Survival Horror

The Hunger Within Some places don’t just haunt you… they consume you. When seven teenage volunteers agree to spend one night inside the long-abandoned Saint Elora Hospital for a fundraiser, it sounds like a thrill. Just ghosts. Just darkness. Just a dare. But Saint Elora isn’t empty. It’s waiting. Room by room, the hospital begins to unravel their minds, feeding off their fears, exposing their secrets, and twisting their pasts into living nightmares. One by one, hallucinations turn into truth. Trust fractures. Reality blurs. And survival depends not just on making it out alive—but...

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...

They called it The Light. It wiped out most of humanity. Those who didn’t die were twisted into something else—feral, bloodthirsty, and unstoppable. Three years later, Cal Hershel roams the ruins, barely surviving the monsters, the slavers... and his own unraveling mind. Then comes Cassandra—a sharp, stubborn 14-year-old orphan who doesn’t fear him, even when she should. Together, they form a fragile alliance in a world that kills the weak and punishes the kind. But Cal is hiding something. Something worse than the creatures hunting them. And when Cassandra discovers the truth, ...

The old story is a lie. The real story is one of bone, blood, and fire. In a land ravaged by a plague-winter and relentless famine, Gretel and Hansel are abandoned in a forest that breathes with ancient malevolence. The familiar path of breadcrumbs leads not to safety, but to a deeper, more insidious darkness. Hunger is a monster, but it is not the only one that stalks these twisted woods. They find a cottage, but it is no haven of gingerbread and sweets. It is a cathedral of bone, mortared with bleeding darkness, presided over by an ancient witch whose evil is woven into the very fabric of...

In the aftermath of a devastating EMP attack orchestrated by a cabal of Iran and North Korea, America is descending into chaos. Cities have become fiefdoms, refugees flood the heartland, and suicide attacks and guerilla warfare are the new normal. As the nation struggles to hold onto its sovereignty, Major Aaron Styles is tasked with finding out what's coming next. With a team of elite soldiers, Major Styles embarks on a mission that takes them to the far-flung corners of the world - from Macau to the Philippines, Russia, China, and Canada - in a race to head off even more attacks and the ...

The vicious, evolving blues are sweeping the land like a plague, driving humanity toward extinction. Calvin Herschel might be the only one who can stop it—but first, he must face the teenage girl he orphaned a year ago. She holds the key to his mission, whether she’ll give it to him or not. Together with his old rival Nicholas and a mysterious newcomer, Neoma, Cal heads north to seek the Artifact—a hope that might save them all. But the blues are growing deadlier, and the real monsters may not be the ones lurking outside. Meanwhile, another desperate group fights for survival, hunted ...

Against all odds, Jenny Huang is still alive. Or as alive as she can be. She escaped the Survival Challenge, a twisted game in which mortals must kill or be killed, but the nightmare didn't end there. By forcing the Challenge to a close and returning to Earth, Jenny has unwittingly unleashed chaos: birthing the Antithesis, kicking off Judgment Day, and dooming the world to a host of bloodthirsty angels. Worst of all, her best-friend-slash-crush, Susan, is dead. And it's all Jenny's—and her insatiable appetite's—fault.

When the undead plague first arrived, leading scientists thought it was an airborne variant of Rabies. By the time humanity figured out what they were dealing with, it was too late. The Zombies had already won. Two years later, humanity is all but a bittersweet memory in the ebb and flow of the universe. One man, fueled by vengeance, has found a way to survive them, if only for a little while longer. Haunted by the ones he had left behind, he stalks through rural America. Going town to town, searching for supplies and putting down any zombies who stand in his way. In a small town in ...

Shadows of Bigfoot Something watches from the trees. Something ancient. Something that knows you're there. For centuries, legends of Bigfoot have whispered through the forests—stories of shadowy figures, eerie howls, and things that disappear without a trace. But what if the legends are true? And what if the truth is far worse than we ever imagined? In this chilling collection of Bigfoot horror stories, you’ll uncover: A lone camper who realizes he’s not alone in the woods… and never was. A government experiment that was meant to control the beast—but failed. A missing hiker’s ...

In a world ravaged by The Blight, the safest place becomes the deadliest trap. For sixteen years, John Miller's underground bunker has been a fortress, protecting his daughter Emma from the horrors of a collapsed civilization. But when a ruthless stranger breaches their sanctuary, their safe haven becomes a battlefield. Trapped in the only home she's ever known, Emma must confront a threat unlike anything she's faced before. As her father races to return, she's left to outsmart a predator who sees her as prey. Every shadow hides danger, every corner could mean death, and the very walls that...

No one in the small, west Texas town of Shadow Ridge knows what took down the power grid, or when it's going to be back up, but everyone knows exactly where they were the moment it went down. And now, with no electricity, no internet, and no modern technology, the men and women responsible for keeping the town safe are going to have to learn how to fight crime all over again. When one of the men in charge of storing food for the town of Shadow Ridge is found murdered execution style, it's up to Jace McQuaid to find the killer.

Ripped from the headlines, the explosive Trackers saga is a realistic depiction of what an EMP attack and the aftermath might look like from one of the genre's leading voices, USA Today best-selling author and former Homeland Security disaster mitigation officer Nicholas Sansbury Smith. This box set includes the entire four-book Trackers series with over 30 hours of post-apocalyptic survival fiction and action. This box set includes Trackers, Trackers 2: The Hunted, Trackers 3: The Storm, and Trackers 4: The Damned.

He had been lying half in half out of the gutter for the last several hours that he knew of. He had no idea how long before that. Days? Weeks? Weeks seemed wrong. Days, he decided. He turned his attention back to the roadway before him. Was it a roadway? When he thought roadway, he thought highway, something like that. From what he could see this was more like a city street. It had never occurred to him in the passing hours to move his head, but the thought of it being a street in a city had caused him to move his head slightly so he could look around to be sure. Slightly, but enough to ...

Max and Holly were trying to leave Phoenix in their rearview mirror but it wasn’t safe to just cruise down the freeway, people could be watching. Things had degenerated so fast as the necrotics spread, having a working vehicle made them a target for anyone trying to escape. How would they make it out of Phoenix, let alone all the way to Flagstaff? With the world on the line, there was a zero percent chance something wouldn’t go wrong.

A terrifying tale of horror in the woods. For fans of cryptids and bigfoot. While exploring the long-abandoned Fallow Creek Campground and surrounding mines, Dan Easton makes a terrifying discovery in the pines.

Ever since her mother's death, Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar. But when her mother's undead body is returned to her doorstep from the grave and Gutsy witnesses a pack of ravagers digging up Los Muertos - her mother's name for the undead - she realizes that life finds you no matter how hard you try to hide from it. Meanwhile, Benny Imura and his gang set out on a journey to find a cure. As they venture into new and unexplored territory, they soon learn that the zombies they fought before were nothing compared to what they'll face in the wild.

I Died Yesterday, But I’m Still Here by G.J. Fene What happens when death doesn't stick? In this chilling anthology of near-deaths, glitches, and second chances that shouldn’t exist, people return from the brink—but not all of them come back whole. A photographer finds a stranger in every image he takes—one who was never there before. A transcriber hears her name whispered in captions that haven’t aired. A teen girl breathes underwater—only when no one is looking. And in a quiet tunnel beneath the city, a voice echoes warnings it never spoke aloud. Each story is told in raw, ...

The Fourth of July in Red Hollow is a celebration of heat, noise, and tradition. But this year, the celebration is just camouflage. Photographer Owen sees it first—a glitch in his camera showing a man's smile stretching into an impossible, grotesque crescent . Hot dog vendor Al serves the same blank-faced man the same exact order twice in ten minutes, a film skipping on repeat . Then, in front of the entire town, Mayor Thompson collapses during his speech, only to rise again—unnaturally smooth, his eyes glassy, and wearing a perfect, hollow smile . When a silent, pristine ambulance ...

This apocalyptic book contains three separate stories, including a volcano disaster thriller, a tsunami story, and a tornado disaster thriller that takes place in a dystopian setting.

Author's Note: This book was previously published under the title The Taste of Fear. Given that the story takes place deep in the Congo jungle, a truly terrifying place, I decided it would be a good fit with the World's Scariest Places series. In the jungle, no one can hear you scream. American movie star Scarlett Cox and her husband, hotel tycoon Salvador Brazza, head to Africa to get away and resuscitate their ailing marriage. When robbed of their money and passports, they seek help from the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam on the very day Al Qaeda chooses to bomb it. In an eyeblink they are...