Horror

Horror

Do creaks in your house send chills rattling up and down your spine?  Are there shadows around your house that you think may be looking back at you?  (Okay, if that's the case, you may want to see a physician).  When you need true, deep fright, check out our Horror ebooks.  All of our authors are masters of horror, and they want you to read their ebooks for free or a very discounted price.

 

Definition of the "Horror Genre": Your primal fears are what authors in the Horror genre seek to evoke.  And, not just evoke, but to make you feel emotions after arousing those fears.  Masters of this genre can even make you feel psychological and physical responses to their stories.  Horror may be getting more difficult to create, because for centuries authors in the Horror genre used fear of the unknown to move their readers.  The unknown, to a certain extent, does not exist anymore.  Our authors in this genre are therefore always seeking the next unknown and the next way to elicit your basest fears.

 

Some examples of bestselling Horror ebooks are Stephen King (The Shining), J.D. Horn (The Line), Anne Rice (Prince Lestat) and Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven,, The Tell-Tale Heart).  As an aside, we could have listed all Stephen King ebooks.  His prolific backlog of bestselling horror ebooks is mind boggling.

Sever

by Matt Ingwalson


Sometime toward the end of Leo Thomas' junior year, the tiny college town of Epshire became home to four axe murderers, two of them serial killers. No one could say why, exactly. And no one could make the killing stop.

Leo's no hero. He just wants to play lacrosse. Meet girls. Hang on the front porch with his best friends. But his life is about to be changed forever by an evil he can't understand.
 
Sever is a coming-of-age novella wrapped in a horror story wrapped in a love letter to college, a time when you're supposed to be invincible, a time when you're not supposed to be able to die. It's perfect for anyone who went to college in the '90s, and then had to face the horror of growing up.
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Broken Shells: A Subterranean Horror Novella

by Michael Patrick Hicks

Antoine DeWitt is a man down on his luck. Broke and recently fired, he knows the winning Money Carlo ticket that has landed in his mailbox from a car dealership is nothing more than a scam. The promise of five thousand dollars, though, is too tantalizing to ignore.

Jon Dangle is a keeper of secrets, many of which are buried deep beneath his dealership. He works hard to keep them hidden, but occasionally sacrifices are required, sacrifices who are penniless, desperate, and who will not be missed. Sacrifices exactly like DeWitt.

When Antoine steps foot on Dangle’s car lot, it is with the hope of easy money. Instead, he finds himself trapped in a deep, dark hole, buried alive. If he is going to survive the nightmare ahead of him, if he has any chance of seeing his wife and child again, Antoine will have to do more than merely hope. He will have to fight his way back to the surface, and pray that Jon Dangle’s secrets do not kill him first.

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End Times I: Rise of the Undead

by Shane Carrow

New Year's Day: midsummer in Australia. In Perth, twin brothers Aaron and Matt have graduated high school and are enjoying their last few months of summer holidays before adulthood - while on the other side of the country, something has fallen from the sky, heralding the dawn of a new age.

As a terrifying plague spreads across Australia and the world, Aaron and Matt find themselves scrambling to survive, fleeing the city, refugees in their own country. Tormented by strange dreams and beset by violence, they must struggle to find the remnants of their family and survive the Rise of the Undead.

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Crossings

by Ashley Capes

Something red lay in a heap on her doorstep. She crept closer, wrinkling her nose as the buzz of flies led her to a pile of animal entrails. Slick with blood, like mangled tubes from bike tyres, they stained the concrete.

Deep in the Australian bush, wildlife ranger Lisa Thomas must uncover the truth behind a giant white kangaroo and the strange deaths connected to it, while dealing with the return of her abusive ex, Ben, whose rage is quickly growing out of control.

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The Owlmen

by S. E. England


THE OWLMEN - NEW FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING OCCULT HORROR TRILOGY, FATHER OF LIES!
IF THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL COME FOR YOU...

Ellie Blake is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction - an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor.

However, there is disquiet in the village. Tanners Dell has a terrible secret, one so well guarded no one speaks its name. But in her search for meaning and very much alone, Ellie is drawn to traditional witchcraft and determined to pursue it. All her life she has been cowed. All her life she has apologised for her very existence. And witchcraft has opened a door she could never have imagined. Imbued with power and overawed with its magick, for the first time she feels she has come home, truly knows who she is.

Tanners Dell though, with its centuries old demonic history...well, it's a dangerous place for a novice...
 

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War Demons: An Urban Fantasy Thriller (The Prodigal Son Book 1)

by Russell Newquist

 

When he came home, so did they...

Driven by vengeance, Michael Alexander enlisted in the Army the day after 9/11. Five years later, disillusioned and broken by the horrors he witnessed in Afghanistan, Michael returns home to Georgia seeking to begin a new life. But he didn't come alone. Something evil followed him, and it's leaving a path of destruction in its wake.

The police are powerless. The Army has written Michael off. Left to face down a malevolent creature first encountered in the mountains of Afghanistan, he'll rely on his training, a homeless prophet, and estranged family members from a love lost...

But none of them expected the dragon.

Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden collides with Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International in this supernatural thriller that goes straight to Hell!

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Fade (Paxton Locke Book 1)

by Daniel Humphreys

 

Son of a Witch

Family drama is bad enough without adding magic and human sacrifice. Ten years ago, Paxton Locke’s mother killed his father in a mysterious ritual that – thankfully – went incomplete. Now, Paxton makes his living as a roving paranormal investigator, banishing spirits while Mother languishes in jail.

When a terrified ghost warns him of a dangerous, newly-freed entity, Paxton faces a fight far beyond simple exorcism. In a battle for his very soul, will he be able to endure – or simply fade away?

From Dragon Award nominee Daniel Humphreys
 

The Paxton Locke Series

  1. Fade
  2. Night's Black Agents - Coming June 19th!
  3. Come, Seeling Night - Coming in 2019!

 

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Honor at Stake (Love at First Bite Book 1)

by Declan Finn


A 2016 Dragon Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel!

One is a heartless, bloodthirsty killer. The other is a vampire.
$0.99 through May 8th!

College freshman, Amanda Colt knows few people and wants to know fewer still. She enjoys fencing and prefers facing a challenge every once in a while. She is beautiful, smart, and possibly the most interesting person on campus.

Then she finds tall, intense Marco Catalano in her fencing class. With a mind like a computer and manners of a medieval knight, he scares most people - but not Amanda.They both have secrets, for they are both monsters.

As they draw closer, they must find the line between how much they can trust each other, and how much they can care for each other. Each carries a secret that can destroy the other. But they must come to grips with their personal drama soon, because a darkness rises around them. Bodies keep turning up all over New York, and an army of vampires closes in on all sides.

They have only one hope - each other.

The Love at First Bite Series

  1. Honor at Stake (ASIN B07CS11F97) - 2017 Dragon Award nominee for Best Horror Novel!
  2. Demons are Forever (Coming June 5th!)
  3. Live and Let Bite (Coming July 10th!) - 2017 Dragon Award nominee for Best Horror Novel!
  4. Good to the Last Drop (Coming August 14th!)
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Zombie Fallout

by Mark Tufo

It was a flu season like no other. With the H1N1 virus running rampant throughout the country, people lined up in droves to try and attain one of the coveted vaccines. What was not known was the effect this largely untested, rushed to market, inoculation was to have on the unsuspecting throngs. Within days, feverish folk throughout the country convulsed, collapsed, and died, only to be reborn. With a taste for brains, blood, and bodies, these modern-day zombies scoured the lands for their next meal. Overnight the country became a killing ground for the hordes of zombies that ravaged the land.

This is the story of Michael Talbot, his family, and his friends: a band of ordinary people trying to get by in extraordinary times. When disaster strikes, Mike, a self-proclaimed survivalist, does his best to ensure the safety and security of those he cares for. Book one of the Zombie Fallout Trilogy follows our lead character at his self-deprecating, sarcastic best. What he encounters along the way leads him down a long dark road, always skirting the edge of insanity.

Can he keep his family safe? Can he discover the secret behind Tommy's powers? Can he save anyone from the zombie queen? Encircled in a seemingly safe haven called Little Turtle, Mike and his family, together with the remnants of a tattered community, must fight against a relentless, ruthless, unstoppable force. This last bastion of civilization has made its final stand. God help them all.

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Anika Rising (Gretel Book Four)

by Christopher Coleman


From the bottom of a lake, deep in the Back Country, death takes a turn. 

Within a day of being struck down by Hansel, Anika has risen. The cruel, addictive infection of Marlene's poison has protected Anika from the finality of death. But the resurrection is not without a price. She has a new hunger, and its lure is irresistible. Anika sees suicide as the only option, until she learns of a new terror in the world, one related to the Witch of the North and which threatens the lives of her children. 

Anika must now find the threat and destroy it before it kills her children.
 
Pre-order ANIKA RISING, the fourth book in the popular series by the author readers are comparing to Stephen King, Dean Koontz and R.L. Stine.
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Regina Puckett's Short Tales of Horror

by Regina Puckett

Mine- A night of ghost hunting with a sexy coworker turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse with an evil spirit. Can anything save them when the spirit decides they belong to him? Crying through Plastic Eyes-A messy divorce, a room filled with creepy dolls, and a missing six-year-old all create the perfect storm for a young mother’s worse nightmare. Will Work for Food- You see them everywhere begging for money or food. When an older couple decides to lend a helping hand to a young man and his son, someone gets more than they bargain for. Pieces-A battered woman confesses to the mutilation and death of her husband, but did she really commit this heinous crime? Paying the Hitchhiker-You see a beautiful young woman on the side of the road with her thumb out, asking for a ride. Who should be the most afraid: the hitchhiker or the person picking her up? Inheritance-A confession from Accalia’s grandmother about a curse and an inheritance are just the prologue to seven days of suffering through a living hell.

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Secret Stairs: A Tribute to Urban Legend

by Russell Newquist

 

You mustn't talk about the stairs.


There they stand, surrounded by nothing but forest, pristine as the day they were built. No sign remains of any other structure around them, no ruins of long forgotten buildings. They look... wrong. They feel wrong. Bad things happen if you get too close. Horrible things.

You must never, ever ever talk about them.

Thirty-four of today's best up and coming writers provide wonderfully unique interpretations inspired by the urban legends of the Internet age. Tales range from science fiction to fantasy, horror to mystery, and one writer even penned a romance!

But you must never tell anyone about the stairs!

Containing the stories:

 

 

  • Nothing Ever Happens Here by Richard Paolinelli
  • Star Thistle by J. Comer
  • Let Him In by Josh Dygert
  • A New Trail Off Of Old King?s Highway by Michael Reyes
  • The Strange Stairs at the Aldebourne Estate by Kristen Brand
  • Exclusive Scoop by J. Trevor Robinson
  • The Flash-Back Stairs: A Story of Betrayal by Patrick T. Luce
  • The Peacock House by Matthew Pegg
  • Where The Wood Thrush Sings by NB Williams
  • The Refuge by Dawn Witzke
  • Upon The Stair by Daniel Humphreys
  • Grand Staircase to the Yellow Court by R.C. Mulhare
  • Another Dead Man?s Curve by Chris Ingram
  • Game Warden by Russell Newquist
  • Stepping Stones by Jarrett Mazza
  • Reap Dance by James G. Hancock
  • Descending Stairs, 1699 by Meghan Casey
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread by Michelle Mellon
  • Sobek's Staircase by Jeremy Megargee
  • The Curses We Carry by Russell Mahon
  • Stranger?s Wood by J.S. Arroyo
  • Stairway Back to Jonathan?s Farm by Dan Allen
  • The Thirteenth Step by MJ Mars
  • Cajun Ray by S.D. McPhail
  • W/M by Isobel Horsburgh
  • The Sentinel by Richard W. Watts
  • Sleep, Child by A.G. Lopes
  • The Lost Ones by Karen Thrower
  • Ready For Seven More by Christopher Lansdown
  • Fire and Pine by Bethany C. Gotschall
  • Stairway to? Where? by William Lehman
  • The Dead Always by Darren Todd
  • Missing Persons by Jonathan Bronico
  • Cedar Road by Mocha Pennington

 

 

 

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Demon Ember (Resurrection Chronicles Book 1)

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Mya’s world is falling apart. After a series of earthquakes, deadly animals with glowing red eyes begin attacking people and start the spread of a zombie-like plague. Safety is just a memory as she tries to make her way home. When a different creature attacks the people helping her reach Oklahoma City, Mya is sure she’ll never see the light of another day.

Despite his eerie yellow eyes and very sharp teeth, the grey-skinned creature is more intelligent and humanlike than he first appears. He’s determined to keep Mya by his side and protect her from the new world’s dangers. When his path starts taking her further away from home, she must choose between safety and her family.

**Recommended for mature readers
***Part 1 of 3

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Damnation Robot: A Paranormal Space Opera Adventure (Galactic Demon Hunters Book 1)

by Aaron Crash

In an infinite universe, evil knows no limits …

When a black hole exploded, killing Blaze and Elle’s father and opening the demonic Onyx Gate, they had no idea how much their lives would change.

Now, thirty years later, Blaze is a highly trained astral Marine, and Elle is a powerful Onyx witch. Together, the siblings have formed an uneasy alliance with a misfit crew of aliens and monsters to track down demons, snare ghosts, and destroy hellish creatures bent on murder—all to discover how to close the Onyx Gate for good.

There’s just one problem. A demon-possessed robot has infiltrated their starship, the Lizzie Borden, and a vicious coven of stellar vampires have stranded them in a graveyard of ships at the edge of known space. All the while, an unimaginable evil is brewing—one they cannot possibly destroy.

“Damnation Robot is a phenomenal mashup of Dresden Files, Firefly, and Warhammer 40K in a fast-paced, shoot-‘em-up, thrill ride that will leave you reading late into the night.” –James A. Hunter, Author of the Yancy Lazarus Series and Viridian Gate Online

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Betrayal, Revenge and The Rise of the Damned: a paranormal romance and urban fantasy collection

by Eileen Cruz Coleman

If you love fae, witches, vampires, angels, dragons, and yes, even zombies, this collection is for you. A must-read for fans of urban fantasy, paranormal romance and horror thrillers. 

The collection includes four novellas, Dawn of the Infected, The Girl on the Roof, The Rising and Ice Dragon King. 


DAWN OF THE INFECTED: 
 

Never Surrender. Not Now. Not Ever.

For twenty-three-year-old start-up tech company CEO Selena Martinez, it was just another uneventful early morning bus commute from her cottage in rural Southern Maryland to her office in Washington, D.C. But when her bus is suddenly attacked by a horde of crazed savages, Selena becomes immersed in a world of terror and confusion, where she must learn to survive on her own using smarts and skills she never dreamed she possessed.

Selena is a fighter, but even someone as strong-willed and determined as she needs a little help during an apocalypse.That help comes in the form of a mysterious man who seemingly appears from nowhere and saves her from certain death. Selena will soon learn that she was saved for a very special reason, and that she may, in fact, hold the answer to saving the world.

THE GIRL ON THE ROOF: 
 

Black smoke has appeared out of nowhere. People are screaming and dropping to the ground.

Twenty-one-year-old Kara has always suffered from anxiety, has never had a boyfriend and can't seem to keep a job for longer than a few days. Kara's life sucks and that's the truth of it. Things may start looking up, though. She has a job she thinks she can keep and every day, she eats her lunch on the roof of the building in peace away from people.

One day while on the roof she witnesses a disturbing event taking place on the ground below her. Black smoke has appeared out of nowhere. People are screaming and dropping to the ground. Kara watches, frozen and terrified as the smoke makes its way through the city.

She must now decide whether to wait for help that may never come or take a chance and leave to face whatever it is that is attacking the city.

Her choice is made for her when Lincoln, an angel, appears and tells her she must join him and the other angels in a battle against fallen angels and other dark supernatural beings who have joined forces to destroy the Earth.

Kara must now overcome her fear and help save the world, but can she do so without falling in love with Lincoln?

THE RISING: 
 

In Crimson Hollow, darkness rules, and those who seek the light are eliminated.

Twenty-one-year-old fae, Isabel, is kidnapped and tortured by a half-vampire, half-fae hybrid who is part of an army raised with one goal: the enslavement and killing of all good fae and humans. During her captivity, she vows not only to escape but also to lead a rebellion against the dark army.

But when her rebellion is ambushed, she is recaptured and imprisoned until she can be brought to the treacherous Hollow Council for trial and punishment.

Isabel is sure she is going to die, until Adriel, the hybrid soldier assigned to her charge, helps her escape. Now, on the run with Adriel at her side, Isabel must stay alive long enough to reach a secret camp of hybrids who wish to stay hidden and somehow convince them to join her rebellion.

To restore peace and light to Crimson Hollow, Isabel will risk everything...including her life.

ICE DRAGON KING: 
 

When public relations rising star, Violet Smith, suddenly finds herself without a job, she decides to take a break from real life and heads to the family lake house so she can finally write the novel she's been wanting to write forever.

But Violet didn't expect hot and sexy, Maxwell, to move in next door to her.

Soon Maxwell and Violet find themselves in a whirlwind romance but there is more to Maxwell than Violet knows.

Grab your copy of this must-read collection and start binge reading today. Click "buy now" or "read for free" if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription.

 

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Whisper (Whisper Trilogy Book 1)

by Michael Bray

It was supposed to be a fresh start. A place for Steve & Melody Samson to begin their new life together away from the noise and crime of the city. However, their new home – an idyllic cottage nestled deep within the dense solitude of Oakwell forest-has a disturbing history, hidden for generations by the locals. There is evil in Hope House, and the cursed forest that surrounds it. Evil that has awakened after lying dormant for decades, and has terrifying plans for the young couple.

Once you hear the whispers, it may already be too late.

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Siphoners (Soul Burn Book 1)

by Evan Bollinger

Warning: The following story contains **explicit** violence, vulgarity and sexuality. Reader discretion is advised.

Four strangers with the power to siphon human life suddenly find that power violent and volatile beyond their darkest dreams...

But for Donovan, Seth, Avanti and Frederick, this is only the beginning. After years of silence in the shadows, the truth has emerged. Bodies are racking up, people are disappearing, and the authorities, strangely, seem totally complicit...

The time has come.

For denizens of darkness to meet the light. In a series of seemingly chance encounters, they unite, four Siphoners driven by growing clues, and a growing sense of someone or something, pulling the strings at every turn.

The source of their problems, the origin of their natures, is waiting. Along with a nefarious plan, for a future nobody could have fathomed…

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Lustmord: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher - Book One (of Two)

by Kirk Alex

"Great book. Dark--yes. Grotesque--certainly. Sexually explicit--without a doubt.
And the writing is excellent. Character development & dialogue, is as real as it gets.
A terrifying, non-putdownable horror."
Jeff Bennington, Kindle Book Awards

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The Wolf at His Door: A Werewolf Horror Thriller (The Runes Trilogy)

by Adrian W. Lilly


Ilene Rune has lived with a secret for 21 years that threatens to destroy her marriage, her life, and all of humanity. But how can she tell her son, Alec, that his new boyfriend, Jared, may be part of that secret? Investigating a brutal murder, Detective Lance Herald enters a dark world of fairy tales and fantasy—that shakes his belief in what is possible and imagined. Lucy Rune cannot fathom what happened the night one brother was slaughtered and the other critically wounded—but she does know, her boyfriend, Rene, who was also attacked is changing. Geraldine Bloom, Alec’s grandmother, has the gift of foresight, and has waited for years for the evil that wants her grandson to come for him. Alec Rune wakes from a coma to learn his twin brother has been murdered—and that he is the only witness. But he remembers nothing of the night.

Werewolves, genetics, and a thrilling murder mystery intertwine in this “multi-layered and unpredictable” (Christine Coretti) horror novel that builds to “an absolutely epic ending” (thegayUK.com). REVIEWS for BOOK TWO OF THE RUNES TRILOGY

"The Wolf in His Arms is like Adrian Lilly’s The Empire Strikes Back. The action comes fast and furious, the characters are virtually divided and conquered, and the situation is dire—and totally unresolved—by the end of the novel. So now it’s just a matter of waiting for Lilly to finish the trilogy." --Boys, Bears and Scares

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The Sighting: A Suspenseful Mystery Horror Thriller

by Christopher Coleman

Every fourteen months it appears on a secluded beach in a small town just before dawn. 

One morning during his daily run to the beach, Danny Lynch witnesses the strangest and most incredible thing he's ever seen.

A dark, man-like figure emerges from the ocean, stands for just a few moments on the beach, and then retreats back to the surf. Danny's perspective on the world changes in an instant, and as the only eyewitness to this event, his mission now is to convince anyone who will listen that what he saw was real. But with only a vague photo and a dubious story, that task is proving almost impossible, and his only hope may be in finding a mysterious woman who was at the beach earlier that morning, and who may hold the terrifying secret that could cost Danny his life.

If you are a fan of horror, mysteries and thrillers, The Sighting is a must-read. Grab your copy and start reading today.

Also by Christopher Coleman:

Gretel (Gretel Book One)

Marlene's Revenge (Gretel Book Two)

Hansel (Gretel Book Three)

 

Anika Rising (Gretel Book Four)  

They Came with the Snow, a short, chilling and scary read, reminiscent of Stephen King's, The Mist, and a must-read for true horror fans.
 

Scroll up and click, "buy now" or "read for free" if you are enrolled in Kindle Unlimited and start reading The Sighting today...just make sure you keep all the lights on while reading.

 

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