American Horror

Lina has come home to the country of her childhood. Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother's death 20 years before, she's searching for the one person who can tell her about their shared past. She's never forgotten Matty - her childhood friend and protector who now runs the Anthill, a day care refuge for the street kids of Medellín. Lina begins volunteering there, but her reunion with Matty is not what she hoped for.

Pimps. Demons. Midgets with chainsaws. Demon fighting never looked this good. Smoothen Silky and his rag tag band of agents gear up to fight their most intense adversary yet; a legendary demon hell bent on destroying the human race. Smoothen Silky: Demon Fighting Pimp is the first volume in the Grindhouse Chronicles series. These books are heavily inspired by Grindhouse Cinema and are filled with eclectic heroes, unique villains, and over the top violence. If you love those movies then you’ll love the Grindhouse Chronicles.

Arash Marandi lässt mit viel Schalk im Nacken und jugendlicher Spielfreude die Werwölfe heulen, die Flinten knallen und den Grusel lebendig werden. Ein großer Spaß für Jung und Alt. Wo es von Bestien wimmelt, sind die wahren Monster schwer zu entdecken. Sicherheitsvorkehrungen im Vorgarten, check. Käfig im Keller gesichert, check. Betäubungsgewehr geladen und das blutige Abendessen bereitgelegt, check und check. Seit vor 25 Jahren das Virus Corpus pilori das abgelegene Städtchen Tremorglade heimgesucht hat, ist dies die Liste, die jedes Kind durchgeht, wenn wieder Vollmond ist.

American Ghost Stories is a collection of fictional short stories written by Shana Dines. Subtle horror unexpected is many times more chilling and terrifying than horror that smacks you in the face.

Un comune impiegato si risveglia una mattina con le gambe ricoperte da germogli di ravanello giapponese, il daikon. In preda al panico, si rivolge a una clinica dermatologica, dove viene operato d'urgenza da una misteriosa equipe medica. Mentre è ancora sotto anestesia, decidono di trasferirlo in un limbo al confine tra i due mondi... Il malcapitato protagonista inizia così il suo incredibile viaggio nel sottosuolo, a bordo di un avveniristico lettino d'ospedale in grado di essere mosso dalla forza del pensiero.

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

Odysseus Johnson dreams of musical stardom for his three sons: Roman, the rebel, more interested in being a teenager than a performer; Rocco, arguably the most talented of the bunch, but different in a way the world doesn’t understand; and dutiful River, the youngest, who dreams of fame just like his dad. Driving back from another failed audition in Detroit, the Johnson boys come upon the ghost of Christmas Jones the Third, an ebullient, if lonely, young Black orphan who carries the scars of a horrific past as a minstrel sensation.

Many full moons ago, a young American boy with ambition in his belly and the moon in his veins followed his destiny west, determined to carve a path to success no matter the carnage. Two centuries later, a city is captivated by the strange and savage murder of a young woman. Her roommate, Natasha, no longer able to afford their apartment alone—and hounded by both rumors of wolves and a pop-star’s angry fan-swarm—has resorted to living in her car. There’s nothing left for her ... except vengeance.

From the author of Fleshbags and The Ghost Toucher comes nine tales to scare, tantalize, puzzle, and make you laugh. Through different times and realities, see how the people change within the same four walls.

In 1934, the body of a beautiful but poor young woman was found alongside a riverbank near The Depot. Beaten to a pulp, only recognizable by a tattoo on her ankle, and yet, days after the discovery, the story all but disappears. Eighty years later, locals claim The Depot is haunted.

Since the massacre at Heavenly Hope, the once breathtaking home has been empty, with no one daring to come close to it; until the Blackwells were made an offer they couldn’t refuse. Moving into the smaller house at the foot of Heavenly Hope, the smell of fear nearby revealed the creatures were still alive and starving for the taste of fresh blood. With the creatures again on the attack and threatening to expand their feeding to the people of the cities, they need to be stopped for good.

Can two vampires on the run stop the apocalypse? Ruegger and Danielle are the Marshals, two vampires notorious throughout the supernatural community for only feeding on bad guys -- including other immortals. If a monster or other supernatural being steps out of line and preys on undeserving humans, Ruegger and Danielle will (if they can) take them down. When a powerful figure in the supernatural community is killed, Ruegger and Danielle are forced to go on the run in order to find out who ordered the murder and why. It has something to do with the mysterious supernatural war that’s ...

When Sarah brings home a box of assorted items from a market stall, she has no idea what she is about to unleash. Stored within an ornate box, Sarah finds a set of fortune-telling cards, each beautifully and intricately illustrated. Sarah’s dreams become more vivid and start to spill out into the real world - with deadly consequences. It doesn’t take long for Sarah to realise the danger that she, and everyone she knows, is now in.

These three stories come with a breath of cold and a sort of longing, the sort of thing that consumes someone if they let it. "Wendy Won't Go" is the story of a family whose loss threatens to consume them all, "Love like Blood" is a story about the limits one will reach before love is gone, and "Cold Comfort" is about the bitterness that devours us within before it goes on to consume everything around us.

Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover — and sometimes even survive — the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

From the author of the suspenseful horrors "I Thought I Was Alone Trilogy", "An Evil Was Born" and "Inside the Gates of Doons", Mirika Mayo Cornelius offers another thrill for the suspense seekers in this terror driven title "Let Me Out"! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, right? The only problem is that Grae didn’t know she was taking part in any game when she was invited to hang out with newfound friends. Turns out, she became a target with no way out.

Remembering 5 missing weeks can save one world and doom another. The Dark Gods have arisen, and the man who knows how to stop them can't remember how. David Purcell was on his way to meet his girlfriend when he fell into a cave. He awakens in a hospital where he learns that he's been missing for five weeks. David has no memory of his time in the cave. He is also mysteriously free of any signs of starvation, injury or cave blindness. Adam Maho is an elderly Hopi who has seen visions of Kuskurza, the Third World of Hopi creation stories. It is a world that is supposed to have been destroyed ...

I was raised a poor girl in the streets of Sinaloa. When my family died during a turf war, I was taken away to Navolato to start over anew. I thought I would be safer here. That the life that had been taken from me in a hail of bullets and rage would stay where I left it. And that’s when he found me. El Señor. In his name, I shed the blood of his enemies and reap whatever rewards he deems fit. My name is Ana Sofia De la Cruz. Everyone knows me as La Carnicera. Either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us... corre, pequeño conejo.

When a meteor explodes over a snow-covered Russian industrial metropolis spreading a deadly virus that turns thousands of the city dwellers into the walking dead, Ramses Campbell—an African American martial arts instructor, and a rising HBO Sports star, who has come to Russia to teach seminars—must fight to survive. In this deathtrap of a city, Ramses joins a group of survivors of various nationalities: a Russian interpreter, an English hotel manager, a Serbian executive chef, a Swedish sex tourist, a German Catholic priest, a Turkish engineer, and a blind Chinese teenage girl. They ...

Having just quit Julliard, disillusioned fiddler Melanie St. James finds herself as part of a group of traveling musicians en route to an OtherFolk carnival. Eager to break the chains of a lifetime of conformity, Melanie throws caution to the wind and enters a reckless bargain, plying her musical skills for the chance to win a violin that can open Doors to the CrossRoads. But the competition turns out to be far more than she expected.