Party of a Lifetime by Henry Corrigan follows Becca Longford as she heads back home from college, hoping a beach weekend with her old crew will make up for how badly their high school prom went. That prom night was horrible, marked by bullying, a...

K.M. Taylor’s dark fantasy, Fearless Vampire Hunter, drops the reader into the life of a character who has basically spent every waking second hunting monsters. There’s no fluff here—it is just a person driven by a "stalwart path" that doesn't leave room for a normal...

Unto Dust by Robert E. Kearns introduces readers to the O’Leary clan, a long-standing line of undertakers. Their funeral home has been a steady presence in their small Irish town since the 1600s. For just as long, the business has passed from father to son,...

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t usually go for horror just for the sake of a scare, but Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness by Mia Dalia is something else entirely. This isn't just a collection of "scary stories"; it...

In The Wraith by Lori R. Lopez, Maud Soleil is a poet who uses her writing to tune out a soul-crushing day job. She writes a moody poem about a devoted "wraith," but then things get weird when she starts seeing a man who looks...

In the small town of Progression, Pennsylvania, Resurrection University on Halloween night was about to be hit by a horrific massacre that would put it and the town in the national headlines. It all begins at Mulder House, a communal residence for the university’s doctoral...

The Reckoning at Ravensmoor by Samuel Riding is the story of a solicitor's assistant who finds herself overseeing a property dispute on northern moorland. Every time Clara Whitmore tries to copy the documents related to the case of Partridge versus Stone, the writing itself seems...

In Alexander Semenyuk’s Sea Diary of Johnny Unknown, Johnny, an orphaned factory worker hoping for a fresh start, boards a passenger ship filled with migrants, businessmen, and families on their way to a distant shore. On his very first night at sea, he hears the...

The House in the Middle of the Street by Jennifer Sklias-Gahan is a modern fairy tale with a dark pulse, centered on a mysterious inherited home and the secrets it harbors. The story begins with Rebecca and her husband moving into the house, a beautiful...

Wishes Gone Awry by M. Ainihi is a collection of short horror and dark fantasy stories. It focuses on people who wanted something, but their efforts in obtaining their desires ended in tragedy. In the first tale, Jimmy, a young man promised a share of...