Horror Town

"Something ancient and sinister threatens the people of Iron Shores, and it's killing the men off one by one!" After several days of torrential rains, Chief of Police Judith Ware joins forces with a minister, a physician, a bookstore owner, and a paranormal celebrity to solve the mystery of what is desecrating women’s graves and killing the men in the town. Overhead, clouds of crows fly in the air while a demonic power grows underground. Cut off from everything else around them, Chief Ware races to save the town and her two daughters from certain death from an ancient evil before the crow...

Jacob Reese enjoys the quiet life, running a coffee shop and renting out his cottage in The Hollows, Vermont. But the calm is shattered when a woman who looks eerily similar to his ex-girlfriend Laura turns up to stay in the cottage, and leaves a mysterious note in the guest book. Now Jacob’s seeing Laura everywhere - a glimpse of her face across the street, her music box left outside his house, a gift he gave her years before hanging from the trees. But it can’t be Laura. Because Laura’s dead.

After the tragic death of their father and surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, eighteen-year-old Ellis moves with their mother to the small town of Black Stone, seeking a simpler life and some space to recover. But Black Stone feels off; it's a disquieting place surrounded by towns with some of the highest death rates in the country. It doesn't help that everyone says Ellis's new house is haunted—everyone including Quinn, a local girl who has quickly captured Ellis's attention.

February in Newfoundland is the longest month of the year. Another blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off downtown St. John’s, while inside The Hazel restaurant, a storm system of sex, betrayal, addiction and hurt is breaking overhead.

For Evie St. Claire, life in Honeysuckle Springs isn't anything like she'd imagined. Sure, the old house is charming, and the smalltown lakeside community is picture perfect. But her kitty roommate Birdie is unpredictable, snarky, and demanding. When a ransom note shows up at Evie's backdoor, she must come clean about her aunt's stolen ashes. She'll also need to decide if she's willing to meet the ransom demands and give up her aunt's spell book, or if she'll search for the culprit herself.

Three years ago, Gabe saw his daughter taken. In the back of a rusty old car, covered in bumper stickers. He was driving behind the car. He watched her disappear. But no one believes him. Most people believe that his daughter and wife are dead. For a while, people believed that Gabe was responsible. Three years later and Gabe cannot give up hope. Even though he has given up everything else. His home, his job, his old life.

Brad's mostly been a loner, content with his job and his tiny apartment. He's never thought much about being part of something. He's never really thought about the bigger picture. Until he meets a beautiful (and possibly psychotic) girl named Dawn. Dawn leads Brad into a vicious world as hedonistically carnal as it is brutal, forcing Brad to decide if he's going to dig deep within himself and continue to resist the community he's remained apart from his entire life or embrace it and accept his new reality.

When five friends are invited to a religious celebration in a small, isolated town, they are initially showered by the townsfolk with gifts and attention. As the days go by, however, it becomes clear that the community is not as innocuous as it initially presented itself. Mysterious, robed figures violently beat people who express different opinions, strange rituals take place in the church at night, and armed gunmen patrol the town perimeters–all under Prophet Martin’s orders.

In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small Southern town.

Ava, 14 years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother’s death when she finds herself on a train heading to New Orleans, to stay with Lane, the grandmother she barely remembers. Lane is a well-known artist in the New Orleans art scene. She spends most of her days in a pot-smoke haze, sipping iced coffee, and painting. Her grip on reality is shaky at best, but her work provides a comfort. Ava’s arrival unsettles Lane. The girl bears an uncanny resemblance to her daughter, whom she was estranged from before her death.

Your nightmares are being spelled out . . . one letter at a time. From haunted highways to skyscrapers dripping with death, D faces horrors both monstrous and human in this explosive collection of supernatural thrillers. In Apocalypse, a child vanishes and his mother is brutally killed, marking the return of an unspeakable terror that hungers for total annihilation. Only D stands between it and the rest of the world. In Blood, D is trapped in a high-rise tower with ravenous vampires and no way out. Bullets are scarce. The sun won’t rise soon enough. Survival is not guaranteed. In Carve, D...

Jared Phillips is a locksmith and he has left the frantic city of Atlanta, Georgia to start his own business in Aiken, South Carolina. Mandie Dorries is an Operations Manager for the travel agency, Round The World and they are in need of a new locksmith contractor. It seems like a business match made in heaven but Mandie doesn't know her new contractor has a secret. Jared Phillips is a damned good locksmith but there is more to the man than just unlocking doors and picking locks. Jared's compulsions are getting the better of him. Be wary of the man that holds the key. Find out Jared's ...

Natalie and Rose are transported in their imaginations to the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, where one of their ancestors survived in a lifeboat for 50 days. Natalie struggles when her daughter, Rose, is diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, but the researching and retelling of Grandad Colin's story provides them both with a way to fight through. Louise Beech has always been haunted by the sea, and regularly writes travel pieces for the Hull Daily Mail, where she was a columnist for ten years.

Billy Rain is a 14-year-old kid with two close friends with one thing in common. Their parents created the most successful computer game of the '90s. Now, in 2002, Billy finds a game console on the grounds of the abandoned Matterson house. Playing the game, Billy and his friends realize it’s a map. They go out at night and dig. What they find, under the cold ground, is a decaying human hand. An evil like no other is released from its grave: Jack Matterson. He’s back from the dead and out to take revenge on the kids of those who wronged him.

*This booklet is a free gift to folks who are brave enough to book a night to stay in our haunted barn. Many more folks who were interested in the legend but either didn’t have enough time to stay or weren’t brave enough requested information on the legend. Here’s that information, including locations and photos of events in the Pickens County Horror legend made famous by Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy. - Little did we know when we moved here, but this bit of land has a haunted history that we would love to share with you. This area is the home of the Pickens County Horror, a ...

The foothills of upstate New York are alive with something terrifying. It hunts, it tempts, it traps, and there’s no escape. Thomas R Clark reinvents Irish mythology and takes you on a bloody, emotional, and horrific journey back through time with the tale of the McEntire clan, and the devastating secrets they hold. The author of the Splatterpunk Awards-nominated Bella’s Boys: A Tale of Cosmic Horror has crafted a story that’s part The Wicker Man and part Cycle of the Werewolf, but at the same time like nothing you’ve heard before.

Ben Weaver relocated to a small desert town to escape his past failures. But not everyone is happy with Ben’s arrival. When a young girl vanishes from her bedroom the morning of the town’s famous Harvest Moon Festival, Ben uncovers an unsettling legend dating back to the town’s inception. With the local’s distrust of outsiders, Ben will discover how dangerous this sleepy desert town can be.

The sleepy town hides a horrifying secret. Can a dog turn the rising tide of death and destruction? Sandville, England. Kito is worried. Living in the small town with his elderly owner, the happy Labrador is a very special canine. But when strange things begin to happen in town, the dog feels he is inside a dreadful nightmare, with little chance to stop the chaos. With some help from a local teacher, Kito allows himself to believe the possibility that there is a chance to stop this. Until the brave animal realizes he is up against an all-consuming evil, and learning to fully unlock his ...

The Preacher is ready to start a family. But for an 800-year-old vampire, nothing is ever simple—especially with the FBI on his trail. The mountain town of Mountain View, Colorado, looks perfect: remote, corruptible, and small enough to control. The Preacher’s spies have already compromised the local law enforcement. Now all he needs are the right disciples. A seer. A seductress. A coven of wild young witches. He gathers them with promises of power and immortality, and teaches them his sacred doctrine: the Blood Gospel. When the final lesson is shared, all 2,150 residents of Mountain ...

When Ezra Wilson took the job as a census worker, he never imagined it would lead to a place like his latest assignment. From the moment he turns off of the interstate and travels past the village limits, it becomes clear that Heritage isn't just some quaint New England town. A sinister encounter at an automobile graveyard is only the start.