Irish Horror

This is a story from the The Body Snatcher and Other Stories collection.

Trapped ghosts, evil witches, and tormented vampires. With ultimate power at stake, can newly awoken witch Holly keep it together long enough to survive? Holly Burke has a big problem. Dark spirits are prowling outside her house, witches want to steal her powers, and she keeps spontaneously shooting electric sparks out of her hands. With danger lurking around every corner, her only allies are two vampires who have major problems of their own — one may or may not be cursed, and the other is in the middle of an existential crisis. She’s already lost so much, and with her own life on the ...

Enemies become allies. Allies become enemies. And the broken are remade… Holly Burke’s life is falling apart. In the aftermath of disaster, her true enemy is unmasked and its changed everything she thought she knew about Dunloe, herself, and her family. But with mayhem erupting all over town, she finds herself doing the last thing she expected—forming an alliance with the Trine, the leaders of the powerful coven that caused her family so much suffering. Holly tries to forgive them for the damage they’ve done to her family, but it’s a tough ask. Murder, blood magic, and corruption ...

Known as Black Irish to the rogue vampires he hunts, Joe Gunn returns to face an ancient power known as The Dreamer who the vamps fear more than sunlight. The Dreamer wishes to launch an all out war against the vampires that would result in countless human deaths and plunge the world into a new dark age.

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. This book has been carefully adapted into modern English to allow for easy listening. Enjoy!

Green Tea is the story of the Reverend Jennings, who consumes copious amounts of green tea while pursuing his esoteric interests late at night. When something goes wrong, he approaches Doctor Hesselius, who sets out the narrative in the form of a series of letters to another physician. He discusses the symptoms of the clergyman’s mysterious affliction, which torments him and interferes with his services. The illness appears to be mental rather than physical.

Joe Gunn and crew find themselves on the bloody frontlines of the Vampire/Banshee war raging in the shadows. Conspiracy and betrayal seethes around them as they try to protect Seattle from the deadliest conflict they have ever faced....

Lindsay is in her final year of high school, and is forced by her mother to take a babysitting job for one of her co-workers, Priscilla Thomson. Lindsay arrives at the home and finds out that the boy she is babysitting is named "Fang". The little boy talks ominously of "monsters outside", while waiting for the full moon to appear. Lindsay scoffs at the boy's ideas, until she hears howling outside the window.

This collection of stories spans 10 years in the career of writer J.A. Cummings. Through genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, she delves into the souls of killers and the killed and the horrors of the past, present, and future.

The Apocalypse was not supposed to rest on Jessica Norgren's shoulders. When the struggling law clerk finds herself pregnant with no possible human father, she learns more than she ever wanted to know about angels and demons. With her best friend, Tsung Li, to help her navigate this tough new terrain, she finds herself mixed up with Watchers, archangels, succubi, athletes and Buddhist monks in a confusing melange of hope and fear.

An ancient malice. An unknown legacy. Just when things were looking up, the world begins to crumble…again. Holly Burke is haunted by the legacy left behind by not only the Trine, but her own family. Handed everything that ever belonged to the witches of Dunloe, she doesn’t know what to do with it all. How do people go on living after the end is written? But when mysterious happenings begin to crop up all around town, Holly realises that for the supernatural, there’s no such thing as a ‘happily ever after’. Reports of strange lights, shadowy figures, mutilated cattle, and diseased ...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by the great Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

Tobyn Reyes believed his grandmother's spell would protect him. Instead it opened the door to a new realm of magic and immortality... Tobyn was a man like no other: half Irish, half Spanish gypsy and all chovihano. Under the protection of his grandmother's spell, he enjoyed the glow of his own uniqueness. That glow caught the attention of another uncommon man, the vampire Michel Dumas.