Horror Mystery Anthology

In this Printed Words anthology, the lines merge between crime and horror, fiction and poetry. So, you’ll be kept guessing whether the villain is human or monster. Sometimes, the worst monsters are those who pass as human.

Fay may have never left the security of academia, but she knows how destructive multi-level marketing businesses can be for women. When she gets a grant to research Bribre, a company selling clothes at home parties, she’s determined to use this opportunity to help others understand how these companies prey on our insecurities and destroy our finances. She thinks she’s maintaining objectivity, but the longer Fay’s involved, the more immersed she is in a world of secrets and betrayal.

في عام 2009 لم تكن كتبي قد حققت انتشاراً يذكر، وعلاقتي بالوسط الأدبي لم تكن كمثل هذا الوقت، لذا كان لزاما علي أن أندهش عندما عدت لشقتي يوم 11 فبراير عام 2009، ليلاً لأجد أن هناك طرداً ينتظرني، أخبرتني والدتي أنها استلمته من عم ( محمد الفولي ) الذي يعمل بمكتب البريد القريب من منزلنا، والذي يعرف منزلنا جيداً ويعرف عائلتنا فرداً فرداً منذ ميلادنا إلى اليوم، جميع الخطابات التي أتت لمنزل عائلتي كانت على يديه بداية من مراسلات أقربائنا في بعض دول الخليج العربي في التسعينيات من القرن السابق إلى إنذرات الفصل التي أمطرتني بها مدرستي وأنا في الثانوية العامة.

Days have passed since Carol Long met her end at the Verde Valley Weight Loss Clinic. Now as her sister Tammy fights for her life, a new series of wicked events torture her soul as perfection continues to slip from her reach.

Where do you start? Where do you end? At some point, you stop, sit, and enjoy, or else you become enveloped in the darkness. The Minstrels Are Calling is a book of nightmares, spooky stories, and poems; homages to Hunter S. Thompson and Allen Ginsberg; and a prequel for the author’s graphic novel NUMB. Spiders, zombies, vampires, psychics, supernatural beings, death, creation, and obscure mythology are some of the topics that are embraced within this book.

If you had the power to raise the dead for helping and protecting others, would you use it? Even if that power comes from a macabre and twisted source? John, Andrew, and Kate planned for a relaxing catch-up during a weekend stay in the countryside. However, by chance, they discover a horrifying secret that allows them to raise the dead! If most people knew about this recently discovered ability, they would think it repulsive. But as their power grows, so does the sinister and unwanted attention of others.

Beth was a homely little misfit girl who lived at the Maudlin Mary Magdeline Orphanage. She claimed her mother, who had passed away a year before, was constantly with her. A wealthy widow named Mrs. Stone decided to adopt her. Does Mrs. Stone get more than she bargained for? Is Beth and her mother a package deal? This is a short story with 3600 words. This is a story of the paranormal, but it is very sweet!

In this grab-bag of Halloween shorts, you'll find an assortment of killers and creeps. You may want to log off your Zoom meeting to play with the nice birdies. Perhaps kickback with a premium pizza before you go for a long walk in the dark woods? Or maybe you've wanted to run away to join the circus? Sounds like more fun than keeping a date with Death.

"The Reaping": A gripping tale of terror in the style of M. R. James. A young village vicar listens to a tale of terror and dark secrets from a parishioner's childhood. The man is certain he is soon to die. Can the vicar convince him it is only his imagination getting the better of him? "The Cuckoo Club": A young man's promising career abruptly comes to an end. He takes unusual and radical steps to find work and soon finds himself embroiled in a web of intrigue that may change his life.

Explore the dark world that exists just outside what you can see and thrives on the most terrible things you can imagine. Explore the unfathomable depths of darkness with four distinctly horrifying stories that delve the depths of madness and fear. Nighttime is when the darkness that is within each and every one of us escapes and envelops us in the perilous and inscrutable blackness.

Crystal's Dreams is a tangled web of spooky, paranormal thriller and multiple murder mysteries that take place in Texas and Louisiana. Crystal Moon had been having dreams that would come true since she was a young girl. Crystal begins having dreams about a serial killer who is brutally murdering women in Goliad, Texas, and causing the entire town to live in constant fear. The murders have chilled this small historic town to the bone, and people are afraid to go to sleep at night.

After years of open-water diving, Aaron and Margot have upped the ante. Not content to simply swim with pretty fish, the couple have taken up cave diving - climbing into the Earth in search of flooded caverns filled with adventure. Surrounded by icy waters and claustrophobic rock, where most people would only fear drowning, the newly engaged lovers find thrilling fun.

Could someone experience a haunting and remain completely unaware? In the case of Reginald Bonner, investigator Taija Ford believes she's uncovered evidence revealing just such an event. Sometimes people don't realize what they have until it's too late, and if they refuse to believe the impossible, they might not comprehend the real danger until death stakes its claim.

A lonely and beautiful little girl with a strange friend, a shy, thoughtful young man searching for a purpose in life that will surprise you, and an elderly, sensual woman whose art warns her of the future: these are the spines of the bizarre novelettes featured in this first volume of a series of trilogies.

Pleasant Storm Entertainment, Inc., presents a blood-soaked collection featuring some of the most disturbing horror fiction that author Terry M. West has ever written! These stories revolve around the human monster known as the psychopath. West closely examines the twisted souls and crimson fantasies of these killers. Take this journey through terror that is all too real and you may never feel safe again!

It is the tale of a DC cop's on and off-duty ghostly encounters with a childhood friend who died in his youth. Hauntings can be murder.

Alle had no idea a date with her hot coworker, James, was going to go so terribly wrong. She should have refused to go as soon as he told her they were going ghost-hunting in an old abandoned mental hospital. It didn't take long to discover that they are the ones who are being hunted

Jimmy and Tiffany have been best friends since before they were out of diapers. One night Tiffany calls Jimmy begging for her best friends help.

When the late-night delivery order came into Frank's Pizza, Alicia knew she'd be the one stuck with having to deliver it. She just never thought it might be her last night alive. Drugged and abducted, Alicia awakens to find herself tied to a wooden chair in a basement, surrounded by corpses, and is suddenly forced into a high-stakes poker game. One where losing comes with the heaviest of penalties.

Seven strange stand-alone tales involving unusual people caught in disturbing circumstances are presented in this collection.