Civil War Horror

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States, and she trekked over many battle sites with him during her childhood. After reading about General Joshua Chamberlain's supernatural experience at the Battle of Gettysburg, Roberts began to collect tales of the blue and gray and write them down.

In the dying days of the Confederacy, the war is a settled chill in the bones. For Lieutenant Davis and his desperate scouting party, a routine patrol in the Virginia wilderness becomes a hunt for something far more terrifying than Union soldiers. They are following legends whispered by locals—tales of a stitched-up giant that haunts the mountains. When they find tracks larger than any man has a right to make, Davis’s ambition ignites. He sees not a monster to be feared, but an unholy weapon to be captured and aimed at the heart of the Union army. They succeed in chaining the creature, ...

A remote mountain valley guards a bloody secret. He came to hunt a predator, but now he’s the one being watched. Biologist Jonas Kettering accepts a simple contract: travel to the isolated Hallow’s Gap and identify the beast preying on livestock. Armed with science and skepticism, he expects to find a rogue bear or a mountain lion. He finds something far worse. The town is steeped in ancient traditions, ruled by a fragile pact between the founding families and the monsters hiding in the forest. But the pact is breaking. A rebellious new generation of shifters, led by a violent young ...

"Impossible to put down.” —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the...

In Edgar Allan Poe's eerie title story, an old man's diseased eye drives the narrator to murder. But while the murderer can rid himself of the eye, he can't silence the old man's heart.

The blood of soldiers is not the only thing soaking the fields of Gettysburg. For Eli Ward, a Union sharpshooter, the battle is a grim calculus of distance and wind. But as the sun sets on the second day of fighting, the familiar horrors of war are twisted into a nightmare he could never imagine. The screams echoing in the twilight are no longer just from the wounded, but from things that hunt in the shadows, creatures born of rage and bloodlust. When Eli is forced into a desperate alliance with a Confederate soldier—an enemy he tried to kill just hours before—they uncover a terrifying ...

Book five begins almost one year from the fateful release of the drug that started it all. Wage war alongside Shaun and Ellie with the rest of the group as the threats increase and the threatened fight back! Lives will be lost but those that refuse to back down will have to fight harder than ever before to see one more day.

From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, DC, to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864 witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of our Civil War, in mighty battles now all but forgotten.

A haunted White House, a naked Prime Minister, an ancient Indian Curse, and a never-ending ghostly party. The definitive collection of nearly three hundred years worth of Presidential ghost stories. Robert Buccellato, the author of Rum Runners and Moonshiners of Old Florida, and Jimmy Carter in Plains presents a unique tale of America's relationship with Presidential Ghosts.

In this sequel to Ghost Train, phantoms from a nearby haunted mansion also want Kat's small house and property. The spirits have had the run of the house for the last two years since her grandfather died and left Kat the property. Now that she has decided to move in they consider her an interloper. They intend to drive her out. The first to appear is a ghost girl and her ghost dog. Soon other ghost children will appear. She might have lost her mind if not for a young man about her own age who has dealt with these long dead individuals in the past.

In a city torn by war, humans and vampires must forge a tenuous alliance to survive. As leaders Jacob and Lucifer clash in a final reckoning, the fate of New Beijing hangs in the balance. Amidst betrayal and fragile peace, unity becomes their only hope. A thrilling tale of survival, power, and the quest for a new dawn.

On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers

Captain Alan Lewrie returns for his tenth roaring adventure on the high seas. This time, it's off to a failing British intervention on the ultra-rich French colony of Saint Domingue, wracked by an utterly cruel and bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of...

Faced with an overwhelming infestation of living dead on the US mainland, the US Pacific Fleet manages a strategic withdrawal of civilians and supplies. Aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, Dr. Henry Damico advises the remnants of the civilian government and military leadership on how to survive in a world overrun with zombies.

The year is 1796 and the soil of Piedmont and Tuscany runs with blood, another battle takes shape on the mysterious Adriatic Sea. Alan Lewrie and his 18-gun sloop, HMS Jester, part of a squadron of four British warships, sail into the thick of it. But with England's allies failing, Napoleon busy...

The sky over the 1888 American frontier was not supposed to look like this. When a storm of impossible colors and sound descends upon the Great Plains, it leaves nothing but splintered homes and shattered lives in its wake. It is not an act of God. It is something else entirely. Three strangers emerge from the wreckage: a young woman fleeing a suffocating future, a haunted Civil War veteran who long ago retreated from the world, and a fast-talking huckster whose charms are useless in a world scraped clean. Forced into a fragile alliance, their fight for survival has only just begun. The ...

In the sleepy town of Appomattox, and in towns nestled deep in the heart of the former Confederate South, an eerie and inexplicable phenomenon occurs on Halloween night. The graves of Confederate soldiers, who died defending their cause over a century ago, suddenly stir. The restless spirits of these fallen soldiers rise from the dead, but they're not merely ghosts – they're ravenous zombies with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. As chaos ensues and survivors are faced with a nightmarish battle for survival, a diverse group of survivors must band together to combat this undead ...

A curse rolls out over centuries, murky and unknowable as swamp waters, shaping and destroying lives. “Carter delivers. . . . [A] fusion of detective fiction and horror that is impossible to look away from.” —The New York Times Book Review Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer...

In 1850 in Massachusetts, Whittaker House stood as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It’s where two freedom seekers, Little Annie and Clementine, hid and perished. Whittaker House still stands, and Little Annie and Clementine still linger, their dreams of freedom unfulfilled. Now a fashionably distressed vacation rental in the Berkshires, Whittaker House draws seekers of another kind: Black women who only appear to be free.

When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in a fishbowl, exercising power with mad, relentless, hilarious...