Ancient Horror

“The genre I didn’t know I needed until I did.” – Jason L., Amazon reader Horrific murders are devastating those who reside at a strange monastery in the jungle. And only dark magic could explain the events. No one has seen a thing. Nor can they find the cause. Some have died right in front of witnesses. There is no murderer. No blade. No poison. The Horseman has summoned his darkest and most secretive magic into Calec’s world. Victims are first cut in warning, but there is nothing they can do to prevent their impending deaths. They cannot run. They cannot fight what is not there....

The shadows of the past come alive. After twenty years of silence, Dina returns, driven by an insatiable hunger for power and revenge. Her eyes are fixed on the legendary scarab, the key to an ancient power that can reduce the world to ashes. Lillian and Roy Sawyer are the only ones who know Dina's true intentions. But as the swinging sixties are in full swing, Dina's next move remains a mystery. Will they uncover her plans before it's too late, or will Dina finally triumph and plunge the world into a new era of darkness?

He was dismissed as a crackpot, his theories on a legendary Amazonian creature ridiculed. Now, a cryptic message and a scorched journal might prove him terrifyingly right. Outcast scholar Knox Wilder believes in Juma’s Fang, the Lizard Man of the Amazon. Shunned by the academic world, his pleas for funding an expedition are met with scorn. But when a mysterious courier delivers Father Calderon’s burnt journal, fifty thousand dollars in cash, and a mission to find the lost missionary, Knox plunges into the green hell he’s only dreamed of. Joined by Rhea Mallory, a pragmatic ex-Army ...

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The world, as we knew it, was no longer the same. It had begun with the whispers. At first, they seemed harmless—just passing fancies, rumors passed from ear to ear like wildfire. The ancient myth of a force, hidden beneath the earth’s surface, of a power capable of reshaping the future, of rewriting reality itself. Most dismissed it as legend, nothing more than an unsettling tale for those drawn to the supernatural, the arcane. But the whispers were real. The force was real. And the world had begun to change long before any of us could see it coming. Tony Scarft, a man of logic and ...

Your darkest fears in one of the darkest places on earth. Deep in the ice of the Antarctic lies a secret. A sinister and evil secret. ANGELS is a story that takes Dylan Carver, a young and driven archaeologist, to the bottom of the world to work on possibly one of the oldest artifacts ever found. Between discovering his ex-girlfriend on the base and a died-in-the-wool Marine sergeant, Dylan is thrust into an adventure that he can barely deal with. He faces horrific, flying beasts referred to as 'angels' that could threaten the very existence of mankind. Before long, he joins a diverse and ...

A group of archaeologists investigate a foreboding jungle in search of an ancient road, hoping to find answers to a series of strange disappearances that have taken place in the area.

It’s business as usual on the set of another cheap sword-and-sandal production by Pharos Pictures—until the lead actress suddenly falls into a deep, mysterious sleep. Jordan Harper can talk down high-strung starlets and knock sense into stuntmen, but this…this is the kind of uncanny problem that he’d usually bring to Mrs. Hope. Unfortunately, the preternaturally capable secretary is on a business trip with the studio head. Harper must get to the bottom of the mystery on his own before another cast member succumbs—or worse, they blow the budget.

Archeologist Michael Rempart finds himself pitted against ancient demons and modern conspirators when a dying priest gives him a powerful artifact - a pearl said to have granted Genghis Khan the power, eight centuries ago, to lead his Mongol warriors across the steppes to the gates of Vienna. The artifact has set off centuries of war and destruction as it conjures demons to play upon men’s strongest ambitions and cruelest desires. Michael realizes the so-called pearl is a philosopher's stone, the prime agent of alchemy.

Whether searching for the buried treasure of Captain Kidd in "The Gold Bug" or seeking revenge in "The Cask of Amontillado," the words of the master storyteller will thrill and envelop the listener.

When Elara's husband vanishes in the Panamanian jungle, she's forced to trust their enigmatic guide, Miguel, to find him. But as Miguel disappears into the wild, Elara's worry turns to terror. Desperate, she ventures into the heart of darkness alone, stumbling upon ancient ruins hiding a malevolent presence. Trapped in a nightmare, Elara must confront the unspeakable evil lurking there if she hopes to uncover the truth behind her husband's disappearance and escape alive. In this pulse-pounding thriller, one woman's search for her missing husband becomes a fight for survival against the ...

“Don't say I didn't warn you - you won't want to stop reading until the story is over! The best of the series!” – Amazon reader A timeless fjord. A legendary dragon. An ancient cult known as the Smoke Breathers. At the edge of the world, people in the town of Lake Home are being burned alive. A nearby village and hamlet have also been put to the torch with all their occupants trapped inside. Calec and Serileen hunt the merchant who fled, and they are pulled into the dark events centered around the lake and its lost creature. They uncover conflicting beliefs about the people living in ...

After Kyle Miller's team of archaeologists unearth a lost city in Egypt, he contacts the well-respected Walden to assist in the discovery. Walden reluctantly accepts, and soon travels over there to begin working with the rest of the excavation team. After picking up Walden from the airport, the driver talks about the project, including why he thinks it might be a dangerous idea. But he refuses to elaborate. After Walden begins to work on the project, the discoveries rapidly begin to get stranger. Additionally, one of Miller's lead researchers mysteriously vanishes. What is it about the site...

A meeting in a cemetery somewhere in Las Vegas between a pale-faced witch and a servant to the albino demon named Synner. She gives him an ancient sword that holds the powers that will kill Cadence Mage. A year before, there was a battle at The Saint Joan of Arc Church, an event Cadence wanted to forget. The battle left him holding his dead love, Meadow, in his arms. Unaware his mother placed Meadow’s soul inside the three-headed dagger and in time, with Tidus Brack’s help, they enter the dream world to bring her back from the dead, but bringing her back will come with a price. The pale...

The first book in the stand alone series TWISTED EVER AFTER. The series takes familiar fairy tales and transforms them into contemporary horror novellas. Each story preserves the emotional core of the original tale while subverting expectations through body horror, psychological dread, and feminist reframing. The collection explores how traditional stories about princesses, curses, and magical transformations can illuminate modern anxieties about identity, agency, and bodily autonomy. They say Sleeping Beauty was cursed to sleep for a hundred years. They lied. Seventeen-year-old Rory Vale ...

His body is a roadmap of torment, his spirit a flickering ember. But for the last Riftwalker, the nightmare is only evolving. Flung from one hell into an even worse dimension, the solitary Silent One awakens to a leeching jungle where even the flora is venomous and grotesque "healing" comes at a horrifying price. The projectile wound from Earth festers, his leg is a shattered ruin, and an ancient, sentient Grove has forced upon him a terrifying symbiosis, altering his very being. Now, a cold, alien hunger wars with his will, and his enhanced senses reveal a world actively seeking to consume...

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The seventh of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, So Moses Was Born, is set in Egypt, in the time just before the birth of Moses. The story is a familiar one: Found in the bulrushes, Moses's upbringing in the court of Egypt gave him the influence and power to set the Israelites free. Joan Grant enlarges the picture by depicting the events that led up to the discovery of the baby Moses, convincingly portraying the man she believed was his father, Ramoses II, through the words of his reclusive half-brother Nebunefer.

The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people in America today relegate monsters to just that - our imaginations - we continue to be fascinated by the unknown. Linda Godfrey is one of the country's leading authorities on modern-day monsters and has interviewed countless eyewitnesses to strange phenomena.

When Michael unexpectedly receives a recent picture of a long-lost love, a woman he thought was dead, he gives up everything to search for her and to find answers to questions that have plagued him through the years. Michael’s search takes him from St. Petersburg, Russia to an archeological dig site in Ukraine’s Carpathian mountains - a desolate area where medieval knights once roamed and horrifying secrets are buried - and at the same time, it creates a mystical connection to the riches and debauchery of the court of Nicholas and Alexandra and the “mad monk” Rasputin.