Body Horror

Miri thinks she has got her wife back when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp.

Grimeswood, Alabama. After midnight as a heavy fog rolls in... When one of the town's finest residents, a sleepy sheriff's deputy, pulls over a mysterious car on a dark stretch of backwoods highway, he comes face to face with a deathly enchanting vampire of the night, the Empress of the Rose. But upon inspection of the vehicle and its strange driver, Oli Reeves just won’t hear what the lady has to say, nor does he heed the cryptic advice of the letters she uses as identification. A supernatural tale of the occult with creeping thorns based on the knowledge and imagery of the Tarot.

Somewhere, lurking in Mecklenburg, Jeremy Gunn is uniquely collecting another body. He is the Body Remover. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with, the one you never told a soul. But the daring story isn't about him taking your secret, not at all. Explore two absolutely addictive stories detailed with terrifying regret, pulse-racing revenge, and a haunting decades in the making.

Enter a world of darkness and desolation, of delusion and destruction, of daring and death. Enter the personal hell of Christopher Irving in the thrilling novel, "This Side of Midnight" by David Halk. Christopher, a recluse and a failure, collects corpses for company and the dead become better friends for him than the living. But a mysterious voice threatening his own death puts Christopher on a mission of violence and murder as the only way to save himself. The line between the living and the dead becomes blurred with deadly consequences in this dark psychological thriller.

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.

Exley House had lain empty and alone for years since Mary died, as if it had chosen isolation for itself, as if occupants were an extravagance it could forgo. Locals had always thought Mary had been verging on insane. One by one her four children had disappeared without a trace, but none of them had come forward to claim the house for themselves, nor take any of her belongings. The once immaculate grass now grew long and unkempt, and in that grass was narrow pathways made by local children hoping to catch a glimpse of Mary’s ghost. The new owner’s, Bill, and his wife Belle had seen the ...

Months after her sister’s death, Marianne wakes up to find a growth of thick black hairs along her spine. They defy her attempts to remove them, instead proliferating, growing longer. The hairs, Marianne’s doctor tells her, are a reaction to trauma, developed in the wake of the loss of her sister, Marie. Her doctor recommends that Marianne visits Nede, a modern, New Age rehabilitation center in a remote forest in Wales where the patients attend unorthodox therapy sessions and commune with nature. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede....

A man looking for romance on the adult affair website Ashley Madison thinks a woman fleeing a sexless marriage may be creating what she’s attempting to escape from, as she works to transform him.

I am not one of you. At least that’s what you’ll tell yourself. You’ll say I’m a monster. A sicko. A deranged killer. But I am no monster, I am no sicko, and I am not deranged. I am simply a man who happens to enjoy murdering people in the most violent of ways. So don’t bother listening to this if you have a weak stomach, get easily offended, or are simply not interested in the best way to dispose of a dead body. (It’s pigs, by the way. They eat anything.) My name is Gerald Brittle. I am a serial killer. And this is my memoir.

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.

A small-town librarian witnesses a murder at his local deli, and what had been routine sleep paralysis begins to transform into something far more disturbing. The trauma of holding a dying girl in his arms drives him out of his own body. The town he knows so well is suddenly revealed to him from a whole new perspective. Secrets are everywhere and demons fester behind closed doors. Worst of all, he discovers a serial killer who has been preying on the area for over a century, one capable of traveling with him through his dreams.

Something’s wrong with Ajay Sharma. He can feel it deep inside him. Growing. Waiting. It started with a bath. New apartment. Faulty plumbing. A moment alone. Then came the sensations—impossible ones. Heat, pressure, pleasure. A shifting in his body he couldn’t explain. Arousal that felt alien. Orgasmic flashes with no clear cause. And an overwhelming sense that he’s no longer alone in his own flesh. Ajay tries to act normal. He goes to work. He talks to his wife. He meets his best friend for brunch. But something in him is changing—fast. And it’s not just physical. There are ...

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.

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?

Thanksgiving can't end too soon for Victor Bayne, who's finding Jacob's family hard to swallow. Luckily, he's called back to work to track down a high-profile missing person. Meanwhile, Jacob tries to find a home they can move into that's not infested - with either cockroaches or ghosts. As if the house-hunting isn't stressful enough, Vic's new partner Bob Zigler doesn't seem to think he can do anything right.

"The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag": In this chilling tale, the protagonist stumbles upon a mysterious bag that harbors something unimaginable. As he grapples with the horrifying reality of what lies within, he confronts his deepest fears and the secrets he has kept hidden. The story explores themes of dread, the unknown, and the consequences of curiosity, leading to a tense climax that challenges the boundaries of sanity and reality.

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.

Ponder this: Your wife gets the lauds and kudos, and finally a chance to make it big in Washington DC. But you, year after year, get the short end of the stick—and that in the rear-end. Your life is spent crawling in the shadows of your wife's success. What ends will you take to even the score? In this horror story of love, passion, rivalry, body-swapping, and ultimately revenge, we confront the dark side of human existence, at its grizzly worst.

England, 1990. Reed has travelled his whole life in search of someone who understands him. So he’s thrilled when his journey brings him to free-spirited Zoya, who shares his rare ability to dream-walk. But after his gift leads him to a hidden corpse, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder. Despite the setback, Reed resolves to use his power to help crack the case. When the real perpetrator delivers a violent threat, he’s tempted to give up, slip into his camper van, and hit the road again. After all, who would miss him?

When Timo's older sister forces him to swap bodies with her, will he recover his body when his mother thinks the swap is a good idea ... and wants to swap bodies with him?