Novella and selected stories from Paul Michael Anderson. Reased May 21st. Order the paperback and eBook here!

You move to a new area, hoping for a fresh start.

You bury yourself in a new career, hoping for an identity.

But the new area has roads no one travels down if they can help it, and the people stare at you with secrets behind their eyes that were old before you were born. But the new career has responsibilities that no one warned you about, and the duties weigh on your soul.

Charlie Brooks, a man with a painful past, is about to learn that not even a symbol of law and order can maintain control when forces beyond comprehension want to break through. In a time before instant digital connection and distrust in the world around us, Charlie Brooks will learn how escape is impossible.

(Originally published as I Can Give You Life)

Order the eBook and paperback here! Released April 23, 2024.

ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST.

First Landing State Park. Antarctica. Mongolia. France. Norway. Ireland. Somerset. Egypt. A giant glacier in an unnamed land.

What do all these places have in common? 

They’re the perfect place to set a horror story, is what. In this brand new collection of destination based tales of terror, Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author Gemma Amor (The Folly, Full Immersion, Six Rooms, Dear Laura) takes us on a series of adventures through the weird and the wonderful, the strange and the unexplainable, across the remotest, wildest parts of this world, and through lands yet to be discovered. Expect dark and deranged encounters, beautiful vistas, old gods, ghosts, peculiar creatures, vampires, and that most terrifying of all monsters: mankind. 

Told strictly through the eyes of intrepid travellers (we are only ever visitors in this realm), you too can become an explorer without ever leaving the comfort of your own home. So come, join us on a voyage across lands both familiar and strange, and witness sights beyond your wildest imaginings in a book written for the the wanderers, the adventurers, the endlessly curious, the constantly dislocated, the restless and the sleepless, the speakers of many tongues or of none, the seers of many sights, the dreamers who follow their feet, pick stones from between their toes, taste salt on their tongue, feel dust blow hot and hard against their skin….

But remember, not all journeys have a happy ending. 

In fact, in this book, quite the opposite: for All Who Wander are often Lost… 

Released February 14, 2024. Order the paperback here. Order the eBook here.

Nahanni National Park is one of last truly wild places on earth. Accessible only by plane, and only when the weather cooperates, it’s the perfect place for estranged brothers Joseph and Oscar to have an adventure following the death of their mother. Gillian, Joseph’s first love, invites herself along in the spirit of friendship.

The park is much more than beautiful. It’s mysterious, with legends of giants and hidden, prehistoric animals. And among its few visitors, an outsized number of violent deaths inspire its second, more seductive name.

While dreaming of the future, the group finds themselves confronted by the past. Far from home and far from help. In the Valley of the Headless Men.

A Cemetery Stroll is a children’s book written and illustrated by Elford Alley. Released October 2023. Pick up the paperback here or eBook here!

Would you visit a cemetery at night?

Hazel wants to prove she’s as brave as every other kid in her class. All she has to do is cross the cemetery on Halloween Night. But the air is chilly, the wind is whistling, and she’s more than a little afraid. Fortunately, Hazel finds a little help in the form of five strange tales hidden among the tombstones.

So, if you’re brave, why not join Hazel on her cemetery stroll?  

Order the paperback or eBook here! Released October 24th.

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On the one-year anniversary of a young woman’s tragic death, an extreme haunted house attraction reopened its doors to the public. What happened next would forever traumatize a small Texas town. The Last Haunt is an attempt to make sense of the mysterious brutality that occurred on that fateful Halloween night. Constructed from interviews with the survivors, this oral history is the closest anyone has ever come to documenting the truth behind the McKinley Manor massacre.

Order the paperback or eBook here! Released November 21, 2023.

A night alone in the mountains. A crippling injury. A hungry and deadly creature.

When Taryn promised to scatter her wife’s ashes at an alpine lake in the Sawtooth Mountains, she expected an easy out-and-back hike. What she gets is anything but.

It starts when she spots a human bone in the lake. Then there’s a howling in the woods. But when Taryn sees something unexplainable moving across the river, she knows she’s in danger. This thing is stalking her. Watching and waiting.

A clumsy fall leaves Taryn injured and easy prey. Now she’s alone. Injured. Out of time.

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A lifelong PNW girl, Steph currently lives in Boise, Idaho, with her husband and their two teens. Her short fiction appears in Dark Matter Presents: Human Monsters and Mother: Tales of Love and Terror. Both are Bram Stoker-nominated anthologies. Her debut novel, The Vein, is available through Dark Matter INK, and her next horror novel, The Threshing Floor, is forthcoming in November 2024, also through INK. Sawtooth is her first novella. When Steph’s not working on her next story, she’s devouring horror, thriller, and even romance books. Or taxiing her teens around town for their sports and social lives. Find her on Instagram/Threads @stephnelsonauthor, and on Twitter @stephdresnelson.

Order the paperback and eBook here! Released November 7th.

Some fates are worse than death and some fears are greater than loyalty…

Marki Hartwell is a death doula. Aiding people as they exit this world isn’t just her job, it’s her calling. Unfortunately, being a doula has cost Marki her girlfriend Paula and their future together. When a hospice notification informs Marki that a patient named Franklin is dying alone—with no family, friends, or neighbors to comfort him—Marki sets off in the worst storm she’s ever seen because no one should die alone.

Franklin’s house is difficult to find, as if hidden from those who seek it, but after a few false starts she finds her way. The door to the house is open. Waiting for her. But it never occurs to Marki not to enter. The house is home to the dying man Franklin Singleton. It’s also home to Franklin’s dreadful legacy. Riddled with the ghosts of his victims and the victims of his father before him, the house itself is a nightmare.
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Ali Seay lives in Baltimore with her husband and kids and the ghost of a geriatric wiener dog who once ruled the house. She’s the author of Go Down Hard, To Offer Her Pleasure, and Hysteria: Lolly & Lady Vanity. Her work can be found in numerous horror and crime anthologies.

The Ungodly Duology features two horror novellas from author S.H. Cooper

Released September 12th. Order the paperback and eBook here! Add it to your Goodreads here.

The Festering Ones –

Faith York was a young girl when she saw her father dragged into the ground by a spider-armed woman, never to be seen again. Twenty years later, the events of that day continue to haunt her, and her need for answers has only grown stronger with time. After her estranged mother’s death forces her to return home, old wounds are reopened and Faith finally decides to face her demons. What started as a search for closure soon pits her against a shadowy cult known as The Gathered and the eldritch beings they worship. With reality becoming more blurred by the day and the thousand eyes of an alien deity fixed on her, Faith must decide if the dark secrets of White Crow Mountain are really worth losing herself over.

The Forgotten Ones –

Six months after escaping the horrors of White Crow, Faith York is living a life she never thought possible: she has a best friend, a good job, and a place to call home, complete with fluffy cat. Stability. But “normal” is a tenuous thing, especially when nightmares of spidery arms bursting out of the ground and a terrible secret that could unravel it all aren’t the only things that followed her off the mountain.

Gorrorum is in her head and out for blood, and when a yellow-eyed monster appears on her doorstep, Faith has to figure out how to free herself from the Festering Father before everything she’s built comes crashing down around her.

The paperback and eBook are now available here. Released October 13th 2023.

Add House of Bad Memories to your Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195020704-house-of-bad-memories

From the author of The Girl in the Video comes a darkly comic thriller with an edge-of-your-seat climax.

Denny just wants to be the world’s best dad to his baby daughter, but things get messy when he starts hallucinating his estranged abusive stepfather, Frank. Then Frank winds up dead and Denny is held hostage by his junkie half-sister who demands he uncovers the cause of her father’s death.

Will Denny defeat his demons or be perpetually tortured for refusing to answer impossible questions?

House of Bad Memories is Funny Games meets This Is England with a Rosemary’s Baby under-taste.

Praise for Michael David Wilson

“House of Bad Memories is a haunting and equally visceral tone poem of cruelty, betrayal, and vengeance. Michael David Wilson’s writing vibrates with the all-consuming trauma and suffering of humanity. This is a novel that I certainly won’t forget.”—Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“All the many ties that bind a chaotic and increasingly dysfunctional extended family together are stretched to breaking point and beyond in House of Bad Memories. The book goes in every direction except the one you expect. It’s a wild, bloody, and expletive filled riot that’s never anything less than intense. With genre shifts worthy of a Ben Wheatley movie, it’s highly recommended.”—David Moody, author of the Autumn books and Hater

“House of Bad Memories hits so hard, you’ll spit teeth out once you’re done reading it.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters

“An established master of human frailty and misdirection, Michael David Wilson’s latest offering, House of Bad Memories, kept me off kilter and turning pages as reality tilted. Compelling and deeply unsettling, House offers a mystery with endless layers. Never doubt Wilson’s willingness to skillfully cross lines you never knew were there. Excellent.”—Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and Below

“If Ira Levin and Guy Ritchie had a drug-fuelled weekend binge with the Kray twins in a Kidderminster council flat, they wouldn’t come close to House of Bad Memories. Darkly funny, brutally violent and strangely touching, Michael David Wilson has created something truly bonkers and I’m here for it.”—Alan Baxter, author of The Gulp and Sallow Bend

“With razor-sharp dialogue and some of the most unpredictable, WTF moments you’ll find anywhere in dark fiction, House of Bad Memories is what would have happened if Quentin Tarantino had grown up in the rancid underbelly of the English Midlands.”—Kev Harrison, author of Below and The Balance

“Beginning as a grim drama, Michael David Wilson’s House of Bad Memories quickly spins into overdrive with a highly dysfunctional family headed for destruction. Twists and turns abound with fiery dialogue that sizzles on the page, Wilson cranks up the crazy to eleven with devious characters you’ll never get out of your head.”—Bob Pastorella, author of Mojo Rising

“Packing the pitch-black humour of John Niven and the gut-punching bleakness of Dead Man’s Shoes, House of Bad Memories announces Wilson as a British Palahniuk—it will leave you chuckling as you count your bruises.”—Dan Howarth, author of Territory

Cover art and design by Vincent Chong.