Jay Bower

Welcome to the Broken Brain Mental Institution, where we’ve collected the world's most deranged minds, from the criminally insane to the mentally disturbed and everything in between.

On a cold December afternoon, ten-year-old Tucker Smith enters the Christmas fair with his father.He never comes home.Parents Abbie and Dane are consumed by fear, guilt, and the growing suspicion that someone knows exactly where their son is. Their marriage begins to fracture beneath the strain...

Welcome to Willow Falls, where shadows conceal unimaginable horrors and legends come to life. Thirteen-year-old Joey Speight never expected the bone-chilling events that awaited him in this small river town. Uprooted from Chicago after his father's job loss, Joey’s resentment grows as he's...

He asked a demon for fame. It said yes. What follows are the private blog posts of Gaige Penrod, frontman and lead guitarist of a band called Cadaverous, recovered after the massacre at The Pageant and never meant to see daylight.

Immortal. Undying. The Conservator of Horror… Hidden within dusty shelves are tomes made of human flesh, Blood-soaked pages reveal tales once thought to be lost but now revealed for the first time by The Conservator. He spent decades collecting and preserving forgotten lore. Now, he’s...

Eternal life comes with its own set of problems. Walking corpses wasn’t one of them. Dorian awakens and discovers the world turned a little bit more...uncivilized. For a vampire, the old way of things were just that–the old way. And they worked. Hunting for sustenance wasn’t so literal of...

Kyle Ahrens has faced death before. Wrongly accused of killing his girlfriend, he barely escaped jail time. Now that he’s back in his small hometown, the gruesome murders have returned, and the eyeless bodies are more than he can handle....

In this small town, keeping secrets is a matter of life or death.... East St. Louis deputy Patrick O’Shea is tired of living in the line of fire. So when he gets a chance to transfer to his wife’s small hometown, he doesn’t hesitate to load up the moving van. But his family’s bags are...

Bloodthirst doesn’t stop when the dead inhabit the earth. But it does mean adapting how it’s filled. With the dead roaming free and a band of armed humans out to put an end to his eternal life, the vampire Dorian creates a sanctuary far from town.

From demons to cannibals… Fifteen horrific tales explore vast landscapes of terror, whether it’s the woods at the end of the street or the icy reaches of space. Nothing is off limits. Fear creeps through the tales and threatens to make the nightmares a reality. Delve into Hanging Corpses and...

Embark on the Coastal Express, where desire meets dread and darkness lurks in every compartment. Kurt and Emily seek to reignite the flames of their marriage amidst the debauchery of the hedonistic train, the Coastal Express.

Scavenging for blood was difficult. Feeding two is nearly impossible. Fending off the dead and living alike just got much more complicated. Dorian is no longer alone in the world of the undead. Now with someone under his protection, hunting for food consumes him. But the constant threat of the...