When Robyn (a famous author) decides to write her masterpiece, she’s amazed to find how fast the words are flowing onto the page. But when she visits a small town in Wales to get some inspiration, things take a turn for the worse. Will she finish ‘The Crickley Bay Chronicles’?Character Building is a short story, also available in the Grown By The Wicked Moon collection by Jessica Grace Coleman. When Robyn (a famous author) decides to write her masterpiece, she’s amazed to find how fast the words are flowing onto the page. But when she visits a small town in Wales to get some inspiration, things take a turn for the worse. Will she finish ‘The Crickley Bay Chronicles’? Or will her ambitions just be too big this time? Want a Free Book? How About Two? The first book in my Little Forest paranormal mystery series, The Former World, is available for free from Smashwords, so why not check it out now? If you sign up to my mailing list at www.jessicagracecoleman.com, you can also get the second in the series, Memento Mori, absolutely free, as well as the opportunity to hear about my new releases and exclusive Readers’ Group competitions. How’s that for a bargain?

Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks. “Alden Bell provides an astonishing twist on the southern gothic: like Flannery O'Connor with zombies.” ―Michael Gruber, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Air and Shadows

Supernatural fantasy’s greatest anti-hero goes back to hell! In Sandman Slim Stark came back from hell for revenge. In Kill the Dead he tackled both a zombie plague and being Lucifer’s bodyguard. Once again all is not right in L. A. Lucifer is back in Heaven, God is on vacation, and an insane killer mounts a war against both Heaven and Hell. Stark’s got to head back down to his old stomping grounds in Hell to rescue his long lost love, stop an insane serial killer, prevent both Good and Evil from completely destroying each other, and stop the demonic Kissi from ruining the party for everyone. Even for Sandman Slim, that’s a tall order. And it’s only the beginning.

Warning: experimental translation (hybrid)Helen and Angel are twin. Bright researcher her, talented actor he, lives in a Milan from the thousand lights that conceal thousand shades. The darkest is that projected by an organization whose purpose, shared secretly from the Great ones of the Earth, it is the human cloning. Both are attracted of it, and both escape from it, in a game of...Warning: experimental translation (hybrid)Helen and Angel are twin. Bright researcher her, talented actor he, lives in a Milan from the thousand lights that conceal thousand shades. The darkest is that projected by an organization whose purpose, shared secretly from the Great ones of the Earth, it is the human cloning. Both are attracted of it, and both escape from it, in a game of aspirations and fears that the fragile human nature cannot hold up. Not even theirs, that are the Children sent on the Earth of the narrator of the history, a Lucifero never as in these pages anxious to ransom his image. Custodian of an ancestral message, every man has called to follow the walk of the protagonists through the dirts of the world and to find in himself the last destiny. Inevitable destiny, written for all in the blood from a Father until too much ground. Helen and Angel will bring so to conclusion their mission. Totally unaware of what is it.

Deep in the Amazon rain-forest a team finds a lost tribe, and they have been lost for a reason.The evil that they represent has never since been seen since the Conquistadors, until now.When a teenager is found dead by the roadside under strange circumstances Chief Jim Hawk has to find the killer. A man fulfills his dream about finding a lost city deep in the jungle, but what he finds will not only change him forever, but will also bring death to a small town. If you have read about "The highway of Tears", this novella might be for you.

Let me try to reason it out. This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herself into my body and take command of it. She has a parasite soul; yes, she is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell. I am powerless! What can I do? I am dealing with forces of which I know nothing. And I can tell no one of my trouble. They would set me down as a madman. Certainly, if it got noised abroad, the university would say that they had no need of a devil-ridden professor. And Agatha! No, no, I must face it alone.

They are known by many names, from Gods and Immortals to Demons and Vampires. They are whispers in the shadows, myths, and legends. They have existed alongside mankind for thousands of years, always in hiding, always feeding. They are are the top of the food chain and humanity is their only prey.AUTHORS NOTE: About six months ago I finished my first novel (Chronicles of the Vampire Hunters: The Coalition). The finished product was well over six hundred pages long, was unedited, and had NUMEROUS grammatical and punctuation errors. Also due to its length several elements of the story had to be left out. So instead of moving on to my next project, I decided to improve upon The Coalition. So I broke the novel up into three parts, had it edited, and added previously left out scenes(including a new prologue) making it a more complete story. If you've read The Coalition before I hope that you will be happy with the new material and if not I'm confident you will enjoy this first novel following Jake and his family's adventures. So here it is, the first part of The Coalition Trilogy: Creation. They are known by many names, from Gods and Immortals to Demons and Vampires. They are whispers in the shadows, myths, and legends. They have existed alongside mankind for thousands of years, always in hiding, always feeding. They are are the top of the food chain and humanity is their only prey. Alone and outnumbered a small group of men and women stand their ground, fighting to drive back the darkness anyway they can. They are our first, last, and only line of defense against monsters that know no fear. They are the Vampire Hunters. Jake Bishop is a normal, easy going kid that spends his summer days playing with his action figures and watching cartoons. The biggest, Earth shattering problem is his life are his parent's nonstop arguments over money. That all changes one hot summer night, when a demon from his father's past comes crashing back into his life. Jake is plunged into a surreal, terrifying world beyond his worst nightmares. Jake is nearly killed, his mother kidnapped, sending his father into a mad quest for revenge. Jake learns two truths, vampires exist and the Bishops have been hunting them for hundreds of years. And they are VERY good at what they do.

A gifted young woman with the ability to see and speak with spirits crosses paths with the Devil one night. A secret order known as the Gatekeepers reaches out to her, promising answers. The Gatekeepers give her a choice: go back to her 'normal' life where nobody understands her or her visions... or join the order, learn to control her gifts, and go in search of the Devil himself.April Frausini can see ghosts. When she was younger, her parents had treated her like a child with a broken brain. They took April to doctors. The doctors sent her to specialists. The specialists put her on drugs. And when the drugs failed to stop the visions, the specialists zapped her brain.After that, April told them that the ghosts had gone.She lied.Now she’s in college and trying to forge a future for herself, but a chance encounter with a dark spirit in a bar puts a bit of a hold on things.A man named Jameson Talbot reaches out to her, explaining that there are worse things than ghosts to be afraid of. The spirit she saw the other night was no mere ghost, but the Devil himself in spectral form. If she chooses, Talbot promises to teach her to control her gift of sight, so that they may help others who have been tormented by these spirits, and potentially put a stop to whatever the Devil has planned.April must choose. Go back to a life where nobody understands her or her visions? Or follow Talbot, find a purpose, and walk down a dangerous path in search of the Devil himself?

Explore the true anatomy of horror through these 13 tales of despair and terror written by the author of the original short story "Psychosis."Explore the true anatomy of horror through these 13 tales of despair and terror written by the author of the original short story "Psychosis."PsychosisThe BonewalkerThe Fire of the Soul"Come Closer"ScribblingsThe LodgeCorrespondenceStrangers in a GraveyardThe Lonely GraveThe BasementErosionStrange ThingsThe Seven Horsemen of the ApocalypseApproximately 32,000 words.

Inspired by the horror stories of Poe, this is a tale of man dogged by the curse of a perished lighthouse keeper.What Grant Smith loses at seven is much more than his father. He loses his faith, his happiness—his identity. The years turn him into a man without reason. At eighteen he is just as lost as when he was a child. All he wants is happiness. One day it is found in the form of a girl named Chelsea. She is damaged much like him. They fall in love.Grant is a man haunted by things he has always avoided. Despite a new sense of happiness he can’t escape the darkness that was born within him. It manifests in the form of a father now transformed by his own demons.In a dream he frenetically claims happiness. But, the father with a monster attached mocks him for it. The truth he doesn’t want to face is that he is not happy. Or if he is, he fears it is only temporary.And it is…The war that started after 9/11 branches off into others; the president who promised change is reelected; a once bright future has become something bleak. The Draft is put back into effect.On a day when two explosions paint the sky in Baghdad, Grant unleashes his darkness. Every choice has a consequence. His is unimaginable.His father’s death left him a man without reason. The war leaves him a man changed for the worse. He knows of his darkness. He let it free. And now it threatens to take away everything he loves…

Cave Man leaves Biker Heaven and takes a ride through time. He goes back to a simpler time and place, watching the young soldier who would be his father come back from the war. He watches the Road Dogs come into existence. He watches the love between a father and a son grow, and in the process, learns to understand his father and love him all the more for it.Short Story: Life is perfect for Haruka, a beautiful young woman recently married to a man she loves. But when a tragic accident claims her husband, everything falls apart. Distraught and on the edge of taking her own life, she recalls her husband's promise to return to her in his next life.

It's a slow night for Gracie, the third shift waitress at the Pink Panther Truck Stop, but things are about to get a whole lot livelier when a disgruntled former customer (or at least part of one) shows up looking for some payback... Attack of the Crawling Hand is the first short story in the Tales of Truck Stop Terror series.It's a slow night for Gracie, the third shift waitress at the Pink Panther Truck Stop, but things are about to get a whole lot livelier when a disgruntled former customer (or at least part of one) shows up looking for some payback...Attack of the Crawling Hand is the first short story in the Tales of Truck Stop Terror series.

Avery Snider is a high school jock, and his family had just lost a close cousin. His other set of cousins ask Avery to watch over their son, Josh, while the families go out of state to attend the funeral.Avery and a friend both learn that autistic traits could actually serve as a doorway to the Paranormal…A short story from the prize winning author of "Resolution"."Drive carefully, there’s a frost again tonight.”A teenager asks his domineering father if he can borrow the car with dramatic consequences."Drive is an edgy flash fiction contemporary family life story with a dash of mystery and a conclusion that lingers in your thoughts long after you’ve read ‘The End’." MDG

The Giving of Things Cold & Cursed is a haunting tale by critically-acclaimed horror author, Terry M. West. Baker Johnson is a flawed parapsychologist in the year 1925. After the death of Richard Johnson, Baker inherits his uncle's estate and moves into the legendary psychical researcher's home."[The Giving of Things Cold & Cursed is] beautifully written, superbly edited and trying to explain the incredible depth of aesthetic in this particular short is like trying to explain the virtues of a well aged Scotch vs moonshine."-Heather Omen, The Horror NationThe Giving of Things Cold & Cursed is a haunting tale by critically-acclaimed horror author, Terry M. West. Baker Johnson is a flawed parapsychologist in the year 1925. After the death of Richard Johnson, Baker inherits his uncle's estate and moves into the legendary psychical researcher's home. But he soon discovers that the Black Room of the property, the place where haunted items are safely contained, has been emptied.

A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning. Celebrated author Vivian Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of thirteen scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night. With tales that range from the disturbing to the downright gruesome, this is one collection that teens will want to read with the lights on . . . and the doors locked.