Horror Collection

This collection includes eight additional stories about a haunted hiking trail, a haunted road, a weakling developing his powers, a mysterious lake hiding secrets, a hoarder’s worst fear, the perfect day becoming a nightmare, a paranoid agoraphobe, and the unauthorized conclusion to [REDACTED].

The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.

This re-release of Caselberg's first collection shows the breadth of His writing: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction and all those things in between. Within these tales, Caselberg explores the darker side of humanity and life. A talking dead cat, people who change into butterflies, aliens outsmarted, ghosts stuck in the wrong time, all of these can be found within these pages and more. Stories that wander across the edges of reality.

A man laughs and people die. An imprisoned princess refuses the magic that may allow her escape. A private investigator hired by vampires uncovers the source of their poisoned blood supply. A doomed biologist hunts on the edge of the Solar System hunts for alien life while a comet hurtles towards him. Collected together are nineteen science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories from the British Fantasy Award, Aurealis Award and Australasian Shadows Award nominee author Jay Caselberg, with each tale exploring the unnatural conditions of life and the speculations that might arise from them.

Dark, strange, and questioning, a collection of unsettling tales wandering across the genres. Sprinkled with ghosts, nightmare visions that deal with separation, loss and transformation and the occasional journey into science fiction, these stories will be sure to linger, long after you have finished reading.

This is a collection of all of my short stories. Please see the descriptions on each title. There is a love story or two, a comedy and even a dark tale. Hopefully something for everyone. Morton

The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Washington Irving.

The Strauss family is on knife’s edge. Sam is a resentful stay-at-home dad. Rachel feels the restlessness in her blood returning. Their children are getting out of hand. And a recent mudslide has forced the wolves out of the woods to look for food. As dusk falls and tensions rise, the family must come together to survive the night—from the threats outside and those within.

Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.

Weird Tales magazine is known for launching a number of sub-genres of fiction—cosmic horror, swords & sorcery, dark fantasy, and others. It has also greatly added to existing genres like science fiction, horror, and—a personal favorite of editor Jonathan Maberry—weird mystery stories. Or, as they became known—occult detective tales.

Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone brilliantly interpret twenty of Edgar Allan Poe's most chilling stories and poems - an unforgettably intense listening experience!

A carnival of horrors, outer space, heaven: these are just a few of the locations visited in this collection of short stories. Though I’ve always found long form fiction to be easier to write, like many other authors, I started by writing short fiction, where words are precious and each pithy sentence must do the work of an entire chapter. Please join me in my early journey through the abbreviated worlds of the short story.

From romantic horror author Rojana Krait comes a lesbian vampire tale blurring the lines between pleasure and pain, good and evil, and freedom and bondage. House of Stone is an enemies to lovers thousand year age gap romance between two ice queens who want to love each other almost as much as they want to destroy each other. I’m an elder, a sister, a mother to my girls and there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do to keep them safe but my attempts at protecting them from their own desires have backfired. One by one, they’ve spread their dark wings and left the ice-encrusted safety of our ...

A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose “can be soul-shaking” (New Yorker).

A sapphic vampire tale that blazes through the boundaries between physical and emotional bondage, love and pain, given and found family, and the myriad complicated relationships that women form with one another. House of Sand features an ice queen on the brink of shattering, a topsy-turvy take on the grumpy sunshine trope, and a slow-burn, masc x femme love story with an ending that's both heartbreaking and HEA. I broke the chains that bound me at birth but I’ll never escape from the shackles of love and duty, irons that get heavier with each passing year, threatening to pull me down into...

Beyond the Veil: Three Dark Tales of Life, Death, and the Unseen Step into a world where the line between life and death blurs, and the shadows whisper of things unseen... Cappuccino Heaven: Journey into the afterlife with Elizabeth Walker, who discovers that Heaven isn't quite what she imagined. Amidst familiar faces and endless cappuccinos, a darker realm looms, pulling her toward secrets that could unravel everything she once believed. Dead Dreams: For Adam and Summer, living on society's fringe seemed like the perfect escape—until they realize not everyone can see them. Plagued by ...

As a child, I was always drawn to the captivating allure of science fiction stories. The idea of exploring new worlds, encountering strange creatures, and delving into the mysteries of the universe fascinated me to no end. I would spend hours immersed in the pages of books, imagining myself as an intrepid explorer venturing into the unknown. As I grew older, my love for science fiction only deepened. I realized that it was not just the thrill of adventure that drew me to these stories, but also the profound sense of wonder and curiosity they inspired in me. Science fiction, with its ...

A diverse collection of 51 short horror stories, including the grizzly confessions of a serial killer, parallel dimensions, becoming trapped in a virtual world, and encountering ancient aliens buried beneath the Earth's crust. Demons, monsters, psychopaths, undead, mad experiments, and paranormal - no matter what makes your heart race, you're guaranteed to face your fear with these terrifying tales.

Some jobs are boring. This one is deadly. When college student Ben Suarez takes a third-shift security job at a desolate railyard, he expects long hours, quiet nights, and the slow creep of exhaustion. What he doesn’t expect is the feeling of being watched. The shadows that move when they shouldn’t. The whispers that slither through the empty train cars. Armed with only his smartphone and desperate texts to his girlfriend, Ben begins to unravel a chilling truth buried beneath the steel and gravel—a past soaked in blood, where the dead refuse to rest. As the nights wear on, his fear ...

American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is universally recognized for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. His stories are characterized by an original kind of supernatural horror, often using the awareness of death as a catalyzing force in its own right. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth and intense imagery, made vivid through his musical language and hypnotic rhythms, which are especially captivating when heard aloud.