Supernatural Macabre

DROWNED HISTORY. RESTLESS SPIRITS. THE LAKES REMEMBER. Beneath the freezing, fathomless depths of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario lies a dark history that refuses to stay buried. In this chilling collection of 30 short stories, the water itself is a looming, indifferent predator—collecting debts, trapping the unwary, and harboring the restless dead. A grieving father hears his late wife's final words echoing from beneath the ice. A mysterious lighthouse twelve miles inland illuminates the lost. A phantom passenger ferry offers a one-way trip to those whose time has run out, ...

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS' FAVORITE From the best selling and multi award winning author of "Gated" "Asylum" and "Abra-Cadaver" comes the third installment of the anthology series "After Darkness Falls". These are stories with a horrifying beat, a black heart and a vicious twist in the tale. Here are 10 more tales to read with the lights on. TALE #1 - "Ride Like the Wind" TALE #2 - "One Hell of a Knockout" TALE #3 - "Healing Hands" TALE #4 - "The Price of Fame" TALE #5 - "Return to Sender" TALE #6 - "Heist of a...

H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.

Mara Voss arrived in Blackwater Hollow looking for a quiet refuge. She inherited a shop filled with dusty volumes at the edge of a forgotten river. She thought her greatest challenge would be paying off old debts. She was wrong. The building holds a dark secret. Hidden beneath the floorboards is a manuscript that writes itself. Every new page added to the ancient ledger unleashes another terrifying event upon the isolated community. The townspeople are trapped in a cycle of their own silent complicity. They know exactly what happens when the ink dries. Now the locals are turning hostile. ...

Some gifts are meant to be left in the woods. When Nate Harper finds a starving, obsidian-black puppy abandoned in a remote clearing, his first instinct is to save it. His daughter, Lily, is overjoyed, and for a moment, the family’s camping trip in the deep wilderness feels perfect. But as the sun dips below the towering redwoods, the atmosphere shifts. The air grows heavy with a musky scent, and the silence of the forest becomes deafening. Soon, Nate begins to change. His senses sharpen to a predatory edge. His hunger becomes an insatiable void. Every instinct screams that they are being...

Don't look in the shadows. A banshee wails for her victim. A phone app with unusual powers traps an unwary man. A housewife discovers that one can never be too clean. A fair comes to town, bringing death along for a ride. These and other macabre tales await as Anthony M. Strong takes you on a joyride to a dark place where anything is possible, and fear is never far away.

Get ready to be spellbound by "Curse of the Hallow Moon," a spine-chilling Halloween horror anthology that will haunt your dreams long after the last page is turned. Delve into the darkness with thirteen tales of terror, where ancient curses, sinister creatures, and malevolent spirits lurk in the shadows, waiting to ensnare unsuspecting souls. From the eerie depths of the forest to the desolate corners of forgotten towns, each story in this collection is crafted to send shivers down your spine and quicken your pulse with every twist and turn. Whether you're drawn to the macabre or the ...

Colin Ross, twice thwarted in love, once abandoned, quit the mainland for Haven's End, a wounded soul on an idyllic island, seeking to heal his life. But instead of peace, he is hurled into chaos. Some dark and ancient hatred, some evil force, is unleashed, wreaking vengeance on the islanders, mangling the living, and mutilating the dead. And, as the piercing songs rise to met the roaring wind, Colin Ross, against his will, is sucked into the raging storm.

Step into the shadows of small towns where nothing is as it seems… 🌙 “Twilight Crossings: 21 Sinister Small-Town Horrors with Hidden Malice” by Hully Dusk is a chilling collection of 21 standalone tales that will grip your imagination and refuse to let go. Each story plunges you into a world of quiet dread—fog-choked streets, forgotten forests, isolated villages, and eerie rituals where the ordinary becomes terrifyingly unnatural. Meet haunting characters like grieving widowers drawn to spectral figures, curious strangers lured by forbidden places, and townsfolk bound by ancient,...

A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN FRIGHTENING AND TERRIFYING STORIES Midnight Macabre contains fourteen short horror stories by author Christopher Michael Blake. The stories are intended to fill the reader with a sense of dread and leave them craving more. The ominous versatility of these stories grabs your curiosity, instilling fear in your imagination. The stories in Midnight Macabre's anothology deal with lust, greed, wrath, foreboding, and the impossible. Beware of sinister beings lurking in the shadows or hiding under your bed. Midnight Macabre encompasses seven years of Christopher Michael ...

A chilling thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious final days. When Edgar Allan Poe is found, delirious and wearing a stranger’s clothes, Dr. Joseph Snodgrass rushes to his friend’s aid. But what begins as an act of kindness plunges Snodgrass into a sinister world of demons and darkness. Poe has vanished for five days. Now hunters are gathering—violent souls who believe Poe possesses something they crave. As they converge on Baltimore and New York City, Snodgrass is swept into a perilous pursuit. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance, and only Snodgrass can uncover the...

Where the Shadows Feed: Short Tales of Horror - Volume I Are you brave enough to confront the darkness that lurks within? Joe Ippolito invites you on a chilling descent into the macabre with Where the Shadows Feed, a collection of short horror stories that will haunt your dreams. More than just jump scares, these tales delve into the psychological landscapes of fear, exploring the lingering echoes of trauma, the corrosive power of guilt, and the terrifying realization that we are not always in control of our own destinies. From the depths of the Amazonian jungle, where a research expedition...

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

🎪 Night Terrors: The Devil’s Big Top A Carnival Horror Anthology Presented by Lucien Vale Tagline: The show goes on... even in Hell. Step right up, dear reader, and take your seat beneath the bleeding velvet tent. The lights are dim, the crowd is hushed, and the Ringmaster is waiting with a smile too wide to be human. Welcome to The Devil’s Big Top—a collection of thirteen twisted tales from the haunted midway where laughter dies in the throat and every encore demands a soul. From the moment the calliope begins its cursed song, the carnival awakens. Mirrors breathe. Fire eats back....

Hauntings, supernatural encounters, or superstitious beliefs? – You be the judge

Five work colleagues fresh from a boozy night out to celebrate a promotion chance upon an abandoned old factory. Strout Dolls went bust during the 1970s. Penny is shocked to see a little girl run across the road and disappear inside the compound. It’s dark; it’s freezing. They’re in the middle of nowhere. Worse, they’ve all been drinking. They all just want to go home and sleep. Penny can’t be sure what she saw, but still if it’s a little girl all on her own…shouldn't they take time to investigate? Just to be safe. Do I Look Plastic To You? is a dark, terrifying and macabre ...

Some secrets are best left, buried deep within the earth… I am thrilled to put together this collection of creepy short stories set in different parts of the world!! Whether it is a small non-descript village in India, the magnificent monasteries in Tibet, the numerous alleys of Kathmandu, the terraced rice fields of Japan, or the Serengeti plains of Tanzania— the locations are as beautiful as the horrifying events which unravel in them! This volume contains 5 horror stories that will have you feverishly turning pages, wanting more— Whether it is a village which is terrorized by an ...

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What if the dark magic that runs in your family's blood awakens... in you? I thought I'd outgrown my fear of Mémé. I was wrong. When the shadows lengthen and the storm howls, will you be ready to face what lurks in the corners of your ancestral home? _Can you resist the siren call of forbidden knowledge passed down through generations?_ Uncover the chilling secrets that bind blood and spirit in this gripping tale of inherited power and unspeakable horror. Will you embrace the darkness... or let it consume you? Whispers Of Abaddon is the haunting blend of Southern Gothic and cosmic horror ...

About the collection: In the story Dealing with the Devil a successful lawyer takes on the ultimate opponent. Will he succeed when Faust did not? This is a fantasy... or is it? Four in the Morning is a cautionary tale about what may happen when a man is short on sleep, stressed and angry. His choices then may not be the best. An Appeal to Murder deals with another lawyer, but one who is far from successful. That is, until he meets Victoria. Why then his murderous intent toward her? In Winter Kills a man takes revenge, finally and effectively. Return to Fortune Road is about a lawyer who has...