Dark Humor Horror

“The Heron” is the nickname a big-city accountant has attached to himself in his new home near San Diego, where he’s using the alias to avoid a hit man who may be after him. It seems a former client believes that The Heron has skipped town with several million dollars not his own. Don Winslow’s ensuing, entertaining yarn is by turns twisty, dark, and comical as we observe the delicate dance between the pursuer and the pursued.

When a bizarre string of unusual corpses washes up on the beaches of San Diego during Halloween week, Detective Lindsey Brant requires more than her usual set of skills to solve the mystery. Joining forces with horror writer James Archer, the two will have to survive a scourge of undead, international killers, unscrupulous reporters, and rogue spies if they're to unravel the long-buried mystery of a deadly virus that could bring humanity to its knees. But their greatest threat to the case may just be surviving each other. See if the two will succeed in saving the world in this irreverent ...

Special Agent Lindsey Brant and horror writer James Archer are back, working for the clandestine agency, ZEST. Along with Clive Bauer and his team of elite operatives, they begin the manhunt for the bioterrorist known as Doctor X who is nearing completion of a new virus that will unleash Hell upon earth. After tracking their target to the Philippines, ZEST joins forces with the SEALs in an all-out strike to prevent Armageddon. With a double-agent in their midst, Brant and Archer will have to thwart assassins and an island of undead to save the world. That is, if they can survive each other ...

You meet the most interesting men in medieval prisons. This one time, I met a guy who offered me immortality for the low, low price of changing my diet. I didn’t read the fine print. Because, he wasn’t talking about a gluten-free diet. More like hemoglobin-full. And now, I’m a friggin’ vampire with five centuries of pop culture references.

Samantha is a professional seductress and con artist with a heart of gold. If she talked about her work, she’d tell you she only pilfers organs for medical research and that she only takes one kidney, and she only steals those kidneys from dishonest people. It’s hell on her social life. Abe is the doctor and Sam's partner in crime. He isn’t much of a criminal. Except for the kidney stealing. But he’s using that money to fund his research that he anticipates will be able to cure diabetes. So, all for a good cause...? You decide. Of course, it's hell on his social life.

Crawlerz: All the books from the best selling series. Seven books (Over 2,500 pages). One ancient evil. A family holding on as the world falls apart. It started with a viral livestream. Archaeologists opened a mysterious tomb on camera and triggered something no one understood. What escaped wasn't gold or ancient secrets. It was a contagion that rewrote the rules of nature. At first it was subtle. A few strange behaviors. A little violence. Then the infection spread. Cities collapsed. People changed. They didn’t die. They evolved. Twisted, crawling, climbing, watching. Smarter than anyone...

A good mother will kill for her family. And, sometimes, for fun in this “wickedly dark and hilarious debut” (Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of My Husband’s Wife). Meet Lalla Rook. Lalla has a lot on her to-do list: help her husband make partner by flattering his...

As the Patron’s noose tightens down around the House of Graves, Tessa finds herself seeking the aid of Thomas Jury, a witch who’s powerful beyond measure and just as dangerous. But even with Jury’s so called 'help', will the Patron’s power prove too much for Tessa to withstand?

Alex Cole will do anything for money. Murder? Check. Assault? Check. Infanticide? Check. Sexual favors? Double-check. But after getting himself roped into something called Kuman Thong - including its roasted human fetuses - Cole is left fighting unfathomable phenomena beyond his comprehension and rather unexpectedly trying save the world. All for a lousy paycheck.

If the Dark doesn’t kill you, what’s in it will. One year ago, anything with a computer chip; the electric grid; communication; every modern convenience stopped working. Ridgecrest, perched on top of the Highland Plateau, went dark — cut off from the rest of the world. Anyone who leaves never returns, and no one comes into town — until today. Grab your copy and start reading Book 1 of this electrifying new serial today! Praise for The Dark: It was bound to happen. You can’t shackle talent like Christopher Greyson’s. He finally stepped out of his comfort zone and wrote one of the...

A dark, provocative, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction “Might be the most-anticipated debut novel of the year thanks in part to its perfect-for-Hollywood premise.”—Esquire “A...

An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London's Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved", he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy young man with a murky past.

"Died. Came back. Got a surprise. Now what? When Sarah dies from a zombie bite, she never expected to wake up with an unexpected addition. The coroner's macabre joke becomes a permanent part of her undead existence. As she returns to her girlfriend, navigating this new reality becomes a hilarious and romantic adventure. A unique blend of horror, humor, and romance that explores love, identity, and the undead in ways you've never seen before. Perfect for fans of zombie fiction who want something different, and romance readers who aren't afraid of a little (un)death. Zombie Girls now expanded...

From New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano comes Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line—the highly anticipated next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. "[Narrator Angela] Dawe proves herself to be a virtuoso vocal shape-shifter, moving seamlessly from one character to another and...

When Dominique Carter signs the lease on a too-cheap apartment, she expects noisy neighbors and bad paint—not a cursed roommate, a haunted building with Opinions™, and a foundation that literally hums with hunger. Camilla, the roommate in question, is already tangled in something dark. Her shadow peels off and starts asking for curfews, the house unionizes against Dominique’s rules, and the stairwell demands a chess match before it’ll let her upstairs. Meanwhile, a hell-door in the basement keeps knocking, demanding “blood, bond, or belonging.” But Dominique doesn’t scare easy...

She hunts cryptids for a living. But this time, the monster might be one of her own. When Lux Branson is called to the Louisiana bayou to investigate a string of brutal attacks, she expects gators, folklore, or maybe a rogue bear. What she finds is something far worse—witnesses who speak of a creature with glowing eyes, claws like knives, and a howl that chills the soul. Locals call it the Rougarou. Lux calls it a nightmare come to life. But this mission is more than just another hunt. As she digs deeper, she uncovers a dark family secret and a personal connection that threatens to ...

Nils Shapiro embarks on an international quest to avenge his wife’s murder in this gripping, emotionally charged thriller from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman.

Extinction was never supposed to be temporary. War correspondent Ivan Gomez has reported from the world’s most dangerous battlefields. Bullets, bombs, and dictators do not scare him anymore. But the jungle will. When Ivan travels to a secret U.S. military base hidden deep in Southeast Asia, he expects to witness a classified weapons demonstration. Instead, he watches the experiment fail. A top-secret project meant to weaponize prehistoric DNA has gone catastrophically wrong. The fences are down. The alarms are silent. And something that ruled the Earth sixty-six million years ago is ...

A scrappy maid must outsmart both palace nobles and Low Gods in a new YA fantasy by Margaret Owen, author of the Merciful Crow series. The little thief steals gold, but the great one steals kingdoms; And only one goes to the gallows… Vanja Schmidt knows no gift is freely given, not even a...

When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher. “One of the most twisted and shocking explorations of female friendship I’ve read . . . and I loved every...