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...

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.

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.

Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls. Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a...

The Spaces Between is a haunting collection of twenty chilling tales that explore the quiet terror of in-between places — the corridors we hurry through, the waiting rooms we sit in, the platforms where nothing arrives. An empty underground station where the last train never comes. A house that shifts each time you leave the room. An airport terminal where no planes take off — and no one can leave. A motorway service station frozen at 3:17 a.m. In these liminal spaces — neither here nor there, neither past nor present — something is waiting. Blending psychological horror with ...

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...

The 2020s have already carved out a wild place in horror history, delivering a fast-moving mix of unsettling atmospheres, brutal shocks, strange ideas, bleak tension, and unforgettable nightmare fuel. Horror Movies of the 2020s is a passionate, immersive guide for horror fans who want to revisit the films, trends, moods, and standout moments shaping this still-unfolding decade. Inside, you’ll find lively commentary, engaging synopses, and sharp observations on both major breakout titles and lesser-known gems, all written with the energy of someone who genuinely loves horror and cannot ...

From the award-winning director and NYT bestselling author of If Cats Disappeared from the World, the thrilling novelization of his hit film Exit 8, adapting the indie game of the same name. A young man is commuting on a packed Tokyo subway, when he receives a phone call from his ex, with...

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 ...

A man awakens suspended in a cage—thirty meters above an alien landscape beneath unfamiliar moons. Trapped inside a living prison of flesh and bone, he quickly realizes he is not alone. Hundreds of grotesque beings surround him, each confined to their own biological cells, each screaming in voices no human could comprehend. What follows is a descent—literal and psychological—into a terrifying display of cruelty, science, and something far more disturbing: recognition. As he tries to piece together how he arrived in this nightmare, memories surface, reality bends, and a horrifying ...

You can escape your past, your fears, even your mind—but never the body you occupy. The body is the first prison, the final battlefield, and the one thing we can never abandon. Yet what happens when the flesh betrays us, when consciousness claws against its cage, when skin, bone, and blood twist into something unrecognisable? Occupying Bodies is a visceral anthology of body horror that explores the dread of living inside fragile, treacherous vessels. Within these pages, nightmares take the form of grotesque mutations, psychological unravelings, everyday afflictions magnified into terrors,...

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 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-...

Dollhouse, Maine: Where Reality Begins to Fray Janine Baker built her life on lies. As a traveling psychic, she survives by reading strangers, selling comfort and pretending to speak to the dead. It’s a con; until the dead begin answering back. When a violent collapse on a remote Maine coast tears open something ancient beneath the town of Dollhouse, Janine is dragged into a place where memory twists, roads refuse to lead where they should, and entire pieces of reality begin to unravel. Fog rolls like living architecture. Houses shift. Mirrors remember. Time loops like a wound that ...

Novelette edition. Expanding upon "A Wereshark's Memoir," winner of the best science fiction & fantasy short story in the 25th Annual Critters Readers' Poll (2022). The haunting tale of an immortal sea captain through the ages. "In his magnum opus Ethics published posthumously in 1677, Spinoza argues that God is substance. Evil is substance in A Wereshark's Memoir by Justin Sloane. Original, frightening, and beautiful, this work is a study into the impossibility of evil to reign over the human race. It is a fiction of the open wound. It hurts and it makes you invent a therapy to alleviate ...

A wrong turn in Romania. A collapsing marriage. And the sixty-five levels of a monstrous building waiting to devour the man who trained for the cage. Ethan Cole is finally running from Claire, his controlling wife whose suffocating care is a psychological prison. But his escape lands him at the doorstep of a vast, living, underground complex that is consuming people, one level at a time. Trapped with a dwindling group of survivors, Ethan soon learns the horrifying truth: the complex is designed to dismantle its occupants, piece by piece, using their deepest traumas as architecture. The ...

Tensions are at a fever pitch as Liam and Mina are confronted by their neighbors about they are raising their son Christopher. The couple fight doggedly, but will they keep custody of their child when the federal government sends in three of their top agents to settle the matter?

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 ...