Supernatural Short Stories

- A henpecked husband makes a stand against his surly wife.- Is a mysterious stain on the ceiling of a prison cell a product of the inmate's imagination or something more sinister?- A woman trapped in a loveless marriage finds magic in a gift from a friend.- Something is alive in the outhouse…- A young boy longs to venture beyond the walls of his post-apocalyptic city, until he learns the terrifying truth about what’s out there.- A terminally ill teen’s forbidden love affair turns tragic.- A young witch and her talking dog are tasked with ridding their home of unwanted guests. Magic ...

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor In this searing, scorching, sopping wet journey into the supernatural criminal underworld, a woman working at a prison learns what it takes to achieve full release from the confines of her prior reality. This 8,000-Word sexy story is chock full of amazing action and torrid, lusty storytelling by one of the best paranormal writers around!

Hunter of the Light Series: Book 6 of 15 Will Rachel's life ever feel normal again? Rachel thought her life was finally getting some normalcy after the harrowing feats of exposing the founding family of their horrific crimes against the children. She was wrong. Rachel befriends a teenager she rescued and realizes they have a lot in common. Rachel and Adam also reconnect with a founding member imprisoned for murder. Death still lurks around the corner and creeps into her sleep, her visions and her town. Fog, dread, terror … and she must face it head-on.

Are Rachel’s visions making their way into the real world? Rachel and Adam know the name of the dead girl that showed up on Rachel’s porch. Information from her family leads them down a terrifying path, where the terrors of Rachel’s visions now seem to be a part of the real world. How will Adam deal with what he has seen? Will this bring him closer to Rachel?Maya struggles with life away from the Founding Family and is quickly introduced to the murky waters of morality, so dark that she ends up with blood on her hands. Death will finally have the soul it has been promised.

Hunter of The Light Series: Book 10 of 15 The end was near, or so they thought. But how does one defeat death? Patel comes to their rescue, but she has an ulterior motive, and Rachel isn’t sure she can be trusted. What does the woman want with the fog, and what is her obsession with death? Maya, while trying to help Rachel and Adam, is tossed into a world where she has no instruments to navigate. Where is she, and what could they possibly want from her? Could this be a blessing or a curse?

Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord, for God so loved the world, that he sent his only begotten daughter, Candice…She hasn’t spoken to him since. On her 28th birthday, Jesus and Satan sit down with their militant baby sister, Candice, still not pleased she was drafted into the family business and determined to carve out her own niche in the firmament.

While renovating her Victorian home, Ana Clementine finds an ornate door buried under forty years of earth. Once she restores it to the attic, she starts hearing whispers, her loving husband has become a stranger, and her baby daughter learns a chilling new word. Maybe Ana has unlocked the house’s secrets. Or maybe she’s becoming just a little unhinged herself.

Governed by Whimsy: The Anthology is a collection of short stories set in Forthright's Amaranthine universe. Before the Emergence, the clans were nothing more than whispers and mysteries and legends and lore. But every so often - in out-of-the-way places or shockingly close to home - an unsuspecting person stumbled into a fateful encounter with someone who was decidedly other.

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this short story by Philip K. Dick takes us where the powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended - but not quite. For out of the countryside, came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world's oldest and newest methods of survival, promised a new and superior type of mankind.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor This steamy 12,000-word actioner lays it on heavy with thick scenes that are sure to make the juices bubble. Laura is just a small-town girl. One day she has a ganging experience and sees a coyote watching all the action. Later, the rodeo rolls in, and so does a nomad who might as well have ALPHA tattooed on his forehead. Hungry for more adventure, Laura has a lot of first times in this yarn!

Embark on a journey where love defies the boundaries of the living and the dead, and mystery shrouds every corner. Step into the captivating worlds of Wandering Spirits I and II, where romance, danger, and the supernatural collide in ten mesmerizing tales. From unraveling decades-old murders to striking deals with the devil, each story promises to keep you on the edge of your seat. Meet Lana, Laura, Rianna, Stacey, Peter, Brace, and Riley—characters whose lives intertwine with the paranormal in ways they never imagined. From private investigators unraveling chilling mysteries to grieving ...

Far, far away, a very long way from here, in the Halfling hamlet of Pondaroak, you’ll find an Inn named the Swindle & Swine. Elina Hogsbreath, the inn’s proprietor, comes from a long line of hedge witches — she learned the craft from her mother, who had learned it from her mother, tracing back generations. Stay for a spell. Come wolves, worgs, or worms, Elina will serve you right. This anthology contains five previously published stories: A Thyme of Trouble The Keening Cup The Magnificent Marion Maloney Midnight Tea The Song at Harvest’s End And one story totally unique to this ...

Beyond the Sands of Chaos! The darkness they thought they'd buried is rising again... When a vampiric bat interrupts an ambassador's Christmas celebration, sibling archaeologists Lillian and Jack Stiller know their nightmare is far from over. The creature's origins lead them back to the tomb of Dina, the ancient Egyptian goddess they thought they'd defeated. As they brave the unforgiving desert and unravel the tomb's secrets, they're met with a sinister new threat: the Germans, driven by an insatiable hunger for dark magic. The Stillers, joined by Roy Sawyer, must save themselves before the...

A sinister force threatens a teenage horror fan, and only a team of B movie monsters can come to his rescue. Fear stalks a group of punks when a scarecrow proves that birds aren’t the only things it can terrorize. And all hell breaks loose when a man discovers that his next-door neighbor possesses the power to reanimate the dead... Celebrate the music of the night with Scare Street’s latest collection of diabolical horror. Thirteen tales of paranormal horror haunt this new volume. More than enough to keep you listening on long after the sun goes down.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!"~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!"~Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!"~G. Taylor In this 5,500-word searing, sizzling hot action paranormal erotic story, a married couple gets taken on a tour of booty after getting kidnapped by a dangerous criminal organization. Lena and Dan are on a honeymoon road trip when they decide to take a break from driving and have a little tryst on the side of the road. The next thing they know, the couple is being held captive, and the only thing that can save them is a mutant super-...

On the way home from a gym, Mary starts noticing a large man stalking her. Whenever she tells people about it, they mysteriously forget about it the next day. When her friend tries to help her catch this stalker, he gets kidnapped instead and a few minutes later, everyone forgets about him except her and two others. Mary and her friends found themselves involved in big political games and now they should take some responsibility and make things go right. This is book 4 of the "Surviving Destiny"

When Violet agrees to house-sit a forgotten chateau in the French countryside, she’s hoping to disappear: from her past, her mistakes, and the pain of heartbreak. Instead, she's pulled into the tragic mystery of Elias Lavelle, a hauntingly handsome World War II officer who died with a broken heart. As Violet unravels the tragic story behind the man, love blossoms between the living and the dead. But as she uncovers fragments of Elias’s past, she realizes he’s hiding a secret so devastating and unforgivable, it could shatter the fragile bond between them and doom his soul forever. What...

The sequel to the best-selling Zombie, Ohio, this explosive supernatural thriller from Scott Kenemore tells the story of three Chicagoans who have been thrown together by a bizarre, interconnected series of events during the first 24 hours of a zombie outbreak in the Midwest's largest city. A partnership is crafted between a pastor from Chicago's rough South Side, an intrepid newspaper reporter, and a young female musician, all of whom are fighting for survival as they struggle to protect themselves and their communities in a city overrun with the walking dead.

This Valentine's Day, dive into these happy-ever-after love stories. From RomCom to Second Chance to the supernatural, they'll give you warm, fuzzy feelings to get you through the holiday. Featuring 16 stories by the following authors: S.J. Walker, Robert Boyd, Trixie Nisbet, Michael Betancourt, Paul Lonardo, Marie Sylvia Winter, Rhiannon Bird, Diana Parrilla, Daniel DiQuinzio, Annie Snow, Katie Kent, Martha Patterson, Clara Ngu, Tony Duxbury, and Lexie Kauffman.

This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.