Showing results by publisher "HellBound Books Publishing LLC" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Just as Hickory Grimble hits rock bottom, he inherits his grandparents’ farm and believes his luck is changing. He soon finds he inherited more than money and land. Haunted by his own inner demons, now he has new problems. He begins to see strange creatures on the dark, sprawling acreage, animals that have no business living in middle Tennessee. Balanced on a razor's edge between, addiction and fate, Hick is now face to face with an ancient evil that has returned once more to claim more of the town's children.

Cil Franklen wasn’t good. He wasn’t nice, liked, or thin. Hell, he wasn’t even handsome! And soon, he wouldn’t even be HIM! Some people get the chance to do good things: Bill Gates, Al Pacino, Einstein, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King. Given a little magic, people can be magical, but not Cil. He just wanted to kill. All life’s fog built up in him to the point of leaking out... but it wasn’t the pleasant puffy fog—it was dark and sickening.

After eloping, newlywed Virginia Campbell’s bright future grows dim. Eerie night visions begin to haunt her. Are they real or imagined? Her husband’s sudden aloofness raises suspicions of an affair. Unable to sleep, doubts torment her - doubts about her marriage, her unborn child, her sanity. Then, there is blood. She awakens to blood-soaked sheets. Is it too late to save her unborn child? Her only hope is her charming doctor for whom she is falling. Can he save her from this living nightmare?

Something has taken a liking to the children of Mount Vernon, Washington. Its eyes are orange, and glow like fire. Its hissing voice is the autumn wind. Halloween is in a week. It says it wants to take them trick-or-treating.

Carl Duggan has worked as a detective in the city for a long time. The kind of long where you’ve seen everything, and seen it twice. With that in mind, it comes as no surprise to him when a pregnant 19-year-old girl washes up on the banks of the Styx. But something about this one is different, and before Carl gets any answers, two more bodies join the pile - a corrupt Judge and a big-shot lawyer.

Meet the Sewells, your typical, all-American couple; happily married for 10 years, respected high school teachers, still crazy about one another and with a secret, shared dark side. During their annual Spring Break vacation to recharge their batteries and reconnect as a couple, they are waylaid by a perverse gang of misfits in the one horse, North Texas town of Flanagan.

Compiled by the Dark Poet Princess, Xtina Marie, here are 16 delectably horrific tales of the sinister side of dark romance, where not everything is hearts and flowers, and moonlight strolls hand-in-hand with your beautiful soulmate. This phenomenal anthology - named in honor of that unique part of the female anatomy believed by some to summon satan himself - overflows with the darkest storytelling and the brightest talent on the independent writing scene today: Madison Estes, John Leonard, J.N. Cameron, Arista Cyrene, Steve Wands, Joe Palumbo, Jeremy Billingsley, and more.

Danielle Harrington has the life many women envy: She’s beautiful, rich, has two wonderful children, and is married to the Preston Harrington - the handsome, charismatic, retired quarterback who won two Super Bowls. Unfortunately, something is very wrong with Preston. Having suffered more than his fair share of injuries and concussions, he becomes quiet, withdrawn, and distant. As Preston spends more time away from his family, Danielle begins to suspect an affair without realizing her husband is involved in something much, much worse…

It's 1989, the cusp of a brand new decade - a young woman deals with injustice the only way she knows how, and two friends give their hands. Twenty-one years later, that promissory note needs to be collected, but who answers? The girl: now an educator. The second: a man of hard business and soft morals. The third: a family man who loved that young woman as much as he loves his living daughter.

Playground of the Dead is a macabre tale set in a seaside California community of Clear Vista. There have been a number of unexplained deaths of the town’s citizens—all related to tragic incidents involving its children. The police chief, Braden Powell, a man dealing with his own troubled, tragic history, has been investigating the mysterious occurrences with frustratingly minimal success.

It's Christmas Eve when hapless musician Adam Banks stands on the bridge over the river that cleaves the isolated village of Burton. A storm is rolling into the narrow mountain pass. He thinks of turning back. Instead, he resolves to fulfill his obligation to perform the guest spot at The Cabin Sessions. He should be looking forward to it, but fear stirs when he opens the door on the Cabin's incense-choked air.

Tony Carpenter loves Karina. It doesn't matter that they're only 14 because when they're together, they forget about their abusive homes. They run away, leaving a trail of murder in their wake, until Tony is caught and sent to Secret Harbor School - a boy's home on a remote island in Washington State's San Juan Islands. Run by corrupt staff with no accountability to anybody who cares about the abuse administered daily to its residents, Secret Harbor School is among the state's best-kept secrets. And Tony has no intention of staying.

When a stranger arrives in Charity Falls, Utah, he has one intent: get a drink and some rest before hitting the road again. An altercation with a lush brings back dark memories, and the woman's final taunt tips him over the edge. He abducts and drags her off to an abandoned farm...However, the farm isn't as secluded as he had hoped, and he is forced to deal with several others who have wandered too close to his lair. When just two innocents remain, only a battle of survival will decide who will walk away.

Filled with copious amounts of black humor, Gerri R. Gray's first published novel is an offbeat adventure story that could be described as One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest meets Thelma and Louise. Flashback to 1974. Farika is a lovely young woman who wakes up one day to find herself a patient in a bizarre New York City psychiatric asylum. She has no idea who she is, and possesses no memories of where she came from nor how she got there.

An average teenage girl and her father find themselves caught up in a brutal nightmare at their local recreational center, when an age-old enemy comes stumbling out of the woods to crash a heavy-metal gig - a gig that has all the promises of being killer. This is one blood-soaked gig you won't want to miss!

Amateur film makers inadvertently invoke a demon when they break into an abandoned elementary school to perform and film an authentic Black Mass for their entry into a short movie competition! Dave Priestley reveals his plan to his the movie-making friends - to film an authentic Black Mass in Watsonville’s abandoned elementary school - the site of a horrific tragedy nine years before.

In the ultimate battle between evil and evil...only one can win. Four hundred years ago, Benjamin Harwood butchered whoever he saw fit to kill, knowing that sacrificing his murder victims to a demon would keep him safe from eternal punishment. But now, their agreement has been torn in half and the demon is coming for Harwood’s soul, coming to set him to burn. Preparing for war, Harwood gathers the worst of the worst, the monsters and murderers he calls friends.

When Lauren left behind the center where she and David were imprisoned, she thought she’d be going back to the ranch house to recover. Instead, she and her new friend Adrienne find themselves in the hands of the coven she’s been in hiding from.

This is your unique opportunity to join the murderous spree of an escalating serial killer who is hell-bent on achieving his sick goal of killing in each and every state of the USA. Through the killer's increasingly unhinged diary entries, gain an insight into his thoughts, imaginings, and internal struggles, as he fights against his primal urge to satisfy the growing bloodlust, and to justify his nefarious actions to a rapidly crumbling mind.

Displace everything you thought you knew about the Man-Eating F--ks and get ready for the truth, as the saga goes full circle in this past vs. present tale of blood-dripping carnage. The cannibals are back, and they're bigger, meaner, stronger, and out for gut-wrenching revenge on the one person who destroyed their family: Storm. And with the financial backing from a mysterious cult and the devil himself, the F--ks aren't going to let anything, or anyone, get in their way of seeking absolute domination.