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...

The Ninth Life of Missy by Raj Shankar follows May Calloway, a twenty-three-year-old sitting in a half-packed Greenport apartment, days away from a one-way move to Ireland. Her carefully closed-off world is turned upside down when her rescue cat, Missy, suddenly starts talking to her...

Clara Whitmore, a solicitor’s assistant at the London firm of Dallow & Fiske, has been sent to Ravenscroft Hall, an estate in a remote village, to settle a will. She thinks it is a quick assignment, but has no idea how wrong she is. On...

The Cauldron of Anastasis is the fifth book in William P. Blake III’s The Blood and the Seed series. The story weaves sixty years of occult mystery into one epic showdown. The story opens in 1930s Bucharest, where the immortal sorceress Morgaine Lefey evades the...

In The Awakening of Fear by Michael Decesare, six-year-old Michael Toscani experiences fear for the first time, and it comes peacefully, a thought he had never had before, slipping into his mind. He hears something whisper his name in the dark and realizes fear isn't...

William J. McCoy and his wife, Olivia (Liv), are celebrating that they’re going to be parents. But on the drive home, the car blows a tire, and Liv is killed. William wakes up in the hospital totally bereft. He receives a visit from an odd...

Are you ready to be scared 25 times? An anthology of scary stories with wonderful twists at the end, which is the stuff of nightmares, is ready for you. Inside the pages you’ll meet a bus driver with an evil hobby, trees that come to...

In Joel Hopkinson’s The Devil of Dark Dreams, book one of The Otherworld Portals series, Afghan-Australian widower Yasir Nassim owns the Dead Palomino, a Brisbane steakhouse built around his love of country music. When employee Albert arrives bruised and exhausted, he claims a creature sits...

Dona Masi’s The Taking follows Vera Diparma, a girl in rural New England whose childhood is marked by lights in the sky and missing hours she cannot explain. Her father, John, raised her in an old house near Pangea after her mother, Suzy, disappeared under...

The Long Stall: Out of Phase, an intriguing science fiction story by Matt Rook, is a slow-burning narrative that offers a more mysterious take on a disturbance that is not from this world. Lucas’s family owned the Laguna Lodge near a lake, which had a...