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Mona Straw has it all—beautiful daughter, caring husband, lovely home, fulfilling job as a middle-school teacher. But one day a new man enters Mona’s life and turns it upside-down, their passionate affair tilting her mind to the edge of madness—and murder. Her lover’s name is Connor....

Everybody knows Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”—but who was she really? In this haunting and evocative novel, Christopher Conlon (“one of the preeminent names in contemporary literary horror”—Booklist) imagines a life for one of literature’s most renowned characters. Hers is a chronicle...

A woman finds herself alone in a pitch-black room without doors or windows, completely cut off from human contact…A man wakes one morning certain that today is the day he must commit and unspeakable atrocity…A gifted jazz musician runs from her past—but even she has no idea how lethal that past...

Sacrificial Lambs and Others is Sheri White’s first collection. From quiet horror to bloody violence, these flash fiction pieces and short stories are chilling and emotionally visceral. You will find people teetering on the brink of sanity, dark farms, creepy carnivals, weird kids, and Armageddon. These stories will stay with you long after you’ve closed the book.

Martin has a secret. Tonight, he's going to tell you.Once, in a small town paralyzed with fear, a sadistic human monster moved undetected, leaving a terrifying trail of bloody death … and few clues. That was twenty-five years ago. Today, two more children have just been found brutally murdered.Eleven-year-old...

In 1968, young girls who were pregnant and unmarried were sometimes sent to cold and haunted places. Meg Fiano was one of them. Doomed to reside in a home with bolted windows and doors. Where some of the residents were not of this world. Years before her father dabbled with magic. He tried...

12-year-old Matt Lively is obsessed with trying to somehow stretch time to make summer last indefinitely. Convinced he is living the ideal time of life--in Missouri, 1950, between the 7th and 8th grades--he longs to experience extraordinary adventures before he is forced to confront high school, and...

What happens when men on a submarine find themselves facing death, due not to the deadly ocean but a malignant paranormal entity? The USS Hancock is a fleet ballistic missile submarine carrying sixteen nuclear missiles, a crew of 13 officers and 130 enlisted men. On a deep dive that takes her below...

Dan Foley, one of the horror genre's best-kept secrets, presents The Whispers of Crows, his collection featuring new and previously published stories. In the author's own words— "A gathering of crows is called a murder. When they gather, they call to each other in loud raucous caws or...

When Jerry Gibson chose to kill himself, he discovered that he couldn’t die. Instead he became Death’s Companion, forced to share the deaths of countless others. Then in one act of rebellion Jerry saved the life of a sixteen-year-old girl and unleashed a horror on the world that could destroy...

Melvin “Wolf” Lobo is returning to his beloved bayou to face Old Ben, the ghost who hungers for his blood. Wolf fled the bayou to escape Ben, but now, having defeated one ghost aboard the nuclear submarine USS John Hancock, Wolf is confident he can do it again. What he doesn’t know, but will...

Ned was only a kid, but he knew. There were forces that stalked the night. Like that night in Washington when his mother almost died and he heard them. In the house, at the dead of night he heard them. Then they moved to the tiny seacoast town of Lynnington, he still knew, even there,...

Dr. Michael Cayle wants the best for his wife and young daughter. That's why he moves the family from Manhattan to accept a private practice in the small New England town of Ashborough. Everything there seems so quaint and peaceful at first. But Ashborough is a town with secrets. Unimaginable secrets....

Frank Ballaro, police detective, is retiring shortly. Or is he? A trail of blood on the curb outside his apartment leads to an alley where two young men have been severely mutilated. But they're not dead. Something keeps them alive. In the hands of one is a strange object, something he holds onto for dear life. Something he calls...atmosphere.