Schlock! Webzine: Volume 18 Issue 8 by Jesse Zimmerman (Schlock! Publications) Price verified 30 minutes ago

THIS MONTH we begin with the penultimate instalment in the saga of the Challenger, followed as ever by the more recent developments in horror publishing. Meanwhile, the dead still live. Things are getting apocalyptic down Picklock Lane. Time travellers are given advice. A nasty face conceals a black heart. A world comes under the dominion of one man. And the waters rise. Caglar learns more about the people of the forest. Dead fish float in apocalyptic seas. David finds a vegetable man outside his luxurious house. Three kings rise from the sea. Bovines are also on the rise. Operation Sky High reaches an all-time low. In the last of our sea borne tales, a submersible pilot encounters unexpected beings. And Lee Clark Zumpe reviews the film No One Will Save You.

Genre: Horror

Claimed by the Demon: Dark Fantasy Monster Romance (Demonic Desires Book 1) by Allegra Rose (8 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

I have waited in the Whispering Woods for centuries to find a female. Full of darkness, I am demon lord Azazel, and my desires are a void no female can sate. Until her -- Evelyn, a mortal daring enough to seek out my hidden world. She is a temptation I cannot deny. I claim her with force, taking her from the realm of men to my darkened castle. She resists, but resistance is futile against the strength of our bond. I see the desire she tries to hide, smell her arousal when I draw near. She craves me. So I mark her as mine, an unbreakable bond that makes her mine. They come for her, those from her past life, but our connection is a magic that no mortal can sever. Sacrificing her humanity, she seals our fates, and I give her the gift of eternity. No other male will claim her. None shall touch her, kiss her, or love her. Only I will fill her. As queen of my realm, she will stand by my side, her belly swelling with the promise of my heir. She will be claimed by this demon lord.

Genre: Horror

The Blood Red Snowman And Other Horror Flash Fiction by Auctor Trevel (1 Review)    Price verified 59 minutes ago

A crimson colored snowman standing all alone by an old shack. Monsters that lurk in all sorts of dark corners. Magic and science gone horribly wrong. Murder and mayhem coalescing sometimes into darkly comical punchlines. These fifteen flash fiction horror stories demonstrate how horror and dark comedy can be so short yet also so effectively terrifying and hilarious. This small flash fiction collection is a gruesome and sometimes gruesomely funny sampler of how Auctor Trevel can experiment with horror with fewer than a thousand words by creating different possibilities of sending chills down the readers' spine and making them laugh with a nervous tenor after the shock is over. The Blood Red Snowman And Other Horror Flash Fiction is a trip not for the faint of heart and not for the weak of stomach. Download into your ereader if you dare. TW/CW: Blood, gore, strong language, suicide, and terror. For mature readers only.

Genre: Horror

The Haunting of Kinnawe House by Steven Rigolosi (Black Rose Writing) (200 Reviews)    Price verified 59 minutes ago

The Haunting of Kinnawe House is a ghost story that spans two eras in American history. Matthew Rollins, an aspiring singer/songwriter, takes a job as caretaker of Kinnawe House in Agamenticus, Maine. The haunting begins immediately upon Matthew's arrival, when the ghost of his mother appears. Threatening, ghostly strangers stalk the property. The cellar is filled with mysterious, foul-smelling casks. And with each day, Matthew's insomnia gets worse. The story alternates between the present, as Matthew struggles with failing health and increasingly violent hallucinations, and the 1740s, as a dark preacher populates his town with a community willing to sell their souls for a comfortable life. Past and present come together as Matthew learns, little by little, of his family's ties to Kinnawe House -- and why the house will not rest until Matthew has taken his own life. Destined to become a classic of the haunted-house genre, The Haunting of Kinnawe House traces the destruction wrought by the preacher, Parthalán Kinnawe, over multiple generations. It also tells the story of a haunted young man who learns that, at his weakest, he is also at his strongest.

Genre: Horror

The In-Between by Cordelia Michelsen (90 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Harper Monroe has spent most of her life institutionalized. After cheating the system, at thirty-two years old she gains her independence and is released into the care of her twin brother Michael. But Harper isn't crazy by any means... she sees the dead. Craving solitude and peace from society and her overbearing brother, Harper takes her large inheritance and purchases a farmhouse in the neighboring county. It comes fully equipped with a smoking hot mysterious caretaker, Isaac Cooke, and the two ghosts that accompany him. We never know how truly broken we are until someone challenges us to take back our own power. This is a story about being lost in the darkness only to find the light that has always been within. *HEA but with severe mental health trigger

Genre: Horror

The Ticking Ghost: A Supernatural Horror Mystery by Phil Miles (17 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

The countdown has begun... Somewhere in London, a device lies hidden. It contains a virus whose means of contagion is unique, astonishing, devastating. And if it isn't found in time, its deadly payload will be unleashed. The key to locating it lies on a remote Scottish island, in an empty house at the end of a pier. Drew Turner, a talented but volatile detective, has been tasked with discovering this vital clue. Accompanying him is Megan Mallory, a prickly MI5 operative. They must work out their differences and work together if they are to avert the imminent catastrophe. But the house at the end of the pier is not as empty as it seems. An evil presence lurks there. And catastrophe is what it loves best. Fans of James Herbert will love 'The Ticking Ghost', an ingenious and nail-biting slice of British horror fiction from the author of 'Dark Drive' and 'The Jaguar & The Wasp'.

Genre: Horror

An Ocean of Others (Dance of the Sibling Suns Book 1) by Joshua Scott Edwards (Archefire Publishing LLC) (43 Reviews)    Price verified 59 minutes ago

REMEMBER WHAT'S REAL OR YOUR HEAD WILL BE THEIRS Survival is never easy, but it's never been harder for Grim, the last bounty hunter in Liwokin. He survived the Great Riot that killed Liwo by the thousands, endured the bloody chaos that ruled the city in its aftermath, and avoided the crushing fist of the Agency created to quell the unrest. Rule of law returned, but following the rules doesn't put food in your belly. On a job gone wrong, Grim stumbles into a conspiracy that targets Ulken, the Head of the Agency, a man who has done more to ruin Grim's life than any other. Struggling to earn honest coin, Grim plans to use this information to rise quickly through the ranks of the organization so an empty purse never worries him again. He becomes a Finger of the Agency, joining a sardonic ranger, two fugitive siblings, a stone-skinned Skardwarf, and a powerful dark mage -- none of whom know any better than Grim what they've gotten themselves into. Grim's Hand soon discovers the Agency's furtive work is far deadlier than hunting bounties. While fighting to save his home from monsters who once were men, Grim discovers the conspiracy runs deeper than just Ulken and the Agency -- what was unleashed is spreading, and if Grim's sanity doesn't prevail, it will consume the minds of the Bright Empire and beyond. Action-packed, bloody, and full of brain-bending intrigue, in An Ocean of Others the line between monster and man is thin enough to drive you out of your mind.

Genre: Horror

ZOMBIES!!!!! or Tips and Tricks for Surviving the Coming Zompocalypse... (Anno Zombus - Year 1) by Dave Rowlands (26 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

The end of the world is nigh, are you prepared? If the answer is "no" then this handbook is for you... Reading this will grant a 50% resistance to zombie infection

Genre: Horror

Absolution by J.W. Holmes (12 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In 1988, five years after suffering the loss of his family, Stephen McCaffery, a former police detective turned private investigator, is lured into the eerie depths of rural Georgia, tasked with finding two missing girls. What begins as a straightforward search soon spirals into a descent into an ancient and unspeakable horror. In this short tale of terror, follow Stephen as he confronts not only his inner demons, but those he thought unimaginable. Determined to find redemption for his past sins, he'll do everything in his power to save the lives of those girls, and by doing so, save his own soul.

Genre: Horror

I See You: Version B by Zariya Grant (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

When one thinks of the word "witch," what comes to mind? A beautiful woman descending in a bubble, your ex, or perhaps Marlowe Moreau: Average Teen?? That is if your average teen was accused of arson for a fire she didn't even start, and thrown into a world of crystals, tarot, and sigils... oh my! Marlowe is guided through the world of magick by Fiona de la Fuente and Skye Blackwell, as the trio learns what it means to be descendants of the most powerful witches to ever exist in a world where magick has been forbidden. This is version 'B' where the love interest identifies as female.

Genre: Horror