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In the concrete kingdom of Hard Max Penitentiary, fear is currency and respect is power. And for years, Reggie has been the king. From his throne of concrete and steel, Reggie rules the yard with an iron fist, a grip earned through blood and the ghost of the tyrant he himself deposed. His empire is built on established rules and brutal order. The gangs are in line, the guards are managed, and the contraband flows. But the foundations of his kingdom are beginning to crack. A new inmate, Dre, is the tremor. He’s not a mountain of muscle or a vicious killer. He’s quiet, observant, and ...

He was a creature of stitched-flesh and stolen life, a monster haunted by the ghost of his creator. Seeking only the peace of oblivion in an alpine storm, he finds not an end, but an impossible new beginning. Hurled back to the dawn of time by a bolt of unnatural green lightning, he awakens in a savage, prehistoric world. The air is thick, the jungle is alive, and the ground shakes with the footsteps of giants. Here, in a land of savage beauty and brutal laws, he is not the only monster. To survive, he must battle terrifying, intelligent predators and face the apex king of a forgotten age. ...

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 ...

The fog returns to the hollow first. It is an unnatural shroud that swallows sound and smothers the light, a harbinger of a terror reborn. The Headless Horseman rides again, but he is no mere ghost story whispered by a fire. He is a whirlwind of supernatural violence, a phantom of terrible power, and the terrified townsfolk are defenseless against his spectral blade. Eleonora, a woman of science and a descendant of the unfortunate Ichabod Crane, refuses to surrender to the encroaching darkness. She knows the legends are real, and that no mortal militia can stop the phantom rider. To fight a...

Jack Braddock is a ghost, haunted by his past and on the verge of losing the only thing that matters: his daughter. When a reclusive billionaire bails him out of a holding cell, the offer is too good to refuse: a clean slate and a future for his child. The price? One last mission. Journey to the most hostile place on the planet—Antarctica—and rescue the billionaire’s missing son. But the Antarctic is guarding a secret far older and more terrifying than any storm. Leading a small team of outcasts into a UN-quarantined "forbidden zone," Braddock discovers that the official story is a ...

Two brothers, honored soldiers of the Sixth Legion, are left for dead in the brutal forests of Germania by a commander who values pride over victory. Stripped of their armor, their honor, and their names, Tiro and Bracus are shackled and sold into the grim world of a gladiatorial school in Hispania. They are no longer soldiers; they are property, forced to fight for the mob's amusement. In the savage arena, their legionary training makes them an unstoppable force. As the "Brother Blades," their fame rises with every victory, but the spectacle begins to poison their bond. One brother clings ...

A senator’s son, born to a life of debate and privilege, Gaius Valerius is the perfect product of his class—destined for a brilliant career in the heart of the city. But when his father uncovers a dark conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the Senate, Gaius must abandon the future he thought he knew. The plot is audacious: to starve the city and seize power in the ensuing chaos, backed by a private army of the most dangerous men in the world. To save the Republic, Gaius must sacrifice his name, his honor, and his freedom. Publicly disgraced and cast out by his own father, he is...

The summer of 1994 was supposed to be boring. It ended in a flash of violet light. In the dying coal town of Iron Creek, twelve-year-old Micah Lawson didn't run away. He was taken. He was lifted from his bicycle by a silent, defying force that melted the asphalt and shattered the silence of the Appalachian woods. His friends saw it happen. Caleb, Craig, and Toby watched the sky tear open. But in Iron Creek, the truth is the first thing buried. The Sheriff calls it a runaway case. The parents call it a tragedy. The town chooses to look down at the ground rather than up at the impossible ...

He fought for glory in the Colosseum, but victory was just the beginning of his enslavement. Sold to a shadowy baroness with a web of secrets, the gladiator Cassian is forced to trade his sword for a killer's dagger. His first target is a merchant in a filthy city alley ; his second, a powerful senator ruined by a planted lie . Each life he takes pushes him deeper into a world of political intrigue and moral decay, a pawn in his mistress’s deadly game to seize control of the city. His only promised reward is a deed of manumission, a freedom that seems to recede with every bloody act . But...

The war lasted fifty-seven seconds. The fallout will last forever. Drone pilot Kaelen Vance is a ghost, haunted by memories of a family he never had and a grief he can't explain. The official story is that a brief, conventional conflict shattered his mind. But the jagged cracks in reality he calls "bleeds"—flickering visions of a world gone terribly wrong—tell him the truth is far more terrifying. When a wary operative, Ana Staskova, confirms his paranoia, Kaelen is torn from his broken life and thrown into a desperate race for the truth. The real war wasn't fought with bombs, but with ...

He broke the laws of physics. Now, he’s trapped in a universe where they don’t exist. Dr. Daniel Vey believed in elegant, final solutions. His life’s work, a machine that promised instantaneous travel, was the ultimate testament to his faith in a predictable, quantifiable reality. But his first journey through it goes catastrophically wrong. In less than a second, he's thrown into a dimension governed by a terrifying new law: you can only ever get halfway to your destination. Marooned in a world where progress is a lie and every journey is eternal, Daniel is a heretic in a ...

Cole Mercer, a two-time burglar, just wanted to do his time and get out. But on his first day at Falcon Ridge Maximum Security, he's forced to become a pawn for the prison's most ruthless inmate. The choice is simple: move contraband or watch the video of his sister's murder. Trapped between a brutal gang leader, a rival crew that wants him dead, and a corrupt guard playing both sides, Cole is pushed to the absolute limit. Every delivery is a new nightmare, every hallway a potential ambush. To survive, he must navigate a vicious underworld where one wrong move means death—not just for him...

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 ...

Leah is done running from the monster in her home. But when a fiery object crashes in the woods, she finds a new kind of danger—and a creature that will change her life forever. She discovers a survivor in the wreckage, an otherworldly being, injured and terrified. As she helps the strange visitor, she realizes they are not alone. Men in black are sweeping the forest, government agents determined to capture the creature at any cost. To protect her new friend, Leah must not only flee her past but outwit a powerful and relentless enemy. In a desperate chase through a town known for strange ...

Two down-on-their-luck roommates, a cynical realist and a hopeless optimist, win the lottery. The bad news? It's the ChronoHunt Lottery, a televised blood sport for the ultra-rich. Their prize is a "Subsidized Opportunity" to hunt the last dodo in the 17th century—a joke prize with a pathetic payout. Facing eviction from their grimy apartment, Leo and Finn have no choice but to accept the mission. Armed with faulty, low-budget equipment from a shady time-travel outfitter, they are flung back in time to hunt a creature that's supposed to be an easy target. But the dodo is not the dim-...

A monster seeks to lose himself in the new world. He boards a ship of dreams, not knowing it is a floating tomb. For over a century, the immortal creature has wandered the earth, a thing of rumor and nightmare. He is a giant of a man, his face a roadmap of scars , and his heart a hollow tomb of memories he desperately wants to escape. Under the false name Adam Richter, he books passage in the steerage of the grandest ship ever built, the RMS Titanic. He craves not the promise of America, but the vast, empty spaces where he can finally be lost. But he is not the only monster on board. In the...

What if you could press pause on the entire world? For a price. Lucas Rhames is a ghost in his own life, a twenty-four-year-old worn down to nothing by a dead-end job and the crushing weight of debt. His world is a relentless conveyor belt of monotony and despair. He doesn't want to be rich. He doesn't want to be famous. He just wants it all to stop. One desperate night, in a filthy alley with a fist about to rearrange his face, he gets his wish. The world freezes. A punch hangs inches from his nose. A city of millions becomes a silent, personal diorama. Lucas is the only thing still moving...

He was the last ranger of a forgotten Yosemite. Now he's a trespasser in his own home. Jack Harlan lives in the shadow of the fortress that was once his sanctuary. A decade after the nation’s debt forced the sale of its parklands, Yosemite is a privately-owned testbed for OmniCorp’s autonomous drones and cybernetic predators. For Jack, it's a constant, humming reminder of all he has lost. An old friend, a ghost from a twenty-year-old mistake, shows up with a desperate proposition: one last heist to retrieve millions in uncut diamonds hidden deep inside the park’s high country. To ...

Kenna Sharma is an engineer, not a hero. Her job on the clandestine Deep Look space station is simple: follow procedures, fix what is broken, and do not ask questions. But during a routine spacewalk, a two-second glitch in reality shows her the impossible: the stars are a lie, and her station is a cage. Back inside, the world feels wrong. A hairline crack appears not on the glass, but in space itself. Her crewmates begin to forget shared memories, their personalities fading into a placid, smiling emptiness. Kenna is being gaslit by her commanders and haunted by a horror that does not kill...

The universe is vast, silent, and indifferent. You are not alone, but you wish you were. This collection of twenty unsettling tales reimagines historical accounts of strange lights and impossible objects, transforming them into harrowing experiences of psychological dread and visceral horror. From the desolate plains of Roswell to the dense woods of Rendlesham Forest, ordinary people are forced to confront the shattering reality that humanity is not at the top of the food chain. These are not stories of hope or wonder. They are chronicles of violation, of minds breaking under the strain of ...