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The Darkest Gift by Len Handeland

The Darkest Gift by Len Handeland

Two worlds collide in this story: one man, the other a vampire. They form a strong bond and, eventually, are bound by a blood covenant known as the dark gift. They are destined to create their own world until their love is violently ripped apart by jealousy and rage. Love eventually triumphs over despair and misery in a different place and time. Are they destined to be together?
Laurent Richelieu is a 250-year-old vampire whose lover and vampire maker, Fabien Levesque, is destroyed in front of him by his vampire maker Stefan in a jealous fit of rage, exacting revenge for Fabien’s rejection of him. Laurent narrowly escapes and leaves Paris to settle in the New World. He anonymously seeks shelter and refuge in the newly established city of New Orleans, with his trusted servant Barthelme sworn to Laurent’s secret. Cloaked in darkness, Laurent struggles with modern times and, in deep despair, haunts the French Quarter’s jazz bars. He listens to beautiful music and seeks out dark tables in the back to hide his blood-soaked tears and mourn the loss of his long-lost love, Fabien.
Deep isolation and loneliness also consume Jack Devereaux, a man’s man who struggles to accept his true sexual attraction to other men and who recently came out of a ten-year failed marriage to a woman. Jack feels estranged from connecting with his gay community because his Catholic faith forbids it. He feels as if he’s unable to exist as either straight or gay. His reluctance to accept his true sexuality leads him from one disastrous sexual encounter to another. Swearing off his same-sex attraction leads Jack back into a straight jazz bar where he unknowingly meets a refined and elegant gentleman that entices, attracts, and, oddly, disturbs Jack. Are they destined to be together? Does Laurent honestly care for Jack? Or is there a much more sinister plot involved? Can the help of a self-described Voodoo High Priestess named “Queen Raphaella” alter Jack’s predestined future, or is his fate already sealed?

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Welcome to Peaceful Journey by J. R. Rada

Welcome to Peaceful Journey by J. R. Rada

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Welcome to Peaceful Journey Funeral Home where the journey from life to death can be anything but peaceful. The viewing rooms bear the names of heavenly glory as found in the different religions of the world, but it is a long-forgotten religion that controls Peaceful Journey.

Owner Bruce Godsey tries his best to be comforting to mourners, but he has seen a lot more than he can admit. Would mourners find peace in knowing that the corpses come alive at night or that ghosts cannibalize each other? And those are just the easiest oddities to accept at the funeral home.

The problem is not the funeral home. It’s the land on which the building was built. The ancient people who once lived on the land and performed their religious ceremonies were extinct long before Native Americans arrived to claim the land. However, the spirits of these ancient ones still roam the land and the remnants of their mysticism has found expression in the rooms of Peaceful Journey.

Here, a hand can still be connected to its unseen body on the other side of the veil, but the body of what sort of being. Ghostly beings can walk among other ghosts without being seen. The newly departed learned that life continues, though it may be in an unexpected form.

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Trying to Survive: Another Zombie Novel by C.J. Crowley

Trying to Survive: Another Zombie Novel by C.J. Crowley

The night it began, all we could do was listen to the chaos. The sirens, car crashes, gunshots and relentless cries for help resonated throughout the neighborhood like a symphony of evil–rising up from hell itself.

They hunt like wolves. Their speed and strength tear away at any hope for survival, just as their teeth do flesh. The few cursed to maintain their humanity will need more than weapons and clever ideas to escape the gruesome fates attached to even a single mistake.

There was no warning.

“Why can’t it be like that show everyone loves so much?”

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DOCTOR LEVIATHAN by James Banks Jr

DOCTOR LEVIATHAN by James Banks Jr

Doctor Leviathan volume #1 is a graphic novel that takes place in the future where there are millions of super-powered madmen, monsters and murderers but no heroes to confront them. Mankind lives on the brink of enslavement as these criminals terrorize the world. Within this graphic novel is the story of someone that suddenly appears to rise up and make a stand against these evil madmen. Some call him a monster while others say he is a saint, but he is all that stands between mankind and its enslavement. This mans name is Doctor Leviathan. The first story in this graphic novel is about a man named siege and his group of villains and monsters, who kidnap the daughter of a judge and plan to torture and execute her on live television. The second story within this graphic novel is about a man, who became a priest to escape from his past crimes as a powerful criminal. He painfully finds out that he cannot escape his past as he is confronted by a group of evil villains seeking revenge. The third and final story in this graphic novel is about the mysterious and grisly murders of several powerful groups of super-criminals. The police search for their killer as more and more super-villains are found slaughtered. Clues of these murders lead into the dark underground sewers of Detroit city. Police authorities know that what ever is hunting and murdering these criminals may eventually start preying on the innocent civilians within the city.

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Pack Hunters by Lee Cushing

Pack Hunters by Lee Cushing by Lee Cushing

Catherine Jordan is an operative for a secret organiz.ation that hunts down evil. Her next mission far outweighs any other she has ever experienced, this time the risks are personal – they involve her girlfriend Daphne, who has gone missing when a plane is hijacked, a beastly tropical island and a deadly lottery where nobody wins, nobody human anyhow.

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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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Hard Place by R A Jacobson

Hard Place by R A Jacobson

“knocked the wind out of me”

“A thrilling and violent tale about how the Devil always wins.”

“A nail-biting hard place to be.”

“It was gripping right from the start.”

“raw and candid”

“It kept me at the edge of my seat.”

“Kept me up all night!”

“It’s a must read!”

A cursed man tricks the Devil with Death’s help.

Demons and deals, motorbikes and taverns, crossroads and consequences. Moonshine and shotguns and two men in love with the same woman 30 years apart.
When your day starts with a close friend stopping by and trying to kill you, you know the rest of your week could only get better. Unfortunately, for Jacob, that’s not the case.
When Mr. White and The Judge meet at the crossroads, Jacob and Matt could lose everything.

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The Bounty & The Bones by Justin White

The Bounty & The Bones by Justin White

Aging manhunter Harlon Slade needs a bounty, and fast. When a gang of dingy outlaws wanders into his saloon it seems his troubles are postponed. But when he overhears their hushed whispers of gold in the cliffside ruins of the Sonoran desert, he wonders if there’s more than just a bounty to be had. Slade tracks the men into the desert night, ready to take the treasure for himself. But something dwells in the ruins, lying in wait, and as the hideous truth unfolds, both the manhunter and his prey will find that more gleams in the shadows than gold.

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A Distance from Avalon: when the dying and the dead reunite by Mike Messier

A Distance from Avalon: when the dying and the dead reunite by Mike Messier

Joe Humble, a middle school history teacher and a father of three, is in the middle of a painful divorce. Joe’s Halloween night becomes an adventure when his co-worker Shadow, a newly hired music teacher, invites him out for a night on the town.

Shadow leads them to a Castle with the door opened by the alluring Heartbreak, who in turn takes us to the master of the house, the mysterious, charming, and gothic Jean La Croix Distance.

While the ladies seem to find a common ground, the two gentlemen can’t help but challenge each other’s wit, intelligence, and world knowledge. Eventually, wine and conversation cool their tempers.

After a marvelous meal, an indecent proposal of a “no guarantees, no strings attached” partner swap for the rest of the evening leads the two mix-matched couples to share feelings of profound empathy and, eventually, spoils of the flesh that are later revealed to be mere tools for manipulation and indoctrination.

Would it be too much to share that there is more to our hosts than what at first seems?

As Jean and Heartbreak’s motivations are revealed, Joe must choose whether to make this odd yet fascinating place his new home or to somehow find a Distance from Avalon.

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The Dream Cycle by Jorge Arenas

The Dream Cycle by Jorge Arenas

What are dreams? Could they be more than random events created by a brain resting each evening? Are they just expressions of our subconscious desires? Or, are they something more? The Dream Cycle is a detailed account of my very own journeys where I find myself trapped each evening. Worlds where nightmares are nothing but normal reality. Realities where mercy is often an afterthought. This collection of thirteen terrifying short stories comes from a series of dreams since 2017. Dreams that question your who and what you are. Your place in the wider universe, and even dreams that display the cruelty of our shared worlds. Let’s go on a journey together as you read, The Dream Cycle.

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The Kill Club by James Glass

The Kill Club by James Glass

Welcome to The Kill Club—an informal men’s club is set in a luxurious hunting lodge located on twenty-thousand acres of Pensacola, Florida woodlands. The members gather to hunt the homeless, streetwalkers, and others deemed lowlifes.
After serving in the military, Navy SEAL Nick Sparrow decides to start a new career in his hometown of Pensacola. A freak winter storm pummels the area and he crashes his muscle car. Forced to hitchhike, he crosses paths with a member of the Kill Club who mistakenly thinks Nick is a vagrant.
Nick left a life of danger in Afghanistan only to be hunted by men from his own country. Swept up in the battle of his life, he will need to use all his skills to survive both the Kill Club and the freezing weather.

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The Kill Club by James Glass

The Kill Club by James Glass

Welcome to The Kill Club—an informal men’s club is set in a luxurious hunting lodge located on twenty-thousand acres of Pensacola, Florida woodlands. The members gather to hunt the homeless, streetwalkers, and others deemed lowlifes.

After serving in the military, Navy SEAL Nick Sparrow decides to start a new career in his hometown of Pensacola. A freak winter storm pummels the area and he crashes his muscle car. Forced to hitchhike, he crosses paths with a member of the Kill Club who mistakenly thinks Nick is a vagrant.

Nick left a life of danger in Afghanistan only to be hunted by men from his own country. Swept up in the battle of his life, he will need to use all his skills to survive both the Kill Club and the freezing weather.

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Ten-Cent Man by Gitte Tamar

Ten-Cent Man by Gitte Tamar

In a small corrupt settlement in the Wild West, the tumbleweeds are the only prospect of authenticity until a retired bronc buster named Alonzo Bill rides into town. A lifelong cynic of the supernatural, he takes advantage of others’ fears of the unknown. He finds it easier and more profitable to make a living as a con artist rather than a cowboy. Feeding into the desperation and naivety of the town’s residents, he swindles anyone fearing the paranormal haunts them.

The luxury of his new career filled with fame, riches, and little effort seems perfect until he meets his match when called to assist a preacher with a unique situation. Confounded by what he witnesses leads him to question all of his prior convictions and calls him to carry out purging the earth of unfathomable evils. Find out what happens when a coming to Jesus moment inspires a con to become the ultimate judge, jury, and executioner of sinister forces.

“Burying bodies ain’t always easy when you’re a retired cowboy.”

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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

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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