She needs to forget the past. Her ex wants her back. The creatures in the woods crave every living soul…
Former NYPD detective Liliana Slavik is still recovering from a nervous breakdown, after a shooting that killed her fiancé and ended her career. Seeking refuge in her peaceful hometown, she soon discovers hundreds of people have disappeared in the Pine Barrens nearby. She becomes determined to fight through her panic attacks, team up with the man who betrayed her, and solve the sinister secret.
Liliana uncovers information about the famed Jersey Devil as well as Native American lore which tells of monsters which haunt the vast New Jersey forests. But, the anxious investigator knows there’s only one way to reveal the truth. She must enter the woods herself…
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Still reeling from the death of his beloved wife and unborn child, homicide detective Isaac Murphy must investigate a growing string of unsolved murders in the shadowy city of Callahan, South Carolina. When mass hysteria plagues the populace, Isaac begins to lose his sanity and questions whether the killer is a man or a monster. But a terrible secret plagues Isaac’s heart—when he was a child, he climbed the forbidden Bobbit Rock and unknowingly unleashed a curse. Now, he hears the deaths are his fault.
Has Isaac doomed everything to the wrath of the WRETCHED MAN?
Finalist Fiction: Horror The 2020 Best Book Awards
A neighborhood won't let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange creatures down from the mountains.
At sea level, where it's safe, things like this can't happen. But when you're sky high in Denver, Colorado, anything goes...including your sanity.
Beware of Terror at 5280', a horror fiction anthology featuring dark tales set in and around Denver and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, penned exclusively by local authors.
Edited by: Josh Schlossberg, Gary Robbe, Melinda Bezdek, Bobby Crew, Desi D, Lisa Mavroudis, Thomas C. Mavroudis, and Jeamus Wilkes.
Finalist Fiction: Horror The 2020 Best Book Awards
Adam, a young alcoholic, slowly descends into madness while dealing with the psychological scars of childhood trauma which are reawakened when his son and wife die in a car accident that he feels he is responsible for. After a failed suicide attempt, and more group meetings that he can mention. Adam hears a rumor of a Haunted Island off the Coast of Maine, where “if someone wants it bad enough” they could be reunited with a lost loved one. In his desperate attempt to connect with the ghost of his four-and-a half year old son, he decides to go there, to Dagger Island, desperate to apologize to, or be condemned by, his young son. Adam is not sure what he deserves or even which of these he wants more. While staying in a crumbling old boarding house, he becomes involved with a beautiful and manipulative ghost who has spent 60 years tormenting the now elderly man who was her lover, and ultimately her murderer. The three of them create a “Menage-a-Guilt" as they all come to terms with what it is that ties them so emotionally to their memories and their very “existence”.Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent is a poetic fever dream of grief, love, and the terrifying ways that obsession can change who we are.
Finalist Fiction: Horror The 2020 Best Book Awards
Guilt is a curious creature; it burrows under your skin and sleeps. It sleeps and begins to grow as it slowly awakens. And when it awakens, it awakens the silence. Scara Slayfield knows that that the silence is coming for her. She did some horrific things and let people she loved suffer for them. Scara knows that she deserves the silence but self preservation always seems to trump the guilt. But, the guilt and silence are beginning to win. In hopes of finding relief from the silence, Scara takes a planned trip to South Queensferry, Scotland. While there, she becomes a part of the Burryman's march. Popular legend has it the Burryman brings good fortune to the townsfolk that place burrs upon him. Another legend says the Burryman is a scapegoat. He can wipe your slate clean and you can begin anew. Will Scara pay the price of the Burryman or will she succumb to the silence? Read on and find the answers in I Know I Will Die In The Silence - The Burryman
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Small Towns Have Long Memories
The 1956 Homecoming Massacre shook the residents of Pinehurst to their very core, and it left survivor, Charlotte McAdams, broken for life. Forty years later, the McAdams family have become the victims of many strange happenings that seem to revolve around the fateful night of the massacre. As the anniversary draws nearer, so does the rope around the family threatening to destroy them all.
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Underneath the depths of Hell is a realm called Ophecyre. The rulers of Ophecyre are known as Drekader: Ruler of Premeditated Chaos and Zissa Keturah: Ruler Over Aftermath's Suffrage.The two demons had been thrown out of Hell by Satan to dwell for eternity in silence and no longer have the capability to roam Earth.Their "Children" however, possess the ability to walk the Earth every 100 years to set up catastrophic disasters for their parents' thirst.25-year-old Dr. Malachi Walker is a M.E.'s Assistant who has bloodcurdling recurring dreams. He discovers that hundreds of voiceless beingsfollow his every move in attempts to give him a message about his future.With the love of his life, his job in jeopardy and friends witnessing him fall apart, he learns how to see the Ophecyreans but fails in getting them to speak.Are the Ophecyreans trying to set things in motion to please their rulers of Ophecyre? Or have they gone rogue and are attempting to stop adastardly deed that Malachi may be responsible?
