by admin | Jul 29, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
Being dumped by my boyfriend was not how I expected to start my day.
Or suddenly homeless and broke.
So, when my three eccentric aunts make me an offer to join the family business—protecting our town and killing anything that would want to harm it—I take it.
I’m back in Hollow Cove, the paranormal community, where werewolves, witches, and other paranormals live comfortable lives away from prying human eyes.
Enter Marcus, the town chief, who’s as powerful and deadly as he is handsome. The downside? He hates my guts. Of course I’m inexplicably attracted to him because life just loves to mess with me.
Things soon spiral down the crapper when people in our community start dropping like flies. And when demons start showing up, everything falls apart…
If you like your urban fantasy funny, magical, and a little murdery, with cranky demons, cursed towns, and one sarcastic witch barely holding it together— Shadow Witch is your next binge-read. A cozy-with-bite mystery full of heart, humor, and supernatural chaos.
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by admin | Jul 29, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
Chloe Lindquist and her husband, Todd, moved out to rural Colorado to escape the hassle of plugged-in life. Almost as soon as she moved into the remote cabin, inexplicable things started happening to Chloe. While she knew they must have been hallucinations, they were too realistic to simply dismiss.
Three weeks later, Todd was dead, and Chloe was charged with his murder. While she doesn’t deny killing him, she has to determine if she was protecting herself or if she had simply become unhinged.
by admin | Jul 29, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
A disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness.
From the Bram Stoker Award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing and the editing duo who brought you the critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian horror anthology Shadows Over Main Street, comes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories.
Awe meets ache.
Terror becomes transcendence.
Regret gives way to rebirth.
Fifteen short stories and one poem span nearly every twisted corner of the horror and dark fiction genres:
A woman experiences an emotional reckoning inside a haunted house.
A father sees his daughter rescued after a cold case is solved, only to learn the tragic limits of his love.
A man awakens a vengeful spirit and learns the terrible price of settling scores.
A boy comes of age into awareness of a secret universe of Lovecraftian scale.
A young woman confronts the deathly price of existence inside a German concentration camp during the Holocaust.
And much, much more…
Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories features the most celebrated voices in dark fiction, as well as a number of exciting new talents:
Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Tremblay, John F.D. Taff, Lisa Mannetti, Damien Angelica Walters, Josh Malerman, Christopher Coake, Mercedes M. Yardley, Brian Kirk, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Amanda Gowin, Richard Thomas, Maria Alexander and Kevin Lucia. Edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward.
With a foreword from Cemetery Dance magazine founder Richard Chizmar.
Proudly brought to you by Crystal Lake Publishing – Tales from the Darkest Depths
Interview with the Authors:
So what makes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories so special?
John F.D. Taff: Usually, horror stories tell us the dark side of dark stories, the bad stuff that happens during bad times. It’s expected that there will be horrors in the kinds of stories horror generally tells. But Gutted explores the other side of things, the darkness that’s there in moments you might not otherwise expect; those moments that touch our hearts or resonate more strongly with our other emotions. It’s that beauty—that unexpected emotional resonance that can reside comfortably, side by side with fear, in a good horror story—that separates the stories in Gutted and makes them quite unique.
Tell us more about your story.
Ramsey Campbell: Occasionally I try to repay my debt to specific writers. Midnight Sun was my attempt to scale the awesome peak of Algernon Blackwood’s achievement, while The Darkest Part of the Woods clambered the Lovecraftian. “The Place of Revelation” goes for another giant of the field. If anybody guesses which one, I’ll count the tale some kind of a success. The naïve voice can be a highly effective way to tell a tale of terror, creating a tension between what’s told and how.
John F.D. Taff: My story is a distillation of my childhood. I grew up in the ’70s, and I wanted to capture that time period as much as anything else. I also wanted to explore one moment during my childhood, when I got my first 10-speed bike—the freedom that bought a kid like me. It opened so many doors, the ability to go out on my own, far beyond my neighborhood. To explore the world, to discover new things. And then, of course, I wanted to explore the dark side of that, the dangers that same key also unlocked. It all boiled down, at least to me while writing it, to a central idea, that question of “How do you let go of things?”
Gutted eBook categories:
Horror Anthologies
Genre Fiction
Short story anthologies
Urban Fantasy
Horror Short stories
Disturbing psychological horror
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by admin | Jul 29, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
Civilization has finally reached the breaking point. After an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid, a family’s strength is tested.
An EMP means the end of the world as they know it for a family who fights to survive. When disaster strikes in the form of an EMP, Keith Jameson, and Ted Holder flee to their remote homestead with their families.
The Coldest Night
During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends American back into the Stone Age. Jack and his family find sanctuary in their cabin in a small, remote town, hidden deep in the forest. Little does Jack know the Blizzard will be the least of his problems.
by admin | Jul 29, 2025 | Science Fiction |
In a world of genetic engineering, fantastic aliens, and faster than light travel, conspiracies and the quest for unlimited power can still tear the galaxy apart.
A Science Fiction adventure from Amazon All-Star author James David Victor.
Anders Corsigon has spent his life bringing galactic criminals to justice. When a bizarre murder turns into a string of assassinations, he must find a killer who is protected by the highest levels of the empire. In a world where advanced genetic engineering can literally rewrite humanity, he must uncover a truth that could destroy the galaxy.
Challenge of Steel is the first book in the Legacy of Old Earth space opera series. If you enjoy stories in fantastic worlds of aliens, space travel, and genetic engineering, the Legacy of Old Earth series will be right up your alley.
Download Challenge of Steel and start your next fantastic adventure today!
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