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As a small child, one horrific night changed the course of Ruth's life. Murderous werewolf-like beasts attacked her family, leaving her parents dead and her sister missing. (Read about it in the prequel novelette, Little Hell on the Prairie) It's now 1882, and after a decade of hiding away in an abandoned town, with her Reverend caregiver, barely surviving the harsh Minnesota winters, Ruth is ready to move on and start a new life for herself. Maybe she can even find her sister. But it's an unlikely hope as Ruth isn't sure if she is even still alive, let alone, a human anymore. The open ...

An unconventional love story with blood, brains, and a whole lot of bite!!! In a not too distant future, humans find sanctuary in small communities like Refuge. But not everything is as it seems. Rumors of Zombie Shepherds hint at a questionable fate for the living, and the zombie masters rule from their glass tower. Before the apocalypse, Jude was a rising indie singer and songwriter taking the world by storm. Now he’s just trying to survive in a world where other humans are sometimes more dangerous than the monsters. Jude has lived in anonymity for five years until his biggest fan ...

Who ya gonna call? Wicked! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! Baby, it’s cold outside, and no one needs an escape more than Mandy, whose well-meaning family members simply must know when the newlyweds will be starting a family. Midnight feedings and teething rings will have to wait, though, while the Rowlings solve their latest case. A chance rescue of a kidnapped child and the mutterings of a hypnotized game show contestant draw the stars of USCAB into the 5-year-old mystery of three missing girls. All they need is a hot lead in this cold case, but as the suspects pile up, so do Mandy’s ...

PUMPKIN 31 TALES OF TERROR From the twisted mind that brought you The Hole in the Wall and A Second Skin comes a chilling celebration of horror's darkest holiday. PUMPKIN – a unique collection of 31 tales designed to unsettle, disturb, and haunt you long after the final page. One terrifying story for each night of October, culminating in a Halloween you'll never forget. Journey through landscapes of psychological terror, supernatural dread, and unflinching horror as Steven Blackmore weaves nightmares featuring haunted trick-or-treat sacks, bloodthirsty vampires, fracturing realities, and ...

Tales the Crows Taught Me Seventeen Supernatural Tales to Make Your Skin Crawl Fans of Ray Bradbury and the Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock, and Lord of the Flies have reason to rejoice! Here are 17 tales with a twist—many of them award-winning: a traveling sideshow, a shadowy something waiting in a deep Oregon forest, an ancient fishing village where there's a price to pay for magic, a strange parcel dragged for miles over ice and snow, a Florida boarding house full of residents who would VERY much like to meet you... The Uncanny waits to make your acquaintance. Included: Protection: ...

A collection of 20 stories for readers who love horror and appreciate a good scare. If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare. The nightmares include: WHITE RABBIT: No one believed a rabbit had disabled George's Lincoln Town car and blocked two lanes of traffic. THE SECOND VIRGIN BIRTH: At midnight on Christmas Eve, a nun rescues a baby left on the chapel steps in the freezing cold. ...

Speak of the Devil look who walked in… FREE on Kindle Unlimited! Now a chief agent for USCAB’s paranormal division, newlywed Mandy Rowling has arrived. Unfortunately, Manhattan’s social elite have little regard for her, except for the very wealthy Mrs. Karen Rosenberg who, it turns out, is in need of someone with paranormal skills. During a holiday gathering turned scammy séance at the Rosenberg mansion, a prickly ghost hints that Mr. Rosenberg—believed to have passed away due to an unfortunate accident—may have actually died of suspicious causes. Long hidden secrets are revealed...

Who will pay the price for waking sleeping giants? When Gabe’s cousin, John, is kidnapped by Russians, he and his friends jump into action. Volkov is back and behind the kidnapping. He has his men looking into a massive burial mound on John’s property and is willing to do anything to learn about it—including torturing John to near death. In over their heads, Gabe and April go to their friend Heather, head of security of Parcelsus, for help. It seems Volkov has his eyes on the prize and won’t stop until he claims it. Soon, the trio finds themselves traversing the world while John ...

The Decoy (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-Three) After a group of mercenaries call in bomb threats, they detonate several of them to prove they're serious. The emergency response is thinned and spread to multiple locations, allowing the mercs to rob a jewelry store with a secret stash. Authorities soon learn it was staged for a larger, more profitable job that Sarah Roberts had attempted to foil. To catch these criminals, the authorities plan an effective countermeasure and use Sarah as bait, but that goes wrong quickly, and now Sarah's gone off the radar. With blood on her hands from the first ...

Something old lives beneath the mountain. And it remembers everyone who enters. When down-on-his-luck land surveyor Will Farris takes a solo job in a remote Appalachian valley, he thinks it’ll be a quick payday—just map out an abandoned mining claim and be done. But the locals won’t go near the place. They mutter about Hollow Number 6. About claw marks in stone. About voices that call to you in the voice of someone you lost. Will ignores the warnings. Until the mine starts groaning. Until he finds bones in the dark. Until he sees something massive watching from deep in the shaft—...

Second chances are great until a killer comes between them. Homicide detective, Derek Benally, thought his day couldn't get any worse after he spent all night processing a murder, but he couldn’t have been more wrong. The phone call from his nephew telling him Derek's sister was dead unravels him. Dr. Kelly Rutland is on the verge of a cancer breakthrough when she receives the horrifying news that her sister was in a fatal car accident. The cops ruled it accidental, but Kelly refuses to believe it was anything other than murder. She's determined to do whatever it takes to find the killer....

Former teachers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young bring their frightening performances alive on tape with 14 ghost stories from the American Southeast.

A brutal, unflinching account of global collapse, Rotting Earth takes you deep into the chaos, where soldiers fought hopeless battles, world leaders made impossible choices, and ordinary people faced horrors beyond imagination.

Never take a boy's toys away. If you do, you never know what may be in store...

“A long time ago, there was a priest, a gun, and a vengeance that placed me here.” Juliette, Patient of Emerson Rose Asylum 1978. Juliette must endure a living hell when her inner demons come alive as actual demons named Spike and Scorch. PRAY TELL is Letter #3 excerpt from LETTERS FROM THE LOONEY BIN... In the late 1970s the Emerson Rose Asylum became completely abandoned - all the patients, doctors, staff, vanished and were never seen again. The events circling this mass exodus have been one of the most baffling disappearances in history. Until now. www.ThatcherCNalley.com

In the Florida marshlands, three teenagers uncover a harrowing secret. Val and her brother Shane live a chaotic life with their friend Freddy, distracted from their father's disappearance. After discovering a creature in the marsh, they bring it home, only to realize it craves warm-blooded prey. As a foul odor from a mysterious RV in their trailer park spreads, Val and her friends suspect a connection. During their investigation, they witness a horrific event that sends them scrambling for their lives. With their deadbeat uncle triggering even more danger, the siblings must confront whether...

"Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!" VICTOR MILLER - Writer of Friday the 13th You wake up in the middle of nowhere. You have no memory. You don't know why you are overwhelmed with a ravenous craving...to kill. If you like quick reads, this is the author for you! Steve Hudgins uses a screenplay/novel hybrid writing style that keeps the descriptive portions of the story brief, allowing the narrative to push forward at a rapid pace. THE CRAVING Becky is about to be raped and likely murdered, but is rescued by a towering man dressed in black. Unbeknownst to her, the man had been ...

In this fractured world, a sinister force is coming for Riley, and the only things keeping her safe are a perimeter fence and the people she loves. As her life is threatened, she must make impossible choices. But help comes from the most unlikely of places, and all Riley needs to know is: Who can she really trust? Meanwhile, a repentant killer searches for peace and salvation, but what he gets is the exact opposite. Now, he'll have to make the hardest decision of his life.

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

The Walls Around Us introduces Violet, a dancer on the cusp of stardom, and Amber, who's been jailed in a juvenile detention home for years. Tying them together is the home's long-dead Orianna, who holds the key to dark mysteries.