Body Horror

This follow-up volume to the bestselling Ghosts from the Library resurrects forgotten tales of the supernatural by some of the most accomplished mystery authors of all time. Close the windows. Draw the curtains. Just don’t let the lights go out…

The 1930s. Art deco. Jazz. Flappers. And disaster. On their first anniversary, Ward and Mattie accidentally swap bodies. But this is to be expected when Ward horsed around with the scientific equipment at his lab. But will they be able to swap back , seeing they are hoplessy drunk?

What if the Devil wasn't in the details, but in your thumb? This anonymous manuscript tells the chilling story of a man convinced his own digit is possessed. What begins as a maddening itch spirals into a waking nightmare — where his thumb dictates his thoughts, punishes disobedience with searing pain, and guides his hand toward unspeakable acts. He calls it You. He believes it's Satan. He tries to bind it, cut it away, reason with it. But You remain. Relentless. Patient. Pushing him toward a final, terrible purpose. You, My Accursed Digit is a claustrophobic descent into psychological ...

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

When Beatrix Brighton—a New Hampshire professor with expertise in demonology—receives a desperate call from her father about a fungal plague consuming his home, she expects to find another easily explained phenomenon. Instead, she discovers a city in the grip of something inexplicable: toxic spores blanket every surface, buildings sprout through with yellow growths, and the residents are slowly changing, their minds colonized by something that lurks in the bayou's depths.

When two best friends witness a meteor crashing to Earth, and then the aftermath of government agents flooding their town, they know they’ll need to do something drastic to hide what they know. Watching through their bedroom window to the rich widow next door, they devise a plan, a plan that will change all of them, forever. Stealing Mrs. Tingle is a male-to-female body swap and gender transformation story. A mixture of dark and sweet, there are sci-fi themes, along with body theft and a HFN (happy for now) ending.

What if the most dangerous voice in your head... wasn't your own? Elena Rodriguez is a struggling actress desperate enough to accept an unusual role: become the public stand-in for Catalina Anderson, a reclusive bestselling author who never appears in public. The job pays exceptionally well and seems straightforward—master Catalina's mannerisms, make carefully selected appearances, and maintain absolute discretion. But something sinister lurks beneath the surface of this arrangement. As Elena begins experiencing vivid memories she never lived and thoughts that don't feel like her own, she...

Eden Carmichael was hoping for a nice winter vacation to her new boyfriend's family cabin in Silver Falls, Montana. Instead, they're met with carnage, monsters, and Eden's family secret that comes clawing to the surface. Over the River and Through the Woods is a bloody reminder that you can never escape your past no matter how far you run.

The air in the hospital was thick with the scent of antiseptic and something more primal, a lingering fear that clung to the walls like the shadows of the past. For years, I had been a caretaker, a healer devoted to the well-being of others, but the echoes of trauma and the weight of my own experiences began to manifest in unsettling ways. A new beginning was not just a transition; it was a reckoning with the darkness that lurked within the depths of my mind and the very fabric of the hospital itself.

A twisted tale of desire, transformation, and forbidden pleasures awaits in this provocative erotic sci-fi thriller. When a mysterious alien parasite infects college roommates Akakia and Sophia, their ordinary lives spiral into a seductive abyss of intense cravings and taboo delights. Akakia, a naive vegan lesbian, and Sophia, a bold e-girl with a penchant for pushing boundaries, find their bodies and desires irrevocably altered by the parasitic invasion. As their pseudopenises awaken new hungers, they embark on a journey through a world of evolving identities, steamy encounters, and dark ...

Jeremy Gunn was a young child when he first used his gift. He touched his father's cheek as he peered into his casket and cried. That's when he saw it, his father's darkest secret. Tormented, he seeks to act on the secrets of the dead. To right the wrongs of people passed, to find the missing, and to avenge the fallen. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with and never told a soul. But It's what he does with your secret; that is the epic story!

After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan's Vampyres, private eye Joe Pitt is definitely a dead man walking. For a year he's sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What's it gonna take to dig him up?

Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can’t shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid’s uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism. Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she’d never do: she goes home.

"The Pressure" unfolds a haunting narrative centered around Trevor, whose very essence undergoes a malevolent transformation with each change in the weather. In those fleeting hours, which can extend to agonizing days, Trevor is consumed by a torrent of anger and violence, leaving his loved ones grappling with the aftermath. As the story unravels against the backdrop of the fiercest winter storm to pummel upper Ohio since 1978, the Wendt family finds themselves thrust into a chilling predicament. While the community braces for the impending tempest, the Wendts brace for something far more ...

In the end, all that's left is an Echo. Before, Violet's morbid ability to sense the dead led her to uncover dark murders and long-buried secrets in her small town. Now that she's workingwith a special investigative team, Violet hopes she can help even more people - whether by saving a life or catching a killer. Although she's relieved to finally be honest about what she can do, her instant connection with her mysterious partner, Rafe, is both confusing and unsettling, and their unique bond creates tension with her boyfriend, Jay. When she discovers the body of a college student murdered by "the collector," Violet refuses to give upon the case.

Sara Madison, an ordinary college co-ed desperate to escape her world of mediocrity and the suffocating oppression of her parents, decides to follow her impulse to break free from everything and let her lust guide her. One night in a cocktail lounge in a casino leads to a night she'll never forget. As she follows the path of her impulses, she soon learns that there is a very steep price to pay for her innermost desires.

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor Ciedre is just a young professional woman in the big city when she meets the hunk of her life named Shane, who rescues her from a gang of vampire aliens who are hell-bent on harvesting the blood of all earthlings. And to the victors go the spoils. After Shane saves the day, Ciedre demands he show her the ancient art of the erotic fist. And this mutant's fists are bigger than any mortal male's...

Usually, when Victor Bayne is called upon to investigate a ghostly apparition, the “haunting” can be chalked up to a perfectly mundane cause. When he’s sent to check out some suspicious phenomena in small-town Iowa—and no one seems unduly alarmed—he’s hoping for more of a weekend getaway. Especially since he’s bringing along Jacob as his Stiff.

Guy is about to finish writing his breakthrough online article. He overheard the story by chance in a pub and it’s guaranteed to go viral - all he needs to do is persuade the World’s Unluckiest Man to talk to him. His best friend Larry’s quest for killer clickbait material has led him to a recently appeared shanty town in Glasgow, where he finds some kind of urban voodoo cult. Ex-cop Sam has already come face-to-face with the terrifying force behind both these phenomena, but he’s been trying to put it out of his mind.

It's a story that he hasn't told anyone for fifty years. A secret that he's kept ever since he grew tired of the disbelieving faces and doctors' reports advising medication. He's been careful. He hasn't even touched a single drop of booze since that one, fateful evening. This is why his decision on this day - the decision to have three drinks - will change the life of bright young waitress Lisa Willoughby forever. For today, the Man on Table Ten has decided that he wants to share his incredible tale.