Occult Horror

One June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her?

After surviving the destruction of Chaenbalu, new mysteries and greater threats await Annev and his friends in the capital city of Luqura. As they navigate the city’s perilous streets, Annev searches for a way to control his nascent magic and remove the cursed artifact now fused to his body. But what might removing it cost him?

Something Goes Bump In the Night… Short-short spooky stories about different encounters with apparitions in different situations and settings. Some are based on true accounts; others may be embellished by the tellers–But all are unsettling if not outright scary! 25 First Person Ghost Story Shorts, Quick Reads That Offer a Little Spooky Chill… Thank you to everyone who agreed to allow me to include their story.

Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades. 1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures. Despite whispers that the women are witches, the superstitious locals still seek them out, whether to remedy arthritis or a broken heart. But when evangelist Josiah Bellflower comes to town promising miracle healing, full bellies, and prosperity, his revivals soon hold Tin Mountain in thrall—and Granny in abject fear. Granny recognizes Josiah.

Silent Night. Not Calm. Not Bright. Reggie was alone for Christmas. He liked it that way. But when he goes to a secluded cabin in the woods, he encounters something sinister among the trees. A strange red velvet sack waits for him along his hiking path. Inside is the gift of terror. Soon, Reggie finds himself thrust into a bizarre and horrifying world where the trappings of Christmas are deadly perversions of what he's always known. The only question is: will he escape with his life, or will he become fuel for a dark entity's fire and sustenance for its meal? Walking in a Winter Terrorland ...

Years of brutal combat and a never-ending battle against supernatural evil have taken a heavy toll on Shane Ryan. Now, as he searches for the man responsible for the recent thefts of haunted objects in New England, he finds himself wondering if the world would be better off without him....

From The Ashes- Book Five in the Psychic Sisters series. Sequel to The Doll. With the destruction of Margaret, her coven and more importantly the doll Queenie was looking forward to a well earned rest but her peace was rudely shattered by a visit from a distraught Paul Goodfellow, the local vicar. Tamar, her arch enemy, had been the victim of a vicious attack shortly after their visit to her cottage and as a result was now in a coma. A reluctant visit to her sick bed leads Queenie and Sybil on an urgent quest to find Tamar’s library of ancient occult manuscripts. They found the answer ...

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...

Joe goes to work as a carnie for a week and meets worldly carnies: Carlos, a young man looking for trouble; Lady Fortuna, a guilt ridden old fortune teller; Pinda, a self assured young woman he thinks he might want to run off to see the world with; and Miss Toulon, who decided where to place the glass maze having been told in no uncertain terms by loud voices in her head. But Lisa, who has also just graduated from Joe's high school, shows up. She's no longer a shy stranger and Joe falls for her too, even though choosing her would mean staying on the farm. Strange things happen and there are...

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 ...

She is a housewife: young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor: charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home, a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin, where terror is as near as your new neighbors and where evil wears the most innocent face of all.

Psychic photographer Jocelyn Graves is back! From M. L. Bullock, author of the Gulf Coast Paranormal series, comes another gripping tale of supernatural mystery and peril. In this installment of the Jocelyn Graves series, paranormal investigator Jocelyn Graves takes on one of her most dangerous cases yet—a haunted bridge nestled deep within a national park, where strange disappearances have plagued the area for years. Locals report sightings of a mysterious cryptid lurking in the shadows, and some even whisper of a shapeshifter that takes the form of an eerie owl. When a little boy ...

Detlef Sierck, the self-proclaimed greatest playwright in the world, has declared that his next production will be a recreation of the end of the Great Enchanter Drachenfels - to be staged at the very site of his death, the Fortress of Drachenfels itself. But the castle's dark walls still hide a terrible secret which may make the opening night an evening to remember!

Sometimes...evil can be good. The story as revealed on a mysterious clay tablet discovered recently near the Dead Sea. The fate of the Kingdom of Babylonia hangs by a gossamer thread. The Babylonian gods are in a cataclysmic struggle with the Jewish god; King Nebuchadnezzar has become a savage beast; murderous traitors surround Queen Amytis and her children; and evil creatures prowl the streets at night. The high priestess of Marduk prays for a saviour to deliver the city from evil. Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Underworld, hears her entreaties and searches through time for a dark champion. ...

If you enjoyed Scream, Halloweed, and Insidious, you'll love In Sight The lone survivor of a vicious serial killer who claimed the lives of thirty-one women, including her sister. But what the movies don’t show is that the Final Girl doesn’t get to live happily ever after. Scarred both physically and mentally, she is haunted by memories that her prescriptions can’t suppress. That can’t be washed away with whiskey. But what haunts her, even more, are the things she can’t remember. Cory tries to force herself to live her life. To live on her own. To be strong in public. To connect ...

A wrong turn leads to a wretched house. But when darkness speaks, will the dead voices save her from the scruples of a demonic foe? New South Wales, Australia. When Clarisse travels down an unfamiliar road, she finds herself standing in front of Baron House, a reclusive mansion perched atop a hill overlooking Ghost Gully. Once owned by the sinister Aldous Baron, a rogue hypnotherapist who conducted experiments to converse with the dead. The house contains a mysterious room that promises to unlock a spiritual dimension that Clarisse is determined to investigate. With the unseen dangers ...

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.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

“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 ...

A collection of six new ghost stories woven from the fabric of England’s dark dreaming. The Orangery Wooed by a Georgian gentleman of taste, a young bride-to-be finds that all is not as it appears at her fiancé’s elegant Gaddesbury estate. There is a whiff of corruption at its heart which, for all his acid wit and fashionable acquaintance, grows ever stronger, until . . . Her Master’s Call Temesforde. Such a peaceful Shropshire parish. And yet, what a pity about the vicar. What did he know? How could he have known? The Reverend Ruth More knows nothing of it when she arrives to start ...