Christine Triner’s The Demon’s Spawn begins in Salem in 1693, where Elspeth is carrying twins after an encounter with the demon Baleth. Condemned during the witch trials, she dies before giving birth, but the unborn children are promised another life. Centuries later, the twins return...

The Elegance of Decay by Stoney Brooks follows Dustin, a postgraduate bryologist who leads five companions into the Northern Arizona wilderness to study moss growing on a cliff face. Their camp rests on metal platforms bolted three hundred feet above the valley, leaving the group...

The House of All Sorrows: Gothics Undead by Richard Gadz brings readers a tantalizing version of the cult classic, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Something terrifying is going on at Westwych House, but the servants are excellent at turning a blind eye. There is only...

Kyle Viray's The Caterpillar plunges the reader into a future world where society has collapsed, and no laws or government control exist. Bad luck brings two people together: Johnny and Jane. He is an aging soldier who steps on a landmine while wandering away from...

Author R. J. F. has combined a real setting with a horror story in The Keynes Game. Six people, two men and four women from different walks of life, are summoned to take part in a game. They don’t know the rules nor the endgame....

The Last Heir of Bradbury Manor by Michael Mizov is a riveting blend of Gothic horror and mystery. The story takes us back to post-World War 1 England. Summoned by her father, Lottie Bradbury, daughter of Lord Thomas Bradbury, returns home after twelve years of...

“At what point does the desire to succeed become indistinguishable from the willingness to harm?” For Tanner Barrett, the protagonist of Aaron Ryan's short novel The Darkness Within, that question is answered in a horrific manner. Tanner is an indie author caught in a slump...

In Brandon Fisichella’s The Corpse War of 1793, when the sergeant marches into the Norfolk town of Stowlham with a British regiment, expecting routine garrison duty during the Napoleonic era, he instead enters a town already collapsing beneath attacks carried out by the dead. Soldiers,...

Steven James Foreman presents a fresh take on the tale of Hansel and Gretel in The Witch of Treblinka. After the brutal persecution of the Roma people by the Nazis ended in 1945, many among them still found themselves starving and homeless. Siblings Gretel and...

In Scott Eveloff’s The Golem’s Holocaust, after Jewish teenager Shayna Essenreich survives a mass execution inside a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, an elderly rabbi gives her sacred clay tied to an ancient legend about a protector created for persecuted Jewish communities. Buried beneath...