It had only been six months since Margo, an accountant in Chicago, met Sam Wailing, yet she had agreed to marry him and follow him back to Iowa to meet his parents. All Margo hopes for is that Sam’s family will accept her. But she...

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...

The Dark Key by Graeme Winton is a captivating story about Matthew Wilson, a librarian who lives in a small town in Scotland. Matthew goes for a walk and notices strange ghost-like monks, which terrify him. He starts carrying out research and secret investigations, which...

In R.K. Jack's The Mist from Beyond, Dorothy and her fellow sorority members at Arizona State University decided to conduct a Wiccan-style ritual to summon the Damned on a Saturday evening. They all thought it would simply be an innocent initiation for their newest sister,...

Nicolas Portinari seemed to have it all as a vampire: fame, fortune, love, and eternal youth, but he has never lost his desire to live as a human. He and Giuliana, his soul mate, were linked by love, blood, and five hundred years together. However,...

Chimera by Mark Lingane is a captivating science fiction story set in a dystopian future where humanity has collapsed. Due to environmental degradation, food shortages, and destructive tendencies, humans resort to the grotesque act of cannibalism. The story follows a lone survivor who finds herself...

Thorns of Fate: The Thornforged Chronicles by Miranda Howman follows Elora, a girl who was sold off at a young age to her future mentor, Tehvan. He takes her to the Miros Institute, where she becomes his protégée, but little does she know that her...

In this apocalyptic world, where the undead stalk the streets in search of human flesh, survival is a constant struggle, and trust among the living is just as dangerous as the threat of the dead. Renee has seen her fair share of death during these...

Toxic Turkey by Gage Irving begins as a family drama and slowly unravels into a gripping supernatural conspiracy. We’re with the Donnelly family as they attempt a heartfelt Thanksgiving reunion, which soon becomes a crucible for long-buried secrets and unspoken conflicts. But the fractures in...

The Call of Abaddon (The Abaddon Cycle Book 1) by Colin Searle launches a gripping sci-fi epic that pits humanity’s will against an ancient, alien malevolence. We’re with scavenger Jason on a dying Earth inside the arcology New Toronto, where he barely survives his day-to-day...