Tales of the Well by J.E. Spina is a collection of short stories centered on a magical well tucked away on a quiet farm, a place that seems calm at first glance, but it is actually haunted. Despite everyone’s warnings about how spooky the place...

Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life follows Basil Biggs, a free Black farmer whose Pennsylvania land becomes part of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. After Confederate troops retreat, Basil returns home to find his farm devastated. Union intelligence officer John Babcock recruits him to follow the...

Lisa Cram begins Two-Fer by pulling us straight onto Flores Island with an unusual operative named Sand Reap. Operating as an agent for a cosmic administration known as the Galactic Order of Demons and Saints, Sand usually spends his days collecting specific souls. Things spiral...

In Holly Sue Ruddock’s Rise of the Redeemers, Lois takes in Amber, a homeless teenager who escaped a trafficking operation run through MACRO Foods, a humanitarian organization led by Alister Hammon. When Lois’s nephew Martin later joins their household after his missionary parents are killed...

The Third Man by Malachi King is a novella about two young men lost in the Alaskan wilderness in the winter, and a mysterious third man who guides them to rescuers. Tom and Jarvis are high school students with a taste for adventure, which frequently...

David W. Thompson’s Sons and Brothers introduces us to teenagers Garren Doyle, a disciplined young marksman trying to keep his late father’s memory alive, Anna Hirsch, a gifted spiritualist, and Brodie, Garren’s cousin. A regular annual autumn deer hunting trip deep in the rural West...

Love Amongst Realms by Jennifer Box caught my eye because I am immediately drawn to metaphysical, supernatural, and speculative stories, and, in this case, a cast of the most unusual and imaginative characters I've ever encountered. Marie's world, and her love affair with Hector, is...

In D. Werkmeister’s Monstrosity, book three in the VOLK series, after former priest Cigus Varney is murdered inside the Philadelphia home of Alexandra Stepanova, a former Russian test subject, FBI agent Terri Watson discovers the killing is connected to a secret organization devoted to hunting...

Beau Lemmerman’s Heretical Talk follows Alex Haxan, a young outlaw whose encounter with Defyl, an ancient creature from a dead realm called the Old Dark, alters the course of his life. After Defyl enters Alex’s world and targets Adelaide Harrow, the woman Alex loves, Alex...

K M McFarland’s Beyond the Veil follows Gabe Stone, a struggling New Orleans singer whose life ends abruptly in a violent shootout. Instead of crossing over, he encounters Baron Samedi, the Voodoo Loa of Resurrection, who offers him a second chance at life on the...