The Truest Sense

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Now available in eBook and paperback here! Released June 11th.

From Laura Keating, author of Agony’s Lodestone, come sixteen new tales of terror to torment the senses. In this collection, Horror is…

  • The last moments of a team of doomed archeologists, lost in a cave that defies time, trapped with unspeakable, moving images, and a strange, grinning presence…
  • The white-eyed children gathered behind an abandoned kissing gate, and the ragged-toothed queen no one believes is real…
  • The celebrity demonologists, confident in their abilities and faith – until they meet a grotesque new Adversary…
  • The odd little girl of many skills who is followed by four yellow birds – and a gruesome secret…
  • The mysterious person atop an old lighthouse, searching for salvation and caught in a desperate race from the law – and themself…
  • The town trapped in the thrall of a shadowy, alien force; compelled to forget and to build – by whatever means and material available…

Horror is…

THE TRUEST SENSE

The Only Way Out Is Through

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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)

Recreational Panic

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Now available in paperback and eBook here! Released March 5th.

Fear is so much a part of our lives that instead of running away from it, we’re finding ways to relax with it. Could it be through a true crime obsession that leads to stalking, or a camp song sung with murderous intent? Maybe it’s better suited in an unwieldy email chain, or making crafts with materials dug from the grave. It could even be as simple as petting a kitten—whether it’s truly a kitten remains far from simple.

Recreational Panic features twenty-one short stories, poems, and a guided meditation from Sonora Taylor. Sit back, relax, and feel your heartbeat quicken—it’s time to panic!

Sonora Taylor is the award-winning author of several books and short stories. Her books include Seeing ThingsLittle Paranoias: StoriesWithout ConditionSomeone to Share My Nightmares: StoriesThe Crow’s Gift and Other Tales, and Wither and Other Stories.  She also co-edited Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology with Nico Bell. Her short stories have been published by Bleeding Edge Books, Rooster Republic Press, Kandisha Press, Camden Park Press, Burial Day Press, Cemetery Gates Media, Tales to Terrify, Sirens Call Publications, Ghost Orchid Press, and others.

Her short stories and books frequently appear on “Best of the Year” lists. In 2020, she won two Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards: one for Best Novel (Without Condition) and one for Best Short Story Collection (Little Paranoias: Stories). In 2022, her short story, “Eat Your Colors,” was selected by Tenebrous Press to appear in Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Vol. 1.

For two years, she co-managed Fright Girl Summer, an online book festival highlighting marginalized authors, with author V. Castro. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association and serves on the board of directors of Scares That Care. 

Her fourth novel, Errant Roots, will be out in October 2024 from Raw Dog Screaming Press.

She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and a rescue dog.

All Who Wander Are Lost

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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… 

In the Valley of the Headless Men

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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

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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?  

The Last Haunt

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Cover by Trevor Henderson

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

Add it to your Goodreads here.

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.

Sawtooth

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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.

The Death Doula

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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 HardTo Offer Her Pleasure, and Hysteria: Lolly & Lady Vanity. Her work can be found in numerous horror and crime anthologies.

The Ungodly Duology

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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.