The last words twenty-four-year-old Delilah heard from her mother were, “Go to Hell.” Despite their strained relationship, Delilah never thought her mother meant it literally. After being trampled to death by a horse, Delilah wakes up to the sight of a building that could pass...

In The Wraith by Lori R. Lopez, Maud Soleil is a poet who uses her writing to tune out a soul-crushing day job. She writes a moody poem about a devoted "wraith," but then things get weird when she starts seeing a man who looks...

The Reckoning at Ravensmoor by Samuel Riding is the story of a solicitor's assistant who finds herself overseeing a property dispute on northern moorland. Every time Clara Whitmore tries to copy the documents related to the case of Partridge versus Stone, the writing itself seems...

In The Birds of Prey by River Davis, Cimarron “Caracara” Miramonte leads a Phoenix motorcycle club bound by blood oath and shapeshifting lineage when her mother, Cassandra “Kestrel” Miramonte, is murdered in a ritual desert ambush. As rival leaders Saachi “Scorpiana” Banerjee and Fayola “Fanuel”...

The House in the Middle of the Street by Jennifer Sklias-Gahan is a modern fairy tale with a dark pulse, centered on a mysterious inherited home and the secrets it harbors. The story begins with Rebecca and her husband moving into the house, a beautiful...

“She knew she was good. And it appears the good are not rewarded. The good are damned.” This statement rings true in The Curses We Keep, a novella by Dakota J. Miller. The story begins in darkness as an old hag drags a rope...

“Devils, gods, angels, demons. Who can see which is which?” That and many other questions are answered in The Witchfinder's Daughter, a novel by Adam Caisse. Armed with a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum and a dagger, a man named Hannes is summoned to the...

The Devil in the White Mountains by Mark Smeltz tells a terrifying story set in the Himalayas. Lt. Col. Grant Morrison is serving in the British Raj when he's sent to the Himalayas. A remote village is under siege by a man-eating leopard, and Morrison...

The Thirteenth Bell by R.D. Thorne is set in Lowmere, a town by the sea that is always blanketed in fog. Lowmere survives because of a dark bargain: each New Moon, a thirteenth bell rings, and someone vanishes. Ada Thorne, marked by the curse, survived...

The Day the Devil Went on Trial by Ian Pear is a sharply imaginative novel that blends satire, theology, and modern life into a compelling story. From the opening scenes, where the Devil introduces himself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, the book establishes a tone...