Monster Horror

When the Standing Ones sent us on a journey to explore the darkness far from the sun’s light, I never expected to find monsters there. Like something out of the scary tales my son so loved, they captured us while I slumbered. I woke with my crew, locked away in a cold thundercloud colored cage. The others looked to me for escape but all my plans had ended in failure and pain, so much pain. At the same time, the monsters began to take them away one by one. Pushing past those failures and the pain, I plotted my escape, I was born problem solver after all. I needed to warn my people of what ...

Ancient dead gods are about to awaken. And one boy holds the secret to their resurrection. Fifteen-year-old Allan Green has stumbled into the realm of Andakar. To find his way home, he must travel across half a continent, aided by fantastical creatures, crazed wizards, and a few more less than savory accomplices. But there are others wanting to cut his journey short. Murderous cutthroats, savage forest creatures, and a cabal of vampires, just to name a few. Will Allan succeed? Will his greatest enemy hold the key to his very survival? Get your copy of Andakar today and find out!

With Christmas fast approaching, 16 year old Addison Monroe struggles to accept the fact that, despite her misgivings, she can no longer deny that she’s a gifted psychic. Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, she suddenly finds her younger sister’s best friend Becca standing on the lawn outside her bedroom window. A girl who died two years before. As she struggles to understand what’s happening, Addison uncovers a dirt encrusted doll in Kylie’s bed – a doll that was placed in Becca’s coffin on the day she was buried. Gathering together her friends and Aunt Juliette,...

1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it’s killing him from the inside. But that’s not all—he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite…an appetite they say tortures him still.

Author Andrew Gates's first foray into the horror genre is a claustrophobic shock to all five senses. With only sporadic memories of the last several hours, two American pilots in World War II awaken to find themselves in a sadistic Japanese deathtrap. With no knowledge of how or why they came to be here, the two strangers must band together to survive. Struggling to escape, both men break free from their captors and retreat to a nearby island. The island’s shores are as black as night and their pursuers dare not follow them to it. Something about the sight of this place fills the hearts ...

5 Stars: I adored reading this book. The characters aren't wafer thin, they have depth and history. The Darkling Wind was a wonderful read, with wonderfully written scenes which pulled you in and made you believe it was truly happening... A great love vs evil story... I'd recommend this book to anyone, young or old. It's a feel good story you won't be able to put down. -Smashwords Review 4 Stars: This is a very well-written, good-versus-evil story that will capture a young reader's imagination. The main character has to deal with both emotional and physical challenges that I expect will ...

When a monstrous embodiment of pollution, Mr. K, emerges from the depths of a hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, it's up to Josephine, a young medium, and her allies, Rose and Gail, to confront the terrifying embodiment of climate change. Armed with the wisdom of the city's spectral guardians, plus the powers of the local gossip columnist Victoria Sinclair, Josephine rallies a community grappling with loss and despair. But Mr. K thrives on chaos, growing stronger with each act of environmental disregard. As the line between the living and the dead blurs, and the city teeters on the brink of ...

After a spacewreck on an inhospitable planetoid, a handful of survivors face off against each other and the elements, while waiting for rescue in a dangerous sector of space. All the while, they are stalked by the indigenous lifeforms, who seek only to feed, and survive...

Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Zoe Hardcastle, The Widow, Entomologist, Aaron Pike, is seconded to Colonel Eric Trantor’s research team, based at The Ark, a vast underground military complex. Aaron knows that he will only see the light of day again when the arachnoids pose no threat to humanity. Meanwhile, football mad ten-year-old Kyle Fisher is bitten by a huntsman spider while playing on Clapham Common. When he goes into anaphylactic shock, his mother, Helen, calls for an ambulance. A few minutes after the paramedics arrive, a helicopter lands in the park, and soldiers ...

As a forensic psychiatrist at New York's leading institution of its kind, Dr. Lily Dominick has evaluated the mental states of some of the country's most dangerous psychotics. But the strangely compelling client she interviewed today - a man with no name, accused of the most twisted crime - struck her as somehow different from the others, despite the two impossible claims he made.

A young girl’s dollhouse comes alive at night, and its tiny residents possess a terrifying power. Fate stalks a young cult survivor as she struggles to escape a premonition of her own death. And a beautiful antique jewelry box reveals a dark hunger that threatens to consume its new owner....

There are things in this world that should frighten everyone. Things that go bump in the night. Things that lurk in the shadows. Things that prey upon the innocent and the unsuspecting. Dare to go with actress, magician, and paranormal investigator, GG Michaels as she confronts cults, demons, and ghosts, risking everything to drive back evil—wherever it manifests. Lock your windows and doors, turn on all the lights—or all of them off, and enjoy this collection of 5 stories that combine horror, intrigue, and adventure, featuring the exploits of paranormal investigator, Guenevere Grace ...

TV crew enters the Cascade Mountains in Washington state to investigate the location where five forest service workers died, only to discover that history may be repeating itself.

Brought to Summerville after his brother’s sudden death. Don Moore quickly finds himself surrounded by the mystery of Summerville, Wisconsin, and the Palmer House. A resort started in the early 1800’s, offering romantic getaways with an old-world flair. With the intentions of only staying a week to finalize his brother’s estate. Don has to make the choice of closing his brother’s bookstore. Or starting a new life far from the hustle and bustle of Chicago. Quickly he is drawn into the old-world charm of Summerville. As well as the friendliness of the people. Especially Dotty West, ...

They say you can never get too much of a good thing. But for those who crave fear and horror, how much is too much? And how far are you willing to go to test your limits? Scare Street brings you volumes three and four of Short Horror Stories in a single edition. Six macabre morsels of fear brought together for your listening pleasure. And each tale packs enough spine-tingling chills to last a lifetime.

Mothers no longer name their sons ‘Adolph’. Almost everyone knows why. Though all innocent babes do not develop into monsters, all monsters develop from innocent babes. We prefer fiction to reality, because thoughts of the former easily yield to denials of reason, while the latter only reminds us of our common origins in the primitive. Steal a private moment now and listen to your inner voice. It whispers. Of rising mutant domination amid apocalyptic wastes; of grotesque human chimeras practicing ancient arts; of despicable capital criminals kept in unbreakable cages and of the flawed ...

Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they’re not alone after all. There’s something in the woods that wasn’t there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.

As the heir to the Halliday name and fortune, Win's entire life has been carefully orchestrated from the moment he came into the world. He's never been allowed to aspire for anything outside that plan, including love. After the tragedy that followed his younger brother chasing his foolish heart, the Halliday Matriarch insists on picking a bride that's up to her outrageously high standards. Unfortunately, the only woman Win would ever consider marrying isn't found anywhere on his mother's list.

The forest remembers what she tried to forget. Fifteen years ago, a monstrous creature slaughtered her family and left her the sole survivor. Dr. Elsie Granger, now a brilliant trauma psychologist, has spent her life burying that terrifying memory under layers of academic theory. She is the expert who explains away the monsters. But when a young girl goes missing in the same remote wilderness of her childhood, Elsie is pulled back to the place where her nightmares were born. Confronted by a skeptical sheriff and impossible tracks in the earth, she feels the cold dread of the past closing in...

A beautiful professor of folklore and legend... A century old immortal freed from the grave to feed on human blood... Victoria Fitzroy is invited to join the archaeological dig on St. Binyon Island, ancestral home of the Earls of Killbryde. Legends abound that the last earl was a Dearg-Diulai, the vampire of Irish folklore. But while her colleagues are skeptical of the creature's existence, Tori finds herself the object of his attentions as he seeks to make her his eternal companion, even if he must pursue her to the ends of the Earth and destroy anyone who stands in his way.