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...

In Smiling Faceless Woman by Thomas J Gebhardt III, Alex is your typical overachieving college student. He takes as many credits as he can every semester, has no time for girls, and is an emo. Everything is going according to his master plan to finish...

Soul Umbra by Juliet Rose follows Esme, who deeply believes that being close to her brings harm to others. From early childhood, people around her are injured, die, or disappear, and she becomes convinced that unseen figures attached to her life are responsible. When a...

Suck Suck Suck is a diverse collection of seven surreal short stories by Brandt Scheidemantel. A young teen meets the new girl at church, but soon develops an unhealthy obsession with her and takes over her whole life. When an accountant loses his debit card...

In Shiny Happy Psycho by Stacy Walsh, thirty years ago, a group of friends at the Rockway High School called themselves the Rockway Five. Their peers knew them; they had beauty and brains and were athletic. Two members of the group were found murdered in...

Andrew Herold's Starving Things is not a standard haunted house story. While the decrepit Holt House, with its associated history of violence and disappearances, certainly provides the atmospheric backdrop of gothic horror, the monster in this case is far more psychological and sinister. The novel...

Sins and Murders by Rocky Burton is the lead story in the Manatee Murders series. Sam stumbles onto a horrible scene. He sees a naked girl, gagged and bound, on a worn-out mattress on the floor. A shadow-like figure is using her for sex as...

Something in the Blood by H. H. Mika is a chilling murder mystery set in the remote, snowbound town of Bloodrun, Alaska. When Detective Terry Volker is called to investigate a gruesome murder where the victim has been cleanly severed at the waist, he and...

Sorrow's Forest by Kaitlin Corvus introduces readers to a strange and eerie woodland on the edge of Lakeview Township—a place full of unnatural creatures and mysterious rules. When twelve-year-old Mackie King ventures in on a dare, he stumbles upon Blue, a devil-like boy, and brings...

In D. Harrigon's Somebody Keeps Callin', an unidentified woman wakes up in a forest in the dead of night with a headless corpse next to her. She's unfazed by the body. This isn't the first time she's found herself in this shocking predicament and she's...