Dark Minds : Horror & Dark Fantasy Writers

Tom Smiley signed up as a private in the Confederate army when he was eighteen and quickly came to regret it. Spending the last year of the war in a Union prison scarred him so deeply that even death hasn't brought freedom from its memory. A ghost in his deserted childhood home, he can’t forget the bloody war and its meaningless losses, or shed his revulsion for his role in the Confederate defense...

A tribute to author Anne Rice, 19 authors show their love to the Queen of Horror with a collection of Gothic tales inspired by her legacy. A charity anthology with all proceeds to benefit the Animal Rescue of New Orleans in honor of Anne Rice, whose fondness for animals was well known. Edited by Elaine Pascale and Rebecca Rowland with a foreword by Lisa Kröger. Authors include: C.W. Blackwell, Mor...

“Fracassi’s novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and '80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.”  — Laird Barron, author of  Worse Angels " A Child Alone with Strangers  starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracas...

Uncover the theories behind the master of horror's macabre tales:  It ,  The Shining ,  Carrie ,  Cujo ,  Misery ,  Pet Semetary , and so much more! Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of  The Science of Monsters  and  The Science of Women in Horror , and co-hosts of the  Horror Rewind  podcast called “the best horror f...

A gripping novel, GENOCIDE turns victim to villain as the character goes from a kidnapped youth to a vengeful teenager. Cheer him on or hope for his capture. Either way, his story is sure to get your heart racing. Born into a dysfunctional family, his mother does her best to shelter him from his father’s addiction and his uncle’s ties to a violent street gang. This can only last so long, and once...

Alcoholism is a serious problem, but then again so is murder. A gruff detective investigates foul play in these four one-act thrillers revolving around addiction. These stories take place in seemingly safe settings like a laundry room, a rehab, a hospital, and a dream, all of which become insidious deathtraps. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The horrifying sequel to the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel  Pressure . Though Darren Rust is serving a life sentence in prison, Alex Fletcher is desperate to escape the shadow of his former best friend. Darren is a psychopath who thought he’d found somebody who would kill with him, and when he realized he was wrong, he took everything from Alex. Losing his family—and coping with the heino...

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests… When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s...

A riveting collection of short stories from Bram Stoker Award-winner Hank Schwaeble that range from classic noir with a supernatural twist to futuristic techno-horror--and running the nightmarish gamut of everything in between--this chilling set of ten tales offers an exquisite and impressive showcase of the author's talents that are sure to entertain and intrigue readers of all stripes. With an I...

All Charlotte Deerborn wanted was a nice Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends. Too bad for her no one else wanted to be there. By the time the turkey is carved, old grievances, bad behavior and crass remarks have transformed her dinner party into a disaster. And then a werewolf shows up to do some carving of its own. Wolf at the Door is a fast-paced, absurdist take on modern creature horror...

Dr. Henry David Wells has succeeded in protecting himself from the invisible world of devils and genies  with which  he once sought to make sinister supernatural deals. Even more frightening is that he wants to try one more time to make a Faustian bargain for eternal life and eternal fame. In The Wager of Sin, the final book in the series that started with Dark Fiction and continued with...

Grolar: halb grizzly bear, half polar bear Jon lost his job in Vancouver and finds work at a small gold mining camp. His wife and his young son join him. When the toddler shows them what he had found near the tree line, they know, there is something dark waiting for them. The author Thorsten Nesch lives in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He is an award-winning and traditionally published author. His...

Naomi and Fiona placed their fingertips on either side of the wooden triangle. A shiver as faint as a whimper crawled down Bobby’s spine as the exact year of his death was revealed. As a young, curious 10-year-old, Bobby is reluctant to believe the fate that the Ouija board reveals…but as he grows into adulthood, the pieces of that dark prophecy propel him towards his inevitable end. Strange occur...

A darkly comedic tribute to the much-loved Reader’s Digest series ‘I am Joe’s…(insert body part here)’ and a bizarre parody of the Bruce Jenner story, I Am Joe’s Unwanted Penis is told from the point of view of a penis thoughtlessly discarded as a man is surgically transformed into a woman. Upon learning if his high-profile previous owner’s regret at having made the transformation, the penis embar...

RED FALLS When June and Ezra take a spontaneous road trip to rural Pennsylvania, they find themselves in the strange town of Red Falls. What transpires there leaves the couple questioning their overnight stay. But when they strike out with new friends for a hike the following morning, June and Ezra enter a world of blood and terror that changes their lives forever. DEACON Two worlds collide—a post...

WHAT ARE JEFF’S SCATTERED THOUGHTS? Jeff’s vision of pouring himself into his work is captured with satisfying precision in this work of poetry that is half love and half mayhem. In this collection, you will find equal parts madness and insanity, paired within the confines of reality. Jeff shares that his writing is the doorway to his mind and inner thoughts: a journey that you should dare not tak...

Within these pages lies venom. Within these pages await something you may never have seen before. Introducing Venomous Words. A brand new collection of Macro Photography fused with dark lyrical Poetry. A unique fusion of your worst nightmares captured in photographs that bite and sting. Your skin will crawl. Your insides will melt. Introducing a brand new level of Hell. Jeff Oliver and Gordon Reil...

Tales From The Parkland  - A collection of horror stories that will keep you up at night. Reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, these tales of terror will make your heart race as they drag you into a world of nightmares. The Garbage Collectors  - Stephen comes home to find he has to make a decision. Which of his children will he sacrifice to the Garbage Collectors? Big Boy  - Peter hate...

Come and join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Fugue Devil,” Stephen Mark Rainey’s quintessential scare-your-pants-off story, with this all-new edition that features 11 additional tales to wither your soul and curl your toes: – A thrilling midnight adventure turns into a dawning horror for two boys. – A dirge for the dead; if you hear it, it’s too late. – A terror in the night that echo...

Monty has a special power that no one else possesses. And he hates it. He just wants to live a quiet cheese sandwich and tap water life. Fate, being the fickle bitch it is, has other plans. His best friends, Lark and Sean, have abilities as well and the trio encounter three mysterious people who show them, they are not alone. It would be nice if any of them had  useful  abilities, but ta...

Now a Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, and Rosa Salazar! Written with the narrative tension of  The Road  and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King,  Bird Box  is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world—a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Male...

More than 20 years after her abduction at the hands of the elusive Pan, Wendy Darling is all grown up and a successful detective. But when a local girl vanishes in the middle of the night, her past comes rushing back. Grieving the death of her mother, Detective Darling wants nothing more than to throw herself back into work. When the Lord Mayor’s daughter, Rosalie, vanishes, she insists on taking...

The Good Book. You might have clutched it in your church pew on Sunday mornings. You know the one? With the pebbled black soft cover, the words HOLY BIBLE stamped in gold ink. Perhaps it strengthened your faith, comforted you in dark times. Multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff has assembled a Last Supper of Dark Apostles to turn some of those "good book" parables on their heads--twi...

There’s no question that  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  is one of the most influential texts of all time. The now-iconic tale, which has confounded and thrilled readers for more than a century, was described by one scholar as the only detective-crime story in which the solution is more terrifying than the problem. And even as its plot gets continually reinterpreted and rei...

Contains a new afterword by  USA Today  bestselling author Samantha Lee Howe looking at the interpretations and influence of  Dracula  in modern film and television adaptations. BRAM STOKER (1847-1912) is best known as the author of  Dracula , published in 1897. The Irish author wrote a total of twelve novels in addition to four works of nonfiction and numerous short stori...