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The Darkest Passages – The sequel to The Darkest Gift by Len Handeland

The Darkest Passages – The sequel to The Darkest Gift by Len Handeland

Fabien Levesque has endured intense suffering since his maker and ex-lover, Stefan, turned him into a reluctant vampire, forcing him to kill humans indiscriminately, using them as an endless food supply. The nightmare continues as the vengeful voodoo high-priestess Raphaella seeks retribution.

Together, their formidable evil allows Stefan to possess the body of Fabien’s lover and vampire fledgling Laurent Richelieu. Forced to flee the city and the man he loves, Fabien leaves New Orleans and finds refuge in San Francisco, where he crosses paths with the enigmatic vampire royalty in an underground nightclub called the Wolf’s Eye, whose motives are as mysterious as their power, and a renowned deadly vampire hunter, whose skills are as lethal as his reputation.

The path to united vengeance becomes clear as Fabien discovers his powerful allies share his desire to defeat Stefan. Yet, the challenge remains: persuading Raphaella to use her voodoo magic to free Stefan’s spirit from Laurent’s body.

If he fails, mortals everywhere will become innocent victims of Stefan’s unrelenting blood lust, his insatiable hunger for human life leading to a massacre of unimaginable proportions. Soon, his army of vampires, a relentless force of darkness and death, will destroy all of humanity, plunging the world into eternal night.

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The Confession by Chad Miller

The Confession by Chad Miller

The year is 1887 and in the quaint Pennsylvania town of Temple, Isabella Strohmeyer stumbles upon a gruesome scene: her father and stepmother brutally hacked to death. As the police investigation unfolds, gossip and rumors swirl through the tight-knit community. The Strohmeyer household, always steeped in simmering tension, harbors secrets that echo within its halls.

As an arrest is made, the town becomes embroiled in the trial of the century. Grisly truths emerge and no one is prepared for the shocking conclusion of this dark tale.

This harrowing story, loosely inspired by the Lizzie Borden murders, will send chills up your spine.

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SARA SARQUE & THE DEMON EXECUTIONER and Other Stories of Mystery, Terror, Heartbreak, Hope and Humor by D C Mallery

SARA SARQUE & THE DEMON EXECUTIONER and Other Stories of Mystery, Terror, Heartbreak, Hope and Humor by D C Mallery

Gold Award Winner for Best Horror Book in the 2023 Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards.

A dozen eerie and macabre tales . . .

Tessa Thrope and the Unholy Venom: A rogue priest embarks on a bold experiment to build up a tolerance to demonic possession by injecting one drop of blood at a time from a possessed young woman into his veins with quite unexpected results.

The Last Canvas: In a secluded art studio, an arrogant artist picks the wrong muse to mess with.

Acts of Absolution in the Circus of the Night: In 19th century Paris, a boy with hemophilia learns his older brother and sister—who fled the city years ago—have returned with an enigmatic Night Circus. Defying his stern father, the boy sneaks out one night to watch the circus, setting off a chain of events that will change all their lives.

The Night of Blood Perfume: Neighbors find themselves in a desperate fight for survival as a strange fog descends upon their town and, within the fog, comes an unusual “call of the wild” only some can hear.

The Society of the Never Coming Back: A bachelor in 1920s New York responds to an invitation to join an odd social club that changes its name with each new member until one day it becomes The Society of the Never Coming Back.

Sara Sarque & The Demon Executioner: A feisty young junkie reluctantly joins forces with a former seminary student to battle terrifying demons—but these are not the usual sorts of demons and these are definitely not the usual sorts of exorcists.

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Transplanted Evil by Len Handeland

Transplanted Evil by Len Handeland

Elizabeth Bennington grew up in a wealthy family, but her life is far from perfect. She was born with a congenital heart condition, which made her a target for bullies at school. This, combined with her distant father and overprotective mother, led Elizabeth to feel hopeless and attempt suicide. Rescued by her parents, she is sent to Bourneville Psychiatric Hospital, where she receives transformative therapy and gains a more positive outlook on life.

Despite her progress, Elizabeth has a secret – she can see into the future and has recurring nightmares of a mysterious young man with black hair splattered with blood committing unspeakable acts of murder. Marty Bowles, a schoolmate deeply in love with Elizabeth, directly threatens her. His violent tendencies at school and his involvement in the black arts, including demonic worship and possession, make Elizabeth wonder if Marty is the mysterious young man in her nightmares. She fears he will stop at nothing to gain her love and unite them with his sinister plan.

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Kachina by J. R. Rada

Kachina by J. R. Rada

Remembering 5 missing weeks can save one world and doom another.

The Dark Gods have arisen, and the man who knows how to stop them can’t remember how.
David Purcell was on his way to meet his girlfriend when he fell into a cave. He awakens in a hospital where he learns that he’s been missing for five weeks. David has no memory of his time in the cave. He is also mysteriously free of any signs of starvation, injury or cave blindness.

Adam Maho is an elderly Hopi who has seen visions of Kuskurza, the Third World of Hopi creation stories. It is a world that is supposed to have been destroyed when the Hopi came to this world through a hole in the ground. Adam’s visions show him that those ancient evils that had been long-believed dead were imprisoned and not destroyed.

Their prison is weakening, though. When it fails, the dark kachinas will be free once again to bring death and devastation to the world. Adam’s visions also show the Hopi that David is somehow the key to keeping the dark kachinas imprisoned.

The dark kachinas realize this as well and have sent two of their servants, men of the Bow Clan, to the surface on a suicide mission to kill David Purcell.

David is unsure of what to believe. He has flashes of memory from his time in the caverns, but he can’t go so far as to believe what Adam tries to explain to him. That is until the Bow Clan attacks him and kills his girlfriend.

When David becomes a suspect in the murder, he flees to the Hopi settlement of Oraibi. The Bow Clan is not finished with David. They pursue him and capture Adam’s granddaughter, though David escapes them.

He turns the tables on the Bow Clan and decides to take the fight to them as he remembers more of his time in the caverns. He makes the journey to Kuskurza on a rescue mission and to try and find a way to stop the dark kachinas.

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Book of Fear by Black Rose Reads

Book of Fear by Black Rose Reads

In the 1990s, middle school was a treacherous time for young Susan, where her lifelong friendship with Maddie is put to the test.

Determined to win back her friend from the clutches of the school bully, she is willing to do anything. When she stumbles upon a chilling discovery in the woods – the enigmatic “Book of Fear,” she is torn by the sinister promise of one wish granted if she is willing to face one night of all her fears.

As night descends, Susan delves into a nightmarish journey through her own subconscious terrors. The book manifests her deepest fears, forcing her to confront spine-chilling phantoms and malevolent shadows that lurk within. Each eerie encounter tests her courage and resilience, blurring the lines between reality and nightmare.

With each challenge conquered, she realizes she must face the most difficult one of all. In a race against the darkness, Susan must make a fateful decision – succumb to her worst fear or embrace the strength she has discovered within herself, and win Maddie back.

As the shadows close in, threatening to engulf her sanity, she faces her greatest challenge yet. Can she defy the malevolent magic, or will the Book of Fear claim its ultimate prize – her very soul?

“Book of Fear” is a quick 10k word chilling tale of courage, friendship, and the battle against one’s innermost demons.

Prepare to be captivated by Susan’s haunting journey through a nightmarish realm, where fear takes on a life of its own. Brace yourself for an unforgettable horror story that will leave you breathless, questioning the true nature of fear itself.

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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

If you’re a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, The Man Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe solves the mystery of his murder.

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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CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE: MAELSTROM by Tony Kayden

CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE: MAELSTROM by Tony Kayden

Will the world survive the alien organism unleashed in Central Park?
When a group of drunken skinheads vandalize Central Park’s Cleopatra’s Needle obelisk, they set off an unearthly chain of events. An ancient alien organism, dormant for centuries, is unleashed and threatens to consume the city, the country, and the world.
The fate of humanity rests in the hands of Captain Charles “Biggs” Mosley of the NYPD, the US Military, and the nation’s most renowned virologists. Will they be able to save the world in time from the Sand Men? Or will the darkness of the Maelstrom consume them all?
Set in gritty 1990’s New York City, Cleopatra’s Needle: Maelstrom is an intense horror science fiction thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you enjoyed the suspense and horror of Stephen King’s The Stand, you’ll be captivated by this mind blowing page-turner.
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The Costly Wish by JuJu AKA Julie Lomax

The Costly Wish by JuJu AKA Julie Lomax

Be careful what you ask for. Every wish can cost one more than they are willing to give. If you like mystery and murder then read what happens to Maggie as she returns home after her husband’s death. Things have changed, people are different. What is it that she doesn’t know……
Seven chapters that beckon you to turn the page, after page.

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The Little Woods by A.G. Mock

The Little Woods by A.G. Mock

The darkness of the past can never stay buried for long…
In the summer of 1977, a harmless children’s game in the woods plunged a sleepy Pennsylvania town into deadly, unthinkable nightmare.
Years later, the horror of that summer no longer haunts Ian Cockerton. But when the appearance of a dead childhood friend triggers nerve-shredding flashbacks and a terrifying omen, Ian is drawn back to the one place he vowed never to return—the Little Woods.
There, together with a charismatic spiritualist from New Orleans, he’ll face an inconceivable force of darkness hellbent on finishing what it started.
But with time running out, can Ian unlock the secrets of that fateful summer to protect the ones he loves?
This psychological thriller set in the 1970s & 1990s is perfect for fans of books based on true events, coming-of-age fiction, family thriller books or psychic thrillers like The Conjuring, Black Phone, The Amityville Horror, or Stephen King’s The Outsider and Doctor Sleep.
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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 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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