Time Travel Thriller

Barry Baton dies in a car accident and is cryogenically frozen in suspended animation. When the technology to bring him back arrives in ten years, he is revived. He awakens into a Trumpian, fascist nightmare—a dark, dystopian, oppressive world, more terrifying than anything he could have imagined. Written in 2017, first published in 2018, and again in 2019 as part of the Fantastic Stories anthology, Barry’s Run is a tragically prophetic, riveting, cautionary, action-packed science fiction short story from the lurid imagination of James J. Caterino, author Escape to Nowhere, Battle of ...

Want to hear a story? You may want to turn on all the lights and lock the doors. You'll get some relief, not all of these books are scary. But the ones that are... Well... Aida Love is a many splendid thing. It can make you blind. It can make you feel like you're floating on a cloud. It can make you go crazy. In this fast-paced romantic thriller, we see that love can be the end of all things. A kiss can contain eternal bliss or eternal madness. What would you do for Love? George would do anything. The Old Couple Pete checks on his elderly parents at least once a week. The countless visits ...

To Raine Holloway, the idea of time travel existed only in fiction—until her antique shop search leads her to Abingdon Manor, an abandoned property in the North Georgia foothills. When the old barn loft collapses beneath her feet, the fall reveals an antique watch that changes Raine’s life forever. Determined to discover the owner of a skeletal hand, Raine and her sisters refuse to accept the police chief’s lack of interest in the cold case. They continue to investigate, unaware the watch will assist them by spinning them through time to 1960.

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

Time Travel/Historical Fiction/Mystery When two street-wise children make the ruins of the once majestic Divine Hotel their playground they find themselves in big trouble. After they go missing the social worker tasked with their retrieval learns that their lives, and the lives of the other inhabitants of the hotel, are hopelessly intertwined with the fate of the famed preacher who founded the hotel, Father Divine. The only way to save the children is to go back to 1964, to the heart of the battle between Father Divine and the notorious cult leader Jim Jones to see where it all went wrong.

Escaping from Captain Bauda and his Cuirassiers, Billy sets out to rescue his boat crew, captured, and imprisoned by Pierre Corbeau, but he is betrayed by Charlotte Desmoulin, one of the fugitives and must now fight a much more dangerous battle against the Drummers. The army of the living dead, Montard has sent to capture and kill her servant, Marie-Ange le Dantec, who, has in her possession, a piece of the Rebus, as he too, discovers, he has! But, as the battle overwhelms him, Queen Kiya, the wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and mother of Tutankhamun, comes from the past to rescue Polly, her ...

Shot by Lord Dasheart and saved from certain death by Queen Kiya and her unlikely friends, Ethan, Isaac, and India, and soon after escaping from prison, Billy, Duffy, and Marie-Ange, sail north to Albany. The gateway to the Adirondack Mountains and a meeting on midsummer morning with the Indian princess Pale Moon in the Morning, they hope will find the third piece of the Rebus of Akhenaten. And are helped by Madeleine Corbeau, Pierre’s twin sister, who in defiance of Montard’s strict instructions gives Billy the Totem of Tarhuhiawaku, which is vital to finding it. But it is a trap they ...

With two pieces of the Rebus of Akhenaten now in his possession and with information he hopes will find a third in North America, and the remaining six where they have long been hidden, Billy, and his crew sail to New York. Arriving a month later he sets out to find Lauder Trompe, who has information vital to his mission. But before the day is done, Tom and Polly fall from a precipitous cliff in the Cave of Tarhuhiawaku and find themselves two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand years in the past, where they meet Gabe, one of the Nanochromes of Nogoback, but more importantly, meet Ethan, Isaac and ...

Unaware, they have been followed to Brittany’s magical and mysterious Quiberon Peninsula by Pierre Corbeau, an agent of the Count de Montard, Billy, Tom and Polly meet the enigmatic professor Tollendal and learn their real quest is to find the Rebus of Akhenaten. A picture puzzle of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs inscribed on a round gold plate made of nine parts, which, when deciphered, will show where the Pharaoh Akhenaten hid the great horde of treasure he took from the Priests of Amun-Ra in 1336BCE. A plate the secret society of Templar Knights, he leads, who found it on Jerusalem’s, ...

1937. When Mythily's plane suddenly loses all power and crashes into the jungle of a mysterious uncharted island, she and her companion Barry are faced with a kaleidoscope of horrors. They discover they are not alone. Initially they think the giant flesh eating spider-crabs are their biggest threat, until they uncover a far bigger secret that threatens the entire world. A survivor's tale of a lost island, alien visitation and giant flesh eating spider-crabs. "A wild read, full of suspense, great characters, and a plot that keeps you guessing. If you like unusual and slightly barmy (in the ...

In the ashes of her past, she will rise up, and her death will save us all. Lizzie ran from her past for ten years, zigzagging across the United States every few months, trying to outlast the prophesy that an oracle gave to her when she was just sixteen years old. But nobody can run from their destiny forever. After watching her friend brutally gunned down by a group of ruthless demons, she had no choice but to protect the woman’s child, and there was only one place where Lizzie knew the girl would be safe. Bronard, Missouri. Home. She stayed away to protect her parents, but the girl ...

Beckett Gray thinks the world has ended because all indications lead him to believe that an EMP has struck, and he is woefully unprepared. His car and cell phone have died near the Appalachian Trail, in the Cumberland Gap National Park. Then he and several other hikers find out what has really happened! Will they survive this savage time? Can they find their home again? Or will they have to make a new home in an unforgiving time?

A mystery. In this clean time-travel whodunit, a middle-aged coffee-shop owner always wondered what his life would have been like if he had stayed in town the day his college fiancée disappeared, the victim of an unsolved crime.

Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’s extraordinary life is about to become even more remarkable.

Cendrine West is looking forward to a cozy Christmas Eve dinner when a blizzard blows in, bringing with it a flurry of unexpected guests. But tipsy witches and mischievous magic spell a recipe for disaster, especially when a guest turns up dead. Cen’s sleuthing exposes a Santa-size sack of trouble, and everyone’s a suspect, even her hunky sheriff boyfriend. Is it a deadly accident by a drunken witch...or something more sinister? Murder is on the menu, and only magic can uncover the truth in this witchy, wacky Yuletide thrill ride!

What’s scarier than a vampire? That’s right physics. Add both together, add a murder mystery, some time travel, a battle between two classic muscle cars and you have a story. Another body was found in the park. Same details as the others, odd clothing from centuries ago, no ID, and all of his blood had been drained. Detective Dani Foster put the puzzle pieces together and realized this serial killer was not only hiding in the distant future, he used his ability to time-travel as a weapon. This body was different. It was a message. She would be the killer’s next victim. What this ...

Landon Bridges' life hasn't always been perfect, but now he's in college and determined to make a fresh start and transform himself from high school geek to college chic...well, less geeky guy. He's finally attained his life-long goal of studying physics in college under a renowned professor. He's met the girl of his dreams and made friends with some of the cool frat guys. Things are going great, until he shows up. A mysterious stranger intervenes to help Landon out of a terrible, possibly life changing situation, but what does he want?

At Archwell Academy, it’s the ticket to a successful future. But like every secret society, there is something much darker beneath the surface … sometimes girls disappear. When four Archwell students find themselves trapped in a time loop, they must relive their worst memories, untangling the Lilies’ moldering roots and unraveling the secrets at the core of their school … before they destroy their futures forever.

Time Travel Tales & Other Short Stories contains a dozen tales dealing with time travel, suspense, mystery, and a hit man named Tanner.

Find out how Mark Taylor was gifted with powers to change destiny. What drove him to risk his life for others, and why did everything go so wrong on that fateful September day?