It’s just another typical day in the life of small-town female sheriff Lacey Nelson when she arrives to find one of her deputies consoling a chilly and drenched young boy in her office while the boy’s alcoholic father begs to be kept safe from him…and...

Meet Damien. On the surface, he’s a quiet, clever accountant. Beneath that cover, he’s still a messed up kid trying to come to grips with a past he doesn’t want to face, and from which his only relief is setting fires. When he sets off...

Survival Island by Matt Drabble is the kind of book that intoxicates the reader with thrills, where the setting takes on a character of its own. Clayton, a town with secrets and a beauty that is unique. There is a clear dichotomy, faintly visible, between...

The eclectic Wrath and Ruin (A Chilling Anthology) by C.W. Briar starts with Escape from Wrath and Ruin, in which a young, amnesiac protagonist in a strange wasteland learns that deception is what he should fear most, not beasts nor a ruthless hunter. This is...

Raptor Ray by Brent Reilly is an incredible science fiction thriller. Ray has dino blood running through his veins, the product of a genetic scientist who desperately wanted to give birth to a dinosaur but loses her life in the process. Raised by Wilda, a...

Running Cold is a classic style horror novel by author Steve Zell. In a story set in a fictitious beachside community in 1960s Southern California, we meet our main characters, Michael and Brit Helm. Brit is Michael’s mother, a struggling woman who is trying to...

The Vineyard Dregs by Anthony Carinhas is the story of Claus Berliner, a young man in 1938 Germany. After a house fire rips through too quickly to be extinguished, Claus' brother, Radulf, and a female companion who had accompanied him are killed in the inferno....

Jinxed is a horror novel for young and new adults written by Thommy Hutson. The Trask Academy of Performing Arts was the ultimate in elite academic institutions dedicated to perfecting the already prodigious skills of the young men and women whose parents were able to...

The Devil’s Witches is a contemporary horror novel for adults written by Madeleine McLaughlin. Our hero is a man named Benjamin Coffey, a fifty-two-year-old detective who is old enough to retire from the traumatic world of homicide, but still young enough to fail to resist...

Author Michelle Merz’s Dark: A Collection tells of 13 unsettling horror stories. Before reading the collection, the summary gives a bit of a warning stating that these stories are unsettling, and that readers will be taken along “a journey from which they might not venture...