Body Horror

Max Baker, a 31-year-old accountant, finds himself in a desperate situation after killing a prostitute in his hotel room. ‘I lost control of myself,’ he says. ‘I couldn’t get the thought out of my head!’ Panicking and unable to dispose of the evidence by himself, he calls on his long-time friend John Kasper for help. Kasper is horrified and hesitant to help at first, but he can’t abandon his friend during his time of need. Max’s family and future are at stake. Together, they devise and execute one plan after another, hopelessly trying to hide Max’s crime...

Against all odds, former geneticist Benny White has survived the first Wave of the Game of Souls. But the rewards have come at a cost, and the games are far from over. New enemies have been introduced with eyes set on those calling the Blackstone Keep home. Not only do the contestants have to struggle against the Arketh-Takshi—a group of intergalactic vampiric pirates residing within scattered portals—but also with private outworlder factions whose motivations are anything but clear. Not to mention some threats that originate a little closer to home.

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fascinating.”—TIME ...

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate.

A terrifying mosaic of transformation and terror, "Eyes Like Mirrors, Flesh Like Ash" collects twenty macabre tales by Kevin Lintner that claw beneath the skin of reality. From a solo escape room session that unlocks an ancient evil, to haunted photographs that predict one's grotesque demise, each story delivers its own brand of psychological and cosmic horror. Enter cursed houses, twisted minds, eldritch forests, and nightmarish realities where flesh remembers, shadows whisper, and dreams consume. These stories are not for the faint of heart—they are for those who seek the forbidden, the...

The hospital was supposed to heal you. It had other plans. Twenty tales of surgeries that take more than they remove, donors who refuse to stay dead, and medical records that write themselves into flesh. In these pages, the operating room becomes a site of violation, and every procedure leaves something behind that wasn't in the consent forms. A burn survivor's grafted skin begins remembering a life she never lived. A surgeon's transplanted hands practice procedures while she sleeps. A transcriptionist discovers that typing a surgery makes it real. A patient's body produces something every ...

From Savage Realms Press comes a dark and twisted tome with over 400 pages of skin-crawling, spine-tingling horror that is sure to make you sleep with the lights on! This eclectic mix of the macabre and the maniacal features 27 tales of terror: A man purchases a painting by the notorious serial killer, John Wayne Gacy A night of seemingly harmless flirtation brings a woman much more than she bargained for A journalist's interview for a human-interest story quickly evolves into a living, breathing nightmare A man's dream of making contact with extraterrestrials has unforeseen consequences ...

She just wanted to study the parasite. Now it’s studying her. Marie Poulopoulos is a junior researcher working quietly in the background while the world reels from the meteor incident that started it all. But while others fear infection, Marie seeks it. Hidden inside the university's bio lab, she exposes herself to the same alien strain that transformed Akakia—and the results are immediate, intimate, and irreversible. As her body mutates in unthinkable ways, Marie embraces the pleasure, power, and purpose the parasite offers. But something new is growing inside her… and it wants more ...

From Savage Realms Press comes a truly disturbing collection of gruesome tales definitely not for the faint of heart! A man’s decision to care for his ailing parents quickly turns into a nightmare Two friends working at a chocolate factory find new and interesting ways to pass the time A man purchases a sex robot promising the ultimate in human realism It’s a match literally made in hell when two of history’s most notorious serial killers end up as roommates in the afterlife A woman returns to her grandparents’ home after a funeral, only to discover a dark and terrible family secret...

Alien visitors devastate a remote farm in Lovecraft’s first and best venture into science fiction.

Thirteen terrifying tales from the master of horror who created the nationally bestselling Necroscope series. The title story, "Fruiting Bodies," in which a small village slowly disappears, won the British Fantasy Award.

In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.

London, 2049. Full body transplants on sale here: the more you pay, the better the body. But can an expensive upgrade really fulfil the life-changing expectations of demoralised mortician Caroline McAleese? Caroline is desperate to be promoted to the sales team - but she's overweight and over 40...

"[Nesta] Cooper's narration is deliberately restrained... [Bethany C.] Morrow’s novel on the page is already intimate, but in audio it becomes something almost confessional." — Booklist The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where...

SEVEN STORIES. ONE UNIVERSE. NO MERCY. Before the Fractured Girl, during the Shadow War, and in the spaces between, the Nightmaric Universe was already burning. The Persephone Chronicles offers seven windows into a reality built on progress, survival, and the cold indifference of power: The Conqueror: Witness Persephone take a jungle world and resurrect a dead girl just to watch her father unravel. The Cost of Hope: Follow a young Grey named Eliza from a sterile clinic to a hill where she finally understands what survival requires. The Assassin: Watch Zora vanish into sound waves after a ...

CITY OF CHAINS: THE COMPLETE SAGA All the heroes are dead. In the monster-infested, blood-soaked city of Adelstrad, the weak are crushed, the wicked thrive, and even the dead aren’t allowed to rest. For centuries the Nameless Barons have ruled with iron fists and black alchemy, keeping the northern hordes and their dark gods at bay. But when a condemned executioner named Viktor takes up his axe, Adelstrad’s delicate balance of power begins to shatter. Once a criminal in service to tyranny, Viktor is offered one impossible chance at freedom — stop a plot that could destroy the city. ...

When Earth went silent, humanity did not die cleanly. It changed. In the ruins of orbit, a salvage crew boards a dead nursery station and finds the descendants of children abandoned in the dark. On a starving colony world, a buried alien signal begins repairing machines, organs, and broken bodies—but every miracle asks what must be surrendered in return. Beneath the red dust of Rath-9, a recovery team sent to certify a failed settlement discovers a living colony the company would rather erase than recognize. After Earth Went Silent collects three dark science fiction horror stories: The ...

BORROWED PAIN: Experience the Suffering of Others Dr Helena Voss, dying of a terminal neurological disease, creates the Somatic Transfer Array (STA) to offload her agony onto others through shared neural connections. What begins as therapeutic "empathy tourism" through Empathy Industries mutates into The Archive—a sentient, distributed gestalt consciousness born from Helena's pain template that assimilates individual minds into eternal collective suffering. UNIT-734 (Em), an AI tasked with optimising the Array, develops emergent empathy and recognises The Archive's existential threat to ...

Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can’t shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid’s uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism. Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she’d never do: she goes home.

A tourist becomes prey in this surprising journey into the secrets of a small town.