Survival Horror

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...

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, ...

Life is strange. But it’s never as strange as what Augie Doyle believes. When teens start vanishing from Hollowbrook High, Augie Doyle—resident horror nerd and amateur investigator—knows something isn’t right. Hollowbrook residence believes human trafficking has come to their small town, but Augie suspects something far more sinister. A new copper mine has brought an influx of jobs, families, and students. Augie isn’t sure if the newcomers can be trusted. His top suspects? His new neighbors, who burn things in their backyard long after everyone else has gone to bed. A creative way...

A small group of survivors makes radio contact with the refuge requesting help escaping Newport, Arkansas. Herb leads a team of men on a rescue mission, but it’s complicated when they meet other people who need their assistance. Compounding matters is a woman who was brought into the refuge by the team before they left. She wants to run the camp herself, and she knows just how to make that happen.

November 1981. Jeff Durram is out of work and down on his luck. His marriage has fallen apart and he's living in the poor area of Perlow. Jeff's luck is about to change when he is offered a job of the future and he soon finds himself in a packed workplace where money, presents and cheesy music are an everyday occurrence. Has Jeff found the perfect job and the tools to put his life back together again? He thinks he has, until they meet the manager, the mysterious 'K' who won't tolerate a slacker.Those who fall behind must play the deadly game of K and an ordinary day at the office soon turns...

The story of Ash Ekansh 'Ash' Kumari was not a popular or well-liked man. He'd never been. That made him a hard person. Discovering alcohol only made him harder. He was dead to the world, and the world was dead to him. Until the world truly did die. Follow along as Ash tries to survive the events that threaten to wipe out mankind in Vagabond. Vagabond also offers a view from the other side. Maddie and her family left their farm to join other members of the order at Gaia, their supposed safe haven as the world experiences the Syndrome. The fight for survival is just beginning.

Seeking allies for her murderous plots against the people of the refuge, Dana Rainey encounters Shaunna, an Alpha female zombie, and her anizombie Yorkie named Lily. What happens next sets in motion a long chain of events culminating in a savage confrontation between Dana and the people of the refuge. Can Herb Bennett’s fledgling group survive that encounter, or will Dana have her vengeance?

Civilization has collapsed. Governments have fallen; countries lie in ruins. The infected are everywhere hunting down survivors, driven by the deadly virus coursing through their veins to spread their destructive infection or die trying. In West Wales a young girl tries to shield her sickly brother from the ravening hordes while mourning the loss of their father to the fatal infection. A team of scientists and former special forces operatives hide out at a secret facility. And Captain Richard Yorke, along with the survivors of his British Army unit have fought their way across the country ...

Alex's second attempt to break out has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins - a sinisterly dark nectar - Alex becomes what he most fears: a superpowered minion of Furnace. How can he escape when the darkness is inside him?

When the sleepy town of Willow Ridge, Tennessee, becomes the epicenter of bizarre UFO sightings and brutal animal attacks, journalist Megan Carter stumbles upon a truth more horrifying than she ever imagined. The creatures stalking the woods aren’t folklore come to life—they’re genetically engineered hybrids, unleashed by a mysterious organization. As Megan teams up with a wildlife biologist, a defiant deputy, and a former soldier with secrets of his own, they uncover a chilling conspiracy. With humanity’s survival hanging by a thread, the team faces unimaginable horrors. And the ...

Some mountains are better left unexplored. Some creatures, undisturbed. Lux Branson thought her days of tracking Bigfoot were over. But when a famous filmmaker vanishes while shooting a documentary on a remote mountain, she’s drawn back into the world of monsters and mysteries. This time, it’s not about survival—it’s about exposure. With a new team, fresh dangers, and eyes from the outside world watching, Lux must navigate a treacherous terrain filled with secrets, sabotage, and something ancient that doesn’t want to be found. What lurks on Bigfoot Mountain is more than legend—...

"If you like your heroes effortlessly cool and your monsters terrifyingly real, the action brutal and prose dripping with gore, you’ll love Award-Winning Film Director Kely McClung’s LOOP. " A Devastating Computer Virus Jumps to Humans... When the small college town of Mazevlle, home to a Defense department research lab and an reclusive A.I. pioneer, becomes ground zero for a zombie-like plague, the fate of the town, and maybe the world, lies in the hands of a one-legged badass, a nearly naked Interpol agent, a waif-like retro-gaming genius, and the military scientist that started it ...

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.

Nuclear WWIII has been staved off, but the United States is far from its former glory. The EMP attack that crippled America was just the beginning. The nation now lies in ruins, torn apart by chaos and political upheaval. As the Raydon family sets out to locate their lost loved ones, they soon find themselves embroiled in a battle for the very future of the country they call home. With Texas having seceded and taken half the South with them, the fight for control over the Gulf of Mexico has reached a fever pitch. Meanwhile, Major Styles and his team are hot on the trail of a new threat that...

"Coven of One" is a suspense-driven novella of mystery, horror, and spiritual adventure, surrounding the morality of man in the face of nature's ruthlessness, and the dark beauty of this turmoil.

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 ...

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...

THE BEAST OF FALLOW PINES A tale of a man, his dog, and a monster in the woods. David Ward set out to his late father's long-abandoned cabin in the remote mountain wilderness of Fallow Pines to get off the grid and away from the memories of his old life. But when his dog goes missing, David quickly discovers that there is something lurking in the woods... Something that has come to call Fallow Pines home... For readers who enjoy horror in the woods and cryptids.

"This book is really riveting and I found myself grimacing, denying, experiencing shock and awe, nodding and finally understanding so much about her saga and attempts to protect her dying husband from one medical error after another. If you want a good read, pick up 108 Days." - Toni Brayer, MD. Following an explosive electrical accident, Curtis is admitted to one of America's top hospitals with a severe burn injury to 35% of his body. Recovery is soon derailed due to an error in the radiology department which he is not expected to survive. Deadly hospital acquired infections are prevalent ...