Ancient Horror

You can escape the woods. But you can never outrun the bloodline. Elara Vance survived the Briarwood Holler massacre. She escaped the fire, the fangs, and the horrific truth of what slumbers beneath the Appalachian ridge. The official report called it a tragic forest fire that claimed her research team. But Elara knows the truth. The deep, cellular chill inside her has nothing to do with the trauma. Her silver scar thrums with a dark, terrifying rhythm. She brought a piece of the holler back with her—a gnawing, ravenous emptiness that grows stronger as the moon waxes. She is a ticking ...

"The way Jonas built up the atmosphere of menace to an all-encompassing evil is frightening and shocking. The magnitude, the scale of badness, blew me away." —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond. Nothing escapes. Not even time... Something is wrong in the deep woods of Oregon. Horribly, unnaturally wrong. For decades, people have vanished without a trace—tourists, locals, even law enforcement. The few bodies recovered are unrecognizable: aged decades in days. The government sealed the area with barbed wire and silence. No answers. No access. But when four strangers miss their ...

Stay Away - An amazingly original horror novel from Ike Hamill Every small town has secrets. Some secrets can kill. He’s always been there, the old gentleman in the funeral suit, hanging around the big oak tree. Even before the cemetery was dug, the natives knew about him. He was just as much a part of the landscape as the rocks or the river. If you ever needed anything, especially if it was a matter of life and death, you could find him and make a trade. He always trades fair. Everybody says so. Eric is about to trade without even realizing it. He isn’t tricked. It’s only a mistake. ...

Four friends, a remote mountain trail, a weekend escape from the noise of the modern world. For Owen, it was a chance to prove his meticulous planning could conquer any wilderness. For the others, it was a much-needed adventure. But these ancient mountains hold a silence that is not empty, and a hunger that is patient. When the trail disappears, the compass spins wildly, and the sun rises in the wrong sky, their seventy-two-hour trek becomes an endless nightmare. They are not just lost. They are being hunted by the forest itself—a conscious, malevolent entity that feeds on their fear and ...

They’ve stalked Europe’s haunted woods and prowled America’s forgotten roads. Now their blood-soaked legacy is exposed. Werewolves have howled through our darkest stories for centuries—but what if the legends were true? In this unnerving collection, author Ethan Blackwood hunts down the origins, folklore, and chilling real-world encounters behind the world’s most terrifying shapeshifters. From ancient European villages to the eerie backroads of rural America, you'll discover: The horrifying roots of werewolf myths across cultures Real-life accounts from survivors who claim they ...

Among the ancient artifacts concealed in a London Victorian mansion lies an ornate human-sized sarcophagus which houses the body of an ancient Egyptian sorceress dead for centuries...or is she?

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In this sequel to The Ghost of Blake Manor, Jackie Johnson and Heather Turner are confronted by a century’s old evil that has them both marked for death. Though the ghosts of Arthur Blake and Reginald Cornwell have become their dear friends, they do not have the power to stop the malevolent life-force that is coming to harm them. As the ancient evil indiscriminately kills many an innocent soul, Arthur and Jackie find the long-hidden journal of Arthur’s mother, warning of this cold-blooded killer and pointing to Jackie’s murder. With the help of his mother, his “ghost” friends, ...

An ancient evil awakens on the storm-lashed coast. For the tourists flocking to Valentia Island's annual festival, the jagged rock of Skellig Michael is a picturesque landmark. For Caleb O'Rourke, it's a final, desperate sanctuary—a place so remote, he hopes the beast inside him can finally be contained. But the island is not a refuge. It is a cage. When a full moon rises over the Atlantic, a primal hunger is unleashed. The fishing trawler returning to the festival carries a passenger of pure, instinctual slaughter. What begins as a night of celebration descends into a bloodbath as a ...

The ocean doesn’t wash away sins at World’s Edge. It preserves them in brine. Grieving social worker George Brooks crosses a treacherous causeway to investigate seventeen missing children, only to become trapped as the Atlantic swallows the road home. Inside the rotting school, the remaining students aren't studying; they are sitting in a synchronized, catatonic trance, smelling of stagnant tide pools. Tormented by 'The Keen'—a maddening wind that shreds the mind—and visions of his late daughter, George realizes the townspeople are shifting into something amphibious and ancient. He ...

Dylan Graves, host of the popular podcast Graves Encounters, is a professional skeptic who debunks ghost stories for a living. His latest target: St. Augustine, America’s Oldest City, a town selling its history by the slice in haunted tours. But when a routine investigation at the city’s lighthouse captures a monstrous growl of impossible size, and mysterious claw marks appear on his second-story window, Dylan realizes he's not hunting a ghost. He’s being hunted. Teaming up with a terrified historian, Dylan uncovers a 300-year-old conspiracy: a cursed Spanish soldier, betrayed and ...

"Seamlessly melding the essences of The Expanse and Andor, Waypoint Eclipse hooks the reader from the start and whisks them off into a grand saga." — Michael A. Stackpole, New York Times bestselling author of I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron "When space salvager Shep agrees to a routine mission exploring an outpost facility on Earth’s old moon that was destroyed one thousand years before, nothing prepares him for the insidious evil that lurks within the ruins. What horrors happened here a millennium ago and what secrets remain? Character-driven, clever, and compelling, WAYPOINT ECLIPSE is an ...

Four friends. One viral post. A nightmare they'll never tweet about. Mia and her friends were chasing a ghost—an impossibly perfect, sapphire-blue swimming hole hidden deep in the Jersey wilderness, known only by its hashtag. The plan was simple: drive in, get the perfect shot for their feeds, and be home by dark. It was meant to be an escape from their curated lives, a quest for something real to post about. But when their car breaks down and their phones lose signal, the vast, silent forest begins to feel less like an adventure and more like a trap. They are not alone. The strange ...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

The hallway was 14'3" on Monday. By Friday, it was 15'1". When the Voss family moves from Portland to a rural farmhouse in southern Oregon, they're chasing a fresh start. Cheaper land. More space. A barn for Lisa's woodworking. Room for the kids to run. The house is old and creaky and needs work, but Ben can fix it. That's what he does. He fixes things. Then the root cellar hatch starts opening every night at 3:12 AM. From the inside. Nothing comes out. Twelve-year-old Owen measures everything. He counts the stairs (12), records the hallway length (14'3"), tracks the kitchen dimensions in a...

Welcome to the Sereno Verde Resort, a masterpiece of glass and stone where impossibly wealthy guests indulge in curated luxury deep within the heart of the jungle. It’s a paradise built on an ancient, untamed land. A land with a memory. A land with a god. When the resort’s construction desecrated a sacred site, a pact was broken. Now, the guests’ blissful vacation is about to become a living nightmare. An ancient guardian of the river—a creature of myth and nightmare known as the Ahuizotl—has awoken, and it is hungry for a tribute that has long been denied. Trapped by a raging ...

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The town of Lost, Maine was never meant to wake up. Thirty-eight years ago, something beneath the earth stirred during the event known only as The Deeping. Seven children survived that night. They thought the nightmare ended. They were wrong. Now the ground is trembling again. A fisherman walks into a processing plant with black eyes and a hunger that isn’t human. The forests around Lost begin to die in perfect spiral patterns. Ancient fissures open in the earth, revealing stone walls shaped like the scales of something colossal. And the survivors of 1988 are being called back. Drawn ...

A robin lies flat on the driveway. The forest has stopped breathing. The geometry of the world is wrong. David Masterson clings to structure, but his carefully curated reality is fracturing. A family retreat to the isolated cabin at Blackwood Ridge was meant to be a respite, but the forest is wrong—the silence is heavy, the shadows defy the sun, and the trees seem to be waiting. His wife Sarah, a scholar of linguistic decay, feels a primal dread as the world around them begins to thin. When their son Jack vanishes into the static and returns seventy-seven minutes later, the nightmare ...

The tragedy of December 1st is still fresh in the minds of Sam, Nathan, and Trent. As Sam adjusts to his new life of becoming a father after losing his own to Nergal, he does not know there will be no respite for him or his friends. They believe their ordeal, which started in Talihina, Oklahoma, two years earlier, was over, and they had realized their triumph over Nergal and his grip on Southeastern Oklahoma. With the deaths of the Choctaw elders, Addison, and Joshua, came a loss of wisdom and foresight into the true nature of their enemy. Nergal had established his dominion over the area ...