Occult Horror

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

With everyone bailing on my holiday party, I didn't think the night could get any worse. Then three scorching hot men storm the club and demand I come with them. Thinking they're cops, I run only to discover the flu vaccine is turning people into monsters. Now my survival depends on Mason, Gabriel, and Liam. I should be terrified of their glowing eyes and the way they destroy any threat in our path, but all I can think about is claiming the fierce men as my own. All three of them....

A sadistic serial killer is stalking the French Quarter, and Detective Jack Kohl has vowed to stop him. Working the French Quarter for the last five years, Jack Kohl thought he had seen it all, but he hadn’t counted on a Voodoo killer. Each victim marked with the symbol of an obscure voodoo god is being slaughtered using a sadistic ritual. The “Charcoal Man” is a vicious killer compelled to rip the soul from his prey, including Jack’s. For Detective Jack Kohl, the pressure never stops. His life is shattered like the shards of a crushed mirror; he struggles with his past, must ...

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind. They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation. All the test subjects went violently insane. But the research continued. Today it has been perfected. Almost perfected.

Step into the madness… My name is Samantha. In theory, or Hebrew or even Aramaic it means “God heard” or “Listener.” Epic, really, considering I’ve never believed in God and that I’d rather poke my ear drums out with dull spoons than listen to the daily yammering around this place. I’ve never been a listener. Truth is, I take after my mother, who’d also rather be on stage. I guess that comes natural when you grow up as a side show act in a freaky-assed carnival. But I’m getting ahead of myself. People call me Cat, and, yes, with a C, not a K. Cat as in feline. Of course,...

A twist on an old saying...

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 ...

Hearken, O seeker of mysteries, to a tome of shadows and dread portent! Within these hallowed pages lie sixty and six harrowing tales, each a journey into the abyss of human desire and the perils that await therein. Set amidst the fog-laden landscapes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these narratives chronicle the fateful deeds of those who dared to invoke the mighty spirits of the Ars Goetia through the sacred tongue of the Enochian chants. Boldly do these stories unveil the souls who, in their pursuit of power, love, vengeance, or forbidden knowledge, summoned entities whose ...

Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there. But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost . . . until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland.

One phone call, five words, and I’m back in the town I swore I’d never return to. Going home was never part of the plan, but when my dad calls because he needs help to solve a murder, I can’t say no. Running into the three men I thought I would spend my entire life with has me questioning why I ever picked up the phone.

In their freshman year at Husher University, inseparable friends Teagan and Harley embark on a new chapter of their lives. The excitement takes a chilling turn when Harley mysteriously disappears during rush week, leaving Teagan desperate to find her. Teagan's relentless pursuit of the truth leads her into the depths of a malevolent mystery, unearthing the disturbing secrets of other missing girls from Husher University.

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.

Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back - though the price will be bloody and terrible...and there will certainly be hell to pay.

This is where the lost go. There are hidden places in our world where both the strange and the evil lurk. Few discover them, and even fewer escape with their lives. Some turn the wrong corner or walk through the wrong door and are never seen again. Jake Adler was only supposed to be in hospital a few days for a routine operation, then he should have been home, recovering, ready to go back to work at the burger restaurant in a week. It should have been that simple, but things didn’t turn out that way. What Jake thought were nightmares have turned out to be real, and the ghostly man talking...

Lena Hearst never believed in ghosts—until the house started whispering her name. Drawn to a decaying farmhouse, Lena finds more than a family secret. Beneath the floorboards, something stirs—an ancient presence bound by blood, memory, and unfinished rituals. The deeper she digs, the more the house bends around her… and the harder it becomes to leave. The spiral is calling. The name has been written. And something is waiting to wear her skin. Some echoes aren’t warnings. They’re invitations.

For Lee Harris and his cohorts, it was meant to be a simple holdup; the kind of robbery they'd done many times before. Go in, scare a few people, and get away with the money. A piece of cake, with nobody being harmed. But when the job goes bad and a man winds up dead, they soon find themselves on the run with the Rozzers hot on their tail. With little choice but to lie low for a while, Lee soon fetches up at a safe house far from prying eyes. But the small cottage tucked away in the back of beyond soon proves anything but a sanctuary. For Lee, it is the beginning of five days and five ...

Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves. Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events.

Sherlock Holmes at his finest in... Twelve short stories that plunge... into the mind of Sherlock Holmes. Each case provokes a new emotion. Each story dives deeper into the mysterious Baker Street Universe. A realm that is parallel to ours in another universe. A world where anything is possible. A place where anything can happen. And often does! That needs a smart man, a clever detective to solve crimes… That lurk in the darker regions of a Victorian London… Where monsters and mad men dwell.

Middle age can be murder.... At least that's how it seems to former crime journalist Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect: She sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian, who insists Willa solve her murder.

24/7 Demon Mart: Publisher's Pack features two books from the 24/7 Demon Mart series: The Graveyard Shift, book one, and Monster Burger, book two. It also includes the bonus Hell for the Holidays, a 24/7 Demon Mart Christmas special. Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. So clueless, that he doesn't even realize the beer cave in the corner store where he works is the gateway to hell.