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From Nick Roberts, the best-selling author of The Exorcist's House and Anathema, comes fifteen dark tales that are as horrific as they are moving. Witness absolute evil in “Sally Under the Bed” and “It Haunts the Mind.” Endure vengeance and violence in “The Noose” and “The Bitter End.” Face the realities of addiction and grief in “Thanks for Sharing” and “The Weeping Wind.”

Newlyweds Lisa and John's summer drive through the Oregonian wilderness takes a chilling turn when an unexpected blizzard traps their car. Desperate for refuge, they find hope in a sign: WELCOME TO__. Bundling up, they trek through the storm and find that, within the town, the blizzard ceases, though it rages just beyond the town's limits. The streets are eerily quiet, lined with lifelike ice statues. Lisa and John soon realize they are being watched by the wary townsfolk, who reveal a haunting truth: this town is a prison, and the storm is a trap.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trance-like state in front of the TV.

Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.

Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune—a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. But night after night, out there in the moonlight, Something was trying to get in at the bedroom window. A huge malevolent Something. Something not of this world. Inside, Toby thought first that he was hallucinating, then that he must be going mad, finally that this evil Something was real and striving to reach him.

As Thea takes her place as Queen with Julian by her side, their world splinters. A new game of deceit begins between factions vying for control. Power is the prize, and Thea and Julian are caught in the middle of it. Targeted by the Vampire Council, the Mordicum, and their families, they soon discover an even deadlier threat to their future. Someone killed the Queen whose throne Thea now reigns on, and time is running out to find the killer before they get to Thea.

The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, but it's clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.

If there was gold in a city under a lake, how would you get it? Four buddies in the 1970's drag a kid along to dive for salvage and the possibility of gold in a town that was sunk, when the government erected a dam. Will the former navy men ignore the warnings and go on the dive? Will they all come back alive with treasure? What will be the cost of their gold fever?

Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player 20 years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in 10 years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.

For fans of The Watchers and T. Kingfisher comes a queer, post-apocalyptic horror following one woman’s journey across a merciless wasteland to save her brother and confront the dark truth behind the monsters that ravaged the world - with the help of a woman she’s not sure she can trust but...

The Arcade Incident: A Retro Horrors: The Lost Decade Book In the summer of 1986, The Pixel Palace mall arcade buzzes with the neon glow of high scores, token clinks, and synthwave music. But when a strange new game called Neon Abyss mysteriously appears without warning, everything changes. There are no rules—just a glitching screen pulling players deeper with each level, promising an impossible ending. Then, the disappearances begin. Tommy Mitchell and his friends are obsessed with the game.

When the silver mines of M-1819 suffer a catastrophic breach, Roger Hawthorn is the Compliance Officer sent to lift the orbital station’s subsequent lockdown. The company’s reclusive founder, Petar Novikov, insists that everything is under control–that by signing a few harmless documents, Roger can be on a shuttle headed back to his pregnant wife as early as tomorrow.

When a flash flood seals off Tall Pines, Georgia, ex-Air Force investigator Archer Lucas is dropped into a nightmare. Locals whisper about the Wampus Cat. The truth is uglier: A secret research lab has turned the Appalachian woods into a live test range for gene-spliced predators. Cut off by rising water and dirty politics, Archer’s only reliable ally is A.L.I.C.E., an off-grid AI with her own secrets. By dawn, the bodies will stack up unless Archer can expose the operation, outmaneuver a federal smokescreen, and survive the hunt.

Step beyond the lamplight and into the gilded darkness of a vanished world. Ghost Stories from the Gilded Age is a classic ghost story anthology featuring eerie tales by female authors who defied convention—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and more. Narrated by an all-star ensemble of Audie, SOVAS, and One Voice award winners and nominees, this haunting audiobook collection blends Gothic elegance with supernatural unease.

Broken down by drug addiction and unable to connect with the girl he loves, Peter has had enough. Drug-addled and at the point death, he sees an angel. One who shows him the evils in the world and demands he put them right. Kill before they can. Strike down with the vengeful hand of God. Plagued by visions, reality blurring, Peter finds himself no longer able to see the good from the bad, and his own hand of vengeance as much in the mix as the murderers, the rapists, the robbers. Peter becomes the twisted hand of death, until he is more of what he hunts than not.

Geschichten über Hexer sind eine Sache. Herauszufinden, dass man selbst einer ist, etwas völlig anderes. David Hunter glaubt, seine Magie endlich zu beherrschen. Doch eine Prüfung an der Akademie stürzt ihn in tödliche Gefahr. Jessica Campbell wird von einem finsteren Wesen verfolgt, während Alicia Collins den Akasha-Chroniken immer näherkommt – bereit, die Welt zu zerstören, um sie neu zu formen.

Celia Dickenson finds herself alone in the forest, searching for a missing woman. Minerva Penderghast performs a seance at the behest of a grieving family, only to reap disastrous consequences. Maeve Baudelaire is reeling from the unexpected loss of her mother. For these three women, all roads lead to Shady Grove. But ancient demonic forces are stirring deep in the forest surrounding the small town, clamoring for sacrificed souls to slake their thirst.

The Crone is more than a ghost story. More than a whispered legend meant to frighten children. She is real—and she is hunting. When paranormal investigator Jodie Callaghan is approached by a shadowy group claiming to know the truth, she is drawn into a chilling search for an entity whose power defies reason. Caught in a dangerous web of rituals, relics, and guarded secrets, Jodie soon learns that The Crone’s reach is growing… and nowhere is safe.

Connie can't deny she's nervous about meeting her boyfriend's family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan's already given her fair warning that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles. So when Evan's mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. They're so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they're real. Then, while helping Evan's mother with dinner, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement—what almost sounds like voices calling out for help.