Survival Horror

After a plane is forced to make an emergency landing in a remote area, the surviving crew and passengers must wait until a rescue team arrives. But they soon discover they are not alone in the wilderness, and the rescue team is not showing up anytime soon.

Those who trusted in the government’s promised oasis found only death and want. Can Anna find hope in a hopeless world? In this post-apocalyptic world, Anna, a teenaged orphan, has lost everything she once knew. She struggles to stay alive amidst a landscape overrun by zombies and other survivors, where death and destruction are the norm. Every choice Anna makes could be the difference between survival and succumbing to the surrounding dangers. Will Anna thrive or succumb to the threats of the apocalyptic world? Dead Autumn is the fifth story in the Operation Z world. If you liked the ...

Brace yourself for a chilling journey into the heart of darkness in Donna Burgess's spine-tingling novella, The Ghosts of Chernobyl. Set against the eerie backdrop of the 1986 nuclear disaster, this haunting tale follows twin siblings Anton and Elena as they confront the terrifying specters of their past. When a mysterious vial promising eternal life resurfaces after 25 years, Anton must embark on a perilous odyssey back to the ghostly ruins of Pripyat. But as he navigates the twisted labyrinths of the abandoned city, he discovers that the true horror lies not in the ghosts that haunt ...

🌌 Humanity's Last Chance Is Also Its Greatest Threat... After a devastating global nuclear war, Earth is no longer habitable. Cities lie in ruins, radiation saturates the atmosphere, and the remnants of civilization survive inside walled enclaves. In a final attempt to ensure the survival of humanity, an international alliance launches a colonization mission to an Earth-like exoplanet: KOI-4878.01. But the journey to salvation quickly becomes a voyage into nightmare. During the first wave of exploration, one astronaut becomes infected by a mysterious alien virus—an insidious parasite ...

My name is Frank Moon, and I’m in way over my head. We’ve settled in Sanctuary, a neighborhood on the edge of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Having endured gut-wrenching emotional trials and hordes of inhuman enemies, I’ve rapidly become the leader of a small, yet ever-growing, community of survivors. With supplies thinning, I reluctantly agree to return to town for the first time in weeks. My wife and I run into more than just a multitude of murderous monsters. We’re forced into a war between two well-armed human factions. One of the parties is hellbent on claiming Gatlinburg for ...

A folded flag is all Sophie has left of her brother, along with a deep, corrosive regret for the years of silence between them. When his personal effects lead her back to the crumbling Appalachian house they swore they’d escape, she finds a life distilled to a military cot, a few books, and a shoebox full of impossible childhood drawings. The house sits at the edge of Stillwater Hollow, a place where cell signals die and the woods hold a heavy, listening silence. As Sophie uncovers the drawings of the giant, shaggy protector her brother called their "Guardian," she's forced to question ...

With the Paras relocating to numerous nuclear bases around the U.S., Will Reisner and Doctor Selene Munroe are in a race against time to complete the new bioweapon and employ it against the growing legions of mutant creatures bent on exterminating the human race. Little do Reisner and his team of elite operators know that this battle is only the beginning as the emerging leader among the Paras has a broader plan for invasion that will put all of the country's remaining military units in the crosshairs.

Killing the sadistic warlord known as the Dog Tongue took everything Gus Berry had, including the woman he loved. Now, all he wants is to get away from the bloody scene of their final showdown. But when he heads west in a stolen truck, a brutal snowstorm forces him to turn back—and seek refuge in the Dog Tongue’s former headquarters. Though it’s littered with human carnage, the abandoned luxury hotel has a lot to offer a guy like Gus. But in addition to soft beds and working toilets, he encounters still-lurking dangers both living and undead.

Do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot? Do you remember what you were doing when the first plane hit the Twin Towers on 9-11? Do you remember where you were when the world as we knew it ended? Joe Boswel does and he will never forget as long as he lives. How long that will be is anyone’s guess. Captain Joe Boswel, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a fighter pilot who flew F-14 Tomcats off the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during the last Gulf War, was the senior officer of the U.S. crew on the International Space Station. Bill Puler, a medical researcher and Dave McCain, a ...

In the dying days of the Confederacy, the war is a settled chill in the bones. For Lieutenant Davis and his desperate scouting party, a routine patrol in the Virginia wilderness becomes a hunt for something far more terrifying than Union soldiers. They are following legends whispered by locals—tales of a stitched-up giant that haunts the mountains. When they find tracks larger than any man has a right to make, Davis’s ambition ignites. He sees not a monster to be feared, but an unholy weapon to be captured and aimed at the heart of the Union army. They succeed in chaining the creature, ...

A YOUNG WOMAN'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL FROM THE WILD AND HER PAST. In a bold leap toward self-discovery and adventure, Megan Burgan embraces Tyler Russell’s invitation for a wilderness backpacking trip, igniting a spark of hope and possibility within her. However, what begins as an exhilarating journey through nature’s breathtaking landscapes quickly transforms into a harrowing struggle for survival. Alone and besieged by the haunting shadows of her past, Megan must summon every ounce of her strength, resilience, and ingenuity to fight for survival in an unforgiving and treacherous ...

They went to the ISS to do research— But something was already waiting for them. After a freak debris strike disables the station, astronaut Peggy Lace must fight to restore power and keep her injured partner alive. But Stefan Bossi claims something far worse is happening—aliens have implanted a cybernetic insect into his body. And it’s moving. As the silence of space closes in and cosmic radiation intensifies, hallucination and horror collide. Are Stefan’s visions a delusion . . . or a message from something out there? In their final moments, the line between love and survival ...

In the crushing abyss of the Pacific, silence is not peace. It's a prelude to damnation. Captain Ortega commands the USS Caspian, a state-of-the-art nuclear submarine and the apex of naval engineering. His mission is routine, his crew the best in the fleet. But when a sudden, inexplicable power failure plunges them into absolute darkness and silence, their training is put to the ultimate test. It's not a system malfunction; it's a suffocating, complete death of the machine. Stranded miles beneath the surface, the crew's discipline begins to fray as impossible phenomena plague the ship. A ...

Join a group of friends as they navigate a zombie apocalypse in an elimination-style game where only one can emerge alive! ONLY SURVIVOR: A Zombie Horror STORY invites you into a terrifying world where survival is a game played with(OUT!) dice and desperation. Based on actual gameplay from an experimental pen-and-paper tabletop RPG, this gripping short story weaves the campaign seamlessly into a pulse-pounding narrative. GENRE: Horror/Short Story.

Hang on for an exciting thrill ride as you experience three wilderness survival stories conveniently packed into one book. Buckle down as these likeable protagonists battle their way through foreboding jungles and dense forests while they face food deprivation, a limited water supply, dangerous creatures, and more. Follow the Pathway Elizabeth wakes up in the middle of a forest, with absolutely no memory of how she got there. Even worse, she does not have her phone with her, and the food and water supply in her backpack only consists of two water bottles, an apple, and a granola bar. ...

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.

A haunted war veteran seeking to lose himself in the silence of the wilderness finds he is not alone. Mason Rourke, a former soldier tormented by the ghosts of his past, takes a remote job as a fire watcher deep in the Cascade Mountains. He is searching for solitude, a quiet place to escape the war he lost and the shame he carries. But the vast, oppressive silence of the forest is not empty. It holds a secret. An unsettling feeling of being watched, strange gifts left on his porch, and massive footprints in the mud reveal an intelligent, unseen presence patrolling the valley. Mason, trained...

I Shouldn’t Have Survived A Modern Horror Anthology They knocked. I answered. They watched. I waved. They waited… and I stayed. Ten chilling survivor stories. Ten doors you should never open. In this razor-sharp anthology of modern horror, victims recount the unexplainable—and barely escape. Each story is told in haunting first-person detail, plunging you into a world where terror hides in the ordinary: an unlocked apartment, a mirror that fogs from the wrong side, a knock that keeps perfect time, or a window that shouldn’t be there. From forgotten rooms to cursed signals, parasitic...

Deep within the mist-shrouded forests of the Great Smoky Mountains, wildlife researcher Caleb Foster vanishes after sending a frantic message: something big, bipedal, and terrifying is stalking him. A team of park rangers sets out to find him but quickly discovers disturbing signs—massive footprints, makeshift tree shelters, and ritualistically arranged animal carcasses. As they journey deeper into the mountains, they uncover an intelligent, and territorial race of creatures living in the shadows. Trapped between the mysterious forces of the wilderness and their own secrets, the rangers ...

Zombies here. Zombies there. Zombies everywhere. Jeremiah (Tex) Jackson is tired of all the death and tired of all the killing but, what choice does he have when the entire world has gone to Hell in a handbasket? It’s kill or be killed, a man-eat-man world now. And if that ain’t screwed up enough, it’s a living-take-advantage-of-the-living world as well. It’s been nearly a year since the world changed. Twelve months since a man on a trip to a remote, South African jungle with the Peace Corps unknowingly brought a microscopic, organ-feasting organism into the US. Some people would ...