“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...

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

“Timothy knew the shades of his own nightmares. Nothing could save that woman. The smoke always got what it wanted.” Nightmares, evil, and a sense of inescapable dread define Coyotes' Cross: The Erebus Trilogy, Book One, a novel by Anton Brinza. Set in the small...

What would you do if you woke up without any memory of who you are? In Between Rooms by Adrian M. Mompoint is the story of a woman who experiences that phenomenon. The story begins as she’s waking up. She’s somewhere she doesn’t recognize, and...

In Reality X by DC Wince, what starts as a reckless drive into the deep desert for an underground party quickly spirals into a subterranean nightmare. A group of strangers awake to find themselves locked inside an enormous mansion built nine stories underground, each fitted...

Beyond Grimm by Alan S. Kessler is a collection of 25 short stories inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. After coming across a scary wolf in the woods, a young girl tried to offer her grandmother as bait. A Berkshire pig betrays others of...

“After all, I won’t say I’m completely innocent, but I’m not exactly… not guilty.” It's difficult to separate the guilty from the innocent in Blood Echoes, the latest novel from prolific author Aaron Ryan. It is also challenging to understand where the source of true...

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...

ReAwakening by Terrell Chafin is the second book in the Mother's Little Helpers series, and it delivers a nightmare that will appeal to fans of horror. Young Pippi, Rage, and Tim believe they have already destroyed Emile Navarro, or the skeletal remains that were left...