Monster Horror

Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. And moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over as someone different. In their isolated new neighborhood, Skye manages to fit in, but Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones.

“This will be difficult and most likely very dangerous. I sincerely hope all of you survive it.” – Abigale Bancroft After a fight with two nightmarish creatures in a dark alley, Billy learns that his best friend has been infected by the viral DNA of one of the creatures. If his friend doesn’t get help soon, he will become a monster himself. The only cure lies with an ancient order of warrior monks half a world away. But finding a cure for his friend is only the beginning of Billy’s problems. A war is brewing between these creatures from the darkest depths of the earth and the ...

My only thought was that I was about to die. I was going to die tonight, alone, on the muddy shore of this godforsaken lake in the middle of the woods. Billy Bane awakens every night in a cold sweat, his dreams plagued by terrifying visions of Dark Lake. It’s an old, dead lake deep in the woods. Nothing lives in or around it and it has a long history of mysterious disappearances and gruesome deaths. Though everyone tells him he’s never been there, Billy suspects that a terrible secret is being kept from him. Determined to get to the truth behind his nightmares, Billy talks his two best ...

Heidi Waters, CEO of billion-dollar startup Vitality+, is all the rage in Silicon Valley. Her company’s promises to roll out a neurochemical cure for caffeine-related anxiety are set to change the game, a godsend for anyone who’s ever got the jitters from upsizing their morning coffee order. There’s just one problem. There is no cure. The product doesn’t work.

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Jane is a naughty, dirty nurse who works for a plastic surgery clinic in Los Angeles. One day she and her friend Roxy witness a tentacle monster mutant manhandling a lady at the beach, an event which inspires a massive group session where everyone joins in for some exhibition. Later, Jane heads to work and tends to a paranormal patient. Only her patient is no normal man. He has something ...

When Sillavana and Nylian set out to rescue Coprin, their plan is off to a rocky start. With few options available to them, they’ll have no choice but to accept aid from a most unlikely source. In the meantime, the Brotherhood is still scouring the land in search of Sillavana. They have underestimated her, a mistake they will not make again. If the world chooses to continue aiding the ixolae despite their many warnings, then the world is just as guilty as she is. And they will all pay a price… As the Brotherhood begins annihilating towns and villages one by one in search of Sillavana, ...

Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an unexpected visitor. Tom doesn't know who the stranger is or what he wants, but the Spook suddenly decides it's time to travel to his winter house, Anglezarke. Tom has heard it will be a bleak, forbidding place, and that menacing creatures are starting to stir somewhere on the moors nearby.

Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom.

Are you brave enough to read these chilling tales? Enter a world of fear and suspense with "Chilling Tales," a collection of 11 short horror stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. From supernatural hauntings to psychological terrors, each story in this book will leave you feeling exhilarated and scared in equal measure. With gripping plots and vivid characters, these stories will take you on a journey into the unknown, where the line between reality and fantasy blurs, and the unimaginable becomes real. Key benefits of this book: 11 spine-tingling horror stories that will keep ...

The town of Iron Shores lies hidden along the James River in the forgotten forests of northern Virginia. In a place where inanimate objects come to life, where the past crosses with the present, and where things are not what they seem. A swamp teen melds with a sentient alga and becomes a macabre vigilante. A schizophrenic woman escapes prison with the help of a man in black, but everything she touches turns to blood. A boy unearths the secret power of his BeJezzus, while another realizes the torture the creature can release upon his enemies and learns to wield it. Two Ph.D. Candidates come...

Highly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, Monsters is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.

The third book in a supernatural mystery series by the author of Thrown Away, Diary of the Displaced, Arisen, and Dustfall. When Jake discovers a set of old tapes in one of the attics and plays the first tape, something ancient and dangerous is awakened. This is where the lost go. There are hidden places in our world where both the strange and the evil lurk. Few discover them, and even fewer escape with their lives. Some turn the wrong corner or walk through the wrong door and are never seen again.

The terror we saw in Book 1 leaps eastward in Uninvited 2, taking root in the Hollow—a forgotten crevice in an ancient forest, far from California’s shores. Here, a new group of sisters—Corinth, Allison, Beth, and later Evette—face the same alien nightmare, drawn into a cave where the tentacles pulse anew. The green glow and relentless hum return, but the stakes rise as the survivors from Book 1 converge with these fresh victims, their fates intertwined by a shared enemy. The Hollow isn’t just another site—it’s a node in a growing network, evidence of an alien plan unfurling ...

Scattered, Smothered, and Chunked collects the entire first season of Bubba the Monster Hunter from his first graveyard-splattering adventure in Voodoo Children to the stunning cliffhanger at the end of Final Countdown! Fans of the rollicking redneck monster hunter will find plenty of value in this massive collection of monsters, strippers, beer, and bullets!

Zombies, reapers, and more monsters. In a world where so many dark things go bump in the night, terror awaits around every corner as these authors take horror stories to the next level. Discover ghosts, demons, and your worst nightmares. Read at your own risk. Featuring 19 stories by the following 17 authors: Michael Raff, Antoinette McCormick, Matthew Ross, Charles Kyffhausen, Andrew McAuley, B.F. Vega, Douglas Allen Gohl, Toni Mobley, Barend Nieuwstraten III, E.B. Hunter, Constantine E. Kiousis, Alexis Cunningham, Katie Jordan, Maya Moes, Jodie Francis, Lori Gaudet, and J.E. Feldman.

A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires an appetite for a woman and her brain. Why does forbidden fruit taste so good? Savannah, a professional BDSM switch, discovers a new turn-on: committing brutal murders for her eldritch masters. Mareva, plagued with chronic tumors, is too horrified to acknowledge her divine role in the coming apocalypse, and as her growths multiply, so too does her desperation.

As the heir to the Halliday name and fortune, Win's entire life has been carefully orchestrated from the moment he came into the world. He's never been allowed to aspire for anything outside that plan, including love. After the tragedy that followed his younger brother chasing his foolish heart, the Halliday Matriarch insists on picking a bride that's up to her outrageously high standards. Unfortunately, the only woman Win would ever consider marrying isn't found anywhere on his mother's list.

The day I was drafted into the army of the gods, all I knew about being a MASH surgeon was what I’d learned from Hawkeye Pierce and Hot Lips Houlihan. Now here I am, Dr. Petra Robichaud, in the middle of an immortal war, assigned to a MASH camp with a nosy sphinx, a vegetarian werewolf, and an uptight vampire who really needs to get a life. At least they’re all too busy with their own dramas to discover my secret: I can see the dead. It’s a forbidden gift, one that can get me killed, so I haven’t told a soul.

This sequel to "Scent of Damnation" focuses on Mallory, mysterious and immortal. She has walked the Earth for almost thirty millennia, feeding on one human weakness - we are ruled by our biology. Born when mankind wandered aimlessly, hunting for food and survival, she has watched human civilization rise, fall and rise again, throughout the ages. And each step of the way she has sought to understand us, find some meaning in our all too brief lives. Here are presented four brief glimpses of her early life, composed by her late companion, Daniel, from her birth, through the long lost first ...

The final instalment of a terrifying illustrated adventure. Full of twists, turns and blood-curdling horrors. THE CARNIVAL IS LEAVING TOWN... The end is near. Joseph and his friends are close to defeating The Baron, but their quest is far from over. They still need to find two eyes, and terrifying obstacles stand in their way. Aided by a witch from the ancient wood, Joseph finds himself battling foes in the carnival’s darkest corners. In the final part of this spine-chilling tale, every nightmare imaginable will be unleashed. To make matters worse, The Baron now has an army of zombies and...