Detective Horror

There is a harvest moon over Toulouse, but it’s going to be a very dark night. Eleven-year-old Micah Stevens intends to free the dogs from a puppy mill in the woods outside of town. Teenager Jenny Allard and her boyfriend Michael Kennedy have come up with a plan to get even with two of the school’s most notorious thugs. Gloria Downing is coming home after a decade running from her past. On this Indian summer evening in October of 1981, the little town is about to add several chapters to its long and bizarre history. Come along as award winning novelist, Chris Morrow, gives you the grand...

These are tales of the darkest fantasy. “These are the literary spawn – bastards though some may be – of the stories that one would have read in the pages of Weird Tales, that venerated pulp magazine of the early part of the twentieth century. That pulp rag that birthed the stories of Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, C. L. Moore, and many others. These stories have percolated in those pages as well as through the fiction of Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock. They have been steeped in heroic fantasy fiction, sword and sorcery, and outright ...

Chloe Marsh is found dead at the scene of an accident and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Half an hour later, as she is being taken to the morgue, Chloe suddenly sits up. But this isn't the first time Chloe has died, and it certainly won't be the last.

Tori Van Camp wakes one morning on a luxurious ocean liner where she's offered whatever a person might desire: food, clothes, recreation, and the companionship of congenial people. But Tori has no memory of booking a cruise. What she does have is a vivid recollection of being shot point blank in the chest.

There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. . . . On the television news they heard gunfire and the sound of helicopter blades and bombs falling. The little girls hung on to the brink of a hugeness that they knew was there but had no way of discovering.The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip.

Could history’s greatest works of art be the product of a dark secret? Follow artifact hunter, Andrew Game, as he journeys on a clandestine assignment to Providence, Rhode Island hoping to recover an ancient document credited with being the inspiration behind many of the world’s most beloved literary masterpieces. But when, Cutty Abbott, a young, down on his luck writer with an affinity for antiques unwittingly purchases a trinket box at a local estate sale and discovers the long-lost document hidden inside: a cleverly devised chain letter written by horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, ...

Private investigator Ashton Ford has special powers - powers that some call supernatural. A former naval intelligence officer who is highly knowledgeable in cryptology and philosophy, Ford will shatter your ideas of reality and take you into a mystical world of vision, intuition, and psychic truth. In Time to Time, the husband of an aging Hollywood movie star is concerned with his wife's unnatural compulsions and obsessions with UFOs, dolphins, and the paranormal. The actress is convinced that someone, somewhere in space, is calling her.

The death of her grandmother brings artist and gallery owner Megan Calloway to Salem. She is rescued by a tall, dark stranger from a careless driver. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? After another death, Megan and her rescuer, Jake, investigate the strange occurrences in her grandmother's house. Everything revolves around a ring she inherited and riddles she must solve. Visions of the past lead Megan to find her future and a treasure lost in time.

A mystery set in the Peplos Public Library with Athena’s detective, a reluctant girl from a parallel universe. Book one of the series.

Ever since Jake became a ghost he’s made a career out of solving London’s grisliest murders and helping fellow phantoms pass on to the other side. This case is about to lead him into some unfamiliar territory though.... Some very unfamiliar territory. The person Jake’s helping this time has already passed on, and when he did, he went south. A Faustian pact landed Jake’s client in Hell, and the only way to get him home is to perform an inter-dimensional jailbreak. Rescuing a lost soul from damnation promises to be the most dangerous undertaking of Jake’s career.

When Jake Fletcher died and became a ghost, he began a new life as a spectral detective - a phantom PI who helps the police solve cases beyond mortal comprehension. But when dead people start murdering the locals, even Jake is stumped. Jake soon learns that someone is reviving corpses and using them as assassins, but what twisted game is the puppet master is playing? Can Jake solve the riddle and bring the killer to justice, or is London about to be turned into a zombie bloodbath?

Als die Geschwister Peter, Celia und Margaret gewarnt werden, dass es in dem ehemaligen Klostergebäude Priory, das sie geerbt haben, spuken soll, halten sie das Gerede zuerst für Aberglauben. Doch schon in der ersten Nacht werden sie von einem unheimlichen Stöhnen geweckt - und bald darauf geschieht auch noch ein Mord... Ein Muss für Fans von Georgette Heyer und klassischen englischen Krimis.

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The Interprovincial Medical Institute sends out a replacement. But when the new physician investigates the cause of death, which appears to be suicide, there’s a mystery to solve. It seems the good doctor was hosting a parasite. Yet this should have been impossible, as the man was already possessed. For hundreds of years, the Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine.

Poe is widely known as a classic master of horror storytelling. His work has not been fully appreciated, neither during his lifetime nor now, as we approach the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of his death. It is challenging for most of us to excel in even a single field in life, and Poe was an undisputed genius in all the fields of literature he worked on. Particularly noteworthy is his role in the construction of various genres. Poe is the father of the detective novel. Few doubt that "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from 1841 and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" from 1842, both ...

Lovecraft, a powerful wizard, and enemy of Sherlock Holmes has been thwarted over and over again by Sherlock Holmes and his wizard friend, Harry Houdini. Now, Lovecraft has found a powerful companion, Lady Dark, a vampire demon, who promises to guide him to the success he has repeatedly failed at: The Death of Holmes and his friends. Will Holmes be able to stop this powerful duo, or will he finally meet his end?

Jessie Clarke is about to find herself in the closest place to hell at the mercy of a sadistic killer. Her disappearance triggers a police investigation which reaches back decades as the team of detectives are joined by Amanda Kaidy, a powerful clairvoyant. Can the team get to Jessie before the torture and abuse becomes too much to survive? What other gruesome discoveries will they make along the way? Nails is a brutal, unflinching mix of paranormal thriller and serial killer horror that will have you gripped from the start.

Fredrik Welin is a 70-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson.

Miller and Smith are back with another wild Monster Files case. This time they are helping a girl named Amber, who believes her neighbor is a werewolf. After Miller goes on a stakeout with Amber, they find out the man has plenty of secrets. For one, he seems to have a taste for cats. And possibly the neighborhood kids as well. The full moon is shining bright, and something strange is afoot in their small town. But can The Monster Files stop the werewolf before he takes another into the darkness?

For Vanessa, Pairs is a nightmare come true.But she tries her best to keep the creepy and downright terrifying down by being a fixer. So when she gets a job by the famous Madame VanGelder to retrieve stolen property its just another chance at two hundred francs a day and a pint of O negative every fourth day. Wrong. Buy Your Copy Today

Follow Detectives George and Leo as they investigate a trail of mysterious murders within New York City. Murders pointing to a very unlikely candidate. Following the clues, they find themselves in a horror setting which they soon wish to escape. It’s a monster they’ve never faced before. A monster they didn’t think they’d ever face. And yet, it’s a monster particularly crafted for killing. After all, this murderer is everywhere, watching silently. Watching you…watching your family…right now.