Horror Town

The town of Iron Shores lies hidden along the James River in the forgotten forests of northern Virginia. In a place where inanimate objects come to life, where the past crosses with the present, and where things are not what they seem. A swamp teen melds with a sentient alga and becomes a macabre vigilante. A schizophrenic woman escapes prison with the help of a man in black, but everything she touches turns to blood. A boy unearths the secret power of his BeJezzus, while another realizes the torture the creature can release upon his enemies and learns to wield it. Two Ph.D. Candidates come...

This town's dark secret tried to be nice... John Weston has been living the good life. A successful relationship, a good business, and not one but several women on the side. Tonight, he found out why. Every seven years, the town where he lives chooses a sacred king. For seven years, he has everything his heart desires; at the end of the seventh, he is sacrificed to ensure the prosperity of the town. That's bad enough, but something weird is going on - well, even weirder. All of the people trying to kill John Weston tonight are being as nice about it as they can, and they act like they're ...

When Jessica Marlowe meets a handsome older gentleman at her new home, she thinks nothing of it. He is just a kind old man. She was deceived. After putting up with a neglectful husband, Jessica wants to find pleasure in other places. She decides this old man is willing to take her into his arms and protect her from her loneliness. His handsome physique, she can't resist. Together they kindle a love that her husband Tom will have to face. His rage will not be quenched until he finds her secret lover.

It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's dark past and their absent mother, whom their father refuses to speak of. As the girls come of age, and the strictures of the community shift but never wane, their rebellions twist and sharpen

When Bobby Parrish discovers severed body parts in the local canal, so begins a tangled web of events tethered to the darkest secrets of Lorendale—a town accustomed to delinquency, but unprepared for the truths to be pulled kicking and screaming into the light. The evidence points to only one suspect, a man whose questionable involvement in another suspicious death continues to haunt the community one decade later, yet whose exoneration and attempts to rebuild his life since have not spared him from persecution. In the middle of all of this are a newly promoted police chief, her erstwhile...

On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995. Elusive online journalist Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the disappearance, interviewing six witnesses, to try to find out what really happened that fateful night.

For Evie St. Claire, life in Honeysuckle Springs isn't anything like she'd imagined. Sure, the old house is charming, and the smalltown lakeside community is picture perfect. But her kitty roommate Birdie is unpredictable, snarky, and demanding. When a ransom note shows up at Evie's backdoor, she must come clean about her aunt's stolen ashes. She'll also need to decide if she's willing to meet the ransom demands and give up her aunt's spell book, or if she'll search for the culprit herself.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor This steamy 12,000-word actioner lays it on heavy with thick scenes that are sure to make the juices bubble. Laura is just a small-town girl. One day she has a ganging experience and sees a coyote watching all the action. Later, the rodeo rolls in, and so does a nomad who might as well have ALPHA tattooed on his forehead. Hungry for more adventure, Laura has a lot of first times in this yarn!

In November 2014 Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, father and sister to death with a hammer. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation. King finds himself immersed in an increasingly complex case, interviewing five witnesses and Arla herself as he questions whether Arla's responsibility for the massacre was a diminished as her legal team made out.

Things still linger in the creeks, swamps, and low places of our childhoods. They never venture into the road, nor rise to stand in open fields. They crawl about in the spider corners of aging barns, moan from mist-choked river banks, and stand hunched and patient in the shadows as we age and die. These beings neither heaven nor hell can claim.

A strange town. A missing mother. A darkness that watches from the woods. Sadie Angelheart never wanted to move to Obscurum, North Carolina—a town so tiny it barely appears on the map. But after her father's arrest and her family's unraveling, it seemed like a fresh start. That is, until her mother vanishes without a trace. Now, Sadie is stuck in a town where shadows move when no one’s watching, the forest holds secrets older than memory, and nobody seems to notice just how wrong everything feels. Together with her little brother Sam and a quirky librarian with a hidden past, Sadie ...

A brand new novella set in the engrossing world of The Demon Cycle from bestselling fantasy author Peter V. Brett. Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons. Bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive.

20 years ago, four friends awoke an ancient evil. Now it’s back, and only the Cemetery Club can stop it before the whole town ends up dead. Or worse. Rocky Point is a small town with a violent history. Mass graves, illegal medical experiments, and brutal murders dating back centuries. Of course, when Cory, Marisol, John, and Todd form the Cemetery Club, they know none of this. They’ve found the coolest place to party after school - an old crypt. But then things start to go bad. People get killed, and the Cemetery Club knows the cause: malevolent creatures that turn people into cannibal ...

Lance and Luna Lingmell are settling in nicely to their new town. It feels wonderful to live someplace where they finally fit in. Not to mention cool bonuses like becoming best friends with the son and daughter of the President of the United States, and a secret video gaming room. Not to mention, discovering their new found magical abilities. Unfortunately, they hardly have anytime at all to enjoy their new surroundings before the strange birds show up. When fellow Mistylockians become frozen; seemingly turned into stone statues, it takes way too long to connect it to the arrival of the ...

February in Newfoundland is the longest month of the year. Another blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off downtown St. John’s, while inside The Hazel restaurant, a storm system of sex, betrayal, addiction and hurt is breaking overhead.

The eccentric, and sometimes lovable, characters of Spookie have returned for another series of mysterious adventures. Frank Lester, ex-Chicago homicide detective and mystery author, after his and Abigail’s long-awaited vacation is over, and they’re home again, has once more come out of retirement this time to take the position of sheriff of Spookie, because of Sheriff Mearl’s murder.

The elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back in the regiment - this time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform. Faced with a case which would normally be passed discreetly to Hereford diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins, Spicer is forced, for security reasons, to try and handle it himself - and is coming close to a breakdown.

Jacob Reese enjoys the quiet life, running a coffee shop and renting out his cottage in The Hollows, Vermont. But the calm is shattered when a woman who looks eerily similar to his ex-girlfriend Laura turns up to stay in the cottage, and leaves a mysterious note in the guest book. Now Jacob’s seeing Laura everywhere - a glimpse of her face across the street, her music box left outside his house, a gift he gave her years before hanging from the trees. But it can’t be Laura. Because Laura’s dead.

"Something ancient and sinister threatens the people of Iron Shores, and it's killing the men off one by one!" After several days of torrential rains, Chief of Police Judith Ware joins forces with a minister, a physician, a bookstore owner, and a paranormal celebrity to solve the mystery of what is desecrating women’s graves and killing the men in the town. Overhead, clouds of crows fly in the air while a demonic power grows underground. Cut off from everything else around them, Chief Ware races to save the town and her two daughters from certain death from an ancient evil before the crow...

Billy Rain is a 14-year-old kid with two close friends with one thing in common. Their parents created the most successful computer game of the '90s. Now, in 2002, Billy finds a game console on the grounds of the abandoned Matterson house. Playing the game, Billy and his friends realize it’s a map. They go out at night and dig. What they find, under the cold ground, is a decaying human hand. An evil like no other is released from its grave: Jack Matterson. He’s back from the dead and out to take revenge on the kids of those who wronged him.