Body Horror

Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors - nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Célestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared.

It was a blind date to a lonely cabin, but Ash got more than we bargained for when a psychological manipulator swapped bodies with him. Will Ash get his body back, and escape her clutches?

New from Mike Albanese, author of the award winning "Werewolf's Apprentice" and "Black Mailbox". Rick Ziewig creates synthetic characters for Cloud-9 productions. One day he meets Diana in a coffee shop. Problem is, she's one of his creations. Turns out there are more of them like her out there. Lots more. She's from from a place where every story ever told is retold a thousand times. A creature born of the best and the worst products of the human imagination. Rick's little monsters are bleeding into the real world. And not all of them are A-List romantic leads.

Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals - for centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly, all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.

There are stories that burrow. Inside this volume lie twenty grotesque tales of body horror, cosmic dread, and splatterpunk depravity. From hollow-eyed dolls that stitch children into the walls, to corridors that breathe and birth spider gods, to astronauts rewritten by cosmic hunger—each story drags you deeper into decay. Featured in this collection: • The Rag Girl – A malformed doll-child stalks abandoned homes, sewing her victims into wallpaper or peeling them into new playmates. • The Eighth Corridor – A hallway that stretches into unreality, where spider-human hybrids prepare...

President Crown's second term has come to an end and with it an unprecedented era of American politics. His transgressive, norm-violating style has unleashed chaos on a global and national scale. The flashpoint will be January 20th, when his successor -- President Elect Young -- takes power reversing and undoing his agenda and taking the country and the world in a direction some think may be even more perilous. The question on everyone's mind is What Will Crown Do To Hold On To Power? The answer: Anything Necessary. Including the ultimate 'trump card' -- a secret so dangerous and so ancient...

The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found.Violet can sense the echoes of those who've been murdered and the matching imprint that clings to their killers. Only those closest to her know what she is capable of, but when she discovers the body of a young boy she also draws the attention of the FBI, threatening her entire way of life. As Violet works to keep her morbid ability a secret, she unwittingly becomes the object of a dangerous obsession.

Juan was a data analyst at a company that did some bizarre work; the research institute claimed that it was keeping their realm from existential threats known as the nexus lords, but it never went into detail and it kept those who didn't need to know in the dark. For a while that was him, but when a sudden and unexpected promotion thrust him in the middle of the everything that was happening he was forced to learn about the ongoing battle between the nexus realm and the founder of the facility. He finds out what the foundation is actually researching and meets one of the lab specimens that ...

An ordinary traveler. A typical business trip. Nothing unusual or out of place. If the inhabitants of Spittsville, Texas seem a bit odd, blame overbearing sunshine and endless horizons of arid wastes. Since a rational mind will neither conceive nor believe the startling truth. As gradual as the growth of a creeping vine, deep within the wilds of West Texas an unholy invasion begins. One changeling at a time.

It’s Halloween, and Ruby is looking forward to a party at China Bayles’ house and a busy holiday weekend at her New Age shop, the Crystal Cave. But her holiday plans are interrupted when Jessica Nelson, a crime reporter at the Pecan Springs Enterprise, shows up with a hard-to-believe story about a serial killer who is targeting the terminally ill. Jessica claims that the killer’s calling card - a card picturing Azrael, the Angel of Death - comes from a deck Ruby once carried in her shop.

Some houses whisper. This one bites. Daniel thought he was getting a fresh start when he moved into a run-down rowhouse on the edge of town. But the strange chattering sounds in the walls won’t stop. And when he peels back a layer of old plaster, he finds something impossible—a row of human teeth embedded in the wall. As the house’s hunger grows, so does its grip on Daniel. Doors vanish. Rooms shift. And the walls begin to whisper things only he can hear. From Rick Brink, author of The Meat House, comes a terrifying new entry in the Terror Novellas series—a claustrophobic tale of ...

Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades—the perfect daughter. And then Jackie's family dies in a freak car accident and she has to move cross-country to live with the Walters—her new guardians. Now Jackie must trade in her Type A personality and New York City apartment for a Colorado ranch and all the wild Walter boys who come with it. How can she fit in and move on when she needs to keep her parents' memory alive by living up to the promise of perfect?

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.

Leo Bates knows what's behind every corner in her hometown, where she's lived her whole life. Some disjointed memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous. Nothing unexplainable. But the familiar becomes strange the longer you look at it. When Tate Mulder goes missing and Leo is pinned as the prime suspect, she can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her.

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...

It started with a single hair...and grew into a living nightmare. Greg is a call center worker in San Francisco, just another faceless voice helping disgruntled customers troubleshoot their smart appliances. He wears gloves, long sleeves, and a mask—he says it’s for hygiene. But the truth is growing harder to hide. Literally. As hair begins to sprout from places no hair should grow, Greg struggles to keep his body—and his life—from unraveling. But this isn’t just some bizarre medical anomaly. This is something older. Something deeper. And something that will not be denied. Uncanny...

Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn't want to know. Henry, Jane's brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, a place of defeat and depletion, there are more dead than living.

"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 ...

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 In this steamy hot, sexy taboo short story, a frustrated woman named Diane on a long-haul flight meets a charismatic man, who is not at all what he seems. There is something inhuman about this handsome stranger, and Diane won't figure it out until she is in the restroom 30K-feet up in the air -- with him. 3,500 words of sensual, sexual, erotic paranormal action!

Billie Dean Shoemate III returns after 4 years with a horrific short tale about a man, devoutly religious, who may have accidently brought something terrible into the world. A being older than man. Older than Earth. Older than everything. It is a story of obsession, regret, and accepting the inevitable. Familiar tropes to horror; even to the writings of Billie Dean Shoemate III, but 'Deity' is woven in a way that would surprise even his most devout readers. This tale is a true work of cosmic horror, and a much-anticipated return from the horror master himself.