First Contact Horror

Claustrophilia is a genre-bending sci-fi Gothic that dives deep into the psyche’s need for love and control while exploring the darker side of human (and non-human) relationships. After the tragic death of his entire family, Thomas lives under a conservatorship overseen by his lover, Ethan. But Ethan’s job keeps him away. Isolated in the family’s decaying Connecticut mansion, Thomas lives a monotonous life under the watchful eye of a live-in security firm until one day, he discovers an alien hiding on the grounds of his estate.

Peter Pendennis killed and dissected eleven people before they caught him. Soon he was safely locked away in an institution - but one of the multiple personalities he is host to claims to be the astronaut John Bruce, who is now running for President of the United States. And when Pendennis is confronted with Louise Callander, Bruce's former girlfriend, he tells her things that only the real John Bruce could know. Nick Stubbs, a scientist investigating the nature of multiple dimensions in their connection to the human brain, was called in to investigate - and now very much regrets it.

Hope Park’s early years are somewhat of a mystery. Now, as a teenager isolated to one bedroom in her hosts' apartment, she is trying to make sense of the little information she has about her family and her past. She had never been shown or experienced love and affection. With the help of a mysterious visitor from afar and some other outcast friends, Hope learns much about what she really is, about what fuels her, and about her mission. She will have to choose between performing some disturbing dark deeds or risk banishment, or worse. Will she act as commanded by her kind?

Modeled after Robert E. Howard's The Servants of Bit-Yakin and H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountain of Madness, this is the origin story for a new type of hero: a warrior spaceman imbued with dark powers who searches for his lost masters in hopes of making them stop the needless suffering of mortal souls. It opens the door to a re-imagined world of H. P. Lovecraft's monsters, ethics, and the dark mysteries of the universe.

A crossover between the new wave vampire mythos and nasty aliens from another galaxy, this story features both of them, converging in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When Bonesaw, an early 20th-century gangster, is rescued from prison by the Brotherhood, he doesn’t realize it is actually a kidnapping. They need him to spy on one of their own generals, and to do so, he has to go through their version of Basic Training, also known as the Gauntlet. Nearly a century later, Detective Katherine Wheeler investigates a string of murders with similar, horrifying details: Each victim dies when something huge erupts out of their bodies. Unbeknownst to her, the attacks are the beginning of an invasion, one that could wipe out all of mankind.

Revelations: On Honeycomb, a young lawman guide heads into a mine looking to find a lost miner and the reason for a vicious attack. What he finds are lifeforms no one ever expected. Fast, hungry, and climbing back up the food chain. Lethal Cargo: A transport ship returns from Honeycomb with more passengers that they'd had planned on, and a mad murderer. It's up to a young doctor Zara to figure out who killed her predecessor, and what's taking out the rest of the crew.

An unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago, a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby. Vegetation grows large but foul-tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die, one by one.

The first mate of the Javelin’s got it bad for a nasty-tempered, smart ass woman from Earth. That she’s promised to handfast another man sits on his conscience. He shouldn’t have kissed her. He shouldn’t have cared. These things don’t sit on his conscience as much as the secret he’s been keeping from the ones who trust him. Katrina agreed to be a mail order bride to the wrong man. Okay, any man would have been the wrong man because she had eyes for one alien, and one alone. But she can’t take the luxury to develop feelings for him. She’s on a mission. And if her mission ...

What could make a regular ol’ cashier from PennyMart turn into bounty hunting and pursue a criminal across the planets? The kind of emotion that gives birth to wrath. How does the first born of Zama’s royalty become conscripted into taking a mail order bride? That’s one story. What does he feel when his brother signs him up for that? Pure wrath. Smyrna wants one thing. Just one. She wants the man who killed her best friend dead. Being a bounty hunter isn’t her life goal. It’s the means to an end. Caayn’s younger brother played a cruel joke on him. He signed him up to be hand-...

There are many unanswered questions left from Starburst, Book 1 in the mysterious and thrilling Women of the Grey series. Did Lisa survive facing Superior Mother, again? Can Superior Mother keep The Grey under her rule? Are the women of The Grey truly all the same and none different as they preach to be? With mystery and intrigue, Red Drug takes us back into the twists and turns of The Grey. Red Drug is popping with new characters and new emotions.

Messina—Messi—Argyle must take an unplanned trip to another planet to sort out the Operation Outreach she’s been put in charge of. This operation must succeed. An ambassadorship is riding on it.. She refuses to yield to failure. Veer’s agreed to impersonate the governor of Janus to help his friend Jeweler out. He didn’t count on his heartstrings being pulled by a street urchin. He didn’t anticipate that he’d find a such a disparity between the classes in the capital city. He also didn’t count on losing his heart to the stubborn ambitious Earth woman. Now Veer’s got a ...

The aliens have been defeated. If only they could remember how… And life is back to normal. Sidney is working at a boring retail job each day, without a care in the world. The problem is she’s been mindwiped to forget about the aliens and the zombies. But when Sidney’s memories get restored by Mulford, there’s only one person who could have mindwiped her: the telepathic zombie Sam. Now Sidney’s on the hunt to get her revenge on Sam. She’s joined Mulford and there’s nothing she won’t do to get her revenge, including joining Zombii. Co. Will the zombies finally be wiped out? ...

Lisa only wants to follow orders from her mysterious leader, Superior Mother, and get back to life in The Grey. When she is sent on her first mission among the humans, Lisa realizes she is more human than Superior Mother led her to believe. In her first mission for the Women of the Grey Lisa begins to not only challenge her orders from Superior Mother but everything she has ever known. Defiant and on a quest for the truth Lisa will follow orders no more while she creates a path of her own.

Following an earthquake,, tourists have begun to disappear in the Lorenzo Caverns. The FBI claims that a bear is the culprit, but the local sheriff and an esteemed archaeologist suspect that the missing people have become the victims of a bloodthirsty alien creature.

Anatu is an ambitious warrior deprived of history and a race without a name. With her poleaxe in hand amongst terrifying creatures and in a place of distrust and tension, Anatu is conflicted about her romantic feelings. Leon, her current partner, remains a strong presence in Anatu's life, but she feels herself beginning to stray. She feels herself longing for another woman. Can she create a romantic life with a human? What will the others think? What will Niko think? Anatu swallows her pride and continues her journey in fear of her own sexuality, but a plot twist is nearing.

Shy and introverted, Dash grew up reserved and with few friends. Once meeting Bria and Talyn on his home planet's academy, they became his best friends. With more courage and knowledge than he could hope for, the pair consistently managed to pull Dash into adventures he would have otherwise avoided.

A man trapped in the woods searches for his missing little girl. All the while, a strange light in the sky chases him. Will he ever find his little girl, and will they be able to escape the woods unscathed?

Sam is telepathic and knows the aliens are coming. The problem is he’s also a zombie and no one trusts him. Sam needs to find allies who can help him find the proof that the aliens exist and are invading the Earth, before its too late to prepare for the invasion. Before Sam can do that, he’s got to escape the base he’s trapped in, but his every move is being watched by Michelle, who will use any excuse to lock him up and toss away the key. Can Sam prove that the alien threat is real in time to warn the world? But if Sam’s going to find the proof he needs, he’s got more to contend ...

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.