Occult Thriller

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet", King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

Some mirrors reflect your face. Others reflect your fate. When down-on-her-luck mortuary cosmetologist Lena Holloway inherits a decrepit flat on London’s forgotten Pearl Street, she thinks she’s found the perfect escape from a past full of ghosts. But beneath her floorboards is something older. Hungrier. Waiting. A hidden barbershop sealed since the 1800s. A string of pearls that whisper secrets. And a cursed razor known as the Crooked Blade—carved to cut not just flesh, but souls. As the boundary between mirrors and reality cracks, Lena is pulled into a supernatural spiral of ghostly...

Ghosts wreak havoc in the streets of Duck Falls, and Lilian Roth has gone underground, hiding in the Laramies' backyard bunker. With the town under military quarantine, the death toll continues to rise. And Hedgewood's massive infrasound array stands to wipe out every "ethereal" within its radius, Ben Laramie and his friends at the Temple among them. Setting the ethereals free from Ghostland was only the beginning for Rex Garrote. He's returned to the remains of his house to tear open the Dark Rift and unleash its nightmare creatures upon the world.

This collection includes What Vengeance Comes, Cold Sanctuary, and Crimson Deep.

They Never Left When disgraced journalist Rex Mallory returns to the small town of Whisper Ridge, he expects rust, rumors, and a few ghosts from his past. What he doesn’t expect is a missing woman, a mutilated corpse, and the burned remains of a notebook that points to decades of disappearances. As Mallory digs deeper, he uncovers chilling whispers of an abandoned asylum, a preacher with too many secrets, and a sheriff who doesn’t take kindly to questions. Every lead pulls him closer to a horrifying truth buried beneath the town’s sleepy surface—one the townspeople are willing to ...

In the heart of modern Paris, beneath the flickering gaslight of Rue Saint-Cyprien, there stands a building that refuses to die. Old stones breathe faintly there—exhaling dust and memory. Number 14 had once been a boarding house, then a sanatorium, then abandoned for years. Now, it was a quaint but eerie apartment building, the kind gentrifiers eyed and exorcists avoided. And on the top floor, under a rotting wooden attic, was the scene of the most bizarre murder Paris had seen in over a century. The survivors would speak of strange lights that flared without bulbs, of voices rising in ...

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 ...

After a harrowing otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive - only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. Proctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown....

A dark and sweeping adventure, Dreamcatcher is set in the haunted city of Derry - the site of Stephen King's It and Insomnia. In it, four young boys stand together and do a brave, good thing, an act that changes them in ways that they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, as grown men who have gone their separate ways, these friends come together once a year to hunt in the woods of Maine.

My name is Peter Grant, and I am a keeper of the secret flame - whatever that is. Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale, previously the last of England's wizardly governmental force, is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's apprentice. But even he doesn't have all the answers. Mostly I'm just a constable sworn to enforce the Queen’s Peace, with the occasional help from some unusual friends and a well-placed fire blast.

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.

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...

This shocking true story of an abducted child’s harrowing struggle for survival amidst a horrific Russian military program is a raw examination of the atrocities of war, the resilience of spirit, and the existence of the supernatural. When an unfamiliar hand grabbed Tina Soctoy by the shoulder in the woods near her home at age 6, she suddenly found herself far from her family, disoriented, and imprisoned in the house of a military operative. His mission was to turn her into a merciless weapon of war. Her mission was to survive. In horrifying detail, Soctoy recounts the terrifying ...

Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she’s inherited from generations of women before her—an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing but the devil at work. Mary’s benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary’s patients is found murdered, his body carved with strange symbols.

What wouldn't a young man do, to obtain a special gift, a special talent, that could virtually change his life over night? What would you be willing to give in exchange? What would be the price you'd be willing to pay to obtain it? Would you be willing to pay it? Would it be worth it ? Sometimes desperation, & poverty, can drive a young man to make desperate decisions, he normally would not make. The problem is, often times you find out to late, that maybe it was the worse mistake of your life, or was it? Come along & find out, in this supernatural thriller, a tale of dreams, Lust, and ...

"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find something that's both powerful and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore - who just happens to be Jewish - to shed some light on the mysterious happenings.

Bizarre New Orleans Death Ceremony Ends in Murder French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an bizarre death ceremony in a revamped Canal Street movie theater. The man gives Wyatt a bag of cash and a single clue: a solid gold Krewe of Rex, 1948 Mardi Gras doubloon. His only request is for Wyatt to find the person or persons who murdered his mother. The case isn't simply cold, it's 50-years old. When his client is shot dead on the way out the door, Wyatt must go into hiding, solve both murders, or suffer the same fate

Having just left a small town back in the Tennessee Mountains, Jonah was hitch hiking his way now through the Eastern part of Arkansas, there was a mountain town where some friends of his had moved to called Pine Falls. It had been years since he had visited, so he figured while he was on his way down south he would stop by and say hello to some old friends along the way. Jonah had told of how one night he had awoken to what he knew to be God Almighty's voice. This brilliant presence engulfed Jonah’s body, it was from that moment on he knew what his purpose in life was. To serve, and help...

In the shadowy recesses of Old Bedhampton lies a tale steeped in gothic horror, a chilling narrative that beckons to those daring enough to confront the darkness nestled within the grand Manor House. The Crimson Legacy intertwines the rich tapestry of history with the sinister threads of family secrets and ancient curses, inviting readers to traverse a landscape where whispers of the past echo in the silence of dust-laden halls. Lady Catherine Fairchild, the haunting matriarch, looms large over this tale, her Specter entwined with the sinister legacy of the Fairchilds. As the veil between ...

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.