First Contact Horror

Alien visitors devastate a remote farm in Lovecraft’s first and best venture into science fiction.

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020!"A terrifying tour de force." --James Rollins"Readers will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity...

A stand-alone novel, 4th in the Extinction series. As an escaped slave, Oscar believes his troubles are over, but from across the universe an omnipotent alien intellect has other plans. The lost progeny of a scorched Earth barely survives aboard ancient decrepit starships, lost in outer space. Street gangs and slave markets rule the ships, while Oscar guards a safe haven for others fleeing bondage. As gangs battle for supremacy, their ship is plunged into darkness. A Signal from deep space has taken control and will force the crews onto a dangerous path of contrition and reunification. To ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW A chilling, intelligent work of existential horror, this novel transforms first contact into something far more disturbing than invasion — quiet correction. With disciplined restraint and relentless plausibility, it explores how humanity adapts not through resistance, but through acceptance. Unsettling, original, and impossible to shake, this is horror that lingers long after the final page. SIBERIAN INCIDENT The 1989 Case Where Twenty-Three Soldiers Were Turned to Stone In the frozen wilderness of Siberia, a Soviet military unit was dispatched to investigate an ...

The entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero-a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster - a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands.

She wakes up alone. Adrift. With no memory of how she got there. All Dr. Dana Cruz knows is the endless, predatory blue of the ocean and the pain from a blow to her head. Her specialized diving suit has been sabotaged . The wreckage of her flotation pod has been stripped of supplies . This was not an accident. It was an execution. But she is not the only thing in the water. Something is moving in the crushing darkness below, an entity large enough to be an island, powerful enough to defy physics. It tracks her every move, its intentions unknown. As fragments of her memory return, Dana ...

When Earth went silent, humanity did not die cleanly. It changed. In the ruins of orbit, a salvage crew boards a dead nursery station and finds the descendants of children abandoned in the dark. On a starving colony world, a buried alien signal begins repairing machines, organs, and broken bodies—but every miracle asks what must be surrendered in return. Beneath the red dust of Rath-9, a recovery team sent to certify a failed settlement discovers a living colony the company would rather erase than recognize. After Earth Went Silent collects three dark science fiction horror stories: The ...

Somewhere in Russia… Boris Petrov in his glory days had a career in the Russian secret service but now he is well past his prime and just a bored police officer. Annoyed by obnoxious colleagues and petty crimes he languishes in his filthy office. An emergency call changes everything. He is the only available officer and he reluctantly takes up the case. He locates the origin of the emergency call by EMMA in the middle of nowhere. He is greeted by an obscure professor in a secretive building full with high-tech equipment and the darkest secret he could never have imagined even in his ...

The Fourth of July in Red Hollow is a celebration of heat, noise, and tradition. But this year, the celebration is just camouflage. Photographer Owen sees it first—a glitch in his camera showing a man's smile stretching into an impossible, grotesque crescent . Hot dog vendor Al serves the same blank-faced man the same exact order twice in ten minutes, a film skipping on repeat . Then, in front of the entire town, Mayor Thompson collapses during his speech, only to rise again—unnaturally smooth, his eyes glassy, and wearing a perfect, hollow smile . When a silent, pristine ambulance ...

What if the child you longed for carried something older than humanity itself? Mara Sullivan has spent her life trusting evidence, not superstition. A biology teacher in County Clare, she chooses motherhood on her own terms through fertility treatment, expecting the usual fears, hopes, and fragile waiting that come with it. But when her daughter Isla is born, something is different. Isla does not simply grow — she changes. She notices patterns no child should see, draws shapes she has never been taught, and seems to respond to forces hidden beneath the surface of ordinary life. Then Mara ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW WHEN THEY CAME is a chilling invasion novel that rejects spectacle in favor of something far more disturbing: quiet, precise destruction followed by absolute control. As humanity struggles to understand what has been lost, the story explores the terrifying cost of comfort, obedience, and survival after first contact. Unsettling, intelligent, and deeply human, this is invasion horror that lingers long after the final page. WHEN THEY CAME Survival Was No Longer a Choice EVENT STATUS: ONGOING CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION: LIMITED Anomalous activity detected across ...

It's supposed to be a simple job, a look-see operation to make sure something terrible hasn't happened. The leader is prone to fits of violence, and there are rumors of previous human rights abuses. Only, when they arrive, the ship is...empty. The question is - where did everybody go? Armed only with riot gear, they explore the ship, intent on discovering the truth about what's happened on The Ark. What they find will be more nightmarish than anything they've seen before. Indeed, it's worse than anything they could imagine.

Damon Cross is a journalist whose cynicism is his armor. When he’s sent to the forgotten woods of West Virginia to write a puff piece on the anniversary of a local legend, he expects to find hucksters and ghost stories. Instead, he finds a town gripped by a seventy-year silence and a terrifying truth buried in the static. The legend is real. But it's not a creature. It's a machine. Ancient, patient, and impossibly advanced, it has been waiting, listening through the wires of a world that has unknowingly built it a new nervous system. Now, it's waking up. As Damon peels back layers of ...

No longer bound to Earth or the Core Sol System, the human race has expanded into the far beyond, seeding itself throughout the final frontier. It has been a time of great expansion, hope, and progress. These remote colonies, some found at the fringes of the Outer Rim, rely on supplies brought to them by deep-space commercial shipping vessels, which transport the needed goods and commodities to keep humanity alive and thriving in the most remote and austere locations.

An alien experiment gets loose and turns an unsuspecting woman into a creature of passion and goo. While one researcher works to understand this new creature, it has seductive plans of its own.

For Flight Engineer Cynthia Han and her fellow astronauts aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 81 has proved as mundane as space travel ever gets. Yes, this would be Cynthia’s final NASA mission, for reasons she has so far kept from the rest of the crew; and yes, the latest billionaire “space tourist” has managed to irritate everyone on board. Still, none of them could have asked for a smoother experience. Until the morning they wake up to silence. All communication with Earth, gone.

For the alien towani, Earth is a holy site where their Last Prophecy will be fulfilled. They will do anything to protect the planet. Protecting humanity is an optional extra.

We were not created by accident. We were engineered. When a mysterious signal from deep space matches a hidden pattern in human DNA, astrophysicist Dr. Mara Voss uncovers a truth older than civilization — and far more dangerous. Humanity was designed by the Architects, god-like beings who abandoned their experiment… until now. As the signal awakens across the globe, machines begin to think, minds begin to fracture, and Earth itself starts to rewrite its own code. To stop the transformation, Mara must confront the one secret she swore she’d never face — the father she lost, now ...

100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot. But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales....

In the deepest, darkest depths of space, the stars are cold, malevolent eyes looking across a vast graveyard of the unknown, the unnameable, and the undead. Here the planets are tombs and the moons haunted catacombs. And here are extraterrestrial nightmares beyond imagining. There is no benevolent first contact. No utopian worlds. Only alien horrors.