Occult Horror

On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed. But whose story can be trusted? Whose recollection is warped, even unto themselves?

A man sees a girl living alone in a vacant home, presuming she’s a runaway or abandoned, he attempts an intervention and discovers she’s a ghost, then continues his intervention by solving the puzzle of her.

A mysterious doll, a centuries old curse and a vengeful witch. An antique doll comes into the possession of Paul Goodfellow, a vicar in the small market town of Dorchester. He reluctantly agrees to take it after the horrific death of its previous owner but soon regrets his decision as the rumours concerning the doll seem to be true. Paul is at his wits end until a parishioner suggests he consult the local witch, Queenie Beresford. She becomes increasingly disturbed as she realises that the doll has an evil curse attached to it. It becomes evident how dangerous the situation is when the ...

What terrible secret is your grandfather hiding in the basement? If your grandfather is like almost everybody else's, probably nothing all that dangerous. It's likely pretty damn boring down there. But if he's anything like Paul's, it may be something you should avoid at all costs. WARNING: This series of stories contains strong language and graphic scenes. First published in Horror Lover (no longer available)

There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return. While Wyatt is time traveling, detective Tony ...

What do you do after you’ve saved the world and nobody believes you? Amber is a teenage runaway, hiding out in Los Angeles, who is also a daughter of the wolf kind. And, not long ago, she had her own personal demon. Richard was her servant, her lover, and a hellish force bound to the Earth against his will. Together they turned back the World Snake that threatened to destroy the city and she had granted Richard his freedom. Now Amber is alone, but nobody accepts that she has truly shed her demon.

When fates intertwine amid the madness of Mardi Gras, chaos reigns supreme A sinking crew boat carrying a dangerous mob assassin chained up for transport sets off a string of events that will affect the lives of many. Jacque Leguerre, a sociopath and hired killer, is consumed by revenge and blames Catholic priest Father Alphonso for his problems. When Jacque unexpectedly arrives in New Orleans, he’s determined to make the priest pay for his transgressions. Meanwhile, N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia finds himself facing off against a ruthless killer while dealing with a new ...

Horror Road Book 3 - A Supernatural Thriller is a story of ancient spirits, ghosts, psychics, and killers, by Robert Boren, author of the Bug Out! Series. In Horror Road Book 2, Herb, Sandy, and their friends at the Kansas RV Park learn how to lower the power of ancient spirit the other by closing openings to it's cavernous lair. In Horror Road Book 3, the psychics play a strategic game with the other. Survivors of the attacks in Klamath escape to the south, minions Sweeney, Danielle, and Shelby hot on their heels. A psychic kidnapped in Book 2 by a powerful minion returns to the Kansas RV ...

Some secrets are best left, buried deep within the earth… I am thrilled to put together this collection of creepy short stories set in different parts of the world!! Whether it is a small non-descript village in India, the magnificent monasteries in Tibet, the numerous alleys of Kathmandu, the terraced rice fields of Japan, or the Serengeti plains of Tanzania— the locations are as beautiful as the horrifying events which unravel in them! This volume contains 5 horror stories that will have you feverishly turning pages, wanting more— Whether it is a village which is terrorized by an ...

She came seeking blessings. She found something already inside her—watching, waiting, waking. Karen leaves New York believing she’s prepared for India. She’s read the books. Taken the shots. Practiced the mantras. Her fiancé is Hindu, and she wants to honor his culture. A destination wedding in a sun-drenched Punjabi village seems like the perfect start. But the India that greets her is not the one from brochures and Bollywood dreams. It is humid, hungry, and humming with invisible eyes. From the moment she touches the soil, strange things begin to happen—dreams of temples that ...

They thought it was just a party. But when darkness falls, history awakens—and it demands a reckoning. Cami and her friends stumble upon the perfect venue for their Halloween party—an abandoned train station, buried in the shadows of wartime secrets. But their night of fun twists into something sinister when an uninvited guest arrives—one who can't be found on any guest list. What starts as a joke takes a chilling turn as a Ouija board spells out a cryptic warning, hinting at a horror that waits just out of sight. Now, trapped in a place where time bleeds into the present, Cami ...

THE DARK ROUTES A young boy’s best friend disappears into a fast-food restaurant playland ball pit never to be seen again. Something is stolen from a secret government lab that will quite literally change everything. Donned in a trench coat, a disgruntled youth grabs a bulky duffle bag and drives into the fierce storm of his destiny with an unwanted passenger. Two cowboys are tasked with finding the rustlers responsible for missing cattle. What they find in the harsh Wyoming mountains is anything but a rustler. Two boys run into a dark evil on the back streets of a Jamaican tourist town. ...

When an accident kills the magician Miley the Great, his wife Amanda will give a piece of herself to exact her revenge.

The City of Dr Moreau presents a sprawling history of the islanders and an alternative vision of our own times. In H. G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr Moreau, a shipwrecked traveller finds himself alone on an island ruled by a mad doctor and inhabited by creatures who are at once both beast and human. He escapes to civilisation only after the scientist is dead and the beast-men have taken absolute control. Yet this is not the end of the matter.

Following the hypnosis of a violently disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team remains - Ward Sister, Becky. Despite her fiancé, D.I. Ross, being unconscious and many of her colleagues either dead or critically ill, Becky is determined to rescue Ruby's 12-year-old daughter from a similar fate to that of her mother.

Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts". Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back.

Victorian London is a place of fluid social roles, vibrant arts culture, fin-de-siecle wonders...and dangerous underground diabolic cults. Fencer Evadne Gray cares for none of the former and knows nothing of the latter when she's sent to London to chaperone her younger sister, aspiring art critic Dorina. Unfortunately for Evadne, she soon learns too much about all of it when Dorina meets their uncle's friend, Lady Henrietta "Henry" Wotton. A semi-respectable aristocrat in public, in private she is secretly in the thrall of a demon.

When Erion's son is kidnapped by the evil vampire Cruen, Erion vows to stop at nothing to find his hideaway - including intercepting the traveling party of Cruen's beautiful bride-to-be. But instead of a vulnerable caravan, Erion is met by a feral band of female demons that includes Hellen, the bride - a creature of dark magic and darker passion. Though the safety of his son is foremost, Erion can't deny his unexpected connection to Hellen - inflaming a manic desire as primal as it is irresistible.

Max wasn't exactly thrilled with how his night had gone so far. Ramirez had been shot, and his partner Gordon had been bitten by one of those things. The black lines creeping from the wound on his partner’s forearm didn't bode well for his chances of making it out of this alive, but there was always a chance. Max was determined to make damned sure if there was a miracle to be had, Gordon was going to get it. Going back to the creepy house with an underground lab wasn't high on Max's list of priorities, but staying away wasn't in the cards. All he could hope for now was that the men he ...

Although long dead, the spectre of ‘The Cunning Man’ still hangs over the village of Bindon; a place well known for its involvement in smuggling over the centuries. But what is the connection between this enigmatic figure and the freshly carved witch marks ? Marks which Queenie and Sybil see on every door lintel in the village. Their curiosity is further piqued when they encounter the ghost of a child in the churchyard and so they decide to dig a little deeper into the mysterious affairs of the locals.