Publisher: Silver Heart Books
Two short stories of supernatural suspense. A ride in an elevator takes a strange turn after a mishap puts Donna Blakely where she shouldn’t be in “Chance Encounter”. A man contends with a magazine subscription card in bonus short “Subscribe Now and Save”. Total of 3,700 words or 13 pages. Includes an excerpt of Halloween horror novella, The Legend of Jack Straw.
As the twentieth century approaches, New York’s Ghost Precinct crosses a threshold into the land of the dead in this paranormal gaslamp mystery. New York City, 1899. The NYPD’s Ghost Precinct, an all-female team of psychics and spiritualists led by gifted young medium Eve Whitby, is unconventional to say the least. And now they’re stepping even further outside the bounds of normal police work—into an otherworldly realm known as the Ghost Sanctuary. It’s a place where the dead can provide answers. But will Eve and her colleagues pay a price for venturing beyond the land of the living? Investigating a mortician’s sudden disappearance, Eve encounters a charismatic magician and mesmerist whose abilities are unlike any she’s seen before. Is he connected to the mysterious deaths around the city—or a link to the Ghost Sanctuary? Torn between the bonds of her team and her growing relationship with the dashing Detective Horowitz, Eve must discern truth from illusion and friend from foe before another soul vanishes into the ether. Praise for The Eterna Files “Smart, boundlessly creative gaslamp fantasy.” —RT Book Reviews “Will have readers chomping at the bit for more.” —Suspense Magazine on Eterna and OmegaShow book
In Riverton Falls, a small New England town, globe-trotting bartender Celeste Fortune stands in her kitchen puzzling over last nights frightening dreama woman at a window, lilacs blowing in the breeze, someones hands tight around her neck. Celeste is sure the dream belongs to someone else. Perhaps she has finally broken through to the collective dreams of Dreamland cult. Hoping her therapist and cult leader will help her untangle it, she heads off into the cold November morning to her final appointment with himor so she hopes. Her estranged fiancé has delivered an ultimatum: Leave the cult of Dreamers, or end their relationship for good. Instead of help, however, Celeste discovers her therapist dying in a pool of blood, skull stove in by his own healing crystal. His computer, containing the intimate dreams and secrets of half the town, is gone. Suspicion immediately falls on Celeste, known to be a rebellious member of his cult. To clear her name, Celeste enlists the help of her old friend, Gloria, and the two women set out to find the real culprit. But in the middle of their hunt, the stolen dreams seemingly come to life, terrifying the townand Celeste and Gloria become the killers next target.Show book
A founding father of the American conservative movement, Russell Kirk (1918–94) was also a renowned and bestselling writer of fiction. Kirk’s focus was the ghost story, or “ghostly tale” – a “decayed art” of which he considered himself a “last remaining master.” Old House of Fear, Kirk’s first novel, revealed this mastery at work. Its 1961 publication was a sensation, outselling all of Kirk’s other books combined, including The Conservative Mind, his iconic study of American conservative thought. A native of Michigan, Kirk set Old House of Fear in the haunted isles of the Outer Hebrides, drawing on his time in Scotland as the first American to earn a doctorate of letters from the University of St. Andrews. The story concerns Hugh Logan, an attorney sent by an aging American industrialist to Carnglass to purchase his ancestral island and its castle called the Old House of Fear. On the island, Logan meets Mary MacAskival, a red-haired ingénue and love interest, and the two face off against Dr. Edmund Jackman, a mystic who has the island under his own mysterious control. This new edition features an introduction by James Panero, Executive Editor of The New Criterion.Show book
True Detective meets X-Files in the first installment of the Luke McWhorter series Nine physicists are dead. The medical examiner has determined that the victims died from drinking coffee laced with rat poison. The owner of the house, Professor Thaddeus Huntgardner, isn’t suspected, but his claim that a piece of the debris from Roswell’s 1947 UFO crash was hidden in Flagler might be true. Enter Luther “Luke” Stephens McWhorter, a Yale Divinity School–educated West Texas sheriff with all the right questions. Is the fragment real? If so, who is trying to locate it? And what has fueled the byzantine activities of Abbot County’s two secret societies for the past 70 years? Working with FBI agent and girlfriend, Angie Steele, Sheriff Luke begins to put together all the pieces and come to understand the connection between seemingly unrelated phenomena.Show book
“Inside is a gripping, page-turning novel from a promising new horror writer.” -April A Taylor, award-winning author of The Haunting of Cabin Green and Sinkhole 1987 “Does it burn in the dark?”Reid is a bully, but he’s still Alex’s best friend. When Reid pushes Alex and their friends into invading a historically haunted Massachusetts house, Alex knows it’s a terrible idea, but indulges his friend. What could go wrong?Inside, a mysterious Shadow looms in the darkness. The door to the house vanishes, leaving them trapped. The group flees through the tiny, one-roomed house that defies logic, constantly shifting, presenting them with new doors, hallways, and rooms that seem to be plucked from their memories and fears. One by one, the Shadow hunts them, intent on burning them all from within.Is there any way to escape? Or will they be burned from the inside out?Show book
"The clock was sitting at a minute to doomsday, and the seconds were racing by."After their failure to stop Abarta and Vianu from summoning the Wild Hunt, Vince and his allies are left scrambling to find a way to save Kinsale—and the world. So when Kennedy provides them with a single long shot that might just do the trick, they assemble a tired but determined team for a dangerous mission.Venturing into the ancient and mystical forests of Tír na nÓg, the team seeks out the godlike being of mayhem known as the Morrígan. But the forests are fraught with dangers beyond belief, and the Morrígan, in seclusion for over a millennium, may not want to be found.To make matters worse, Abarta's forces pursue Vince's team, upsetting the forest inhabitants and leaving destruction in their wake. Faced with the might of ancient Tuatha relics, the wrath of creatures woken from long slumbers, and the ire of a goddess who will not bow to anyone beneath the faerie queens, Vince and his allies face their toughest challenge yet.But Vince will not give up on the city he calls home, or the broken human world trying so desperately to heal. So he throws himself headlong into this challenge, willing to fight to the bitter end. Even if it destroys his life. Even if it destroys his humanity. Even if it destroys something fragile and precious he didn't know he possessed.What Dusk Divides is the fifth novel of The Frost Arcana, an action-packed urban fantasy series set in a post-apocalyptic world.Show book
