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Restoration by Sharon Mikeworth

Restoration by Sharon Mikeworth

Bronze Award winner for the 2021–2022 Reader Views Literary Awards in horror

Recipient of the Readers’ Favorite 5-Star seal for excellence

Cliff Phillips’ wife walks out on him for another man, leaving him devastated, and he retreats to a cabin deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The natural seclusion is exactly what he needs, and he settles in for a month-long stay, soothed by the unspoiled beauty of his surroundings.

But his peace is short lived. Out paddling the lake in the center of the historic park, he is nearly capsized by a mysterious disturbance. Soon after, a neighboring lodger flees following a terrifying night and another one vanishes without taking any of his belongings. When Cliff spots a strange light beneath the surface, he begins to think there might be more in the water than a few fish.

His worst fears are confirmed when he has his own frightening encounter. But how will he ever get anyone to believe what he now strongly suspects: that there is something hiding in the lake’s murky depths?

Sharon Mikeworth’s latest novel, Restoration, is a new addition to the great wilderness horror tradition of Jack Ketchum, Adam Nevill, Scott Smith, and Dan Simmons.

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The Satanic Chapel by Bob Price

The Satanic Chapel by Bob Price

The Devil does not discriminate. Skin colour or religion. A soul is a soul and he wants them all.
Believing yourself to be in a position to control the Devil has been the ambition of many Satanists over the centuries. None has yet proven successful because the Devil has his own agenda and knows exactly what people are about. Yet even in the twenty first century they continue to try ignoring the failures of the past at their own peril.
Members of The Satanic Chapel had reached a point of self-confidence when they too felt ready to take the next step. An invitation to the Devil himself to visit and help them rule the world of humans. It was an ambitious plan that was years in the making and now it was finally ready and wheels within wheels were moving to make it a reality.
When odd things happen different police units are employed to investigate. After authority figures were reported missing a standard investigation unit became employed to find them. A less than standard unit called Irregular Missing Persons (IMP) also received instructions to investigate. Few outside IMP had even heard of them and so it was that the lead officer Superintendent Frank Marshal encountered Superintendent Betty Buick from IMP for the first time.
Buick’s instructions to take a purely advisory role during the investigation led by Marshal her counterpart was less than ideal, but with a new boss who appeared to detest the very thought of IMP:she was constrained to play tag, something she never did that well.
If, as Buick thought, that the supernatural was somehow involved she determined it wouldn’t be long before IMP was called upon to do more than simply advise. She wasn’t wrong.

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Hallowed Ground by Maggie Hawkins

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Hallowed Ground by Maggie Hawkins

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Some say there are no secrets in a small town, that they just stay dormant, lying in wait for the right messenger. When journalist Cassandra Bell moved to the town of Brookville in upstate New York, she thought she was leaving the madness of the big city behind, but what she found instead was madness of a different kind. The people of Brookville, once ordinary and predictable seem to change personalities overnight. Their behavior is accompanied by a series of strange events – lost time, hallucinations, and memories of a past with which they are unfamiliar. Cassandra had heard of haunted houses, but could it happen to entire town? She will need to use her wits and her training to uncover the long-buried secret behind the mystery.

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FLOATING HAIR by Ethan Koil

FLOATING HAIR by Ethan Koil

Lucy. Burned. Dumped. Gone forever. No-one cared. Yet sometimes the past won’t remain buried. Sometimes it returns hungry for revenge. So very hungry…
Floating Hair is a gothic horror novel set in north-eastern United States.
David, grieving for his lost wife, returns to the town of his childhood: finding love and solace and escape.
Malsham: now filled with romantic, sexual, and criminal lives.
And some bad men. Especially one…
In 1692, Lucy was burned as a witch to conceal his crime: the ravaging fire destroying every aspect of her identity. In the centuries that follow, no-one is held responsible. But now she is given a chance of retribution…
On a cold October night, there is a light in the sky. The population of Malsham watches its blazing progress, before it crashes into the lake. In that moment before impact, some become psychically bound: their lives forever linked.
The explosion resurrects Lucy as a fiery vampire. Initially unable to leave the waters, she births small dragons which feed upon the townspeople: gaining sustenance from their endeavours.
Rain deluges the region. Hauling herself from the lake, the rainwater coats her skin: churning from transparent into disparate dark colours. She strides towards the closest house…

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The Darkness: Giger, Texas by Joe M. Solomon

The Darkness: Giger, Texas by Joe M. Solomon

When night falls in Giger, Texas, shadows gather as they always do in dim corners and other areas bereft of light. But this time they consolidate and attack any who tread too close. Michael Warren, a twenty-four-year-old resident of Giger, finds himself at the epicenter of this horror and is stunned by the losses suffered overnight. Then the sun sets and the shadows again coalesce, growing more aggressive, the darkness eviscerating anyone it touches.

His only weapon light, Michael struggles to survive and searches frantically for his girlfriend, aiding friends along the way. When Hurricane Daniel roars ashore, wind gusts shred trees and tear down power lines, plunging all of Southeastern Texas into a blackness that only feeds and strengthens the encroaching darkness. Rising floodwater provides easy thoroughfares from which the darkness can strike as Michael and his friends contend with the elements, clash with criminals, and battle their way to his residence where they will stand against the darkness and fight to survive.

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Shadow of Wolves: A Kit Barker Novel by J.R. White

Shadow of Wolves: A Kit Barker Novel by J.R. White

A Tortured Gunfighter, A Navajo Outcast, and the Creature whose claws will paint the desert with blood. Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil. When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come. But as their band of misfits hunts for the creature on the burning sands of the Mojave, they stumble into a generations old mystery that goes beyond shamanic curses and into the bloodstained pages of legend. Can the killing be stopped? And can a tortured gunman like Kit Barker – with a terrible secret of his own – prevail against the immortal Beast?
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Hail of Brimstone: A Kit Barker Novel by J.R. White

Hail of Brimstone: A Kit Barker Novel by J.R. White

“Forget your prize! Forget your friend! He is a husk, bled dry on the sands. He has been torn by what lingers, torn like they tear all who seek their secrets! Torn like they tore me!”
In the wilderness of the newborn nation of Mexico, a demonic gunman attacks a wedding, turning a day of joy into a massacre and wiping the mission of Nuestra Señora de la Sangre from the map.
A half-century later, vagabond gunfighter Kit Barker finds himself on the trail of a lost friend and a sinister relic that will bring him face to face with an evil that threatens to rend the very bonds of his sanity. Following a blood-stained trail from the streets of old New York, across the great plains, and all the way to the jagged coasts of Baja, Barker and his friends must fight for survival against both man and beast as they stalk a doomed path to its inevitable and explosive end… if necessary, to the very fires of hell. Can Barker defend his soul against the devils and demons of his own mind? Can mere men resist the thing that hunts them from beyond the Hail of Brimstone?
From the author of SHADOW OF WOLVES, a new action-packed tale of horror in the Wild West!
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Dying Days 1-9 Complete Box Set by Armand Rosamilia

Dying Days 1-9 Complete Box Set by Armand Rosamilia

All Nine of the Dying Days books in one massive release

The award-winning extreme zombie series by Armand Rosamilia

Can Darlene Bobich and the survivor’s fight past not only the undead hordes, but the constant threat of those who would try to steal, kill and destroy as well?

428,000+ words!

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The Suicide Society by William Brennan Knight

The Suicide Society by William Brennan Knight

Do you sometimes feel like we’re all being led down a one-way path to self-destruction?
It’s like we’re living in a tinder box, and someone or something keeps nudging us a little further towards a totalitarian dystopian future…

Just one match can send everything up in flames… Who or what is behind this nebulous sickness and hatred that infects the very soul of humanity? Every day we’re exposed to reports of increasingly horrific brutality even as we try and cope with our own personal anguish.

How did it come to this?

After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Zach Randall, a self-absorbed accountant, experiences disturbing visions of tortured souls preparing to die by their own hand. Initially dismissing the dreams as mere hallucinations, Randall begins to suspect there is deeper meaning hidden within each vision. Could these people be real? And who is the dark, mysterious entity who competes for the loyalties of the despondent and tormented before they breathe their last breath?

The Suicide Society is a supernatural thriller that evolves as a story of evil and a carefully devised plan to infiltrate every aspect of society for the purpose of promoting hate, chaos and ultimate destruction. As the clocks continues to wind down, Randall races to uncover the apocalyptic plot and expose the gifted leader of a massive covert network that relentlessly drives the world closer to a global catastrophe.

If you like books by DJ Molles, Stephen King, Dean R. Koonce, Joe Hill, Robert Masello, Clifford D Simak, and Eloise J Knapp, you better clear some time in your calendar for The Suicide Society Series because you’ll want to read all the books from cover to cover.

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The Baby-Eater by Chad Robert Morgan

The Baby-Eater by Chad Robert Morgan

To Alexander, his family on his mother’s side were strangers, the country they lived in just a spot on the map, and their beliefs nothing more than superstitions and folklore.

While accompanying his mother on her trip home after the death of his chronically ill father, however, Alexander is shown a world larger than he could have ever guessed, one both as enriching as it could be deadly.

To keep his family safe, Alexander must risk his life to fight off an undead infant, make alliances with witches, and battle with the most dangerous creature of all – the Baby-Eater.

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The Dragon Storm – GATES by Anthony DiPaolo

The Dragon Storm – GATES by Anthony DiPaolo

Join Alexander Storm as he leads a diverse team of would-be-heroes around the world in search of the Twelve Hours of Night from The Book of Gates. The fabled ancient Egyptian papyrus has been split into twelve parts and secreted around the globe at major archaeological sites. With only a set of intricate riddles as their guide, the team must face all manner of supernatural nemesis as they race against time and a duo of enigmatic demons who are hellbent on acquiring the Twelve Hours and opening the gates to Hell on Earth.

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A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Douglas R. Brown

A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Douglas R. Brown

Life doesn’t always end at death.

Supernatural suspense combines with psychological terror in this collection of six creepy tales exploring humanity’s darkest impulses.
A burned-out firefighter with PTSD receives a succession of ghostly visitors trying to help him face his demons before it’s too late in a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens’s famous A Christmas Carol. A solitary night janitor battles a sinister man in black. A firefighter fails to heed an otherworldly warning. A happily married man spirals into obsession over a comment by an internet troll. A man runs for his life down a dark country lane pursued by a stranger with murder in mind. A paramedic’s haunting secret threatens to destroy her life.
Written from the soul of a firefighter/paramedic who has seen his own struggles, A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories is an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end.

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Hail of Brimstone by J.R. White

Hail of Brimstone by J.R. White

“Forget your prize! Forget your friend! He is a husk, bled dry on the sands. He has been torn by what lingers, torn like they tear all who seek their secrets! Torn like they tore me!”
In the wilderness of the newborn nation of Mexico, a demonic gunman attacks a wedding, turning a day of joy into a massacre and wiping the mission of Nuestra Señora de la Sangre from the map.
A half-century later, vagabond gunfighter Kit Barker finds himself on the trail of a lost friend and a sinister relic that will bring him face to face with an evil that threatens to rend the very bonds of his sanity.
Following a blood-stained trail from the streets of old New York, across the great plains, and all the way to the jagged coasts of Baja, Barker and his friends must fight for survival against both man and beast as they stalk a doomed path to its inevitable and explosive end… if necessary, to the very fires of hell.
Can Barker defend his soul against the devils and demons of his own mind? Can mere men resist the thing that hunts them from beyond the Hail of Brimstone?
From the author of SHADOW OF WOLVES, a new action-packed tale of horror in the Wild West!

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Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

A tortured gunfighter. A Navajo outcast. – And the Creature whose claws would stain the stones of the Mojave red.
Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil.
When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come.
But as their band of misfits hunts for the creature on the burning sands of the Mojave, they stumble into a generations old mystery that goes beyond shamanic curses and into the bloodstained pages of legend.
Can the killing be stopped?
And can a tortured gunman like Kit Barker – with a terrible secret of his own – prevail against something as savage and eternal as the Beast?
Rated 5-stars by Indie Reader! Available in eBook, Paperback, and Audiobook

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THE ETERNAL DARKNESS: 159 TALES OF TERROR by Steven Havelock

THE ETERNAL DARKNESS: 159 TALES OF TERROR by Steven Havelock

Stephen King meets Dean Koontz. Do you like stories in the style of the Twilight zone, Outer limits and Tales from the crypt?
Then this massive book of short stories is for you, not too wordy, not too long but still packs a hell of a punch.
Over 1800 pages and 159 tales from the deepest depths of the psyche. So, light the bedside lamp, draw the bed-covers close and prepare for a rare treat of a book that will have you reading into the early hours of the morning.

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Dying Days by Armand Rosamilia

Dying Days by Armand Rosamilia

Sunny Florida, beautiful beaches, no traffic on A1A… Zombies roaming the dunes in search of the living… Darlene Bobich in a fight to survive, find food, safety and ammo for her Desert Eagle before its too late… the undead are coming to exterminate the human race…

Dying Days are upon us… The Undead Roam the Earth… Searching for the living in an apocalyptic wasteland

Now includes both “Darlene Bobich: Zombie Killer” and the first “Dying Days” zombie novellas in one release!

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The Man Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe by J. R. Rada

The Man Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe by J. R. Rada

You might be thinking that Poe wasn’t murdered. He died in a hospital. You’re wrong.
While he did die at the Washington Medical Center, he was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore wearing clothes that were not his own. He was admitted to the hospital where he died without explaining what had happened. The only clue is he shouted the name “Reynolds” before he died.
The hospital and its records were later destroyed in a fire, so we’re left with theory and conjecture about how the Master of the Macabre died. One person knows how the Father of the Modern Mystery met his end, and that person is … The Man Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe.
This is his story, although it reads like one of Poe’s horror tales.
Alexander Reynolds has been known by many names in his long life, the most famous of which is Lazarus, the man raised from the dead by Christ. Matthew Cromwell is another resurrected being living an extended life. Eternal life has its cost, though, whether or not Alexander and Matthew want to pay it.
Alexander has already seen Matthew kill Edgar’s mother, and he is determined to keep the same fate from befalling Edgar.
From the time of Christ to the modern days of the Poe Toaster, The Man Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe is a sweeping novel of love, terror, and mystery that could have come from the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe himself.

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Keyport Cthulhu by Armand Rosamilia

Keyport Cthulhu by Armand Rosamilia

Keyport Cthulhu
Revised and Expanded Edition for 2017!

“The painting forced him to move back with such suddenness, he nearly fell over the side of the old wooden railing. It depicted a grisly scene, as if your worst nightmare had been splattered on canvas. Despite his mind screaming to look away, he could not avert his eyes” – Ancient

Set in the New Jersey fishing village of Keyport, where the Esoteric Order of Dagon has been planning for the awakening of the Deep One all these years…

Who can survive when Cthulhu rises?

Includes several bonus stories:

the steampunk tale “Rats In The Cellars”
“Cthulhunicorn” co-written with Katelynn Rosamilia
“Lockbox” previously unreleased
And two Lovecraftian tales from author Chuck Buda: “The Terrible Old Man of Keyport” and “Dark Waters of Sin”

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Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

“An endlessly fun and immersive adventure novel that perfectly mixes horror and western… Shadow of Wolves is pure, distilled, and unfiltered American pulp.” – IndieReader
A Torture Gunfighter. A Navajo Outcast. And the Creature whose claws will stain the Mojave red.
Ruled by a ruthless baron, the mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil. When disappearances become mangled bodies, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the coming slaughter. Their hunt for the creature on the burning sands leads them deep into a generations-old mystery of shamanic curses and satanic relics. Can the killing be stopped? Or will Kit Barker, a tortured gunman with a terrible secret, become a footnote in the bloodstained pages of legend?
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