Survival Horror

🔥 Revised & Reloaded – May18th 2025 Update This version of Book 3 has been fully edited and tightened to deliver the sharpest, cleanest read yet. Previous reviews refer to the original edition. The Hunted Become the Hunters... But What They Find Might Be Worse. Dr. Elise Holloway and the broken remnants of her team survived the horrors of Site Sierra, but escape is only the beginning. Hunted by the ruthless Kestrel organization and stalked by unseen forces within the ancient forests, their only hope lies with Dr. Aris Thorne—a brilliant, perhaps unstable, scientist hiding secrets ...

A small town in Virginia is blindsided by the military's latest viral experiment, classified as Project Anubis. While tactical teams are sent in to handle the mess, civilians must fight to survive in the midst of what they perceive to be an outbreak of bloodthirsty werewolves. This is a 2023 rewrite of the 2016 novel of the same name, featuring entire pages of new material, deleted dialogue, abridged narrative, altered scenes, interactions, and the correction of technical inaccuracies for a more realistic, but still engaging, immersive, dramatic reading experience.

No one knew how it began. The world fell in just a few weeks. Some people survived. Some decided to live.

A killer walks the trail. And he's smiling at you. When Alice and Chris stumble upon a hiker named Kevin through their Facebook feeds, they think it's just a bizarre algorithm fluke. But when the same bearded stranger keeps popping up—posting about burgers, rainstorms, and “meeting up”—they decide to follow an old dream: hike part of the Appalachian Trail together. At first, the journey is peaceful. Healing. Then they meet Kevin. Days later, they vanish. Eric, a young detective and soon-to-be father, is pulled into the case when his friend’s wife and brother-in-law don’t return....

A luxurious dream expedition into the Alaskan wilderness becomes a blood-soaked nightmare when a terrifying legend awakens. The Borealis Express, a pinnacle of opulence, embarks on its inaugural journey through Alaska’s most remote and myth-steeped landscapes. For essay contest winner Quinn Mallory and the other elite passengers, it promises unparalleled luxury and breathtaking views of untouched nature. But the wild heart of Alaska holds ancient secrets, and some paths are best left untrodden. When a deliberate act of sabotage leaves the magnificent train a mangled wreck and its ...

A deadly virus originating in China grips the Eastern hemisphere. Chaos reigns as the infection spreads throughout the world with alarming speed. The world's experts rush to cure it, but are they too late? CIA agent Will Reisner and his team head to the South China Sea on a mission - find a lost ship loaded with bio-weapons. But as they search, a terrible virus plagues the local population, leaving them worm-ridden and insane. Worse, the sick refuse to be contained and spread the disease by infecting the healthy. Will joins epidemiologist Selene Munroe in her desperate attempt to keep the ...

Author's Note: This book was previously published under the title The Taste of Fear. Given that the story takes place deep in the Congo jungle, a truly terrifying place, I decided it would be a good fit with the World's Scariest Places series. In the jungle, no one can hear you scream. American movie star Scarlett Cox and her husband, hotel tycoon Salvador Brazza, head to Africa to get away and resuscitate their ailing marriage. When robbed of their money and passports, they seek help from the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam on the very day Al Qaeda chooses to bomb it. In an eyeblink they are...

Deep within the mist-shrouded forests of the Great Smoky Mountains, wildlife researcher Caleb Foster vanishes after sending a frantic message: something big, bipedal, and terrifying is stalking him. A team of park rangers sets out to find him but quickly discovers disturbing signs—massive footprints, makeshift tree shelters, and ritualistically arranged animal carcasses. As they journey deeper into the mountains, they uncover an intelligent, and territorial race of creatures living in the shadows. Trapped between the mysterious forces of the wilderness and their own secrets, the rangers ...

"A high action page-turner set in a Maine winter, this Ike Hamill bio-thriller is the perfect Saturday afternoon heart thumper." Jake stands there, stunned, as Andrew chambers a round. The rifle is pointed right at the running man. Every hunter has a story of an expedition gone wrong. This one is about to take a fatal turn, and there is nothing that Jake can do but watch. The rifle fires. From horror author Ike Hamill, Spores takes you on a journey you'll never forget. It's a tale millions of years in the making, and you'll never imagine where it will land. The four men are out on a simple ...

Ever since her mother's death, Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar. But when her mother's undead body is returned to her doorstep from the grave and Gutsy witnesses a pack of ravagers digging up Los Muertos - her mother's name for the undead - she realizes that life finds you no matter how hard you try to hide from it. Meanwhile, Benny Imura and his gang set out on a journey to find a cure. As they venture into new and unexplored territory, they soon learn that the zombies they fought before were nothing compared to what they'll face in the wild.

Something is wrong—horribly wrong—in the deep woods of Oregon. People age at accelerated rates and then disappear. Hundreds of disappearances have occurred in the area for decades—a veritable Bermuda Triangle on land. Even the authorities sent in to investigate the disappearances have gone missing. After that, the government stepped in and fenced off the entire area. But when four strangers miss their train and wander onto the site searching for shelter, they discover what was left behind. After one of their four goes missing, they decide to leave the area. Something’s toying with ...

Rats invade our sewers. Our homes. And they won't stop there. Ethan Vine wants his country back. His freedom. For that, he’s ready to give his life. So what’s stopping him? England drowns under a plague of large killer rats. The towns and cities are death zones. Scattered pockets of human survivors battle against an increasingly vicious vermin. In the villages, the valiant fight on preserving a fragile hope. Life is short and hard; death swift and bloody. And now it’s about to get worse. A mysterious new breed of rat has emerged. A demon mutant. For Ethan and the others, the only hope...

A crew of salvagers desperately evades law enforcement until their ship crash lands on an unknown planet in the process. The biggest mistake of their lives. Dense with mystery and horror, their new environment tests their reliance on each other, and an unprecedented tenacity for survival.

Eyes in the Dark A Psychological Thriller Where Memory Lies and the Forest Watches They thought it was just a camping trip. But when Harper wakes to find her friends missing and glowing eyes watching from the woods, she realizes something is horribly wrong. The forest around her isn’t just alive—it’s remembering. Looping. Rewriting. Each step forward brings her back. Each night ends where it began. And each memory she trusts begins to fracture. Somewhere beneath the twisted trees, a truth is buried. A choice was made. A boy burned. And the forest remembers everything. Years later, Eli...

The wildfire isn't the deadliest thing in these woods. A raging inferno tears through Timberline Ridge. A six-person hotshot crew is deployed to contain it. But as smoke thickens and the forest closes in, something ancient and furious emerges from the untouched trees. They call it Bigfoot. Cut off from radio, trapped by fire, and stalked through ash and flame, the team must survive not only the blaze—but a predator that’s lived in these forests long before men ever carried axes. Bigfoot – Fire on the Ridge is a blistering horror novella of primal terror, isolation, and survival. ...

In a world torn apart by a virulent and mutated virus, Jane may be humanity’s last hope. Trapped in a hospital ward, she faces an unending nightmare of isolation, haunting memories, and a sense of time slipping away. For over a week, her only companions are the echoes of distant gunfire and the sickening thuds of infected guards at her door, reminders that she’s on borrowed time. Then, a familiar face reappears—a former friend, twisted beyond recognition by the virus—bringing her a code that could unlock her prison. With it comes her one chance at escape and the harsh reality of the...

In the aftermath of the pandemic, humanity is on the cusp of extinction as the mutant undead sweep throughout the world. The deadly virus has created a new predator that is far more intelligent and ruthless than anything mankind has ever faced. And the threat from the alphas is increasing as they evolve. Epidemiologist Selene Munroe comes up with a daring solution for gaining a foothold against the deadly virus, but will it be enough to save the human race before it’s too late? On another front, CIA operative Will Reisner and his team need to join forces with an unlikely ally to prevent ...

Some monsters don’t wait for the ash to settle. During the violent eruption of Mt. St. Helens, two campers find themselves cut off from civilization—smoke choking the sky, fire raining down, and something massive lurking just beyond the treeline. What they discover isn't just a matter of life or death. It’s something wounded. Something hunted. Something not supposed to exist. Set decades before the events of Shadows in the Timberline, this novella reveals a forgotten piece of the forest’s dark history—and a single moment that changed everything. Shadow’s Ashes is a gripping, ...

It has been a year since the initial outbreak of an infection resulting from a failed terrorist attack. No corner of the globe was spared. Millions simply died during the early days of the outbreak, many more survived with most of those survivors turned into permanently brain-damaged feral creatures. All forms of modern society had collapsed, governments no longer functioned, and electric lights and running water become a thing of the past. A handful of survivors with natural immunity to the virus are alone in a world that now belongs to the infected. Hunter Ashcroft, a wounded vet of the ...

Doc Kennedy, Petty Officer Chervanak, Seamen Davis and Rogers had been searching for signs of life ever since they arrived at Granite Mountain. After a long operation, they had only managed to find two girls and a dog (Abbey, Fran and Snoop) near Stone Idaho. With a little communication’s wizardry, Marine Captain Byron and a few of his men, along with the small group they had discovered living near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, (Tony, Mike, Linda, four year old Jamie and her cat, George) had found Doc and his group and joined up with them at Granite Mountain. Despite these two small successes,...