Ancient Horror

The stones guard an ancient secret. And some secrets are buried in blood. Dr. Eleanor Vale’s controversial theory about Stonehenge could rewrite history. But her expedition to the desolate Salisbury Plain uncovers more than she bargained for. Beyond the eerie hum of energies and anomalous magnetic pulses, a primal terror stirs. Claw marks tear through ancient sarsen. Strange, coarse hairs cling to impossible heights. A team member is snatched by the mist, leaving only a horrifying image on a shattered camera. The local legends of a monstrous guardian, a ‘Keeper Between Stones,’ prove ...

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 ...

A gothic folklore book set in Ireland, Canada, and Italy during the 19th to early 20th century. Dive deep into the eerie world of *The Irish Banshee*, a spine-chilling collection that captures the essence of ancient Irish legends and supernatural encounters. This gripping gothic folklore narrative spans from the hauntingly beautiful countryside of Ireland to the atmospheric locales of Canadian wilderness and Italian coastal regions. Transporting readers to the 19th and early 20th centuries, it brings to life the spectral harbingers that stalk these lands. Discover the Mysteries: Linked only...

They wanted a weekend escape. The forest wanted something else. Jenna sought a quiet retreat in the dense woods of a remote state park, a break from the noise of the city. Her partner, Mark, saw it as another objective to conquer—a master of logistics in a world he believed he understood. But the ancient forest has its own rules. And it has a keeper. It begins with a strange orb of light on a photo, an anomaly Mark dismisses as a technical glitch. Then comes the sharp crack of a branch in the dead of night, followed by the soft thud of a pebble against their tent. Mark’s relentless ...

When David stumbles upon a tragic young woman in a sordid Limehouse pub, he has no idea she’d recognize him as the last vampyre alive, nor that she’d be the one to pull out his story. Yet as he recalls his life from the sweltering vineyards of ancient Rome to the cold horrors of medieval Romania—as well as his tumultuous past with the mad and mysterious Lucius—he realizes she is much more than what she seems. Gothic horror and mythological fantasy blend seamlessly together in this thrilling adventure, breathing new life into vampire lore as it reveals its true origins.

In the majestic, sun-scorched labyrinth of towering stone, some legends refuse to stay buried. Some lines, once crossed, unleash a fury that echoes for eternity. Lured by whispers of undiscovered ancient structures, a team of explorers and photographers—led by a man whose obsession blinds him to the growing unease—ventures deep into an unmapped, forbidden territory. They seek breathtaking vistas and secrets lost to time. But this pristine beauty hides a primal watcher, a territorial guardian of immense power, angered by their intrusion into its sacred domain. The first warnings are ...

A sweltering New York City summer. A crate that radiates an impossible, supernatural cold. For crypto-archaeologist Knox Wilder, it’s just another Tuesday—until he opens the box and finds the severed finger of a creature that shouldn't exist. The discovery, coupled with a desperate plea from a remote Himalayan monastery, launches Knox and his partner, the brilliant Dr. Rhea Mallory, on a perilous expedition into the high-altitude wilderness of Nepal. They seek the lost monastery of Gampo Nagpo, a place local guides refuse to speak of, a valley from which no one has ever returned. But ...

The tragedy of December 1st is still fresh in the minds of Sam, Nathan, and Trent. As Sam adjusts to his new life of becoming a father after losing his own to Nergal, he does not know there will be no respite for him or his friends. They believe their ordeal, which started in Talihina, Oklahoma, two years earlier, was over, and they had realized their triumph over Nergal and his grip on Southeastern Oklahoma. With the deaths of the Choctaw elders, Addison, and Joshua, came a loss of wisdom and foresight into the true nature of their enemy. Nergal had established his dominion over the area ...

The Whispering Pines – A Haunting Supernatural Thriller A small town drowning in secrets. A forest that never forgets. A cycle that demands blood. When Dana Crowell returns to Pine Hollow to care for her ailing mother, she expects to confront painful memories—but not the horrors lurking beneath them. Fourteen years ago, her best friend Morgan vanished without a trace. Now, people are disappearing again, and whispers in the trees suggest the past is far from buried. As Dana digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling legend—the Mother of Pines, an ancient force that has claimed Pine ...

Norman Mailer's dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer's reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile, and into the terrifying clash of battle.

Most of us know about Nimrod and the Tower of Babel as this step-great-grandson of Noah tried to build a tower to initiate and war with God. This is not about that. Instead, it is about what happened after the Tower came down, as King Nimrod would face his hardest challenge. This book is about one of the most important events of our age, as thousands began to take on reptilian features. Luckily, the change was halted and together we will discover what happened. While the event describe here are true horrors beyond belief, the most horrible thing is that the events are not explained to our ...

Who knows what evil hides in the dark recesses of the world? In a mystery spanning centuries, local teen boys have been disappearing. Adam Matthew was a typical teenager until one fateful night in a graveyard changed his life forever. Reeling from his father’s death and looking for acceptance, Adam accompanies his classmates to a desolate cemetery to drink beer and play Ouija. So-called friends abandon him in an ancient crypt leaving him to the whims of a mysterious stranger that guides Adam to purported safety. But life will never be the same. Saddled with a demonic, dark passenger, ...

He came to bury a grandmother he barely knew. He found himself unearthing a war he never believed in. Alex Rivers, a cynical journalist whose career was built on debunking the very idea of the supernatural, arrives in the dust-choked, forgotten Texas border town of Hopewell with one goal: settle the affairs of his estranged grandmother, Ada, and get back to civilization. Ada was the family enigma, a reclusive herbalist whispered to be a "Hedge Witch," her isolated adobe house a testament to a life lived on the fringes of reality. Alex expects to find a few quirky antiques and a lot of dust....

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 ...

"Seamlessly melding the essences of The Expanse and Andor, Waypoint Eclipse hooks the reader from the start and whisks them off into a grand saga." — Michael A. Stackpole, New York Times bestselling author of I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron "When space salvager Shep agrees to a routine mission exploring an outpost facility on Earth’s old moon that was destroyed one thousand years before, nothing prepares him for the insidious evil that lurks within the ruins. What horrors happened here a millennium ago and what secrets remain? Character-driven, clever, and compelling, WAYPOINT ECLIPSE is an ...

THE HOUSE OF CAPRICORN The Empreen - Have you ever wondered where the myths of vampires and werewolves originated? In the springtime of 2004, Jonathan Jones, an independent reporter working on assignment for the New York Times, dared to wonder. In a hidden cave, deep under the ancient Indian city of Varanasa, he discovered a secret which changed his life. It was a discovery so unbelievable and amazing; it took over the next six years of his time. Jones travelled every continent in what became a rabid quest to unravel the truth and origin of this secret.. In December 2011, he published an ...

Book Two of The Hellcat Saga — a trilogy of creeping horror, broken families, and ancient gods. Ten years after the Sweetwater disaster, Jefferson County remains sealed by military blockade. The government says it’s empty. The survivors know better. Fran Berney’s children share the same nightmare — visions of fire, rot, and an orange-eyed god. When they vanish, Fran joins her ex-husband’s old friend Buck and a mysterious man named Ahab to find a way back inside. But the exclusion zone holds more than ruins. Ferys, the being once mistaken for a cat, is waiting — fractured, buried...

The Astra-7 Protocol A sci-fi thriller of ancient machines, deadly awakenings, and the one thing artificial minds can’t compute—human unpredictability. On a lush exoplanet light-years from Earth, a colonial survey team uncovers the ruins of a long-extinct alien civilization. Buried beneath the soil and silence lies something still alive—a dormant AI network known as the Prime Mind. When the team accidentally reactivates it, they awaken more than forgotten code. Watchers begin to stir. Early Form constructs rise. And the Prime, confused by human behavior, begins testing the only ...

“I binged and splurged the entire series.” – J.L. Lux, Author An outpost at the edge of the kingdom. People who harbor a dark secret dating back to their origins. Menataun’s people are being killed by unexplained wild animal attacks as well as by a shambler—one of their own who has become a creature of the night. Calec and Serileen are drawn to Menataun, attempting to track down the Hunter—a suspect in Serileen’s mother’s death. But they find even darker magic already at work, something carried in the blood of these people. With their ancient remedy unavailable, the number ...

Into the dark The warship was old. A giant. 7 miles long. 5 wide. The most powerful warship humanity had ever designed. Now it was abandoned. Cold. Dark. A mausoleum. Its crew preferring to die at their posts to capture by the enemy. For decades, it had been left in orbit. No one dared go near it. Stepping aboard was an act of desperation. Russou was dying. It was a harsh desert of a world. Few natural resources, the only water a tepid brine. There are fewer people every year. The scattered cities fighting back the dust that filled their streets every night. A battle they were destined to ...