Survival Horror

Dr. Riley North finds comfort in the quantifiable. Her world is one of sterile labs and cold, hard data, a fortress of logic she built to escape the chaotic legacy of her parents—two cryptozoologists who vanished in the Oregon wilderness twenty years ago. She believes that chapter of her life is sealed. But a phone call about an abandoned storage unit changes everything. Inside the dusty locker, Riley discovers her parents weren't just chasing myths. They were methodical scientists on the verge of a world-shattering discovery. Their worn journals, detailed maps, and a final, chilling ...

Moving on is difficult Fifteen months after the traumatic hostage situation at the hotel, Cole and Amanda are ready to get things back in order. They arrange to go to an event that takes place at a stadium. What they don't know is that Mason's crew will be waiting for them. After learning from the mistakes of Ricky's crew, Mason's crew vows to capture Cole and Amanda. After all, nothing sounds better to Mason's boss than making some monetary profit and getting revenge at the same time. Mason's crew is heavily experienced and determined, while Cole and Amanda are left in a very vulnerable ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s endless white horizon, something ancient waits to be remembered. Disgraced glaciologist Dr. Mara Levin joins a remote research mission hoping to bury her scandal and rediscover her purpose. But when her team uncovers vast alien tunnels beneath the Ross Ice Shelf — smooth, symmetrical, impossibly alive — their scientific curiosity becomes a terrifying descent into cosmic horror. As voices echo from lost loved ones and walls pulse with unnatural bioluminescence, each team member confronts their deepest fears and secrets. The entity they awaken doesn’t crave ...

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 ...

Britain is falling. The dead are rising. And no one is coming to help. What began as isolated outbursts quickly escalates into full-blown national panic. When football matches are cancelled and EastEnders goes off air, people finally realise this isn't just another news cycle—this is the end. In the quiet Welsh town of Usk, teenage brothers Matt and Danny lock down their family estate, thinking their isolation and wealth will keep them safe. But as the infected claw at their gates, help becomes a distant dream, and the real fight begins—not just against the dead, but to protect the ...

In this dystopian horror tale, it’s not what’s for dinner but who? Do you dread the daily grind of making dinner? Shopping, preparing, and the dreaded clean-up after eating? What if one pill could provide perfect nutrition in an instant? YUM is the answer. Just one pill a day and you're good to go. No more hunger or hassle. Total gratification. This is Madam's mission at Nutri-Corp: to change the world forever. But will it improve things or make them worse? And if YUM makes life so easy, what's for dinner at Madam's Nutri-Corp's dinner parties? And just what is being hunted in The Hunt?

A discovery millions of years in the making. A horror that will doom them all. Deep beneath the Amazon, a scientific expedition descends into a sinkhole a kilometer wide , discovering a breathtaking, bioluminescent world untouched by time. They believe they've found a new Eden. They've actually found their own tomb. When a tremor seals their only way out, the team becomes prey. The cavern's inhabitants—monstrous, insectoid creatures that hunt with blinding light and surgical precision —begin picking them off one by one. But these hunters are not alone. They are part of a terrifyingly ...

Why would a biotech company release a dangerous virus? Because they already have the cure... A mysterious, man-made virus outbreak races through the small town of Marshall, Wisconsin. Dogs throughout the town are quickly infected by the plague with disastrous results. The gentle pet of yesterday suddenly snaps at its loving owner. Dogs all over town are turned outdoors when they abruptly become aggressive. Stray dogs, reverting to the behavior of their canine ancestors, begin to form efficient and deadly packs. A hunter in the vast forest outside of town becomes the hunted. A runaway ...

Sal had woken up with no recollection of the night before a few times, but never like this - in a forest...alone...confused...scared. She scoured her surroundings, desperate for some clue as to how she’d ended up here. Fragments of conversations and snapshots of memories were all she could scramble together. But suddenly, none of it mattered.

This is a SHORT STORY set within the ongoing THE UNSEEN franchise. Potential spoilers ahead! This action-packed thriller stars Jillian Moon, recapping her initial encounter with the Unseen inside New York’s Museum of Natural History, an event that occurs during ORIGIN (The Unseen Book 1).

After learning the dark secrets hidden in Mr. Dowling's twisted mind, B is on the run. She escapes the clown's clutches and weaves her way through London's abandoned Underground, only to find that Mr. Dowling has laid siege to the Angels' base in County Hall. And when B learns of the history between Mr. Dowling and someone she trusted, she realizes that she can't rely on anyone - B, and B alone, is the only one who can save humanity.

The Black-Vein Mine has been sealed for generations, a tomb holding the dark memory of a 1947 disaster that claimed an entire crew—including Cole’s great-uncle. Now, armed with a legendary map and a team of explorers, Cole is breaking the seal, determined to uncover the truth buried deep in the mountain. But the mine has not been empty. The moment the welded door is cut open, a foul air of decay escapes, and the silence within is ancient and predatory. When the door slams shut behind them, they are plunged into a labyrinth of absolute darkness. They are not just trapped; they are being ...

When B wakes up in a military complex, she learns that she has been turned into a zombie--a zombie that has retained her conscience and reason. She and her fellow "zom heads" struggle to escape their captors.

Die and let live… The New State Army’s biotech is taking its toll on Mercy. She wants it removed and is willing to pay any price. Even if it means travelling across an entire continent. The Wild West of Arizona and California beckons. The warlords of Flagstaff, Las Vegas, and Phoenix stand in her way. She has to find a passage through the desert, the destruction, and the dead. Redemption lies in Naval Base Ventura, on the Pacific Coast. There, surgery can be performed to remove the biotech which is destroying her from within. The Arizona desert promises thirst, hunger, and desolation. ...

The first winter has come, and with it, new problems. No longer are the zombies the biggest threat to survival. With the global infrastructure gone, people are forced to do whatever it takes to survive...even the unthinkable. Steve faces his toughest decision yet as he tries to lead his people through one nightmare after another. Kevin risks everything to save one girl and finds himself in the middle of a military fight for power.

Fresh from his rebirth in the galactic graveyard, Mick Triton is a man with a new ship and an old problem: a dwindling bank account. To get back in the game, he takes a job that sounds too good to be true, a contract from a desperate corporate suit to retrieve the Star Wanderer, a legendary multi-trillion-credit luxury liner that vanished on its maiden voyage in the Sargasso Nebula. Every spacer knows the stories—the Nebula is a place where ships go to die, a navigational nightmare of gravimetric tides and phantom signals. But the payday is obscene, a king's ransom that could set him up ...

In the fading light of an early Halloween evening, ten souls ventured into the warm embrace of the Deadfall Mall, a once-thriving marketplace now shadowed by decay and a forgotten time of prosperity. Unbeknownst to them, they were about to become potential victims of a cycle of horror that would forever alter their destinies. Among them, two young intrepid ghost hunters, armed with weapons and protection found only in folklore, consumed by a burning desire to unravel a centuries-old mystery. They sought to break a cycle of death that had long plagued these hollowed grounds. Their quest? To ...

Diamonds are a girls best friend & the Russian Mafia's. The Russian Mafia are in the throes of abducting Anastasia, a seventeen year old school girl. Private detective Jack Hamma intervenes but the Mafia are the least of his problems, the Australian police are on his trail and, just to make things interesting, Anastasia falls for Jack hook, line and sinker ***Winner of the Rodney Fisher Award*** ‘A fantastic cast of characters in a smoothly written plot, with plenty of action to keep the reader interested.’ 'I finished the book. I then downloaded and read the next book in the series, ...

Tennyson Middlebrook never considered himself a storyteller. The fairy tales he invented for his childhood friend Allison were only meant as a distraction from their troubled lives. For Tennyson, the stories were a whim, meant only to offer comfort in a bleak time of mass extinction and despair. The characters in his stories never even had names... But Lil’it is real, if not quite human. She is feh, a non-person, existing in a fractured world of hoarded knowledge where the simple act of writing is a crime punishable by death. At best she is property; at worst she is an exotic commodity, ...

Pilot Nicole Ardus leaves Hawaii with a group of avian researchers in her small plane. Their destination is a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific. When the plane’s engine sputters out she’s forced to ditch in a roiling sea. Battling tempest storms, thirst, and sharks, Nicole and the survivors make it to a small atoll.