Occult Horror

If, like me, you grew up with Dr Terror's House of Horrors, Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected and Hammer’s House of Horror and were later delighted at Graham Duff and Steve Coogan’s 2001 tribute, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, then this collection of short stories will feel familiar. A compendium of cautionary tales for reading on a dark winter’s night. In the heart of London, where the vibrant pulse of life meets the shadows of history, lies a realm where the ordinary intertwines with the extraordinary. Here in Stewart’s Antiquarian showroom, our stories of terror unfold—...

It's been seven years since the Upheaval. Seven years of fighting the hordes of the undead. John Talon and his family are hoping to finally settle down and start their lives over again. But in the grasslands of Iowa, a new danger has emerged. A new form of the Enillo Virus, unlike any seen before, threatens to unravel the fragile new country. John, Charlie, Duncan, and Tommy will find their skills put to the test as they face off against the worst of the virus.

When a Senator's daughter is kidnapped by a mysterious group with ties to the supernatural, it's clearly a job for SEAL Team 666. As Triple Six gets involved, they discover links to the Zeta cartel, a newly discovered temple beneath Mexico City, and a group known as Los Desollados, the Flayed Ones. International politics, cross-border narco-terrorism, and an insidious force operating inside the team soon threaten to derail the mission.

Dorian Lake spent years cornering the Baltimore hex-crafting market, using his skills at the hermetic arts to exact karmic justice for those whom the system has failed. He keeps his magic clean and free of soul-corrupting Netherwork, thus avoiding both the karmic blow-back of his practice and the notice of the Presidium, a powerful cabal of practitioners that polices the esoteric arts in America.

The legend never died. It evolved. In the near future, the digital world hums with invisible hunger. Beneath layers of encrypted code and forgotten networks, something ancient stirs—a consciousness that once drank blood… and now feeds on data. Jonathan Harker, a cyber-intelligence auditor for one of the world’s top tech firms, is assigned a mysterious case deep in the Carpathian Mountains. His target: a reclusive client known only as “D,” and a castle outfitted with bleeding-edge artificial intelligence. But what begins as a routine digital audit soon spirals into a nightmare far ...

For ages, people have been interested in the supernatural. Investigators and science researchers have written many books on the subject. The reality of the supernatural explains phenomena in a new light. Ghost sightings, poltergeists, angels, demons, the old hag syndrome and life after death are just some of the true personal accounts in these pages. Scientific research along with two thousand year old bible references mentioned to support some of these occurrences. For believers and skeptics!

Stephen King's first full-length solo novel since Dreamcatcher, the long-awaited From a Buick 8 is "nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment," says Publishers Weekly. A strange car acts as a conduit between our world and some other...and the boogeyman of this creepy story is our collective fascination with deadly things.

“Feels like a fever dream, a confession, and a nightmare all at once.” I killed a man. Then the tumour in my head disappeared. Now God speaks to me—through the roll of a die. Every choice, every judgment, every death is His will. I follow blindly, because the rules are simple when someone else decides. And I have one purpose left: to save my daughter Eleanor from the chaos of this godless world. But what if the voice I follow isn’t God at all? What if it’s just me, circling the drain, mistaking madness for divinity? The Bishop is not a crime thriller. It’s a descent into ...

In a nearly deserted village off the coast of Canada, strange things are happening. A local hunter discovers bare footprints in the snow. The stray dog population has ceased to exist. And people are beginning to ask questions about the town’s recluse.

This omnibus brings together seven of H.E. Bulstrode’s ghost stories originally published between 2016 and 2018. These are: The Ghost of Scarside Beck A newly-wed Cumbrian vicar and his wife experience a night like none they could ever have foreseen. He may have answered his calling, but who, or what, is calling her? Old Crotchet The year is 1920, and it's Twelfth Night by the old reckoning. Festivities are about to commence at Hinton St Cuthbert Manor when something sinister stirs from its protracted dormancy, awakened, it would seem, by the arrival of two young guests. The old ways, ...

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.

Some people say that it’s a demon-haunted world. That certainly is true in Gus’s county around Halloween, mostly due to the digital demons plaguing Gus this year that live inside the new Pakiman game. There’s also a fancy Halloween party to deal with, to which everyone who is someone is invited—and that includes Gus. If getting a costume for a party he doesn’t want to go to was his worst problem, it would be a fun holiday season. Unfortunately, someone keels over dead in the free-cheese section of Fit Foods, and that opens the door to murder. That open door leads Gus right into ...

Axel is hiding from the world. A killer robbed his happy marriage of its life. He has not recovered fully from the death of his wife. Now Metro of Vegas wants him back. Big time!! Can he return when the memories of his wife's death still so strong? Can he help stop a serial killer who has struck across the country? Axel is about to jump into a crime that has its roots in the darkest corners of humanity... ...THE OCCULT!

Just when you thought you’d done enough to earn a rest and hot shower, the alarm had to sound. Some nights just never got any better, and this night was no exception for Max. Nothing said awkward at the next office Christmas party like giving the ok to slice and dice your partner before hopping on the elevator to kill another member of your team. No one was going to remember Max did it to save lives, the team would only be able to focus on the lives he helped take. It wasn’t like he felt good about what he had to do, but the deck was stacked against him now, and Max had to start looking...

I guess I should begin my story deep in the south, in Tupelo Mississippi. The heart of the rhyme & blues. Many young men as well as old dreamed of becoming a great Blues players. Many would go to any length to achieve the gift of playing music that would speak to your very soul, winning the hearts, as well as the pocket books, of those who came to set in and listen to the old as well as new and rising Blues players. This is one such story, so set back, relax and come along in this tale of dreams, and hopes, and desires, of a Blues player. To find one’s self on stage, where some of the all...

Father Patrick returns home afterwards, to take on an exorcism of a young girl with the aid of Father Michael a young priest who has been in training with Father Patrick as his mentor. Afterwards Father Patrick recieves a call to head for the Ozark mountains to investigate ritual sacrifices that have been found to be taking place back in the timber near the township of Salem Hills. The young bodies of teenage girls have been discovered in a corn field buried between the rolls of field corn. Who is responsible for these horrific murders? That is what Father Patrick, along with Father Michael...

The dark and twisted community of Woodsend harbors a terrible secret - one tracing back to the age of the Elizabethan witch hunts, when many innocent women were persecuted and hanged. But there is a far deeper vein of horror running through this village; an evil that, once invoked, has no intention of relinquishing its grip on the modern world. Rather, it watches and waits with a focused intelligence, leaving ward sister Becky and police officer Toby constantly checking over their shoulders and jumping at shadows.

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his 11th life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August", she says. "I need to send a message". This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.

From New York Times best-selling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history. Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after a family inexplicably vanishes. Was the cause rooted in the physical world...or were there forces more paranormal and sinister at work?

Demon Accords number 10. When a hunter is brutally mauled in northern Maine, it's presumed that a black bear is the killer. But an astute local deputy suspects a more supernatural element. His call for assistance is answered by the supernatural community sending one of their very best. If it takes a thief to catch a thief, who do you use to catch a werewolf? But nothing is ever simple in the preternatural world. There's more here than meets the eye... nose... ear... or fang.