Dark Minds : Horror & Dark Fantasy Writers

On their rainy drive home from a haunted house tour in a small Pennsylvania town, sisters Megan and Dianne Willis come across a drenched, confused old woman walking alone in the middle of the road. Concerned about her well-being, the sisters attempt to take the mysterious lady to the nearest hospital to get checked out. However, their plan is quickly flipped upside down as the woman’s suddenly vio...

Step into the shadowed streets of 1928 Arkham, where Miskatonic University holds secrets darker than the night. In this supernatural thriller reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and H.P. Lovecraft, Private Detective Travis Daniels is thrust into a harrowing investigation when a young woman disappears without a trace. As Daniels delves deeper into the labyrinthine mysteries of the storied New England c...

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“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” ( Paste ) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation  The Troop  returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth. On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best f...

Chris McAuley writes prose novels, magazine short stories, video and tabletop games, and audio dramas. Together with Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand nephew Dacre Stoker, he has created the StokerVerse franchise. He has penned the sequel to Dracula, which will be released by Scar Comics later this year. He also collaborated with Babylon 5 actress Claudia Christian to create a science fiction universe cur...

On the "Best Young Adult Dystopian Novels" list on Goodreads! Scona must choose. Protect her father, or embrace the darkness she's been trained to destroy... Despite warnings from family and friends, Scona Tinay enrolls in Silencers Academy. To escape a life of poverty and hardship and ensure a stable future, Scona sets her sights on the Silencers, where the students earn a wage. She soon learns h...

After centuries of suppression, the magic of England is Reawakening Return to the world of  The Seer of York  with this collection of new tales set in the aftermath of  The Hiding . Harper, Grace, Saqib, Heresy, and AJ bond as a team and as a family to save innocents, supernatural and human, despite hunters pursuing them. Introducing Zero, a starlight cat with a bleak and painful pa...

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the  New York Times  bestselling author of the “unforgettable and scary” (Harlan Coben)  Chasing the Boogeyman . 1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies cla...

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an exclusive resort for the wealthy, Lychhurst would suffer through multiple incarnations—military hospital, t...

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an exclusive resort for the wealthy, Lychhurst would suffer through multiple incarnations—military hospital, t...

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an exclusive resort for the wealthy, Lychhurst would suffer through multiple incarnations—military hospital, t...

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister. In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Originally intended as an exclusive resort for the wealthy, Lychhurst would suffer through multiple incarnations—military hospital, t...

Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror, in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept shores of Wales to help her childhood friend fight the mysterious illness that plagues her. When the lines between reality and delusion begin to blur, Mina must face off against a monstrous legacy—or be consumed herself. Beware what waits in the shadow...

The year is 1979. A small New York town prepares to welcome the fall season in all the expected ways: young children bicker and boast over Halloween costumes, secret lovers meet in clandestine corners, and a tortured soul plots wicked deeds. All the while, hidden just out of view, patient and hungry… an ancient evil lurks. Welcome to Garrett Grove, an unassuming community nestled within the foothi...

Monster slayer Sandra Barlowe ventures to Madrugar, Mexico to investigate the brutal death of a local rancher. While the signs initially point to a vampire, the deeper she dives into her investigation, the more the murder appears to be the handiwork of something else…something much more terrifying. Symbols of a legendary creature start appearing everywhere as graffiti, and as sightings and bodies...

The next high concept horror novel from  New York Times  bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild—selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro,...

As the sun sets over New Orleans, two brothers, John and Wayne Carter, find themselves standing in a French Quarter alleyway, their clothes stained with blood, and their minds foggy. They have no memory of how they got there or what they have done. All they can recall is a new friend, Jacques St. Germain offered them a deal - work for him, and he will give them a home, purpose, and power. While th...

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished In the scorching summer of 1988, amidst the frenzy of the Satanic Panic gripping the nation, private detective O’Keefe finds himself thrust into a trial like no other. As he strives to establish his fledgling agency, the last thing he anticipates is being drawn into a harrowing legal battle. But when Virginia Montrose, “Miss Ginny” to her students and his daughter Kell...

The Sino-Nippon war is over. It is 2113 and Japan is crushed under the might of Chinese-Allied Forces. A former Coalition Corps soldier, US Marine Balaam Hendrix is now a feared bounty hunter known as ‘The Reverend’. In the sprawl of NeuTokyo, on this lawless frontier, he must track down the rogue employee of a notorious crime lord. But, there’s a twist. His target has found protection inside a vi...

In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth’s first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But when disaster strikes, the astronauts and the prisoners must download back into physical reality and find a way to work tog...

Bram Stoker, his life, his research and writing of  Dracula  to promote a documentary film called  Father of Dracula , being made by an Irish film maker, Jason Figgis, and written by John West.  I have contributed years of research and do the narration on the film.  Dracula is the most famous horror character in literature. Over a hundred years after the publication o...

No one ever knows what lurks beyond the light until it's too late. And for the unsuspecting victims, their worst nightmares come to life when they venture too far into the darkness. For where light is void, so are all forms of evil and unmentionable horrors. In 'Shadows by Gaslight,' you'll journey through cobblestone streets and opulent parlors to uncover captivating tales that define an era of V...

Arcane archivist Harper has always been plagued by dreams of grotesque creatures and bloody deaths. When she bumps into a ghostwalker in the Shambles and has a visceral experience of his execution, she knows it’s a foretelling. Yet fear of the Queen’s Guard stops her speaking out. When her vision indeed comes true, the unusual markings on the ghostwalker’s corpse, combined with his neatly excised...

Tree planters on the run from parasitic insects. A physicist who has become the target of a murderous airline. Teenagers trapped in a museum with an eldritch horror. An escaped pit fighter thrust into a desperate stand at a sagging mountain fortress. And a luckless cowboy sailing across a sea of grass to the bloody resurrection of an elder god. Welcome to Joel McKay's  It Came from the Trees...

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