Surreal Horror

What if you found a doorway to another reality, only to discover it was a one-way ticket to an infinite nightmare? Nate is obsessed with escaping his suffocatingly mundane life. He’s tried every method to "shift" his consciousness, and on the brink of madness, he finally finds the key: a mental gateway to a place that shouldn't exist. At first, the hotel seems like the ultimate escape. But this is no ordinary building. It's a sentient equation, a trap of impossible geometry designed to break its guests. The sterile halls stretch into eternity, the clock ticks toward insanity, and every ...

THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATION Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about...

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 1 Whimsically Grotesque nothing is quite as it seems, and everything is far stranger than you could imagine. Flowers gossip over coffee about their wilting fashion, umbrellas stage debates on the ethics of rain, and skies forget how to shine. This collection is a kaleidoscope ...

Seven tales. One unraveling world. This is horror for those who’ve looked too long into reflective glass, who’ve heard their name whispered from empty rooms, who’ve sensed something watching from the cracks in routine. In this anthology of cosmic and post-Lovecraftian horror, everyday settings become the staging ground for reality’s slow undoing. Roadside diners, coworking spaces, nursery monitors, and forgotten hospital wings, all bend under the weight of something unknowable, ancient, and still evolving. Inside, you’ll find: “Late Night at The Mother’s Way Diner” – A ...

The Bachman Files, Book 2 The second volume of The Bachman Files delivers seven haunting and provocative short stories that blur the line between humanity and horror. From the surreal, dream-like mystery of a gun’s violent legacy (Chekhov’s Gun), to a town’s descent into madness as it becomes a feeding ground for unspeakable horrors (The Journal of John Doe), to a tech worker’s terrifying fusion of flesh and machine (Flesh and Silicon), and a factory consumed by an insatiable, otherworldly hunger (The Factory), this collection pushes the boundaries of fear and imagination. Also ...

Rooms You Don’t Deserve by G.J. Fene is a chilling anthology of modern horror where guilt becomes architecture, and each room knows what you did. In twelve unnerving tales, scientists, priests, doctors, and frauds are lured into surreal punishment chambers that mirror their sins, and refuse to let them go. From a fertility clinic island where all the guests look alike… to a recursive memory trail in a fire-scorched forest… to a nursery where every infant cries with your voice, these are rooms built not for shelter, but for reckoning. Each story is a closed system. A confession box. A ...

Jonah Rourke is a railroad man, and railroad men don’t believe in miracles. So when his sister, Nell, disappears into a town that shouldn’t exist—one that won’t let anyone in, and won’t let anyone out, Jonah follows her anyway. Past the last streetlamp. Past the last honest mile. Onto a road that counts down like an execution and charges for every step. On this road, you don’t pay in money. You pay in pieces of yourself. Because something is coming. Something hungry. Something that doesn’t care who you are, only what you’re willing to surrender to keep moving. Jonah isn’t ...

Step beyond the veil of sleep into a kaleidoscope of terror, wonder, and surreal mystery. In Lucid Dreams, author Mark Lime delivers a vivid anthology of mind-bending, spine-chilling short stories that blend science fiction, horror, and the eerie logic of dreams. Each story takes you deeper into a different dimension—where logic unravels, time twists, and reality fractures. Brimming with atmosphere and surrealism, these stories linger like fragments of a forgotten dream. Haunting, violent, and strangely beautiful—Lucid Dreams is for fans of the uncanny and the unknowable. Dare to fall ...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 3 Mundane Foolishness, the ordinary becomes anything but. A routine trip to the bus stop, brushing your teeth, or simply folding laundry transforms into a labyrinth of unsettling realities. From mailboxes that devour letters to family holiday gatherings that slip into the ...

A second chance at life should feel like salvation. For one man, it feels like trespass. After a kidney transplant, recovery begins smoothly enough — medications, slow steps, the promise of return. But then the betrayals creep in. Foods he once loved taste like rot. His handwriting no longer belongs to him. Songs he has never heard slip unbidden from his throat. The changes accelerate: grief that arrives without cause, a hunger that is not his, dreams of kitchens and staircases he has never known. And always, the same melody rising inside him, carrying the memory of a stranger’s life. ...

The Bachman Files, Book 5 The fifth volume of The Bachman Files delivers pure horror and grotesque imagination with four chilling stories. A sinister scarecrow feeds on secrets and souls (The Scarecrow), a monstrous worm turns a superstore into a nightmare (Clean Up on Aisle 7), a haunted forest becomes a deadly trap (The Dead Forest), and alien abduction takes a terrifying twist of body horror (The Abduction). Perfect for fans of atmospheric, spine-chilling fiction, this collection blends psychological terror, cosmic dread, and visceral thrills that will keep you turning the pages.

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 2 Double Feature Picture Show ventures far beyond the stars into realms both terrifying and uncharted. Here, intergalactic monstrosities, peculiar alien worlds, and monstrous cryptids collide in poetic visions of cosmic horror. From invisible predators stalking the streets to ...

In a town that shouldn’t exist, faith doesn’t save you...it feeds. Slaughterhouse Cross is a literary horror novel about belief, control, memory, and the violence we disguise as devotion. Hidden somewhere between forgotten highways and broken radio signals, Slaughterhouse Cross was once a church, then a slaughterhouse, and now something far more dangerous. When Gabriel Austin Malphas arrives, he doesn’t bring salvation; he brings a new language for hunger. His followers come seeking meaning, escape, or purpose. What they find is a living scripture written in blood, ritual, and ...

Orange Juice for the Human Soul is a surreal dystopian story that spirals from political nightmare into full-blown cosmic absurdity. Told in first person, it follows a fugitive hiding from clone patrols in a future where power has curdled into spectacle and obedience has been industrialized. The world is loud with propaganda, stripped of nuance, and ruled by a grotesque figure who feels less like a leader and more like a corrupted symbol made flesh. The journey begins in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, where escape from surveillance and pursuit leads to something far stranger than ...

You were not meant to read this. Not because it is forbidden—but because it assumes you already complied. Guidelines for Staying Normal: Part II continues the document that quietly instructed readers how to function when reality feels slightly misaligned. These pages were not included in the original release, not due to oversight, but because they only become relevant after normalization has begun. This volume introduces expanded procedures: delayed corrections, secondary notices, post-compliance symptoms, and guidelines for recognizing when normal has shifted without announcement. ...

Some nightmares are memories. And some memories stay with your every waking moment. Every time Ella thinks about the past, it feels like a dream she's not sure she ever woke from. When she was a child, it was always the two of them: Ella and Michael, Michael and Ella. Twins. Soulmates. Two halves of a single whole. Best friends against the world. Until the day Michael vanished without a trace. Twelve years later, Ella begins dreaming again—of what might have happened back then. Of the black beach with its waves crashing over diamonds of ice. Of Michael’s voice calling from somewhere ...

Step into the eerie and the unexpected with The Bachman Files, Book 1—a spine-tingling collection of short fiction that blends classic horror, speculative twists, and dark satire. From a cursed forest that devours its victims (The Hungry Forest), to a dystopian AI controlling life and death (The Algorithm), and a old Television that unlocks unspeakable terror (Dead Air), these tales will keep you on edge. With five gripping stories, including The Signal and The Gospel According to Dave, this anthology delivers bite-sized doses of fear and intrigue, perfect for fans who enjoy thought-...

Behind locked doors and flickering lights, Ward Nine is where routine swallows reality and the line between patient and staff dissolves. A young man hears his name whispered in the night. A woman refuses her medication and finds herself replaced by a calmer version of herself. A nurse on endless night rounds discovers his name written in a book decades old. Meals never satisfy, visitors never arrive, and the quiet room is never truly quiet. In this chilling collection of interconnected stories, each voice pulls you deeper into a psychiatric ward where time loops, hunger grows, and identity ...