Magic Horror

As darkness engulfs the room and flickering candle flames cast their eerie shadows on the walls, I slowly page through the book of horrors. It is like stepping into a gothic fairytale, where one’s imagination knows no boundaries. I look around at the beautiful dark scenery and capture its magical and uncanny allure. I am frightened yet I feel liberated, for I know it is only in these dark memories my soul finds the everlasting salvation and peace. As I read through the chapters of terrifying tales, I begin to understand the purpose of my very existence... The book uses the '3D guise' ...

If Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it’s that everyone in Charleston is a little crazy - even if they’re already dead. Tipsy, a gifted artist, cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she has always avoided dead people. When Tipsy and her three children move into the house on Bennett Street, she realizes that some ghosts won’t be ignored. Till death do us part didn’t pan out for Jane and Henry Mott, who have haunted the house for nearly a century.

In a world where manna rains from the sky and magical hybrids roam free, the last bastion of humanity lies within the walls of Sanjiken. Here, at the prestigious Sanjiken Magical Academy, students learn to harness the power coursing through their veins. Among them are Sophia, a fiery water mage, and Maya, a psychic beauty with dark secrets. Despite being relative strangers, Sophia and Maya can't deny their strong attraction towards each other. After they succumb to their desires, they awaken without memories of their intimate encounter. Strange events continue to unfold, leaving students ...

“Family ties are the strongest magic.”Nine-year-old Mona is a witch's apprentice living in the Seventh Realm. Every summer, she must go home, so her mentor can regenerate, and Mona can spend time with family.She is reluctant to go home to the earthen plane—especially because she has to go to school for a few weeks. The kids are cruel to her since she is different. Things take a turn for the worse, when a mean boy calls her sister, Christi, a slut, and Mona accidentally releases a demon into the earthen plane. . . . Will Mona defeat the creature despite her lack of experience? Will she...

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

A few months after escaping the coven that drained my magic, life is golden. My little sister Maddie is safe and happy. I have my pack. I'm in love. But nothing gold can stay. Maddie's violent, dangerous birth pack wants her back. My four men and I face dozens of wolves, intent on taking my little sister by force. If we keep fighting, my pack will be destroyed all over again. There's only one sacrifice I can make to end this pack war. Myself. But you know me. I won't let that be the end of my story.

Twig lives in Sidwell, where people whisper that fairy tales are real. After all, her town is rumored to hide a monster. And 200 years ago, a witch placed a curse on Twig's family that was meant to last forever. But this summer, everything will change when the red moon rises. It's time to break the spell.

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have returned to the county after a long journey and a hard battle. But their troubles are far from over. Their home has been over-run by enemy soldiers. The Spook's house is in ruins, the boggart protecting it has fled, and the malicious witches imprisoned in the gardens have escaped. Tom, Alice, and the Spook must flee, too, across the ocean to the island of Mona. And it's on Mona that this small band fighting against the dark will face an old enemy grown terrifyingly powerful.

Rosemary Bell has begun a new life in Mosswood, Georgia. But when the town's annual Easter Fair is ruined by a spell gone wrong, the townsfolk are hopping mad, and it could have grave consequences for her daughter, Maggie. With her daughter's spellcasting shenanigans all over national news, Rosie finds herself on the wrong side of the worldwide Council of Witches. When Maggie's magical ability tests off the charts, the Council decides it's only a matter of time before she winds up in the news again, putting herself and others at risk.

Deep within the shadows of Durango, Colorado, lies a dark and ancient power that threatens to consume everything in its path. Nancy Walker knows this all too well, as the sinister force seems to follow her every move, putting her and everyone she loves in grave danger. As a woman with unique and unsettling abilities, Nancy has always struggled to find a place where she belongs. But when she and her mother arrive in Durango, something about the town feels like home, like she might finally find some peace. But her hopes are shattered when her best friend, Emilia, is brutally murdered. As ...

Georgia Exler has always been the odd witch out. In a family of accomplished witches, she’s the only one who never uncovered her magical abilities.... Until she moved to Keating Hollow. Heartbroken after her husband of two years is killed, the writer moves to the enchanted town to start over. All she wants to do is write her next book. But when the events in her life start to mimic the newest paranormal romance she’s writing, she starts to wonder if she’s found her magic after all. Only how is she going to give her characters their endings? Everything she writes comes true.

A NOVEL OF ELEMENTAL HORROR A seemingly idyllic cottage in the country, haunted by a spectre of madness and death. The legacy of a reclusive occultist from decades gone by: an Elemental force trapped in the soil, unable to return to its home plane. A monstrous child that cannot remember what it is, looking desperately for its mother. Colin McGrath finds all his plans coming apart at the seams after moving into a new home, as his wife's psychic sensitivity awakens forces that would have been best left to slumber.

Baton Rouge 1989 Sarah Stevens is awakened by a sharp crack of lightning and a howling wind that’s railing against her little frame house and rushing through the hall to her room. Sarah leaps up and runs to the living room, stopping short when she sees her front door standing wide open – a door she’s certain she bolted and locked. Fighting against the battering wind and rain, Sarah calls to her teenage sons, Quincy and Daniel, and the three finally force the door shut. Then the boys discover their father’s wristwatch on the floor – the watch he was never without. But their father,...

Caution: Dragons ahead. Prepare to delve into fiery worlds full of dragons. From hatchlings to ancients. From tame to wild. Many have their own goals, and most want to see the world reduced to ash. To reshape the world in their own reptilian image. Others struggle to survive, but heroes rise among them. Which side will you choose? 18 stories by the following authors: Deborah Brown, Zachary Vincent, Eric Tobiason, Bruno Lombardi, Joel Realubit, Katie Kent, Barend Nieuwstraten III, E.B. Hunter, Dylan Roche, Lucy A. McLaren, Aaron H. Arm, Jennifer Strassel, Natascha Eschweiler, A.E. Lowan, Ash...

Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on and reverse the curse to save the town and Lucely's firefly spirits before it's too late.

Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who lives with a spinster maid in the eerie Castle Carver. Sophronia must be a witch, and she almost certainly killed her husband.

Everyone’s favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers’ biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery—a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life Lord Sashvindu Samarasinghe; England’s Sorcerer Royal; and Scotland’s own Edmund MacLeod, it’s up to Ropa to sort through the dangerous secret politics and alliances to figure out what really happened.

In the heart of the walled city of Sanjiken, where magic fuels desire, the prestigious Sanjiken Magical Academy faces a new peril. A potent substance known as Dust is spreading, amplifying magical quirks and dangerously enticing students and staff alike with pleasure. Sophia, once a reserved student, now embraces her evolving powers, before her growing strength takes a transformative turn as she grapples with newfound abilities that challenge her very identity. Alongside her girlfriend Maya, whose psychic abilities conceal deeper secrets, they delve into the mysteries threatening their city...

There aren't many girls who can say they've gone into the realm of death and lived to tell the tale. But to restore her lover Zayvion's soul, Allison Beckstrom had to pay a bitter price - and things are about to get worse. It turns out that the leader of the Authority, the council that decides what can - and can't - be done with magic, is being held hostage.

A mysterious doll, a centuries old curse and a vengeful witch. An antique doll comes into the possession of Paul Goodfellow, a vicar in the small market town of Dorchester. He reluctantly agrees to take it after the horrific death of its previous owner but soon regrets his decision as the rumours concerning the doll seem to be true. Paul is at his wits end until a parishioner suggests he consult the local witch, Queenie Beresford. She becomes increasingly disturbed as she realises that the doll has an evil curse attached to it. It becomes evident how dangerous the situation is when the ...