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Coffin Shadows

by Mark Steensland

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Submitted: Jun 4, 2023

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12 years ago Janet Martlee’s infant son died under mysterious circumstances. Consumed with grief and anger, she ran away to start again... Yesterday, a 12-year-old boy with dead eyes appeared in her classroom, begging for help. But Janet doesn’t believe in ghosts... Today, her psychiatrist tells her she must return home to confront her past and uncover the mystery of what happened... Only some questions don’t want to be answered. And some answers hide in the shadows...

Bitters

by Kaaron Warren

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Submitted: May 23, 2023

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The giant metal man has stood for hundreds of years, head tilted back, mouth open. All the dead of the town are disposed of this way, carried up the long, staircase that winds around him and tipped in. At his toe emerges the Bitters, the lifeblood of the town, keeping them healthy and prosperous as the sick and needy come to buy and drink. McNubbin is a happy man with all he wants in life. He’s carried the bodies up since he was 14, a worthwhile, respected job. But when he notices...

The Night Marchers: And other Strange Tales

by Daniel Braum

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Submitted: May 13, 2023

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Like a vinyl record from days gone by, author Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mysticism. Braum’s multi-dimensional characters are drawn into dark worlds and investigate the unexplainable at the edges of civilization.

Vampire Juice

by Reuben Shupp

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Submitted: May 5, 2023

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A Horror Mystery Adventure! Amanda and Sean stumble upon a mysterious can of juice while searching for Halloween costumes at a local store. Despite being kicked out by the sales clerk, they become obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the strange drink. With the help from some local bullies, they sneak back into the store through a crypt in the graveyard, only to find themselves in the midst of a spine-chilling adventure.

Evil Whispers

by Owl Goingback

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Submitted: Apr 30, 2023

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Robert and Janet Patterson and their young daughter, Krissy, went looking for the perfect getaway vacation spot. They found it in a backwoods Florida town. Far away from civilization. Quiet and peaceful. And terribly isolated. Robert and Janet should have listened to the local legends. They should have heeded the warnings about the black water lagoons. And they should have listened to their daughter when she told them about the whispers in the woods. Because now, it's too late....

Grandma the Barbarian

by Trinity Zook

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Submitted: Apr 21, 2023

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Chuck wishes he had a normal grandma. Puberty can be a difficult and confusing time in any boy’s life, and 11-year-old Chuck just wants to be like all the other boys—navigating school crushes, humiliating bullies, popping awkward boners are all part of Chuck’s daily battles—and he would give anything to just blend in. Unfortunately for Chuck, his grandma is anything but ordinary. Interdimensionally infamous Edith the Bone Muncher is a 10-foot tall, bikini-clad,...

DMV

by Bentley Little

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Submitted: Apr 14, 2023

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Successful author Todd Klein and his wife Rosita live a quiet small town life. Todd's latest novel is selling well and despite recent budget cuts, Rosita relishes her job at the local library. After years of marriage, they're still in love, the mortgage to their suburban home is paid off, and their future is bright. Until, that is, Todd makes an appointment at the Department of Motor Vehicles to renew his license. Jorge Guiterrez, Rosita's younger brother, hasn't been so...

The Massacre at Yellow Hill

by C. S. Humble

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Submitted: Apr 8, 2023

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When George Miller is killed in the mines of Yellow Hill, his wife and children are left to try and piece their lives back together. Tabitha Miller, George’s widow, is thrown into deeper chaos when she discovers that George’s death had nothing to do with the cave’s collapse, but was caused by some terrible predator deep within the earth. His death covered up by the mine’s Proprietor-Jeremiah Hart. In nearby Big Spring, freed slave-turned-occult bounty hunter Gilbert...

The Soulless Man Part 4 Drug Money

by James skillman

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Submitted: Mar 31, 2023

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It's been 3 years since they have laid The Soulless Man to rest. Brownsville living in peace now but only to the public's eye. Dark days are beginning for the town of Brownsville once again with people being found dead. The cause of death, drug overdose. Police has seen a raise in drug activity within the town of Brownsville and know there is a drug dealer within its limits since the election of a new sheriff as the activity got bigger. Justin's Dad had passed on because of unknown...

Tell Me When I Disappear: Vanishing Stories

by Glen Hirshberg

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Submitted: Mar 28, 2023

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From Glen Hirshberg, Shirley Jackson- and International Horror Guild Award-winning author of Infinity Dreams and the Motherless Children trilogy, comes a collection suffused with creeping dread about what’s being lost. And what that will cost. And what just might be circling back for us: In a decaying northern California fishing town, the last locals attempt to save a vengeful widow from herself as yet another storm bears down. But this storm is bringing something worse than waves or...

Woody Allen Makes a Scary Sandwich: Horror Pastiche, Stories & Poems

by Karen S. Cole

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Submitted: Mar 12, 2023

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Heywood "Woody" Allen: Over time, Allan Stewart Konigsberg and I have associated with each other. This is the first in a series of books compiling a few short stories we've distantly collaborated on throughout the past 25 years. I am a book ghostwriter and editor of long standing, and these "tall tales" reflect a variety of genres including horror fiction, humorous sci-fi and narrative nonfiction. Woody Allen has forever fascinated me as a friend, a mentor and a...

Sunny Pines

promoted by Kevin Lucia

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Submitted: Feb 28, 2023

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After an absence of twenty-two years, childhood friends Connor, Miguel, and Jelica agree to meet at Sunny Pines, the mobile home park where they grew up. Sunny Pines had always been a violent place, where drugs and crime were prevalent and visits from the police commonplace. Some say it had been built on bad ground, a spoiled, cursed land. Nothing positive ever came from Sunny Pines, and those who managed to escape it carried the traumas from that environment wherever they wound up. For...

sold by Kevin Lucia

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Submitted: Feb 28, 2023

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After an absence of twenty-two years, childhood friends Connor, Miguel, and Jelica agree to meet at Sunny Pines, the mobile home park where they grew up. Sunny Pines had always been a violent place, where drugs and crime were prevalent and visits from the police commonplace. Some say it had been built on bad ground, a spoiled, cursed land. Nothing positive ever came from Sunny Pines, and those who managed to escape it carried the traumas from that environment wherever they wound up. For...

Beasts of 42nd Street

by Preston Fassel

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Submitted: Feb 28, 2023

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From the award-winning author of Our Lady of the Inferno comes another tale of New York in the Bad Old Days: A saga of murder, bloodshed, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Times Square at the height of its decadence and depravity. In the kingdom of the damned that is 42nd Street, there’s no lowlier subject than Andy Lew. An unrepentant junkie, voyeur, and degenerate, he’s only tolerated by the more dangerous men around him because he keeps the projectors at the Colossus...

The Eater of Gods

by Dan Franklin

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Submitted: Feb 24, 2023

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Nothing really dies if it's remembered, his wife had told him. In the dying village of Al Tarfuk, lost among the war-stained dunes of eastern Libya, professor Norman Haas learns the location of the tomb that had been his wife’s life pursuit. The final resting place of Kiya, the lost queen of Akhenaten, whose history had been etched from the stone analogues of history for her heresies against the long absent pantheon of Egyptian gods. He never expected to discover that the tomb...

The Year of the Storm

by John Mantooth

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Submitted: Feb 10, 2023

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In this haunting, suspenseful novel, John Mantooth takes readers to a town in rural Alabama where secrets are buried deep, reality is relative, and salvation requires a desperate act of faith. When Danny was fourteen, his mother and sister disappeared during a violent storm. The police were baffled. There were no clues, and most people figured they were dead. Only Danny still holds out hope that they’ll return. Months later, a disheveled Vietnam vet named Walter Pike shows up at...

Dark Tales of Cryptids and Truck Drivers

by Michael Kelso

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Submitted: Feb 9, 2023

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Buckle up! It's gonna be a bumpy ride. The glowing eyes of a malevolent creature you can’t fully see. A sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. The lurking dread that things are not as they should be. All this while driving down the road and dealing with idiot drivers. The road is a perilous place to be, but nowhere near as hazardous as what lurks just out of sight. Driving a truck for a living can be treacherous. Sometimes peril comes from unexpected places. Strange and...

In the Porches of My Ears

promoted by Kevin Lucia

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Submitted: Jan 12, 2023

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LEAN CLOSER. Let these stories whisper poison into your ears. This debut full length collection from Norman Prentiss opens with the Bram Stoker Award-winning title story, where an overheard conversation in a movie theater has unexpected effects on a couple’s relationship. In other unsettling tales: suffer the consequences of an ill-timed Halloween prank; encounter strange creatures in the woods or in an airport waiting room; visit an abandoned amusement park or a secluded town of...

In the Scrape

promoted by Kevin Lucia

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Submitted: Jan 12, 2023

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Most kids dream about a new bike, a pair of top-dollar sneakers endorsed by their favorite athlete, or that totally awesome videogame everyone’s raving about. But thirteen-year-old Jake and his little brother Matthew want nothing more than to escape from their abusive father. As soon as possible, they plan to run away to California, where they will reunite with their mother and live happily ever after. It won’t be easy, though. After a scuffle with a local bully puts Jake’s...

Tales from a Dead End World

by Robert Sohl

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Submitted: Dec 17, 2022

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There's something for everyone in this new collection of tales from the author of The Shadow of Death and Beyond The Veil Of Death! Travel back to the legendary past and fight to end an apocalyptic war with the assassin Akshani, solve a strange mystery with the young PI Matt Spike, investigate a deadly haunted house with the psychic Athena Anderson, discover who framed a secret society of mages for a terrible crime with the Grand Inquisitor, and join the witch Wendy and her apprentice...