The Horror Collection: X-Ray EditionPeer beneath the skin of reality and discover the horrors lurking underneath.In this terrifying new installment of The Horror Collection, nothing is as it first appears. Scientific expeditions uncover ancient nightmares sleeping in the ocean’s depths. Grieving hearts strike desperate bargains with forces beyond understanding. Urban legends awaken, family bloodlines hide monstrous truths, and the dead refuse to forgive the living.From cursed relics and cosmic predators to body horror, folk terror, psychological breakdowns, and creatures that wear human faces, X-Ray Edition strips away the comforting lies we tell ourselves and exposes the darkness beneath. Here, a village tree develops an insatiable hunger, a widow hunts a murderous angel statue, a mother descends into postpartum madness, and a simple cry for help in the woods leads to a fate worse than death.Featuring twenty unforgettable tales from some of horror’s most imaginative voices, this anthology delivers a relentless journey through the grotesque, the supernatural, and the profoundly unsettling. Whether your fears lie in the depths of the ocean, the fragility of the human body, the secrets of the soul, or the vast unknown beyond the stars, you'll find plenty to haunt you within these pages.The Horror Collection continues its tradition of showcasing horror in all its forms, from slow-burning dread to visceral terror, proving once again that the most frightening things are often hidden just beneath the surface.

Blythe Fairfield was just starting to feel at home.She has a job at the local grocery store. A talking cat who insults her daily. A date with the sheriff that actually went well. And a cemetery full of dead relatives she's been restoring one headstone at a time.Then one of those headstones gets a new neighbor.Griffin Midnight, a witch with more charm than sense, came back to Cauldron Hollow after breaking Blythe's best friend's heart. Now he's dead in the Tallowmere family cemetery with a bottle of wine and two glasses, and the whole town is looking at the two women who had the most reason to want him gone.One is Anya, Blythe's best friend, who screamed at Griffin in public. Twice.The other is Blythe, whose family graves someone turned into a crime scene.Between a grandfatherly tea shop owner hiding a secret, a council member with a grudge against her house, and a killer whose magic is so subtle nobody knows it's there, Blythe is running out of time and suspects. Pippin says the answer has been in front of her the whole time. Pippin says a lot of things.But when Blythe opens her great-aunt Moira's notebooks, she finds more than clues. She finds a secret that will change everything she thought she knew about her family, her best friend, and the familiar who's been keeping his mouth shut since the day she arrived.Some spells you cast. Some spells you inherit. And some hats are harder to take off than they are to put on.

She lost her parents, but gained a grandmother, but is something more sinister lurking in the shadows.Uprooted from her life, Carly Ravenspell is forced to move to Thornwood Estate with an enigmatic grandmother she never knew. When the grieving teen arrives, she finds an unexpected solace in the woman and the stories she shares.As Carly delves deeper into the tale surrounding Maple Mansion, a house where spirits roam free, she begins to forge a bond, not only with her grandmother, but with history’s mysteries and the allure of the supernatural. Plunged into spectral stories that span centuries, will Carly discover the secrets hidden in the manor as well as the ones hidden in plain sight?If you love feisty heroines, the special bond between a grandmother and granddaughter, and unraveling haunting mysteries, you’ll love Ghostly Gossip, book 1 of Nellie H. Steele’s captivating new cozy mystery series.Buy now and discover the secrets today!

The halls are dark. The magic is deadly. Trust no one.Iona hoped escaping the murderous warlock who tried to sacrifice her would be the end of her nightmare. Instead, it’s only the beginning.Desperate for safety and a future, Iona claws her way into Coterie of Mages—a prestigious, cutthroat magical university hidden within the Obelisk of the City of Sorcery. But for a backwater girl without family connections, survival is far from guaranteed. The students are cruel, the professors indifferent, and the building itself whispers secrets in the dark. When her classmates’ "pranks" turn lethal, Iona learns that the real trial has just begun.As enemies close in, Iona forms a tenuous alliance with Zuri, a sharp-edged prodigy with secrets of her own, and a kind-hearted newcomer who still believes in friendship. But when the warlock Fenris tracks her down, the stakes rise beyond grades and status—because now he’s made a deal with one of her classmates.Betrayal, magic, and ancient horrors collide as Iona and her unlikely crew fight to survive the Obelisk’s deadly levels, navigate backstabbing politics, and face the terrifying being that’s been hiding inside Fenris all along.

Kinda dead. Straight-up psycho. Totally obsessed with her.I did a bad, bad thing.Thanks to a blank in my memory, I'm not sure what that thing was, but it was horrible enough to get me locked up in the mental ward for seven years. Horrible enough that my little sister won't even speak to me.But when I'm released back into a town determined to rub my unknown sins in my face, the past isn't the only thing that's haunting me. The four "imaginary" friends who made my childhood bearable barge into my life in a very real way.They're crude, criminally inclined, and more than a little unstable after ages trapped in afterlife limbo. All they want is to protect me. Worship me. Avenge me.So they'll bludgeon, maim, eviscerate—tear a strip of havoc right through this sleepy town.Even rise from the dead.Maybe I'm still not all that sane either, because part of me finds them strangely appealing. In ways very different from how I felt as a kid. And that's not the only strangeness stirring inside me...I promised myself I'd stick to the straight and narrow from here on. But what if the only way to set things right is to get a little ghoulish?*The Stalking Dead is the first in a darkly humorous new paranormal romance series by bestselling author Eva Chase. If you love sarcastic heroines with unexpected powers, obsessive supernatural men who'll do anything to defend their woman, and plenty of mystery and mayhem, dive right in!*