six men are little more than ...

A terrifying mosaic of transformation and terror, "Eyes Like Mirrors, Flesh Like Ash" collects twenty macabre tales by Kevin Lintner that claw beneath the skin of reality. From a solo escape room session that unlocks an ancient evil, to haunted photographs that predict one's grotesque demise, each story delivers its own brand of psychological and cosmic horror. Enter cursed houses, twisted minds, eldritch forests, and nightmarish realities where flesh remembers, shadows whisper, and dreams consume. These stories are not for the faint of heart—they are for those who seek the forbidden, the...

It’s just another ordinary day for Jen McDonald. Until she slams on her brakes and narrowly misses hitting a shrouded woman. Disorientated and stumbling from her car, she’s stunned to discover that the woman has disappeared. Unbeknownst to Jen, that event is the catalyst for many others in the small Australian town of Emerald Hills. In another part of town, a witch rises up determined to gain more power, influence, and wealth, setting into motion a series of catastrophic episodes. People vanish, only to be later found dead, animals are mutilated, children go missing, a strange group of ...

Whispers from the Woods: A Folk Horror Anthology Venture into the depths of shadowed forests and forgotten folklore in Whispers from the Woods, a chilling anthology of folk horror and rural mysteries. In this collection, the woods are alive with ancient secrets, restless spirits, and twisted rituals that have been buried by time—but never forgotten. From eerie figures who trade in curses to villagers bound by the weight of hidden truths, these stories will draw you into dark corners where every rustle of leaves is a warning, and every whisper is a promise of things to come. In Whispers ...

A collection of twenty horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: SOMETHING IN THE SKY: Strange things happen to two college students on Lovers Lane after a meteor cuts a path through a nearby cemetery. THE TOASTER: The City of Baltimore appropriates funds to move Edgar Allen Poe's grave site to a new mausoleum. LORD OF DARKNESS: Fred finds a large box on his doorstep with a horrific looking ebony statue inside that terrifies him. He abhors scary things and takes it to the city dump for disposal. THE METEOR: Newt is ...

As a child, Henry Cadmus lived on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams are ones he associates with his childhood... and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping blood; strange occult rituals... and worse. If it was up to Henry, he would avoid the island entirely.

Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the sea. Something from the sea is creating monsters on land.

As darkness engulfs the room and flickering candle flames cast their eerie shadows on the walls, I slowly page through the book of horrors. It is like stepping into a gothic fairytale, where one’s imagination knows no boundaries. I look around at the beautiful dark scenery and capture its magical and uncanny allure. I am frightened yet I feel liberated, for I know it is only in these dark memories my soul finds the everlasting salvation and peace. As I read through the chapters of terrifying tales, I begin to understand the purpose of my very existence... The book uses the '3D guise' ...

A grim horror overshadows the village. A horror over three hundred years old. Here lives a witch who seeks vengeance on the folk who live beneath Raven Hill. A witch gone rogue, an evil crone with a vengeance that must be satisfied at all costs. Fish are dying. Crops are withering. The birds no longer sing. Everywhere, flocks of malevolent ravens darken the skies. The air is poisoned. Nate fears the life is slowly being choked from the village. But he has no idea why. For the villagers, time is running out. Who is the mysterious but enchanting Abbie who has set up camp close by? Is her ...

A child is promised the kingdom of darkness. The promise of complete control of the underworld and all that it possesses will be his. There are rules, he is told. In order to be awarded such a gift, he must bring souls to the table, and before that happens, he must commit one of the most heinous acts imaginable to prove he is a loyal subject to the evil one. It's a battle between good and evil. There are dangers that lurk in every corner for those that try to intervene. This dark, gruesome, and supernatural tale will keep you intrigued until the very last page. On Henry’s eighteenth ...

What’s that noise outside the window? Maybe some endings should be left alone. What was that bump I felt? What’s that crawling in your underwear? Take a look through Dark Windows: More Twisted Tales to find the answers to these questions and more in this collection of short stories of dark fiction, supernatural, suspense and psychological horror all bound together with a black sense of humour. Why not take a look through these Dark Windows… you never know what you might see?

Welcome to the Sorrows—where nightmares bleed into reality, and nothing is what it seems. Maddie Monroe is twenty-two, stuck slinging coffee in a graveyard-shift diner and clinging to dreams of escape. But when she defends a scarred, cryptic stranger from a brutal attack, her life is ripped apart—and hurled into another world. The Sorrows is not a place for the weak. It's a realm of twisted magic, broken souls, and creeping madness. Maddie has no map, no allies—except for a band of misfits who are each more dangerous than they appear: – a disgraced royal advisor haunted by his past ...

Alex Morgan. A guardian. A Watcher. Whether he wants to be or not. Six weeks after battling with ancient entities wanting to tear holes in the Threshold, private investigator Alex Morgan is still adjusting to his new reality. The elemental essence he helped capture hasn't fully relinquished its connection to him, leaving Alex with unexpected abilities that are growing stronger by the day. When a wealthy collector steals ancient seasonal vessels and kidnaps a gifted student, Alex finds himself at the center of supernatural politics. The Winter Court views him as either a valuable asset or ...

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 terror has been unleashed inside the Harris Funeral Home, one that threatens to unhinge the Harris family's minds and send them into a dark abyss. The Harris Funeral Home hides a dark secret. Within its psychic domain lurks a malevolent entity that thrives on human suffering. When a mishap sets this psychic entity free from the body of a serial killer, the Harris family becomes its unwilling prey. Michael Harris, alongside family and friends, must enter the 'Shadow Realm' to face the malignant force that threatens to destroy them. A tale of brooding terror.

For a witch trained as a demon hunter, werewolves, ghouls, and vampires are all in a day’s work. But Red has no memories of her past — not even her real name — and her cases keep inching her closer to the truth. She comes to LA to solve a murder. The trail leads to Kristoff. Handsome and dangerous, the vampire is more than her prime suspect. He might hold the key to her mysterious origins. As the death count grows, she sinks into a supernatural conspiracy as the city teeters on the brink of civil war. Red needs to keep her wits sharp. And her stake sharper. Or she'll die before she ...

The son of a schizophrenic, Jared Gordon has lived his entire life with a genetic time bomb coded into his DNA. So when the night terrors and hallucinations arrive in force, it seems undeniable that the same disease responsible for his father’s suicide is to blame.

Leah was unemployed, broke, and desperate. A few years earlier, a fatal car crash took the lives of Leah’s beloved husband and their two babies, leaving her disabled. Life looked bleak. Then she met Mason. He was charming, charismatic, persuasive, and a successful businessman, well respected in the community. His teenage daughter did nothing to welcome Leah into the family, but life is never perfect. And the nightmares began the day the dog died… Two years into her second marriage, Leah Brand’s world is turned upside down. Inanimate objects move, her clothes are left out for the ...

Suffer the Children presents a terrifying tale of apocalyptic fiction, as listeners are introduced to Herod's Syndrome, a devastating illness that suddenly and swiftly kills all young children across the globe. Soon, they return from the grave, and ask for blood. And with blood, they stop being dead. They continue to remain the children they once were, but only for a short time, as they need more blood to live. The average human body holds 10 pints of blood, so the inevitable question for parents everywhere becomes: How far would you go to bring your child back?