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Am Strand von Cawsand werden Goldmünzen eines jahrhundertealten gesunkenen Schatzschiffs gefunden. Tempest, der von den Ereignissen in Cawsand nichts mitbekommen hat und glaubt, dass eine Woche Urlaub überfällig sei, reist mit seinen Hunden nach Cornwall, um sich zu entspannen und vielleicht den einen oder anderen Cream Tea zu genießen. Die Chancen dafür stehen schlecht, denn noch bevor er sein zweites Bier ausgetrunken hat, steckt er schon mitten in der Geschichte mit den mörderischen Geistern.

Could you abandon someone you love, leaving them behind with absolutely no memory of the life you shared if it meant sparing their life? Could you willingly surrender yourself into the hands of the one that wants you dead, if it meant your loved one would survive? And what would you give to see them again? These are the questions The Dante Family must face in The Kindred.

“Absolutely superb—grips like a vice throughout and has a perfect, bold ending that no one will see coming. An utter masterpiece of the murder mystery and the legal thriller genre.”—Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done and The...

When aging artist David Bittacy develops an increasingly intimate bond with the forest surrounding his home, his devotion to the trees becomes something deeper—mystical, unsettling, and profoundly transformative. His wife Sophia, rooted in conventional faith and fearful of the wild unknown, watches with growing dread as the woods seem to claim her husband in ways she cannot understand.

Briar Hollow has always lived under the shadow of its abandoned viaduct—but when livestock vanish, ground tremors shake the valley, and children describe a tall grey figure perched on the arches at dusk, the quiet rural mystery turns into a waking nightmare. Investigative journalist Elise Carnby arrives expecting exaggeration and folklore. Instead, she finds a valley slowly collapsing in on itself—and a creature that appears only when disaster is moments away.

A brutal tale of madness, murder, and the occult — from Wrath James White, master of extreme horror and splatterpunk fiction.

Acceptance is impossible: a state of being those left behind eventually stumble to through the haze of loss. For Hugh, it's something to be held at arm's-length. He can't let go of his lost husband nor his stranded daughter. So, he cycles through the first four stages of grief over and over while killing in the name of a despicable man. The apathy keeps him alive.

When a young occultist inherits their estranged father’s house, they find more than dust and old memories. Marginal notes hide forbidden lore. Journals whisper about bargains that should never have been made. And the deeper they read, the more the house seems to… notice.

Hazel Russon’s life in 1882 Utah territory is defined by three things: the Mormon church, polygamy, and the men who control both. She knows she’s supposed to suppress her sinful dreams of a monogamous life with her sweetheart, and her desire for the freedom to play her beloved piano. Every Mormon woman’s duty is to live obediently and meekly, devoted to her husband and her calling as a sister wife. Her eternal salvation depends upon it. Commanded to become the fourth wife of a man she’s never met, Hazel is relieved that Jacob Manwaring is attentive and handsome.

Cancel your plans, witches and warlocks! You're invited to tonight's Firewick Festival. Taking multiple lovers is a family tradition. Hell, it's a witch tradition, but Charice Brixton isn't having it. She doesn't have time for a man, let alone two powerful warlocks. She's perfectly fine running...

At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and that’s it. No friends, no family. When he’s done with work, he returns home—a remote, single room apartment located above a garage—and that is where his true work begins.

I lost everything. And I gained one thing... another chance. A new beginning presented before me. And now I am.

Hazel and her daughter Lily move to Blackmoss Cottage to escape a recent tragedy. At first the house feels like the perfect place to rebuild their lives. But appearances can be deceptive. In the surrounding villages, old superstitions still thrive. People whisper of covens gathering beneath the moonlit trees, and hang sprigs of rowan in their windows to ward off the Witch of Blackmoss Cottage.

A goth teen ditches his soul-crushing grocery job for easy cash from an all-too-perfect realtor. The address: a condemned high-rise on the dead side of town. The nursery: a shadowed penthouse crib at the top of a rotting tower. Inside writhes a thing of bottomless hunger—one the faces on every missing-kid poster couldn’t satisfy.

A once-in-a-lifetime interview opportunity offers a journalist a horrifying glimpse at what awaits the world... A mysterious group showcases their plans for the next step of human evolution... An elderly woman paints innumerable portraits of the same house from every angle, and the same occupant that dwells within it... From Nick Botic, the acclaimed author of Daughter's Drawings, This Is Not a Drill and Other Warnings is a collection of sixteen dispatches from the edge—where landscapes twist, memory falters, and reality buckles under pressure.

Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they're ghosting her . . . With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she's been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey's Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event's reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.

Hell has many doors… and Kevin J. Kennedy just tore them all open. Ten masterfully twisted minds each offer their own chilling vision of damnation, sin, and suffering. These aren’t just stories—they’re warnings. Tales so disturbing, you’ll be praying your soul is clean. So ask yourself: Have you lived a good life? Enter, if you’re brave enough… but don’t expect to come back the same. Contains stories by Edward Lee, Gord Rollo, Bryan W. Alaspa, Bill Davidson, Jeffrey Thomas, Viggy Parr Hampton, Thomas Smith, David-Jack Fletcher, Brian Moreland & Ryan Colley. Edited by Ann Keeran

Someone is killing young girls in New York. Horrific murders where the bodies are being mutilated and parts harvested for unknown reasons. Detective Jake Chandler has a mystery on his hands, and even though there seems to be a connection to the Russian artist Avgustin Juniper, Juniper himself seems innocent and as confused as everyone else as to what is happening.

A modern take on Washington Irving's classic, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. Set three years after the Y2K panic in 1999, history teacher Ian Crane, is hunted by a ghost — a spectral demon hellbent on reaping souls on Halloween night — and behind the wheel of a midnight-black, 1969 Mustang Mach 1.

Connie’s life is a mystery, her background unknown, her future uncertain. Driven by desperation, she uses her powers to investigate crimes. If she can’t unravel her own past, she’ll seek justice for others. A chance encounter, a brace of poisoned partridges, and Connie is knee deep in trouble again. Her story is slowly unraveling, the truth almost within reach. If only she could remember.

Ein alter Mann in Trauer. Die Kinder wollen ihn zu sich holen, doch er verschließt sich. Nachbarn hören Streitgespräche. Ist es nur eine Altersdepression oder steckt mehr dahinter? Mia Wagner ist erst unsicher, doch schnell wird klar: Das ist wieder so ein Fall.

Jake zieht mit seinen Eltern in die scheinbar idyllische Kleinstadt Maplewood Hills – doch die Bewohner beobachten ihn und seine Eltern, hinterlassen rätselhafte Botschaften auf der Türschwelle und scheinen Geheimnisse zu kennen, die er niemals erfahren soll. In einer anderen Kleinstadt Anfang der 90er Jahre soll sich im alten Gemischtwarenladen von Mr. Miller eine Treppe verbergen, die in die unendliche Finsternis führt – und drei Jugendliche wagen den Abstieg, ohne zu wissen, ob sie jemals zurückkehren werden.

Kaum jemand verirrt sich in die etwas abgelegene Straße, und niemand weiß, wann die drei Männer ihren Laden eröffnet haben. Von einem Tag auf den anderen war The Hidden Shadow da und bot seine Waren an. Und für jeden war der Laden einzigartig – für den einen war es der Spielzeugladen seiner Kindheit, für den anderen etwas ganz anderes.

When the cracked harbor bell of Greyhaven rings without wind, the town wakes to something old and listening beneath the tide. The Quiet That Walks: The First Echo begins the Greyhaven saga—a slow-burn supernatural thriller about resonance, memory, and the cost of hearing what should remain unsaid. Archivist Nora Callow captures a recording of the bell’s impossible tone; sound engineer Mara Vale studies its frequency; and choir director June Harlow feels the vibration beneath her own voice.

Hoping for a romantic escape, newlyweds Eleanor and Thomas leave London for a secluded cottage on the misty fringes of Edinburgh. But their honeymoon is quickly pierced by the chilling sound of distant bagpipes—a tune only they can hear. The locals speak in fearful whispers of a phantom musician known as The Silent Piper, and the terrifying fate of all who listen to his song. As the mysterious melody draws closer, Eleanor and Thomas realise they have stumbled into a dark Scottish legend. Some secrets demand to be heard, and some tunes only play for the dead.

When a group of travelers ventures into an isolated, sun-scorched landscape, they begin to sense an unseen presence lurking beneath the endless dunes—something ancient, intelligent, and profoundly hostile to human life. As the desert tightens its grip, ordinary reality erodes, replaced by mounting dread and the terrifying suggestion that the sand itself is watching.

A woman becomes the unknowing subject of an artist's dangerous work in this intense Hitchcockian horror from Josh Malerman, the New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House. After a magical night out on the town with her fiancée Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed situated...

Arthur Oakes è un avido lettore, sognatore e studente del Rackham College, nel Maine, luogo rinomato per i suoi inverni gelidi, l'eccezionale biblioteca e gli splendidi edifici. Ma il suo idillio - e la nascente storia d'amore con Gwen Underfoot - vanno in frantumi quando una spacciadora locale e il suo partner lo costringono a commettere uno dei peggiori crimini che possa immaginare: rubare libri rari dalla biblioteca del college. Finito in un angolo, Arthur si rivolge ai suoi cinque amici più cari in cerca di aiuto.

In diesem Buch warten finstere Wälder, flüsternde Schatten und die grausigen Fratzen menschlicher Abgründe darauf, dich einzuholen. Jede der packenden Horrorkurzgeschichten bohrt sich tief in uralte Urängste – bis du das unsichere Flackern der Nachttischlampe plötzlich als letzten Schutzschild wahrnimmst.

In den Tiefen des Verborgenen schlummert in der Schriftstellerin Valerie eine Erinnerung, der sie sich seit Jahrzehnten verwehrt. Alles, was sie möchte, ist in der Sicherheit ihres Hauses schreiben und Menschen meiden. Doch etwas greift nach ihr, nach mehr als sie jemals geben musste. Im Strudel aus Angst und Entsetzen muss Valerie sich ihren verdrängten Dämonen stellen. Ein Mystery-Thriller, der die Macht zwischen den Welten enthüllt und das Geheimnis der Gewalten, die nach ihr trachten.