Twisted Horror

Mirror, mirror, on the wall… the question was never about beauty. It was about survival. The Queen’s obsession is not with her reflection, but with the vital life she feels leaching from her bones. When her enchanted mirror reveals that her forgotten stepdaughter, Snow White, is a vessel of primal vitality, she demands a testament of flesh: a heart and lungs to be cut from the girl's chest. But the Huntsman fails, and the girl escapes into the heart of the Schwarzwald, a forest with its own ancient consciousness and insatiable appetites . Hunted and left for dead, Snow White is not ...

For fans of Karin Slaughter, Psychological Horror, and Suspense Thrillers Lynn is a normal girl who moved to Manhattan against her parent's wishes. They worried about how their daughter from a small town would handle a big city. When Lynns attacked, it puts her on a path with a Detective that she doesn't quite understand but one that may know more about what's happened as the case unravels. The Detective starts to see a pattern, something that's familiar to her from a past that she's dying to forget. Except, the past that she remembers belongs more in a horror movie than real ...

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

Do you believe that fear only haunts the distant bhoot bangla, crumbling fort or empty village streets? Surely, it can’t touch you now. You’ve distanced yourself from the darkness by living in the glare of city lights, hiding inside secure houses, comforted by a regular job. But what if fear has accompanied you into the modern world? What if it lives inside you, eating away at your heart and mind? After all, fear is just a ticking time bomb that explodes when you least expect it, leaving your reality...twisted.

What if the real horror isn’t the ghost… but the truth it reveals? In this chilling collection, ghosts don’t just haunt—they unravel mysteries, distort reality, and change lives forever. From eerie whispers that hide sinister secrets to spectral encounters that shift the fabric of existence, each story will keep you guessing until the final, haunting twist. Inside, you’ll find: A forgotten house that never existed… or did it? A reflection that moves just a little too slowly. A babysitter who realizes her job might last forever. A missing roommate who was never supposed to be ...

In Tales with a Twist II, Michael Williams once again offers a variety of flash fiction (stories between 1,000 and 1,500 words), which includes fantasy, horror, humor, romance, and science fiction. Competing versions of the truth collide when one group of conspiracy theorists' version of reality conflicts with another group's beliefs—with horrific results. A city council comes up with an effective, if extreme, way of eliminating their town's “bad seeds.” Thanks to a package-delivery service, a long-distance romance brings happiness to an unlikely couple. A real estate agent faces an ...

Twenty years ago a deadly virus swept the globe, ravaging the population. People died and came back as monsters, and through the tragedy that rocked the world, survivors were born.

Don't like anchovies? No problem; there are also layered sun-dried-tomato-and-basil spread, cheese straws, and brie tartlets with grape relish. (There might even be some deviled eggs.) Tales with a Twist V, like the other four volumes of the Twisted Tales series, offers something for all literary tastes. A platter of fine flash fiction fare, this collection will tease and please any and all readers' palates. Piled high with fantasy, horror, humor, mystery, satire, and science fiction, Tales with a Twist V has something for everyone, all in delicious and nutritious, bite-size helpings. Each ...

Presenting 36 stories of lightning-quick reads in a variety of genres, Tales with a Twist III is like a box of chocolates, rich and delicious. It's full of lessons, too, many from the school of hard knocks. It's an introduction to criminology, a primer on running a business, a rule book for the dating game, a guide to pet training, an eatery, wisdom from a philosopher of darkness and angst, a call to arms, and much, much more. Players discover that cheating is no bed of roses. The VP of Marketing never expected his wife's recent renovations would include a tunnel of love. A date with Daphne...

Tales with a Twist IV of Michael Williams's Twisted Tales series serves up 34 delectable flash fiction stories. Like those in the preceding three volumes, those in this one also burlesque, lampoon, satirize, spoof, and otherwise spindle, fold, and mutilate pretense, pomposity, and pedantry as well as cultural and societal madness. In the process, these twisted tales also entertain, as they cross genres as diverse as action and adventure, fantasy, horror, humor, mystery, and science fiction. Lying in wait for readers are exorcists, self-help gurus, the builder of a roadside attraction, an ...

The smiling town doctor hides an inner malevolence. Can a young innocent turn the rising tide of death and destruction? Redwell, England. James Parish can’t contain his excitement. Moving to a small town where his parents are opening a grocery store, the exuberant ten-year-old is happiest about the promise of a new PlayStation. But when he’s snatched from their new home, the youngster finds he has stepped into a dreadful nightmare. Fooled by his captor’s claims of good intentions, James allows the monster to teach him how to develop hidden psychic abilities. Until the frightened child...

Matt Evans is in deep trouble. After taking a loan he should never have taken, his debt to local thug, Jeff Holden, has spiraled out of control. Just when it seems that time has run out, Jeff offers an alternative deal. Matt is to assist a scientist with his secret experiments to clear the debt. Despite his attempts to see the deal through, Matt soon realizes he’s trapped in a nightmare. The scientist has a dark agenda and a twisted mind that become more apparent with every visit to the underground lab. With his sanity on the line and possibly his life, Matt must escape at any cost, but ...

He has to become a child killer to save his daughter's life. On May 6, five-year-old Annie Miller goes missing in a park. On May 7, her father, David Miller, fails a lie detector test. On May 9, during a hypnosis session, David confesses to murdering his daughter and gives the police the location of the knife he used to kill her. The knife has traces of Annie's blood and David's fingerprints all over it. Two weeks later, a man named Ben calls David and tells him Annie's alive. Ben is willing to let the girl go, but first David has to do something for him--something that would land David in ...

When high school sweethearts Karen and Richard Sharpe married, they shared an interest in medicine, a desire for family, and a dream for the future. For Karen, that dream became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the hands of her physician husband, she put an end to their 26-year marriage. Fearing a crushing divorce settlement, Richard ended the marriage first by unloading a .22-caliber rifle into Karen's chest. The murder revealed more about the millionaire doctor - and his double life - than polite Boston society was prepared for.

Caleb makes a grave mistake by inviting his crush, Kalie, to spend a night in the infamous Suicide Forest. It was a decision made on impulse, not reason. Now, they're both trapped in a place filled with malevolent spirits, demons, ghosts, and other supernatural entities. Caleb must find a way out of the forest and protect Kalie, but she's nowhere to be found. Panic sets in as Caleb realizes the gravity of the situation. Could Kalie be dead? Or worse, could she be enjoying the dark and eerie environment of the Suicide Forest? As Caleb searches for Kalie, he confronts his own fascination with...

Sarah Myers has a great job! A governess for a rich wealthy Bay Area family comes with its added benefits. A car, a home in a trendy San Francisco neighborhood. Life is divine --until it truly isn’t and the cards fall apart. An unexpected affair and an insane proposal from the wealthy patriarch... and everything hits the fan. Now she is unable to tell what her role is in this mansion. She is surprised by the wealthy wife’s acceptance of her relationship with their perfect doctor husband. She confides in her best friend, a girl she has known since childhood about her love and the strange...

It started the night journalist Briar Thorne’s mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago’s South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark…Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone.

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

If you enjoyed Scream, Halloweed, and Insidious, you'll love In Sight The lone survivor of a vicious serial killer who claimed the lives of thirty-one women, including her sister. But what the movies don’t show is that the Final Girl doesn’t get to live happily ever after. Scarred both physically and mentally, she is haunted by memories that her prescriptions can’t suppress. That can’t be washed away with whiskey. But what haunts her, even more, are the things she can’t remember. Cory tries to force herself to live her life. To live on her own. To be strong in public. To connect ...

An ancient evil stir, seeking vengeance in the wind-blown dunes of 1940 Egypt. Deep within the Valley of the Kings, an ancient tomb lies hidden, shrouded in sand and secrecy. When renowned British and German archaeologists uncover the long-lost resting place of Dina, an ancient Egyptian goddess, they unwittingly unleash a terror beyond comprehension. As Dina awakens, her malevolent spirit is reborn, fueled by an insatiable thirst for power and eternal life. The archaeological camp is swiftly slaughtered, leaving no witnesses to her resurgence. Lillian and Jack Stiller, siblings passionate ...