Foster: A Love Story

Skyler Seabrooke lives for helping animals. Those in need of saving, she saves. Those in need of fostering, she fosters. Skyler is a hard-working employee at the local animal shelter, and has dedicated more than half her life to rescuing and caring for animals in need. When Skyler gets a call about an abandoned animal on the outskirts of town, she doesn’t hesitate to go out and rescue it before the animal succumbs to the elements. This infant is different, though, and as it begins to grow under Skyler’s foster care, she realizes she is caring for something that doesn’t belong in her home. It’s something big—something dangerous. Skyler knows allowing it to stay with her isn’t safe, but the love she has for her foster pet is overpowering her sense of right and wrong. As the repercussions for keeping such a dangerous animal become horrifically apparent to Skyler, she is forced to make a difficult decision. Just how far is she willing to go to protect the foster pet she has come to love? She needs to decide quickly, though, because unbeknownst to Skyler, time is running out for the both of them.

Meet Danielle McCrory

Danielle McCrory is a writer from Tucson, Arizona. Danielle started writing because she believes there are still so many scary stories left untold. She loves horror movies, animals, rainy days, and Halloween. Foster is her second novel.

Suckerville

A CREATURE FEATURE WITH TEETH…

JD Speers is having a stretch of bad luck: his wife left him, the law is on his tail, and to top it all off, bloodsucking leech people are attacking his favorite bar. Together with his buddy Rowdy and the barflies of Doc’s Dockside Tavern, JD must stop the suckers before they spread their contagion up and down the Mississippi River.


Meet Chris Sorensen

Chris Sorensen is the bestselling author of The Nightmare Room, The Hungry Ones, The Messy Man, Suckerville and Bee Tornado. He’s penned over a dozen plays for Thin Air Theatre Company and the Butte Theater of Colorado, including A Haunting at the Old Homestead, The Vampire of Cripple Creek, and Dr. Jekyll’s Medicine Show. He lives with his wife and pups in the Garden State of New Jersey, where he splits his time between writing spooky stories and narrating audiobooks. Chris has narrated over 250 titles for Audible Studios, Tantor Media, Recorded Books, and many others. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the Horror Writers Association. When he’s not writing or recording, you can find him haunting old bookstores and Indian restaurants.

Sanguine

The newest installment of the Blood of Cain series! “They’re just roses, baby. Roses in the snow.” On her way to Chicago to reckon with Dekker’s past, Frankie Mourning takes a detour into the town of Red Rock, Idaho, where strange things are happening, all seemingly connected to a young woman called Annalise Stoppard. Annalise has a peculiar power over her dreams, a power which has turned her life into a waking nightmare. Without Frankie’s help she will be swallowed up by her own mind, putting the lives of everyone around her in danger. Grappling with Dekker’s resurrection, a shifty psychiatrist up to no good, and their own complicated feelings for one another, Frankie doesn’t have time to play games. With Dekker growing more vulnerable by the moment, Frankie learns the source of the danger is a god trapped in a dream world of Annalise’s making – a god who threatens to darken the very fabric of reality if she can’t save Annalise Stoppard. If that happens, Dekker may well be lost to her for good. And if something happens to Thomas Dekker, one thing is certain: no one is safe from Frankie Mourning. Absolutely no one.

Meet J.L. Murray

J.L. Murray is the author of the Niki Slobodian series (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The Devil Is a Gentleman, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Devil Was an Angel, and The Devil’s Backbone), The Thirteen series (Jenny Undead and Eat the Ones You Love), After the Fire, Blood Day, Blood of the Stars, the Blood of Cain series (Monstrous, Hoarfrost), and the Gothic Folk series (The Hungry Deep). Murray is a firm believer that horror can be beautiful, and that good and evil are very far from black and white. She lives with her family in Eugene, Oregon and can be reached on Facebook at facebook.com/jlmurraywriter and through her website jlmurraywriter.com.

The Retreat

They arrive as strangers but during therapy they will reveal their innermost secrets to each other in order to try and move forward in their lives and leave behind their collective tragedies, sharing can be healing after all. But is everyone here what they seem? Some guilty secrets are meant to stay buried.

Meet Matt Drabble

Born Bath, England in 1974, a self-professed “funny onion”, equal parts Metal-Head Sport Loving Jock and Gaming Comic Book Geek. An A.S sufferer who took to writing full time after being forced to give up work. A prolific multi award winning author of dark fiction. These are stories with a horrifying beating black heart & a vicious twist in the tale. A firm believer in three dimensional character driven tales and the fact that every character, no matter how small, must always live and breathe.

After Dark – The Vampire Next Door Book Two

In Night Home: The Vampire Next Door Volume I, the fact that vampires truly exist was almost accidentally made public when a story presented as fiction seemed all too real to an amateur vampire hunter, who at the end, was made to remain silent about the secrets he discovered. But it doesn’t end there: the tale circulates as far as the west coast, where a small community of vampires have been quietly hiding; and to them, also, this story is too close to reality to be just a fantasy. But while they take the time to decide whether to attempt contact with their own kind so far away, they have their own local problems to deal with. A savage and barbaric serial killer, suspected of being a vampire, lurks in their own city, stalking the innocent at night. Will the vampires be able to stop the killer before they are blamed for his acts of extreme horror? And that’s not all. A beautiful yet tragic and suicidal young woman wanders like a lost angel from out of the darkness and into their midst, hoping a vampire will make her end swift and easy.

Meet Rose Titus

Rose Titus resides somewhere in cold, dreary New England with two manipulative cats and a very out of date computer with which she creates horror and fantasy fiction. She also has a restored classic Buick to ride around in while in search of adventure. For travel she has stayed the night in an allegedly haunted castle, has taken a boat ride on Loch Ness, and has visited the Bermuda Triangle — without getting lost. Her work has previously appeared in Lost Worlds, Lynx Eye, Bog Gob, Mausoleum, Weird Terrain, Descend, The Dead River Review, and other literary magazines. She also writes regularly for Blood Moon Rising Magazine.

Kingsrise

A sleepy town on the west coast of England. Nothing really happens here. Until now…

Two stabbings. The victims: a man named Arthur and a mysterious knight. Detective Inspector Niamh Khalid finds herself drawn into a world of myth, magic, and betrayal. Can she solve an impossible case and keep her brother safe?

Things aren’t looking too great for DI Niamh Khalid. Her brother Lance has been arrested, her superior officer is breathing down her neck, and she is investigating an attempted murder, with no suspects and no clues to the identity of the victim.

Then, Lance and his friends discover another dead body: a young man, dressed as a knight.

Soon, a series of terrifying incidents threaten to derail Niamh’s investigation. Lance is clearly hiding something, and Niamh’s journalist ex-fiancé is back in her life, asking awkward questions.

When criminal barrister Merlin Rhys seeks her out with a stunning revelation, Niamh begins to appreciate just how strange and frightening a mystery she and Lance have become involved in.

Can myth and magic be real? Can they help Niamh solve her case, and save both her brother and her world?

Police procedural meets Arthurian fantasy. Fans of Ben Aaronovich, V.E. Schwab and women detectives will love Kingsrise, an urban fantasy mystery by first-time author Anne Mattias.

“Kingsrise was a wonderful read, combining mystery, fantasy, and legend seamlessly.” – Goodreads review.

“Whether you enjoy detective stories or fantasy or are a fan of Arthurian legend, you’re going to find this book an enjoyable read that will captivate your imagination and take you on the adventure of a lifetime.” – The Faerie Review


Meet Anne Mattias

Anne Mattias is a British author, who loves books, films, plays, and cats (oh, and also cake – lots and lots of cake!). She tried writing her very first novel at the age of eight, but the draft was sucked into another world when a portal opened in her great-grandmother’s haunted cellar. These days, when she isn’t making stuff up, she enjoys running, swimming, laughing at eighties movies with her brother, and catching the latest musical theatre shows.

Pina Coladas and Rats

This is a brand new release coming out on June 30th. It’s 99 cents for a limited time until July 5th.

Meet Angel Ramon

Angel Ramon is an author of Survival Horror GameLit and enjoys scaring the hell out of his readers while providing a roller coaster ride. He likes to plunge his readers into reads that make them feel like they’re in a video game! Zombies are only the beginning for this Amazon Bestseller for Horror Short stories. When he is not scaring himself to sleep, he likes to play video games and keeps wishing he could turn back time to his childhood where pop culture was a whole heck of a lot better. Nobody knows who this Angel Ramon is, but he is sure to scare you to the point where you’re better off never meeting him in real life.

Key 13: And Other Stories

Rose Titus, author of The Vampire Next Door Trilogy, now brings together a collection of her best short stories. Here in this book you will find tales of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, space aliens, and even a few angels. These stories answer questions such as where do we go after we die? What is the future of this planet? And what is the future of humanity? There are also stories of young runaways, old hippies, worried mothers, troubled families, love gone horribly wrong, selfish billionaires, people who find themselves suddenly homeless, old men with their recollections of days gone by, and girls gone wild! There may even be a murder or two…

Meet Rose Titus

Rose Titus resides somewhere in cold, dreary New England with two manipulative cats and a very out of date computer with which she creates horror and fantasy fiction. She also has a restored classic Buick to ride around in while in search of adventure. For travel she has stayed the night in an allegedly haunted castle, has taken a boat ride on Loch Ness, and has visited the Bermuda Triangle — without getting lost. Her work has previously appeared in Lost Worlds, Lynx Eye, Bog Gob, Mausoleum, Weird Terrain, Descend, The Dead River Review, and other literary magazines. She also writes regularly for Blood Moon Rising Magazine.

Terror in Brief: Volume II

Another collection of 200 frightening horror stories that are just two sentences long. These tales may be extremely short, but they can still induce fear and panic. Meet the deranged and murderous, witness what beasts and spirits can do and watch as terrifying incidents wreck people’s lives.

Meet D. T. Adams

D. T. Adams is a British writer, poet and author of the novel No Going Back. His writing varies from poetry and rants about modern society, to two-sentence stories, horror stories and more. He’s particularly interested in the complexities of 21st-century life and complains about these a lot in some of his e-books. You won’t find any photos of him since he prefers to remain anonymous. However, he’s prepared to reveal that he enjoys reading, travelling and walking up hills – the more exhausting the climb, the better!

Hand of Retribution

When Brianna Hatherd’s family falls victim to a brutal home invasion, her life is shattered, and she’s compelled to return to her hometown of Cullton, Pennsylvania. But as she confronts the wreckage left behind, she’s met with a chilling silence from the local authorities. Undeterred, Bri digs deep within herself and makes a heartfelt plea for justice, desperately hoping that someone will answer her call and bring solace. Little does Bri know that her plea has not gone unheard. Soon after, an insidious series of supernatural deaths begin to plague Cullton. Daunted by premonitory dreams, Bri delves into the enigma as suspicion descends upon her. Just when she feels hope slipping away, a stranger reveals the shocking truth about the town’s darkest secrets and the unimaginable price that comes with answered prayers. Within the depths of Cullton, where whispers linger, and unseen forces stir, Bri must summon her courage and face the unknown. With time ticking away and her loved ones’ lives at stake, Bri embarks on a race against a fate she never dreamed possible.

Meet K. L. Bedwell

From an early age, storytelling fascinated me. The art of transporting someone to another time and place has no measure. Embrace and draw from your surroundings, and the world is your playground. Let your mind wander, and your world can transform into something unimaginable that screams to be shared. For now, my wife and I call the east coast of the United States home. And If I’m not behind the keyboard, I can be found shredding the trails on my mountain bike.