Crossroad Press: 1447 books

The first short fiction collection from acclaimed novelist and video game writer Richard Dansky, Snowbird Gothic goes deep into the haunted forest of his imagination. From kudzu that smothers more than just trees to the secrets at the heart of a cloud of volcanic ash, from the beasts prowling the...

Still Life: Nine Stories contains seven previously published stories and two brand-new, never-before-seen originals, by Bram Stoker Award-, Thriller Award-, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Nicholas Kaufmann. Also included is an introduction from multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated author...

The year is 1847, and Kasch Möllhausen has returned to the small German mountain village of Helmburg in disgrace. Kicked out of the Swiss boarding school where he was unforgivably abandoned by his father, Luther Möllhausen, his humiliating homecoming is further complicated by the news that Luther has...

A DOLL THAT KILLED LIKE A DEMON, A SEDUCTRESS WHO COULD PULL A MAN INTO THE DEPTHS OF HELL, A MONSTROUS PARENT WHOSE MENACE LIVED AFTER HIM… Frank was learning the power of vengeful hate…of cunning treachery…of virulent evil…and, above all, fear—because there was nothing he could...

The affair is a military wedding. The groom's parents are the Bradwins, one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Virginia. The family head, General "Boss" Bradwin, is a famous army officer. Of all his prized sons, his youngest, "Clipper" Bradwin, is the most promising. First in his class...

John Farris is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic thrillers as The Fury and Son of the Endless Night. A filmmaker, as well as a novelist, Farris is a seminal influence on many of our most highly regarded writers, including Stephen King. Sacrifice, a terrifying thriller, is a work...

Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain.  His old Army buddy Arn seems insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twisted creatures more beast than man -- until he displays...

Eden Waring has known fear in her life. She is an Avatar, a talented young psychic with the ability to produce at will her doppelganger - her mirror image, who calls herself "Gwen" and possesses remarkable powers beyond even Eden's gifts. Gwen can be invisible to mortal eyes, if she chooses to be, and...

"Auntie Helen," the little boy sobbed, "I'm home, and nobody's here!" The phone trembled in Helen Connolly's hand. She could not believe her ears. This was her nephew, Michael Young, on the phone — Michael, who had been dead for sixteen years. Who was this mysterious caller? Could it really be Michael? And if so, what did he want?

Anne Ramsdell dreamed of soft rain and stately elms. Reality was a psychopathic maniac who mauled her, battered her, hurled her through a plate-glass window — and now stalks her wherever she goes. She cannot remember his face — she cannot forget her terror.

Dr. Joe Bryce, a dedicated physician, has spent the last three years in war-torn Africa. Having left his millionaire fiancee at the altar, the con man continued his string of taking advantage of rich women to fund his living the high life on his yacht, the Dragonfly. In Nimrod's Chapel, GA, he meets...

To the outward eye the billionaire Trevellian family appears to be the paradigm of culture and class. But when hot young artist Sharan Norbeth is taken under their wing, she discovers that family loyalties have become horribly twisted, and hidden evil festers below the surface. Sharan must pry apart...

SHATTER A novel that joins two generations in fear. SHATTER The story of a murderer's son who returns to the scene of his father's crime only to tall in love with the daughter of his father's victim. SHATTER

The year is 1952. Fourteen-year-old Alex Gambier is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute from a bout with diphtheria at an early age, Alex expresses himself by writing imaginative stories and by conceiving daredevil stunts that test all of his physical resources while putting his life in extreme danger.