Burnt Offering: Short Horror Fiction by William Cook (King Billy Publications) (24 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Burning Horror... A young pyromaniac battles her demons as her insatiable pursuit of the flame threatens to turn her world to cinders. Becky's life spirals out of control as she struggles with an abusive step-father who will not leave her alone. A fast-paced short horror story that will keep you on the edge of your seat as it races to its thrilling and horrifying conclusion. From the author of Blood Related and Dreams of Thanatos *Bonus Features: includes an additional short story and a recent interview with the author. **Please Note: This eBook short story is also part of the popular collection, 'Dreams of Thanatos.' Warning: contains adult content + themes of psychological horror and domestic abuse. "This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved Blood Related. Ordinarily I hate serial killer stories, but William Cook won me over. He is a unique and innovative talent." - Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dog Days About King Billy Publications King Billy Publications exclusively publish the dark literary fiction and psychological horror stories of William Cook. We love publishing stories, both for kindle and print, that appeal to adult readers of Horror, Supernatural, Thriller, Occult and most types of Dark Fiction. KBP strive to bring you fresh, new kindle stories throughout the year. Our high standards of editing, formatting, lay-out and quality content, ensure that Cook's frightening tales of serial killers, ghosts, haunted entities, vampires, villains, monsters, demons and other Gothic grotesquery, are presented to you in such a way that you'll want to read more. KBP are also the publishers of Fresh Fear: An Anthology of Macabre Horror featuring stories by Ramsey Campbell, JF Gonzales, Jack ...

Genre: Horror

Call Me Adam by Jo McCarty (Crazy Pages Publishing Co) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 11 minutes ago

"A consuming work of great unpredictability and power." -- Kirkus Reviews "This is not a formulaic apocalyptic novel -- in fact, it's surprisingly inventive and delightfully weird." -- Kirkus Reviews In a rural Michigan town, in a post-Covid world on the brink of a new disaster, Louie discovers an extraordinary ability -- he can't die. Fortuitous, if not for the small catch that he doesn't want to live. While everyone else is desperately fighting to survive a global biotic crisis, Louie constantly seeks death only to be resurrected time and time again. Louie is the town nothing. If life was a school yard pick, he would be the last one on the team. Immortality is a burden, a cruel twist of fate, even as he wonders why him and what he is meant to do. But everything changes when Louie meets Katherine, a smart New York City woman determined to survive in this post-apocalyptic world. Finally, Louie has a reason to live, which is good timing because with each death he becomes weaker. It would be a love story if not for all the death and dying. Katherine and Louie aren't living in utopia. There are other survivors who have their own ideas about the future. Ones they're willing to kill for. Louie and Katherine must not only defend themselves and their resources from outsiders but fight against their own darker natures before Louie's strange gift fades away. Amidst the chaos and despair, their story is one of hope, resilience, and redemption. Louie and Katherine, an unlikely modern-day Adam and Eve, will prove that even in the darkest of times, an ending can be a new beginning. CONTENT ADVISORY This book contains adult themes and explores the darker nature of the human condition. Readers will be exposed to content they may find upsetting, controversial, or offensive, including fictional portrayal of self-harm, suicide, and suicidal thinking.

Genre: Horror

Havoc (Engine's Game Book 2) by Paityn E. Parque (Self-Published) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 41 minutes ago

They had all killed themselves. Waking up in the heart of Engine, Shadow only has one goal in mind: destroy the place that made her life hell. Easier said than done. Put in a horrifying position as Engine's assassin, she has no other choice but to follow their twisted ways. Stripped of everything she's grown to rely on, Shadow must keep her team safe and come up with a plan. But nothing was ever as it seemed. Her sanity starts to slip as answers are discovered. Escape soon becomes a dire thirst -- her team is jeopardized -- and time is running out. Jack never wanted to end everything. But he had to die; someone needed to save her. Fixated on keeping his team alive, Jack realizes that there's no going back. Or escaping. She wants to get revenge -- but that would cost their lives. Severely injured and divided on different sides, Jack must find the foundation that started it all to heal him. Otherwise, they were all going to die. With Engine picking them off one by one, the team must find a way to escape -- all with one life. Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click," and Get Your Copy Now!

Genre: Horror

Survival Instinct by Kristal Stittle (Severed Press) (333 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

On the surface, the city of Leighton is just like any other city: tall buildings, busy streets, and populated by a wide variety of people. It also has rats. These vermin are unlike the average pest, because they are carrying a deadly contagion. Havoc ensues as the devastating virus seeps into the unsuspecting populace, turning friends and family against each other. Atrocities of savage behaviour are spreading faster than people can outrun, and the citizens get recklessly desperate. Whether by joining forces, or by standing alone, survival is on everyone's mind. Unfortunately, not everyone will escape with their life.

Genre: Horror

Marin's Dale by Evan Bollinger (Dark Niche Publishing) (75 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This is neither invasion nor extermination. The truth is far more disturbing... There were clothes everywhere. Shirts, blouses, underwear, jeans, coats--everything. All discarded in a large swath that extended for probably 300 feet and was as wide as the road itself. Some were stained with the fluid, others still pristine. Tyler stared to the sky above. The scar had returned. But this time, it was not a scar, so much as a single giant orb of red light. Like a giant camera, it flashed succinctly. It was as much a part of the sky as the moon or the sun, or the stars or the planes or birds that had once traced the celestial bounds. As the crimson flash raped the sky and land, the creatures below transformed. Squirming in pools of slime, they went. From gelatinous grey, to hardened gray, with slits and holes ripping through; they peeled and jerked, and the whole time the screaming -- the shrill, pained screaming as their bodies destroyed themselves to create themselves. They were becoming human. Ahead, he could see it. The line of mindless bodies snaked to the precipice, the very edge. And then they plunged. One after another, releasing interlaced fingers, the bodies stepped off the edge. They plummeted, again, and again, and again; tumbling, twisting, spinning free and wild; so easy, so gentle. Like snowflakes on a quiet night. When a crimson flash rips through sky high above, few are there to see it. But something has arrived. And beneath those mountain peaks, the city of Marin's Dale will soon find out... Assimilation is just beginning... Warning: sexuality, profanity, and alien horror violence

Genre: Horror