Dark Horror

Jake Carter took the the job aboard the transport class vessel Fenrir, in order to escape. But little did he know, that three quarters into the trip to Ceres-12, an asteroid colony a solar system away, the ship's AI would malfunction, and the entire crew of maintenance synths aboard would start killing people. Now, freshly awoken from cryo, he finds that nearly all of the crew has been slaughtered, and he is now headlong in a fight for survival. Alongside a young, cybernetic data analyst named Kara, he must do exactly what he was trying to do in the beginning. Escape.Derivative is a fast ...

Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan - one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake.

The snow hasn’t melted, and neither has the past. After years of hiding in the cold quiet of rural isolation, former detective Laura Hensley can no longer outrun the thing that’s stalked her since childhood. The white-eyed killer—the one who shaped her life in silence and blood—has returned. The murders are more savage, more personal, and this time, the bodies are being left in Laura’s backyard. DARK CROWNS is the final, harrowing installment of the Dark Descent psychological thriller series by #1 bestselling author Ava Rowens. Through the final entries in Laura’s weathered ...

Doc has finally gotten Adrian Gionta’s scent, and he won’t stop until he catches his prey. Gionta is far more than a painter of souls though, and he’s had plenty of time to prepare for the oncoming storm that is Doc Holliday. It will take more than a mere mortal to save the thousands of people trapped in Gionta’s paintings. Thankfully, Doc’s no mere mortal, but will even he be enough....

Buffalo is melting. The sidewalks squirm. The cats have formed a militia. Max Noir—sarcastic detective, caffeine addict, and reluctant hero—just wanted his coffee. Instead, he finds himself ankle-deep in sentient goo, guilt-fueled hallucinations, and a grotesque game masterminded by a sourdough-born intelligence. As Buffalo oozes into madness, Max is forced to investigate a mystery that smells like burnt soup, features a psychic yeast tantrum, and may be targeting him personally. From a cheese-curd confession to a feline urine offensive, Max Noir is a genre-bending, noir-splattered ...

📖✨ Fairy tales were never meant to be safe… ✨📖 Step into the shadows of Grimm & Twisted, where the classic fairy tales you thought you knew unravel into chilling, dark, and unexpected new versions. This collection takes beloved folklore and injects it with mystery, horror, and surreal twists—where Cinderella’s slipper leads her to a curse, the Big Bad Wolf is the least of Red Riding Hood’s problems, and a sleeping beauty might never wake up... or maybe she never really slept at all. With 25 original, nightmarish retellings, this book is perfect for lovers of dark fantasy, ...

Some truths are buried for a reason. Some names should never be spoken. A historian uncovers an erased Surah hidden deep in ancient Islamic texts—one that speaks of a 19th Zabaniyya, a guardian who was exiled for showing mercy. Her discovery should have been impossible. The text should not exist. And yet, the moment she speaks the lost name aloud, reality begins to fracture. Time glitches. The city bends. Strangers look at her as if they have always known her. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes—she isn’t just uncovering history. She is history. A shadowed past clawing its way ...

There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving. But they do watch over us. They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies. When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns and remove the redundancies, and the problem that is "you" gets solved.

When a mysterious monolith hungers for blood…when a boy who’s treated monstrously is drawn to monsters…when cold children eaten by the streets want to make a young junkie their next meal…when Little Red Riding Hood is vengeful and full of rage…when a disembodied hitchhiker will do anything to get home…when the Gurgash are out to get you…when a sister pushes her sibling too far…when a family’s afternoon sail turns into a hellish nightmare. Eight bite-size pieces of eerie horror in one slim volume, the perfect little dark companion for lovers of horror to curl up with. Pour ...

The thrill of the chase turns into a voyage of damnation. Captain Vorlag and his hardened pirates aboard the Sea Serpent are masters of the crimson tide, hunting for treasure. But when their relentless pursuit sails them into an eerie, unnatural calm, the familiar ocean whispers of an ancient dread. The hunt is over. Something else is hunting them. From the crushing abyssal depths, an unimaginable horror awakens. A creature of countless teeth and insatiable hunger begins its assault, turning their mighty vessel into a slaughterhouse. Trapped miles from land, under a sky that weeps blood, ...

When Robin Griffiths embarks upon the restoration of a stained-glass window in a thirteenth-century church, little does she comprehend the stakes involved. The more slivers of glass she pieces together, the more she realizes things are not what they appear to be in the seemingly cozy hamlet of Bilbury.

In this second volume, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person's life in New York - here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies. They also become the companions, forming a ka-tet, who will assist him on his quest to save the Dark Tower.

If death is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to accept it. But if evil is knocking at your door, you have no choice but to kill it. It's been decades since Rebecca Underhill and her late twin sister, Molly, were abducted by a madman in the deep woods behind their farmhouse. It's also been many years since that madman was released from prison and went after Rebecca a second time. It's also been years since a copycat killer called The Skinner tried to murder Rebecca and her young son. Now sixty and alone, Rebecca is battling cancer. But soon she will encounter a third monster who...

“The genre I didn’t know I needed until I did.” – Jason L., Amazon reader Horrific murders are devastating those who reside at a strange monastery in the jungle. And only dark magic could explain the events. No one has seen a thing. Nor can they find the cause. Some have died right in front of witnesses. There is no murderer. No blade. No poison. The Horseman has summoned his darkest and most secretive magic into Calec’s world. Victims are first cut in warning, but there is nothing they can do to prevent their impending deaths. They cannot run. They cannot fight what is not there....

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922", the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

After thirty-four years in the same weatherworn farmhouse on Dagger Lane, Tommy Hearst thought he knew every creak and whisper the old place could conjure. But when he uncovers a rotting corpse sealed behind wallpaper and hears his dead mother's voice carved into mirrors, he realizes the house isn't haunted—it's alive. As the walls breathe and whisper secrets long buried, Tommy is pulled into a horrifying family legacy—one bound in blood, sealed with silence, and broken by his very birth. Something ancient stirs beneath the floorboards. Something that has been waiting. Watching. ...

When an ancient and powerful witch did the impossible and escaped after an eternity of being tortured in the pits of Hell… he thought his troubles were over. Soon after Esa’s return to Earth, he quickly discovered that both his magic and the world that he had left behind had changed–and not for the better. Without his innate spellcasting abilities or support from the covens, he had no choice but to forge ahead and hope for the best. Esa’s chance meeting with Skylar Lee, a dark witch with an incredible power that promises much, is a turning point and awakens within him feelings and ...

A hauntingly seductive tale of romance, secrets, and the evil that beckons.Fog coils through the narrow streets of a desolate Maine town, carrying whispers of something long buried—something that should have stayed buried. When podcast host Amelia Ryan unearths the terrifying truth, she realizes the legends were never just stories. A vampire has awakened, and its hunger is only the beginning. Then there’s Jude. A man wrapped in mystery, his presence both a warning and a temptation. He knows things—dark things—things no human should. When their paths collide, Amelia is dragged into a...

A chilling new novella in the bestselling Lance Brody supernatural suspense series! On Halloween night of Lance Brody’s freshman year of high school, sixteen-year-old Chrissy Steel sneaked out her bedroom window and was never seen again. Now, nearly a decade later, as Lance and Leah are adjusting to life back in Lance’s hometown of Hillston, Virginia, the tragic history of Chrissy’s disappearance resurfaces in the most unexpected way. And this time, Lance will get the answers the town has always sought. He’ll track down the source of the Evil that struck the night Chrissy went ...