Paranormal Mystery Short Story

When haute couture meets cold-blooded murder... Lena Montgomery's quiet home has been transformed into fashion central as she hosts an exclusive runway show featuring some of the industry's biggest names. With her quick-witted grandmother and loyal friend Charlie by her side, she's prepared for the usual drama that comes with corralling high-maintenance designers and models. But when renowned fashion designer Maggie St. Clair is found strangled with her own signature scarf moments before the show, Lena's event transforms from a celebration of style to a gathering of suspects. Between bitter...

Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories—and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul.

Leader of the Underworld Halloween LaVeau is attending an award ceremony. Brothers Liam and Nicolas have been nominated for Coven Leader of the Year. Things take a strange turn when ghosts and magic collide during the ceremony. There will be no awards given out if Halloween doesn’t gain control of the event.Previously published in the Spell of the Ball anthology.

There has never been a hunt that Dorian has lost. With his sights sent on a relic the Dragon Kings need to battle an ancient foe, he won’t let anything stand in his way - especially not the beautiful owner. Alexandra is smart and cautious. Yet the attraction between them is impossible to deny - or ignore. In his arms, Alexandra finds passion like no other - and a love that will transcend time. But can she give her heart to a dragon?

After a near-fatal adventure in another world—a world of dragons, no less—Samantha Moon is ready for her first real vacation in nearly a decade. With a little money in her pocket from the sale of a mansion left to her by her vampire sire, Sam sets her sights on a whirlwind European tour. First stop: Ireland. When a dark shadow races across her hotel suite, followed by something evil watching her son from a suit of armor, Samantha Moon is about to discover that her trip to the Emerald Isle is going to be anything but relaxing... it's going to get deadly. After all, something wicked has ...

A Vet and a Shifter... A match maybe in heaven? ... or in the other place... Can this unlikely shifter and veterinarian pair find a way to team up to rescue the strays, thwart the witches, and save the town before they kill each other first? Jeanine Lourdes knows one thing for sure - she can’t stand Bo Kent. And now, to help the animals she has always protected, she is stuck working with him. She can handle the way he looks at her, but the worst part are the feelings he gives her… feelings she would rather ignore. She can smell trouble a mile away. God knows she has had enough of it in ...

A collection of thrilling tales from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by one of horror's biggest legends, this volume contains the very best of Brian Lumley's Mythos short stories.

It's the holidays, and Samantha Moon and her family are ready to get together and celebrate. No, they may not be your average family, but the love is just as real. It's two days before the big Thanksgiving meal when Sam receives a most unusual guest. Unusual because she hasn't seen her brother, Clayton, in twenty years. Turns out, he isn't just here for the pumpkin pies and yams. He's got a problem. He's been cursed and thinks his little sister is his best chance to fix it. With pie baking put on hold, Sam and company set out to break his curse, locate a kidnapped baby, and save the day. ...

A skeletal demon stalks a Louisiana golf course. A groundskeeper's job—and life—hang in the balance. Only faith can survive what teenagers have unleashed. When Salty calls Holy Lake Investigation about violent supernatural attacks terrorizing his maintenance crew at Court Villa Country Club, Catholic-sanctioned paranormal investigators Hibbs and Ling expect another routine blessing. Instead, they discover a malevolent demon feeding on guilt and growing stronger each night—summoned by local teenagers using an ancient bone wand hidden in the building's walls. Armed with blessed weapons,...

This bundle includes books 4-6 in the Hex Files series, a fast-paced paranormal mystery series with a kickass heroine, hilarious sidekicks, and an immersive world that will pull you in faster than you can say pizza: Wicked Moon Rising, Wicked All The Way, and Wicked Twist of Fate.

Ivy Morgan and Jack Harker have been through the worst the world has to throw at them…and they’ve come out stronger and more in love on the other side. They’ve finally reached their happily ever after. They just have a few mysteries to survive before they embrace the big finale. This three-book omnibus includes: Wicked Honeymoon, Wicked Whispers, and Wicked Forever.

As a graduation present for her daughter, Tammy, Samantha Moon and the gang head down to South America for the vacation of all vacations. Next stop: Peru and the Nazca Lines The massive hieroglyphs carved into the soil of the Nazca desert in Peru have perplexed archaeologists for decades; after all, the glyphs can only be truly appreciated from high above. When Sam and her magical crew arrive in the desert for a sightseeing trip, they have every intention of exploring the famous animal figures etched into the sand. But when a little bit of magic is used by Tammy, the spell sets off a ...

Middle-aged Meredith’s husband is getting on her last nerve! Suddenly being an empty nester and getting a mysterious postcard has left her wondering what’s next for her. But, it’s hard to focus on her own troubles when something weird is going on next door. Is her latest bad dream a clue to follow or just the result of too much Law & Order?Note: This is a short story prequel to Brownies & Betrayal in the Merryville Mystery series. This story stands alone and can be read before or after other books in the series.

Featuring New York Times best-selling authors Jim Butcher and Simon R. Green, and national best-selling authors Kat Richardson and Thomas E. Sniegoski, Mean Streets offers four novellas from the hottest names in contemporary paranormal suspense. Running the gamut from demons and werewolves to zombies and black magic, these whodunits crackle with otherworldly secrets, making for a noir collection with an extra set of fangs.

Another beautiful collection of Poems & Short Stories from Award Winning Author Robert E. Kearns (1st Place 2019 Pencraft Awards for Hy Brasil: Island of Eternity) With Poems & Short Stories volume 2, Kearns gives us a further edition of his thought provoking poetry along with several of his highly entertaining short stories. If prose and poetry are your thing, this is the book for you.

Get ready for three more incredible tales in The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries. Max, Sandra, and Drummond are back. After the war between the Mobleys and the Magi, a power void has been formed. An ancient cult now resurfaces to fill that void. And with it comes new ghosts, new witches, and new magic. But that would be too easy. Max’s family has plenty of troubles as the Sandwich Boys mature, Max’s mother falls ill, and Drummond may be lost forever. You won’t want to miss a single moment in the series that blends real history with ghosts, witches, curses, and more.

Detective Paige Whiskey is about to set off on a path that will change the course of her family’s lives forever. The Whiskeys are a powerful family in the paranormal community, but there’s a lot they don’t know. As they blunder down their path of discovery, they find shape-shifters, vampires, and much more that falls in their wheelhouse. The old days of witchcraft and demons is disappearing fast. By helping others, they're re-opening a war between witches and shifters. Do they help the shifters? Or prevent a war?

Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them and along with her business partners Teag, who has Weaver magic, and Sorren, a 600-year-old vampire, they get rid of cursed objects and keep Charleston and the world safe from supernatural threats.

The fourth volume in the Max Porter Paranormal Mystery collection is here and it’s explosive! New allies, new foes, and a rivalry centuries in the making all come to a head in one fantastic showdown. And if that wasn’t enough, Max’s family faces its toughest challenge yet, one that threatens to tear away the Sandwich Boys just as they’re settling in. It’s all here and much, much more!

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!