Survival Horror

USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates presents the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels. With fast-paced plots and stunning twists, these stories offer close to 1,000 pages of heart-racing suspense, action, and terror from one of today's most exciting voices in horror. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over ...

You’re not on top of the food chain. Not out here. Mauled delivers 15 gut-wrenching accounts of humans hunted, cornered, and torn apart by nature’s most savage predators. Bears. Lions. Wolves. Hyenas. These aren’t stories with happy endings—they’re warnings. If you think you're prepared, think again. When it happens, it happens fast.

Captain Ray Brunner cherishes the salt-crusted silence of the open water, a sanctuary from the world. But his sanctuary is violated when a group of rowdy, entitled college students step aboard his whale-watching vessel, the Jersey Blue. Their only interest in the ocean is as a backdrop for their drunken escapades, and their disrespect for the sea is a palpable insult. A single, reckless act of drunken arrogance shatters the ocean's peace. A monstrous thud echoes through the hull as the students' carelessness leads to a senseless and unforgivable tragedy—the death of a baby whale. Their ...

Nature doesn’t need a motive. It just needs a moment. Animal Attacks – GORE! delivers fifteen of the most blood-chilling real-life accounts of humans being mauled, torn, swallowed, and savaged by the wild. From shark-infested waters to bear-haunted campsites, these are immersive, narrative-driven true stories of survival, terror, and the raw fury of the animal kingdom. James Calloway plunges you into each scene with cinematic detail and emotional depth. Whether it’s a grizzly’s final charge, a killer whale’s lethal strike, or the eyes of a tiger locked onto its prey — these ...

They paid a fortune to hunt a legend. But the ultimate prize is their lives. A remote lodge in an untouched wilderness. An invitation-only symposium for the world's most powerful men. A conservation consultant, Samantha Goss, believes she's been hired to help a billionaire establish a legacy of ecological stewardship. She was wrong. The Starlight Creek Preserve isn't a sanctuary; it's a high-tech fortress designed for a blood sport beyond imagination. The guests are not philanthropists; they are apex predators from the worlds of finance and industry, gathered to hunt the ultimate prize: a ...

She took the job to save her family. Now she has to survive the night. Leah, a desperate registered nurse on the verge of losing her family home, accepts a high-paying, last-minute assignment that seems too good to be true. The job: provide round-the-clock care for a reclusive, elderly man in a decaying Gothic mansion miles from civilization. The rules are simple. Stay inside after dusk. Never unlock the cellar. And never, ever miss a dose of the patient’s "medication." But as the full moon approaches, Leah realizes her patient isn't just sick. His affliction is older, darker, and more ...

When my best friend and the only person who knows who - and what - I really am gets selected for the Mating Games, I know the only way to save her is to try and win her for myself. All I need to do is navigate three trials while not letting anyone know I'm a woman, or, and this might be even more important, that I have magic. Easy, right? Easier than slaving away for all hours of the day swinging an ax in the mines. Or so I thought. I certainly didn't count on the one man I've longed for, the one man who stirs feelings of femininity and desire within me, to enter the games as well.

A Lost Colony's Terrifying Secret. A shipload of English souls arrives on a wild, untouched shore, dreaming of building a New Eden. Led by Governor John White, they are determined to carve a civilization from the immense, silent wilderness. But the continent was never theirs to claim. The first warning is a single, impossible footprint in the sand—a mark left by a creature of immense size and power. Soon, the colonists’ confident pride curdles into a thick gruel of anxiety as the woods begin to watch them with a deep and abiding patience. When the sun sets, the true owners of this land ...

The Centerian Empire collapsed on the very day Marine XT officer Che Tsang arrived on Center, the empire’s homeworld, expecting a well-earned leave. Instead of rest and recuperation, he found chaos, betrayal, and a nightmare beyond imagination. His welcome was anything but warm—an old friend who owed him his life repaid the debt with hostility. Before Che could even process the encounter, new orders arrived: forget shore leave, report to another ship immediately. Seeing the world around him descend into madness—civilians and soldiers alike turning on each other with savage hunger—he...

Have you ever felt the chill of unseen eyes upon you, the prickle of ancient fear when the woods fall silent? When the full moon swells and casts its pale, eerie glow, the world you know recedes. The boundary between man and monster blurs, and the oldest, most terrifying legends step out from the shadows. Prepare to be gripped by Werewolves: Horror Stories, a harrowing collection of FIFTEEN original tales designed to sink their teeth into your deepest anxieties. This isn't just about fangs and fur; it's about the crushing weight of isolation, the heart-stopping terror of the hunt, and the ...

Pristine beaches, lush greenery, and perfect weather, the island of Kisapmata would be the vacation destination…if not for the curse. The Filipino locals speak of it in hushed voices and refuse to step foot on the island. They know the lives it has claimed. They won’t be next. A Hollywood film crew won’t be dissuaded. Legend claims a Dreamer god sleeps, waiting to grant unimaginable powers in exchange for eight sacrifices. The producers are determined to document the evidence. And they convince Alon, a local teen, to be their guide.

The Sanctuary Holds More Than Just Guardians. It Holds the Key to Annihilation. Dr. Elise Holloway survived AO Hollow. She survived Kestrel's pursuit. But surviving the impossible truth she now carries may be the deadliest challenge yet. Plunged back into the terrifying depths of the Stick-shíʼnač sanctuary after a catastrophic confrontation, Elise is injured, grieving, and desperately alone, save for a reluctant, captive scientist. But Kestrel knows she's alive. They know she possesses the final research of rogue scientist Aris Thorne—secrets of the powerful Resonance field, the ...

A soldier gets caught off from his platoon in the middle of a foreboding jungle. Before long, he encounters a dinosaur after venturing into a canyon. He is never seen alive again. Forty-five years later, Brendan and Ashley become familiar with the stories about the unchartered island. They go cruising on a boat, and decide to venture through the island, convincing themselves that as long as they don't go too deep into the jungle, they'll be okay. But after encountering and nearly being killed by a dinosaur, they end up losing their path that leads back to the shoreline. Now they must wander...

If it knocks four times -- don’t answer. When Liam inherits his late uncle’s remote hunting cabin deep in the Ridge 9 backwoods, he expects quiet isolation — not claw marks on trees, not torn-up trail cams, and certainly not a journal filled with paranoid ramblings about "four knocks" in the night. But the deeper Liam digs into his uncle’s final days, the more disturbing the entries become — detailing a presence that circles the cabin, leaves no tracks, and never comes in… unless you open the door. Now snowed in, with no way to contact the outside world, Liam finds himself alone...

In the near future, reanimated by the accidental release of an illegally created bioweapon, the recent dead, hungry for human flesh, have driven humanity to the brink of destruction. Aided by an insane cult that believes the living dead are the harbingers of a new world, a dead world, can humanity survive? The first volume in the Enclave series, this depicts humanity at its best and worst in a battle for domination of the earth.

Some thought they were prepared, but to be prepared, you first had to know what it was you were preparing for. No sane person would ever prepare for something that could never occur. When the Zombie Apocalypse came, by the time anyone figured out what was happening, it was too late. It was already over. People were at first confused, they thought it was a joke. When they began to realize this was for real, they had already lost any chance they had to stop it. When the masses of the dead began to double in size every hour, there was just no way to stop them. Many people weren’t even aware ...

🔥 Revised & Reloaded – May18th 2025 Update This version of Book 3 has been fully edited and tightened to deliver the sharpest, cleanest read yet. Previous reviews refer to the original edition. The Hunted Become the Hunters... But What They Find Might Be Worse. Dr. Elise Holloway and the broken remnants of her team survived the horrors of Site Sierra, but escape is only the beginning. Hunted by the ruthless Kestrel organization and stalked by unseen forces within the ancient forests, their only hope lies with Dr. Aris Thorne—a brilliant, perhaps unstable, scientist hiding secrets ...

One last night of forbidden fun in a closed-down amusement park quickly turns to terror. Something monstrous stalks the shadowy rides, and it's hunting them. Fresh off their summer jobs, a group of park employees decides to give the season a rebellious send-off: an after-hours, all-access night to themselves in the sprawling amusement park. They know the shortcuts, the security blind spots, and where the keys are hidden. What starts as a thrilling escapade soon spirals into a desperate nightmare. The first sign that something is terribly wrong is the iconic Ferris wheel groaning to life on ...

No one knew how it began. The world fell in just a few weeks. Some people survived. Some decided to live.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE Clayton is a small island community cut off from the mainland. They keep to themselves and they like it that way. As far as the locals are concerned there are Islanders and there are Mainlanders. But the locals don't quite have the island all to themselves. Depending on who you talk to on the island The chosen Order of the Nine Divines are either a peaceful religious order or a dangerous cult. Solomon Abel had been the Father to the order, Known locally as The Niners, for his ...