Magic Horror

Once the most powerful mage in the land, defeater of dragons, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman. She was possessed and corrupted by a demon, losing all she held dear - including her love’s trust. Rebuilding her life seems impossible. Her husband, Lord John, now bears his own torment far away: he tricked the beautiful and cruel Aohila, a rival hell’s demon queen, in order to free his wife from possession, and now he is plagued by her memories.

Kyle is an ordinary young man working in Japan through a foreign exchange program. Ordinary? Well, nothing about him is ordinary anymore. After a freak accident involving some mysterious ink in the lab, he is imbued with very unusual powers. Originally fearful of its effects, he begins to enjoy his new powers and even craves more.

Delve into dark, eerie shadows where witches and their feline familiars intertwine in these four chilling tales of the occult. Brace yourself for a spellbinding journey filled with chilling twists, haunting revelations, and whispered curses that will leave you questioning the boundaries that lie between Earthly material and the macabre. Are you prepared to uncover the sinister truths behind the spells cast under the full moon? Devil Catz N' Evil Witches invites you to explore the dark corners of witchcraft. Can you resist the call of the Sisters’ coven? Or will curiosity lead you down the...

For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she’s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it’s being read and who’s doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present.

Desire awakens, darkness unfolds, and Jane Powlett's journey into forbidden passion will change her forever. In the fog-laden town of Stormtide, Massachusetts, Jane Powlett is a woman torn between societal expectations and a longing she can neither name nor resist. But on the eve of her awakening, she encounters forces that stir her deepest desires and darkest fears. As whispers of magic and corruption seep into her family home, Jane is drawn to Isla, her mysterious maid, and Marcus Vale, the enigmatic coachman who harbors secrets as deep as the shadows that plague the town. Guided by her ...

Trapped in the limbo between life and death, Detective Nick Thomas grapples with an unwavering sense of duty and a ravenous appetite for human flesh. In "Badge of the Dead," a gripping novelette within the Night Things series, the lines blur between the obligations of the living and the sinister cravings of the undead.

In the beginning, there were seven. Seven magical beings, with the power to change the world. Now, only one remained. Bliss was the last of her kind. Since she was born, she has been hunted for her power, sought for far and wide by one of the first humans able to use magic - a vampire named Gavril. Darkness had consumed his entire being, making him feel no remorse, nor guilt, nor loyalty to anyone but power itself. Living her life in peril, Bliss was only able to survive through the efforts of a unique creature called the Watcher.

Chicago, 1954. When his father, Montrose, goes missing, 22-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his uncle George - publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide - and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite - heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’ ancestors - they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

As far as Clover’s concerned, she’s got two choices: remain an outcast in the small town where she’s lived her whole life, or move clear across the country like her prodigal stepbrother Mason. Clover is forever paying for her father’s sins at home, but the idea of leaving is too daunting to imagine. When Mason comes home for their sister’s wedding, his presence reignites Clover’s past. A dark force follows her everywhere she goes. Even in dreams, there’s no escaping a hungry shadow.

Peter Warlock is a magician with a dark secret. Every night, he amazes audiences at his private theater in New York, where he performs feats that boggle the imagination. But his day job is just a cover for his otherworldly pursuits: Peter is a member of an underground group of psychics who gaze into the future to help prevent crimes. No one, not even his live-in girlfriend, knows the truth about Peter - until the séance when he foresees an unspeakable act of violence that will devastate the city.

Nobody in the family talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who was swallowed up by the circus and emerged as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot-free for killing her husband. When Ellen's husband Wayne beats her nearly to death, she runs to the only place she knows where a woman can completely disappear - the same Big Top that once sheltered her grandmother. Though the circus moves from one town to the next, Wayne tracks it, and Ellen, relentlessly.

30-year-old Bronwyn Artair, feeling out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT, drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor, Diane Fenwick. After a year of living alone in Southern New Hampshire, enduring the indignities of her job, dumped by her boyfriend, she discovers her deep connection to the natural world has given her an ability to affect natural forces. When she finally accepts she really possesses this startling capability, she must then negotiate a new relationship to the world. Who will she tell?

Two powerful Sherlock Holmes books in one volume. CURSE OF THE DRAGON KING The son of Sherlock Holmes and the Daughter of Doctor Watson start off a Pleasant day on a picnic, which quickly Collapses into a night of terror as a terrifying Cult arrives to change everything…for the worse! DRAGONFIRE Holmes and Watson have battled with many Powerful villains in their lives, but never before With an Asian warlock who is not only the leader of A powerful cult…but a sorcerer of great power! Now Holmes and Watson must find a way to Stop a man who is centuries old and as Powerful as a dragon! ...

In this magic shop the magic is real. And the trick is on you. Citrus Glade is a dying town that needs new businesses, but the one that just opened is doing much more harm than good. Stranger Lyle Miller's magic shop seems to only stock what its select customers desire. When four outcast boys buy common party tricks, only Lyle knows what those tricks can really do. As subtle changes occur around town, a few residents realize that something is amiss...and getting worse.

In the circus, everything is an illusion. Meet the freaks of Madame Scarlet’s Crazy Carnival. Six genres, six stories, six freaks and a whole lot of crazy. Enter a world where everything is an illusion: A place where curiosities and magic are ordinary things and where, to be a freak is the only way to be.

A haunted mansion, an unsolved murder, and a team that’s more misfit than mystical. Can she unravel the mystery, or will she become part of the legend?When Jackie Thompson’s best friend suggests her life could be a cozy mystery novel, she laughs it off—until the paranormal documentary she pitched finally gets the green light. Armed with her trusty team, her sassy parrot, and a psychic's knack for paranormal predicaments, Jackie dives headfirst into a haunting that stretches back over a century. As the eclectic crew digs deeper, they uncover more than just old letters and dusty ...

Just when I think I understand life, the Universe flings a magic booger at me. It just doesn’t pay to think you’ve got a handle on things. For example, my favorite customer, Mrs. Foxladle, got into a simple disagreement with her book club friends over their obsession with youth and beauty. The next thing you know, they’re all dead.

Dos escuelas de escritores hiperbreves luchan por hacerse con el dominio del género. Los fundadores de las escuelas son los gemelos Salazar, irremediablemente enfrentados por su ideología y por un odio fratricida. Es este libro se recogen las obras de los excéntricos o los desgraciados que formaron parte de una de estas escuelas. Fantasía, horror, ciencia ficción, noir y realismo mágico quedan miniaturizados en los cien microcuentos que recoge la antología.

Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behind the house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper than anyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Those secrets emerge into light when Brian disappears in the forest, as his father did three decades before. His father, however, came home with no memory of the events in the depths of the forest. What has drawn Brian away? Will he emerge, shuddering and broken, as his father did, or will the forests close around him, as they have done so often before?

In a dark, lustful, and treacherous world where monsters exist among us, Gary Hack is a drug addict and pornographer living in New York City. Having lost everything to his addiction, Gary begins a dangerous and soul-stunting descent into the world of underground monster fetish porn.