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Deep in the Cumberland Mountains awaits an evil and Three Forks, Virginia is at the center. An old legend merges with a being beyond human comprehension, and Silas Sword has fallen face-first into it. Evicted from his apartment, and fired from his job as a detective, he is forced to return home to Three Forks, where he finds his parents brutally murdered. Silas is pulled into the local police to help investigate. As things unfold, he finds a mysterious cabin that morphs with each visit. Add in a mysterious blue mist, and a freak snowstorm, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Cosmic, apocalyptic, supernatural. They reside in boxes – squares, on the land, and the arid world around them scarcely resembles the Earth they once knew. But she does. She remembers it, even if she doesn’t want to. And her mind reminisces, ponders, and manifests uncomfortable visions. What is happening to her? Why are the hours moving slowly, more horrific each passing moment? Is it horror? Science fiction? Literary fiction? Like the protagonist, not quite contained, even if more comfortable to be so. A story of nightmares. A story of the spirit. A story of love.

1899. Ten long years since the shocking events that led to Constance Bentwith’s incarceration in Bedlam. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn has split asunder, becoming a hotbed for dangerous minds. 10 years ago, Richard and Lily Kramer left the trauma of London behind them for the tranquil town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. When an unexpected visitor from their past arrives, they are once again reluctantly drawn into the esoteric world of rituals and monsters. Only this time, the monsters are more human than they bargained for. And infinitely more dangerous.

Spanning ninety years as one family is displaced across Asia, this novel follows Young-Ja, who finds herself struggling to survive after her family is killed by Japanese soldiers. The magical gift that once brought her joy - the ability to infuse her cooking with her feelings: love, peace, delight - transforms into something more powerful as her sorrow and anger seeps into her confections. When her talent is noticed by a Korean resistance fighter, she's taken to Manchuria where she becomes enmeshed in a network of spies at a teahouse favored by Japanese officials.

A village on the brink of ruin seeks salvation from something dark and ancient. When payment comes due, they discover they aren’t so willing to pay the price, but the flames must be fed. Moloch comes.

Sully thought facing down his past would be the hardest part of this case. He was wrong. Now he’s racing against time—and a dark spirit from his childhood—to save his brother. Just before Christmas, Sully and Dez are summoned to help a young woman plagued by a frightening ghost in her new home. But this isn’t like any other job. This home has been built on the lot that once held the residence of the Blake family—the house Sully barely escaped with his life nearly twenty years ago. Sully connects nothing good with the place, his memories of abuse still vivid and barely held in check.

In the cold, bitter wasteland known as the Deadlands, it's hunt or be hunted. Somewhere on this frozen hellscape lurks a sinister demon, a creature hellbent on destroying the world as we know it. Natives call it the Wendigo—a spawn of Hell that embodies famine and pestilence. But its curse is not like that of a Lycan or Undead… A Wendigo's curse preys on the minds of mortal men. With the help of hostile environments, the Wendigo can make a weak-minded man see paradise, Tempting them with comfortable lies much better than harsh reality…

People said that he was possessed, that the Vexley spirits had taken him over, or that he had become something quite different. But he kept going, thinking he was close to getting the truth. The book informed him about veils and worlds and the Umbral Fold, a place that only a few people can see. There, it stated, was the reality about life, where nightmares come from, and the people who make everyone feel hopeless. Lionel thought he could enter this realm and come back with knowledge that would last forever via a ritual called the Midnight Gate.

A chilling collection of nine horror short stories inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos and the unknowable gods of the void. In the shadow of ancient stars, madness waits…Step into a world where the veil between reality and nightmare is dangerously thin. In this terrifying collection of nine short stories, you’ll journey from the lightless trenches of the deep sea to haunted forests, lonely space stations, and forgotten ruins where whispers in dead languages still echo. These aren’t just horror tales, they're creeping warnings from the abyss.

Auf der Flucht vor Thompsons grausamen Kopfgeldjägern, versucht Duncan Clairebourne das mysteriöse Rätsel zu lösen, das im letzten Willen seines Vaters niedergelegt ist. In Wraithe Hall erfährt Christopher Briden von der entsetzlichen Mordserie, die die Straßen Londons heimsucht. Der fanatische Kirchenfürst Morecraft hingegen nutzt die Gunst der Stunde, um öffentlich Hexen hinzurichten und seinen eigenen Machtanspruch zu festigen.

Psychic Ryley St. James has a million problems, but a haunted house isn't one of them. Until now. When a woman is attacked in a haunted house and sent to the hospital fighting for her life, her powerful fiance blackmails Ryley into uncovering the deadly secrets hidden on the property. The house reeks of ill warnings and bad tidings. This isn't what Ryley calls a typical haunting. It's an infestation, and the evil spirit residing inside refuses to cooperate. Now she'll have to risk her life to save her brother's career, her multi-million-dollar foundation, and her new unorthodox family.

People start dropping dead around Charlie, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.

Throughout fiction, there have always been heroes who have fallen from grace. Champions of honor, decency, and order who have become villains through some traumatic event or a deep personal flaw. Blackest Knights is a collection of 19 tales by some of independent fantasy's best authors that follow a collection of those heroes who fell to temptation. From tales of bloody-handed hypocrites to space pirates, you'll find some truly fascinating works within.

I'm back in Dearmont, and confused as hell. The world I left behind was on the brink of an apocalypse, but now it's business as usual. New case, new mystery, new danger. Sounds fun, right? When a mega-rich guy with a penchant for occult relics creates a televised competition to find thirteen magical bones, I'm all in. I have to win this thing to make sure the supernatural equivalent of a nuclear bomb doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot resist. Chia runs one of the best restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria, and is renowned among the male clientele for her captivating beauty and delicious hot pepper soup. But her hot pepper soup has a secret ingredient, and her beauty is not what it seems.

A vampire's existence is a delicate balance between predator and pretense. For Trish, that balance includes a loving husband, an innocent son, and a trail of bloodless corpses. When her latest hunt at Miller University goes awry, leaving a witness in its wake, her carefully maintained double life begins to crumble.

Ophelia wants one thing. Love. When she meets Ezra, she thinks she has found it—a community of women who live peacefully together and cater to one man. The concept of polyamory intrigues Ophelia, and she agrees to join.

An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she’s actually upset about his death. A group of teens discovers a machine that purports to predict the best day of its users’ lives. A young woman is horrified to discover that an aggressive stranger she met on a night of bar-hopping now manifests in every photo that is taken of her. A drunken posse descends into the woods in search of clowns that have been terrorizing their small town.

A young woman finds herself having nightmares every night only to realize that whatever she dreams becomes reality. Blood, gore and creatures not of this world never before seen come to life and they only want one thing. Her.

Set in the world of Wrought of Amber and Weeping Cedars, these eighteen short stories add to Alex's version of events by uncovering secrets she could never know and staring into darkness she could never imagine. Shards of Amber includes the tales of a killer who poses his victims, a model train set that appears mysteriously in an office lobby, an actor who must endure dreams of drowning, and the tale of an aspiring young writer who finds something unexpected in the West Virginia woods.