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Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Mark Roberts - 2004
He is stranded at a motorway service station and all he has left are the clothes he has on. He is approached by a smart eighteen year old with money, a four wheel drive and a video camera, who hums the eponymous song and has strong Neo Nazi views. Together they journey through England and get caught up in sabotaged fox hunt, an encounter with travellers and an illegal rave. They seem to get on, but Danny's luck has changed completely - for the worse. Wherever they go, a mysterious trail of death follows them. Danny is unknowingly trapped by the worst type of enemy imaginable, and one who is completely out of control.
Hidden World
Graham Masterton - 2002
Bullied at her new school because of the injury she suffered in the crash, Jessica finds solace in her favourite fairies and the pictures she loves to draw. One day she suffers bad concussion after falling downstairs at school, and while recovering at home she hears the strange sound of children's voices calling for help. At first Jessica cannot work out where the voices are coming from, but eventually she discovers from a mysterious but kindly old neighbour that they are in fact coming from inside her bedroom wallpaper. Attempting to overcome her own disbelief, Jessica and some friends venture into the world inside her wall where they find an extraordinary land where everyday household objects like spoons and hats take on a life of their own. But there is great danger to be found inside this hidden world, and it is up to Jessica to rescue the strange children whose voices she had heard, before it's too late.
The Thin Wall
E.M. Parker - 2016
On the surface, the setup was perfect: cheap rent, a great location, and total anonymity.Beneath the surface, however, Corona Heights was something else entirely.Cursed with paper thin walls, the building kept few of its tenants' secrets. But one secret had remained safely buried for years until Fiona's strange encounter with her neighbor - a ten-year-old named Olivia - threatened to unearth it, and all of the unimaginable consequences inherent in its being.As she wages a personal crusade to regain the love and trust of her estranged son, Fiona must also confront the ever-tightening grip of an addiction that she has yet to overcome, a neighbor whose erratic behavior grows more dangerous by the hour, and a seemingly innocent little girl whose dark connection to Corona Heights threatens not only the child's life, but the life that Fiona is trying so desperately to reclaim.And it all begins with a foreboding message from the girl whose face Fiona cannot see, but whose voice is hauntingly clear."Don't ignore the knocking..."
The Girlfriend Game
Nick Antosca - 2013
Nick Antosca's THE GIRLFRIEND GAME is a tumble through the looking glass into a vortex of violence and desire. The 12 stories in the newest collection by the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author are brutal, urgent and unforgettable.In "Predator Bait," a decoy in a sex sting news show questions her job and the man who shares her bed. An undependable son watches his mother become a creature he hardly recognizes in "Amphibian." A young man plots the death of his girlfriend's killer in "Winter Was Hard."Antosca crafts surreal doomsday scenarios and otherworldly transformations alongside painfully articulate depictions of sexuality and animal impulse. The stories in THE GIRLFRIEND GAME are mesmerizing, leaving a haunting afterglow long after you close the book.
This is Gonna Hurt
A.I. Nasser - 2015
He lost his job, his home, and his girlfriend is sleeping with his best friend. Life just doesn’t seem worthwhile anymore.But he has a plan. He will bring suffering to every single person who hurt him. Every cruel act visited upon him will be met with grave retribution.Revenge has never been more horrifying.
The End Begins
James D. Dean - 2015
The “what ifs” and the planning were just conversations to have fun with. Who would be the first to go? Where would people be safe? Who would survive the zombie apocalypse? No one is laughing anymore. Awakening to a nightmare, Dan Foster is forced to flee his suburban Chicago home. Together with his wife Abby and little girl Katie, they begin a dangerous trek across the wintery Midwest in hopes to reconnect with his brother in the heartland of Wisconsin. Dan soon discovers the ravenous hordes of undead are not the only things out there that threaten the lives of his family. Can he stay the man he is, or will he need to become something more dangerous in order to protect the ones he loves? In the end, how much of Dan’s humanity will survive this dying world?
The Beast of Devil’s Rock
Michael R. Cole - 2019
With accidents being reported across the region, Deputy Ron Weller must patrol along the main road through a normally tranquil forest in Beeman County. The night grows menacing as he discovers vehicles that have been run off the road, their drivers mysteriously missing. Strange tracks lead through a region of thick forest known as Devil’s Rock. There, Weller makes a horrifying discovery. A monster has awakened. Its hunger is insatiable, and its ferocity has no limits. Protected by an armored exoskeleton, the beast is relentless in its pursuit of prey. It must feed or face starvation. What has started as a search for a missing driver has now become a fight for survival, as Ron Weller is hunted by THE BEAST OF DEVIL’S ROCK.
The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set
Jeremy Bates - 2019
As a bonus, you also get a digital copy of the runaway bestseller The Taste of Fear, which has garnered more than 500 five-star reviews. In total, that's over 1000 pages of pulse-pounding suspense, action, and terror from one of the most thrilling horror writers in the business today!
The Cult
Max Ehrlich - 1978
For Jeff is now a member of the Cult. The souls for Jesus, the brainchild of the Master, Buford Hodges, a tax dedcutable, multi-million industry feeding on the minds and bodies of the young and vulnerable.Only one man can redeem thse lost souls, only one man dares take on the sinister forces of the Master. Only one man can help the Reeds, the man they call The Devil.
Bah! Humbug! An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories
Matt ShawSam West - 2016
West (poem) Daniel Marc Chant Mark West Kit Power Wrath James White (poem) David Owain Hughes Lisa Lane Kealan Patrick Burke Billie Sue Mosiman Jaime Johnesee J.R Park Duncan Ralston Gary McMahon Michael Bray Duncan P. Bradshaw Mark Cassell Jack Rollins Mason Sabre Matt Hickman Jim GoForth Charlotte Bond Sam West Andrew Freudenberg Matt Shaw Please note This anthology is made up of both reprints and original stories from the authors. All monies received from this title go to different charities each month! Over 100,000 words and more than 400 pages! Grab a bargain, support charity and get to know new and familiar authors!
The Naughty List
Edward Lorn - 2014
This short story is intended for mature audiences."The Naughty List" is a holiday-themed horror freebie which is only available one week out of the year, close to Christmas.This story will be available again for free on December 2016.
Seed of Evil
Greig Beck - 2021
Tragedy has dogged his life, and he sees the small friendly place as a second chance. But buried deep below the friendly smiles and quaint painted houses is an old abandoned mine that holds a legend of an ancient and terrible god.In the mine’s labyrinthine depths, something has been growing, something from a time of myth when ancient gods strode the Earth and mankind hadn’t even stood on two legs.But when the earth shakes and the groundwater rises, it reaches out and those it touches begin to deform and reshape into the image of their god. Their one goal—to feed their ancient master deep below the ground.Mitch Taylor soon finds himself fighting again, this time for the town, the ones he loves, and for his life.The Seed of Evil is a horrifying legend of an ancient god that turned out to be real.
The Cannibal's Daughter
Mitchell Nelson - 2014
She’s a nobody. And that’s the way she likes it. Her father, on the other hand — Hank Keeling, the serial killer and occasional cannibal better known as the Pork Chop Killer — has just gone viral. Thanks to a prison guard’s error, a cell phone video of Keeling’s botched execution is quickly becoming an internet sensation. After watching her father die in all his pixelated glory, Caroline is taken off-guard when Keeling himself shows up at her front door, looking very much not dead. And he has a plan. A plan involving Caroline. A plan Caroline is going to take part in whether she wants to or not. Success means wealth beyond her dreams. Failure means death. Soon Caroline is whisked away from her bland life to face down killers, gangsters and a well-meaning cop in a hunt for long-lost fortune. Deceit, avarice and unrelenting violence collide in a coming-of-age story like none you’ve ever read.
Cold Eye
Giles Blunt - 1989
Nicholas Hood likes to paint imaginary murder scenes. His paintings fail to inspire, a browsing detective tells him, because Hood has obviously never witnessed a real murder. Enter Andre Bellisle, an exquisitely accoutred, pockmarked dwarf who helpfully directs Hood to places where deaths occur. As Bellisle predicts, Hood's paintings of these deaths take New York by storm. Of course there's a price to be paid for Bellisle's information--but not the traditional one. To learn what that is, the reader is swept along on a superbly rendered descent into modern-day hell. Blunt is a TV writer whose literary debut is sensational. Paperback rights to Avon.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Mated To A Vampire Princess Book 1
LeeSha McCoy - 2021
She can only eat fruits, he hunts for his food. Her venom could bring him to his knees, and a single drop of his bane could kill her.There's no way this will work.Or can it? Amarey James is the first son of alphas Abriya and Clarence. He's just changed for the first time, but he's not interested in finding his mate.Or at least he wasn't until the visions of her began. The scent of the blurry woman in his dreams becomes so disruptive to his daily life, he has no choice but to ask his sister Ariella what's going on.But what she tells him will blow his entire world apart. Princess Karrisee is the first daughter of Queen Vallessa and King Scarva Caro, rulers of the entire kratius. She's desperate for love but can't ever seem to find it, no matter what she tries.So, with a little advice from the Queens in her life, she decides to work on herself for a while, but she soon becomes distracted when her dreams are plagued with her deepest darkest fantasies. She's always been curious of the beasts in the world, but afraid of becoming a traitor to her own kind, it's a secret she's kept fiercely guarded.But when faced with the opportunity to meet one in the flesh, she jumps at the chance, and so begins the wildest journey she ever could've imagined.Note to reader: This is not a standalone series. If you would like to read this story, you are advised to check the reading order at the beginning of the book or begin with the James Pack Wolves series.