Ancient Horror

Twelve thousand years ago, the glaciers retreated and Niagara Falls was born. But something older was buried deep beneath the roaring water. When a minor earthquake fractures a sealed subterranean cavern, a nightmare ecosystem of ferocious prehistoric monsters is unleashed on the peak summer tourist crowd. Ranger Megan Ross and disgraced paleobiologist Dr. Owen Rusk find themselves trapped in a desperate fight for survival against a highly coordinated pack of pale, sickle-clawed hunters. The mist-choked walkways have become a deadly trap. The utility tunnels are a slaughterhouse. And a ...

Welcome to Night Vale meets Rachel Harrison in this campy, cozy supernatural horror series from Reddit sensation Bonnie Quinn, as a campground manager must do everything she can to keep her campers alive. Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your...

Some doors should never be opened. Some children should never be left alone. Ireland, the 1890s. When Nóra Slattery gives birth to a healthy baby boy, she believes her family's future has finally begun. But after one evening she can't quite account for, near an ancient fairy ring at dusk, everything changes. Her son thrives. She wastes away. As the child grows stronger with impossible speed, Nóra begins to suspect that the infant sleeping in the cradle is not the son she gave birth to. Her neighbors whisper. Her husband refuses to believe her. The local priest dismisses old superstitions ...

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. ...

A group of archaeologists investigate a foreboding jungle in search of an ancient road, hoping to find answers to a series of strange disappearances that have taken place in the area.

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THERE IS NO DOOR DEATH CANNOT OPEN. Beneath the desert of Iraq lies a tomb older than civilization. Inside it waits a relic that should never have been found. Dr. Gavin Hope has spent his life chasing history’s greatest secrets—but nothing could prepare him for the Tablet of Ubar. The artifact is not stone. It is not dead. And it is not silent. It hums. When Gavin removes it from its ancient resting place, he awakens something watching from beyond the stars. Shadows begin to move. Geometry twists. The sky changes. And across the world, reality starts to fracture. The Tablet is not a ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Before there were churches. Before there were kings. Before there were names. There were the first gods. Across the British Isles lie ancient places older than memory — stone circles raised to unknown powers, burial mounds sealed with dread, moors that whisper in forgotten tongues, and forests that do not welcome trespassers. The land remembers what humanity has tried to forget. In The First Gods of the Isles, Adrian Cave delivers twenty chilling tales of folk horror and ancient evil rooted deep in Britain’s sacred and cursed ground. Archaeologists unearth what should have remained ...

The ocean guards its secrets jealously. But some mysteries, once disturbed, unleash a terror that infects the soul. An unnatural fog descends upon the Archer's Wake, swallowing the horizon and the crew's courage in its chilling embrace. When a ghost ship, the Vanta Grey—lost to the abyss for half a century yet impossibly preserved—drifts into view, duty and a gnawing curiosity compel them to investigate. What they uncover aboard the silent, eerie vessel is not just a maritime enigma, but a descent into a horror that defies sanity. A forgotten logbook whispers of an ancient, slumbering ...

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 ...

In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly purchased dream house. "Action-packed horror ... Fans of Stephen King and Paul Tremblay will find this a satisfying escape into the woods." ―Kirkus Reviews “This is classic supernatural horror...

Some legends don’t want to stay hidden—and some secrets won’t stay buried. When a Navajo girl vanishes in the high desert of Arizona, Lux Branson is asked to help, even though this time the stakes are deeply personal. Her old friend Jackson believes his girlfriend was taken by a Skinwalker—an evil shapeshifter from Navajo lore. Skeptical but determined, Lux joins the search. The deeper they go into the red rock canyons and sacred lands, the more disturbing the evidence becomes. Something ancient is watching. And it doesn’t want them to leave. With time running out and local ...

A cursed tomb. A goddess reborn. A world on the brink. Egypt, 1940. When a forgotten tomb is opened, an ancient evil awakens, sending two siblings and a fearless adventurer on a desperate race from the deserts of Egypt to Berlin to stop her. 1940, Egypt. Beneath the sun-scorched sands of the Valley of the Kings, a long-forgotten tomb is unearthed. Inside lies Dina—the vengeful goddess of life and death—sealed away for millennia. When her slumber is disturbed by rival British and German archaeologists, her spirit is unleashed, leaving only blood and whispers in its wake. Siblings Lillian...

In Lost Gods, Brom, the artist and author of The Child Thief and Krampus, brings readers into a dark, fantastical, masterful mix of brilliant illustrations and dazzling prose. Read by award-winning narrator, R.C. Bray! A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this...

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?

""Darker Days reinforces that Olde Heuvelt is one of the most vital and exciting voices in modern horror”— Mike Flanagan, director of The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Dr. Sleep ""Darker Days is a remarkable and disturbing morality tale about the true cost of...

Spend six hours confined to an airplane seat from New York to Los Angeles, and you arrive exhausted, irritable, and desperate to be left alone. Now imagine being trapped inside a tiny lamp for four thousand years. Did you really expect the creature inside to emerge smiling and say, “Your wish is my command”? Josh Cox did not know what to expect when he released the being imprisoned inside his father’s ancient lamp. It calls him Master and promises to obey and serve. But after four thousand years in captivity, its idea of obedience is far removed from the fairy tales. It has its own ...