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...

A Black Magic by Joseph Stone follows Frances “Fran” Tarantino, a Barnard College student who can see Daedrian Crow, the ghost of an eighteenth-century Boston man bound to the women of her family. After discovering that contact between her blood and family writings can trigger...

Who Is Deloris Napoleon Shaw? by Justin Jones is all about Barry March, a broke sixty-five-year-old freelance writer who catches a huge break when he wins a competition to interview Deloris, a very private widow. Deloris Napoleon Shaw has stayed out of the public eye...

"This wasn’t some lazy mist drifting in for a nap. It slithered, serpentine and intentional -- malevolent as a living thing with a grudge.” Malice and death arrive hand in hand in Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution, a novel by J.R. Larriba. And when they do,...

Sol by DiVitto Kelly follows Sol, a stubborn senior citizen who has recently retired from running a Queens deli to enjoy his golden years in Miami Beach. A family vacation to his wife Myrna’s ancestral home in Romania disrupts this peaceful retirement when a vampire...

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...

Realm Travellers: A Queen’s Cradle by M.J. Raco marks the final chapter for a group of companions thrust into a dangerous parallel dimension. The story begins on Maxine’s seventeenth birthday, driven by her consuming desire to use a magical portal to bring back her deceased...

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...

It is 1891. Richard Carnby, Terrence Alexander “Axel” Hastings, Percival Wallace, Dr. Stanthorpe Whitehall, Emma Westover, and Jane Halifax each receive a letter offering membership in a clandestine organization. To accept, they must appear at a specific address. As they heed the invitation, they meet...