Body Horror

How cold is cold? How deep is despair? At what temperature does your heart finally… shatter? Minus. Two. Hundred. Degrees. Cryonics. The practice of freezing the human body in the hope of bringing it back to life. It’s a voluntary procedure. Usually. Stefan Anderson thought selling immortality for Scarrax BioCryptz would be a scream. He was right. Just not in the way he expected. When a client dies after a car crash, the freezing process doesn’t go quite to plan. Stefan’s about to discover a horrifying truth. The cold, hard way. Bodyfreeze invites you on a gripping journey through a...

In every locked room, there's a secret waiting to be found—and a body left behind. From elite rehearsal spaces to package vaults, from forgotten hotel bathrooms to séance parlors sealed tight, this chilling collection of original locked-room thrillers explores what happens when the walls close in and the truth can't escape. Inside you'll find: A detective trapped in his own interrogation. A woman who wakes in a bath with her wrists taped—and no memory of why. A séance interrupted by someone who was never invited. A delivery crate that holds a body—and your name. An acting class ...

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!

In this short prequel to The Preserve, J. L. Williams reveals the first glimpse into the life and times of young mortician, Jackson Lucid. Just another day and another dead body for Jackson to retrieve from the hospital. He doesn't know it will be the one to turn his entire perspective of death upside down. At this point, he's just following the routine his mentor taught him. But now that Morris has recently passed on, Jackson finds himself alone in the world. He makes friends at the funeral home, but not many worth mentioning except Serena, a girl who's been through her own fair share of ...

This Sky Brooks bundle includes books one through four.

Welcome to the town of Gorton. This is a town low on excitement and high on hard work and doing your bit for the community. Many people in Gorton work at Meadowland hospital or Ackland Chemicals, a building that is considered an eyesore by everyone who looks upon it. The residents of Gorton, including Ben Larson, a doctor who is working his last shift in A&E, Wendy Withers a carer for her husband who, since his car accident, has locked-in syndrome and Jane Rogers a lorry driver for Ackland who is revelling in the life that she’s built for herself, will soon fight for survival. An accident...

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!

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...

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.

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.

The Hollow Feast: An Anthology of Cosmic Transformation Three interconnected tales of consciousness, decay, and the terrible beauty of becoming. In a universe where time itself can be wounded, where libraries exist at the edge of dreams, and where decay is both curse and sacrament, three stories explore what it means to transform - and what transformation costs. “Clockwork Covenant” - When the Great Clock fractures and time begins to unravel, a disgraced horologist and a prophetic princess must descend into the mechanical heart of their city to prevent reality itself from coming undone....

God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs - and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.

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?

If you're a fan of Pretty Little Liars or The Lying Game by Sara Shepard or any of the RL Stine thrillers then check out this book! Chloe is excited about spending her senior year of high school in California with her friend Jake's family. Even the usual dread of being the new girl can't bring her down. That is, until she stumbles across the dead body of the most popular girl in school, Lora Kelly. Now she's receiving threatening notes...will she be next? Everyone is a suspect. There's her childhood friend Jake, who she's known forever and there's his girlfriend, Kate, who is insanely ...

In the cyberpunk megacity of Noveris, living biotech tattoos are the ultimate body augmentation - bestowing superhuman abilities on the elite...for a price. When struggling artist Alex defies warnings and undergoes a forbidden ritual to receive the rumored "Progenitor's Kiss" tattoo, they unleash an ancient symbiotic force bent on transcending the boundaries of human existence itself. Reborn as the godlike entity Ankhrava, Alex finds themselves at the center of a metaphysical maelstrom. Their unstoppable new powersattract the terrified scrutiny of Noveris' rulers, pitting Alex against a ...

Three men in three different parts of the world are murdered by a supernatural creature. One that is able to hide itself in the body of a human. Holmes must solve the mystery of the mouth of horror before many more men die.

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.

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.

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.

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.