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Middle-Grade, Ages 9+Stevie Barton loves a scary story, until he finds himself living one! Two days before Halloween in Newhope, Vermont, Stevie takes a mysterious antique toy he finds abandoned in the spooky forest the townspeople call The Grove. Now, something wicked wants it back. Along with his best friend Angie Lewis, Stevie must find and stop the horror before it finds him.Middle-Grade, Ages 9+Stevie Barton loves a scary story, until he finds himself living one! Two days before Halloween in Newhope, Vermont, Stevie discovers a mysterious antique toy sitting in the spooky forest the townspeople call The Grove. He pockets the abandoned toy, but a local bully drives him deeper into the dark forest. Soon, Stevie learns that the bully is the least of his worries. Something evil slept in those dark woods, and he woke it. Now the evil is after him!Along with his best friend Angie Lewis, Stevie must find and stop the horror before it finds him.

Why run from death when you can make a deal? A short story about a woman who's looking to make an exit on her own terms.Riley is a workaholic veterinarian. She's approaching her 30th birthday and her loneliness is becoming more apparent and painful. She wants to start dating, but doesn't have any free time or knowledge on how to start. The subjectGarrett is a 32 year old widower. Even though he's a pack oriented wolf shifter, he hasn't been involved with the pack since his mate died three years earlier. But when he meets Riley, he realizes they are meant to be together. The only thing standing in their way is the Wolf Shifter Elder Council. Garrett needs to receive their permission to break the first law and tell Riley, a human, about the existence of the supernatural. If not, it could mean both of their lives.Will the council grant his request?

MYSTERY.  Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident.  During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t.  Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death.  When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons from the past and the dark secrets that still haunt the present.

In THE TALE OF THE VAMPIRE BRIDE, Lady Glynis suffered great horrors at the hands of her evil vampire master, Count Vlad Dracula, and vowed she would one day escape him. In THE VENGEANCE OF THE VAMPIRE BRIDE, Glynis learns to embrace the title of Countess Dracula as she sets into motion her plans to seek revenge on those who betrayed Glynis and her family to Dracula and to reunite with the man she loves. Despite her ambitions, it soon becomes quite apparent that her life continues to be overshadowed by the ominous presence of Vlad Dracula. Set in the 1820s against the lush gothic backdrop of Buda, Hungary, the tale of one vampire bride’s quest for love, revenge, and the right to determine her own way in life is a sweeping saga that will enthrall any reader who loves the beautiful, deadly vampires of old.

There’s only really one thing you can do when you escape from a madman; run.You just gotta hope he doesn’t catch up to you!Jaclyn has always known her family was unusual. Her mother is a witch and her father, well, he's been dead for almost 600 years. On her 23rd Halloween, family secrets will be revealed that change everything.(1st in the Season of the Witch series)

Jael is an average teen girl with over-protective parents, an unrequited crush on the hottest guy at school, & a best friend she shares everything with. Until her parents let her in on the secret they’ve kept for nearly 16 years… Jael is the Chosen One. Born to be a vampire slayer, her destiny was written in the Book of the Shunned. She's been chosen by God to set the Amish free from vampires.With tongue firmly in cheek and genuine Amish-made stakes at hand, The Amish Bloodsucker Trilogy sets off like a bat in the belfry. Jael the vampire slayer is ready to kick some serious bloodsucker butt. Seriously.Move over Buffy – there’s a new slayer in town! Raised in the desert of Nevada, and destined for the Minnesota Loon Lake Amish Community, Jael Shetler is the Chosen One. Trained by her uncle and father in twenty-one different forms of hand-to-hand combat – she also throws a knife with the speed of a bullet, and is accurate to within two centimeters of a cold, dead heart with her crossbow – she is a bloodsucker’s worst nightmare.Her parents, forced to leave their plain and simple upbringing to escape the clutches of the new Bishop – an ancient and powerful vampire with plans to use the Amish Community as his own personal Jamba Juice – raise and train their daughter to continue the fight begun thousands of years earlier by another Jael, and to fulfill the prophecy in the Book of the Shunned.Soon Jael is turning sweet sixteen and then … all hell will break loose.This is author Barbara Ellen Brink’s first foray into the world of Amish and Vampires – both of which scare her – but it won’t be the last. Watch for the 2nd book in The Amish Bloodsucker Trilogy… Shunned

One year after the fated outbreak of zombies in New York, the dreaded disease has reappeared. This time the zombies are too much for the military to defend and the United States is lost. After losing her entire family to the zombies, a young woman named Dany must seek shelter on her own. The journey, though hard, is not impossible because of one thing. Dany is immune to becoming a zombie.Sarah Amalfi and her best friend Samantha are headed to Tijuana looking for some summer fun after their high school graduation... but there’s something far more sinister looming over this road trip than an innocent shopping trip at Tijuana’s famous market place… Warnings from strangers, a vicious attack by a shadowy assailant, a charismatic stranger named Will…What do they want with Sarah?Sarah is forced to consider that there was nothing chance about her meeting with Will, but how can she accept the fantastic possibilities that Will presents to her? A hidden realm within our own, governed by cryptic magic, ancient alliances, demons… and passion beyond her understandingThe truth comes hard and fast in this riveting prequel to the romantic supernatural awakening of Gathering Storm!

A collection of short stories by Manoj Nair. Set in India the stories open up a world of mystery and horror through the eyes of the narrator.Enter the world of Nillium Neems, a mental patient living in the Atrium Psychiatric Ward who is diagnosed with schizophrenia -- or so they say anyways. Nil herself is not so sure. Can all of the creatures that she speaks to on a daily basis really be all in her head? Are the doctors that torment her night and day truly doing it for her own good? Or is she the only one who sees things as they actually are?Nothing is what it seems in this pyscho-thriller, a book about conspiracy, self-discovery, and insanity, which will leave you guessing until the very end, and perhaps far beyond it…

HALLOWED GROUND is a collection of Gothic and Lovecraftian short stories, poems, and essays set in idyllic Minnesota frontier towns, remote Irish fishing villages, a city carved from a decaying giant's corpse, and other vistas both familiar and foreign. It's like Lovecraft but without the racism, or Bram Stoker but with a sense of humor.HALLOWED GROUND is a collection of Gothic and Lovecraftian short stories, poems, and essays set in idyllic Minnesota frontier towns, remote Irish fishing villages, a city carved from a decaying giant's corpse, and other vistas both familiar and foreign. Explore themes of place, humanity, identity, and things with too many teeth. Learn what fairies are really like and how a hanged man can give you phenomenal cosmic knowledge in just twelve easy payments if you call today! It's like Lovecraft but without the racism, or Bram Stoker but with a sense of humor, or that weird guy who lives in a van but with an ability to concentrate for more than five minutes.

A horror novel by John Brunner? A science-fiction shocker by the man who wrote the "Hugo" winning STAND ON ZANZIBAR? By the author of THE JAGGED ORBIT, CATCH A FALLING STAR, TIMES WITHOUT NUMBER? Of course! The Brunner talent is manifest in this edge-of-the-seat novel about what happened when the first sea-bottom explorers brought up a not-so-dead body of an inhuman intelligence that had been sealed up for innumerable eons. Godzilla, Gorgo, King Kong...stand aside for THE ATLANTIC ABOMINATION!

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Based on real magic, real mystery, and real murder: A fictionalized account of one family’s incredible experience with Santeria, Voodoo, a demon, and a book of great magical power. One man distorted the power for criminal purposes and human sacrifice. When I turned his story into a novel, he cursed this book. And so every life touched upon by this villain, including my own, became spellboundBecause this tale is based on real events, this manuscript was cursed to keep the tale of real magic, real mystery, and real murder from being told. This is a fictionalized account based on one family’s incredible experience and the magical practices in Hispaniola and the United States. It is a tale of Santeria and Voodoo, and a book of great magical power, which if mishandled, could harm the user and spellbind the unwary. Such books are the Grand Grimoires of the Dominican Republic and their magic is contained by burying the book when not in use.The wrong person inherits the power and distorts it for criminal purposes and human sacrifice. And there were those who said he could take the form of a black horse or a dog. When I turned this story into a novel, I was told, “This is such a common occurrence in Dominica, why would anyone even bother writing it down?”Then he cursed this book. And every life touched upon by this villain, including my own, became spellbound.

Ed Pool is a zombie and the sheriff of Colfax County who struggles to manage crime and those who seek to do him harm and remove him from office. Resurrected from a cholera epidemic that struck a wagon train along the Oregon Trail in 1843, the zombie sheriff now deals with the modern world of 1976 and the petty politics of small town life.Ed Pool is a zombie and the sheriff of Colfax County who struggles to manage crime and those who seek to do him harm and remove him from office. Resurrected from a cholera epidemic that struck a wagon train along the Oregon Trail in 1843, the zombie sheriff now deals with the modern world of 1976 and the petty politics of small town life. Follow the adventure’s of the zombie sheriff and his deputies as they confront hatred and bigotry within the community as well as the crimes that plague rural America.

A group of young trick-or-treaters are up and ready for a night of Halloween scares, but they never expected that all the real fun would take place the next day...After seventeen-year-old Russell Whitford confronts and kills a rabid dog, he seeks to prevent the news from reaching the dog's owner, whose hair-trigger temper is well-known in the small town of Riley, Alabama. Russell can count on silence from two of the three witnesses who watched him hack Hector Graham's Bloodhound to death, but the third, Michael O'Brien, isn't like the other two. His allegiance isn't as fixed as Russell would like it to be.When the Centers for Disease Control arrive in town, and dogs begin running away, and gun shots start ringing out in the dead of night, Russell's summer goes from bad to worse. All he wants to do is play his piano and guitar, maybe walk his dog every now and then, not have the weight of the universe hoisted upon his shoulders.