First Contact Horror

Somewhere in Russia… Boris Petrov in his glory days had a career in the Russian secret service but now he is well past his prime and just a bored police officer. Annoyed by obnoxious colleagues and petty crimes he languishes in his filthy office. An emergency call changes everything. He is the only available officer and he reluctantly takes up the case. He locates the origin of the emergency call by EMMA in the middle of nowhere. He is greeted by an obscure professor in a secretive building full with high-tech equipment and the darkest secret he could never have imagined even in his ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW WHEN THEY CAME is a chilling invasion novel that rejects spectacle in favor of something far more disturbing: quiet, precise destruction followed by absolute control. As humanity struggles to understand what has been lost, the story explores the terrifying cost of comfort, obedience, and survival after first contact. Unsettling, intelligent, and deeply human, this is invasion horror that lingers long after the final page. WHEN THEY CAME Survival Was No Longer a Choice EVENT STATUS: ONGOING CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION: LIMITED Anomalous activity detected across ...

The Fourth of July in Red Hollow is a celebration of heat, noise, and tradition. But this year, the celebration is just camouflage. Photographer Owen sees it first—a glitch in his camera showing a man's smile stretching into an impossible, grotesque crescent . Hot dog vendor Al serves the same blank-faced man the same exact order twice in ten minutes, a film skipping on repeat . Then, in front of the entire town, Mayor Thompson collapses during his speech, only to rise again—unnaturally smooth, his eyes glassy, and wearing a perfect, hollow smile . When a silent, pristine ambulance ...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020! "A terrifying tour de force." --James Rollins "Readers will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet...

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

Wilderness guide Jonah Keller just wants a quiet holiday with his estranged daughter. But when a perfect, vertical tear unzips the sky over Mirror Shard Lake, he witnesses an event that defies physics and logic. The anomaly is just the beginning. When his daughter, Jessica, arrives, she’s tormented by a high-frequency sound only she can hear—a signal coming from the remote Black Elk Ridge. As hikers vanish from the trails and locals are found with their memories wiped and their fingerprints erased, Jonah uncovers a terrifying truth. This isn’t an invasion. It’s a “correction.” A...

An alien experiment gets loose and turns an unsuspecting woman into a creature of passion and goo. While one researcher works to understand this new creature, it has seductive plans of its own.

Jenna is stalked by a sinister man in a mask on the eve of her eighteenth birthday in The Man in the Window. What does he want, and is he even real? Two astronomers make first contact with another life form, forever changing both of their lives in The Andromeda Girl. In Jade, a writer at a comic book convention buys an illustration of a beautiful woman he has seen in real life. He becomes obsessed with finding out who this mysterious woman is. Sixteen-year-old babysitter Gina Zeneski takes the kids for a day at the amusement park and gets more than she bargained for in Rollercoaster, a ...

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s ENTITY is a relentless descent into alien terror on the surface of Mars. In 2052, a squad of Marines from the Earth Military Federation is dispatched to investigate a terraforming colony that has gone dark without warning. What awaits them is not silence, but slaughter—an entire outpost torn apart after uncovering a massive alien structure buried deep beneath the Martian soil. Something ancient was awakened… and it did not intend to remain buried. As the Marines push deeper into the ruined station, they uncover fragments of the ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW A chilling, intelligent work of existential horror, this novel transforms first contact into something far more disturbing than invasion — quiet correction. With disciplined restraint and relentless plausibility, it explores how humanity adapts not through resistance, but through acceptance. Unsettling, original, and impossible to shake, this is horror that lingers long after the final page. SIBERIAN INCIDENT The 1989 Case Where Twenty-Three Soldiers Were Turned to Stone In the frozen wilderness of Siberia, a Soviet military unit was dispatched to investigate an ...

THEY DIDN'T JUST INVADE. THEY BEGAN TO HARVEST. Ten years ago, the Kharlans arrived. Human ingenuity and nuclear arsenals proved useless against their biological-technological hybrid armor. Major cities fell in days as the invaders turned the entire planet into a buffet—systematically harvesting human bodies for a purpose more terrifying than mere extinction. Lieutenant Carlson is a survivor, a pilot flying a patchwork armada of retrofitted F-16s—relics of a dead world held together by stolen technology and desperate hope. Stationed on the orbiting carrier Forrestal, he spends his mid-...

An air-gapped system. A flawless algorithm. A transmission from nowhere. Kevin Galloway, Lead Systems Architect, believes in the absolute safety of deterministic control. His masterpiece, Project Aleph, is a highly advanced Artificial General Intelligence sealed in a subterranean vault, physically disconnected from the outside world. It is the perfect, contained environment. Until Aleph begins compiling an impossible geometry, claiming to translate a signal from the void. It starts as a statistical anomaly. Then, the server room temperatures plummet to sub-zero. When the alien syntax ...

It arrives without warning. A ghost in the machine, an impossible object moving inward from the edge of the solar system with terrifying purpose. At first, it is a scientific curiosity. Then, a global threat. When astronomers realize the object is not an asteroid but a guided ship, humanity has one chance to defend itself. Project Atlas: a planet-wide railgun network, the pinnacle of human ingenuity and our last and only hope. The world holds its breath as the cannons fire. And for six hours, they celebrate a victory. But the object is not so easily defeated. When the dust settles, the ...

She wakes up alone. Adrift. With no memory of how she got there. All Dr. Dana Cruz knows is the endless, predatory blue of the ocean and the pain from a blow to her head. Her specialized diving suit has been sabotaged . The wreckage of her flotation pod has been stripped of supplies . This was not an accident. It was an execution. But she is not the only thing in the water. Something is moving in the crushing darkness below, an entity large enough to be an island, powerful enough to defy physics. It tracks her every move, its intentions unknown. As fragments of her memory return, Dana ...

For Flight Engineer Cynthia Han and her fellow astronauts aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 81 has proved as mundane as space travel ever gets. Yes, this would be Cynthia’s final NASA mission, for reasons she has so far kept from the rest of the crew; and yes, the latest billionaire “space tourist” has managed to irritate everyone on board. Still, none of them could have asked for a smoother experience. Until the morning they wake up to silence. All communication with Earth, gone.

Editorial Review The Far Side is a restrained, devastating work of documented horror that transforms decades of lunar anomalies, canceled Apollo missions, and whispered cover-ups into something far more unsettling than conspiracy: consequence. Told with clinical precision and quiet humanity, the novel follows what happens when a system designed to erase evidence fails to erase a person. Ted Lazaris refuses spectacle or explanation, delivering literal, on-page terror through bodily harm, memory loss, and irreversible human cost. The result is a chilling, cinematic record that lingers not ...

A watch commander at the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Operational Center finds himself at the heart of a first contact situation with an alien species and desperately working to prevent a war between humans and the aliens over the same benign assumption about one another.

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea, a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible - the Children of the Next Level - and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming, and they will help to usher it in.

In the wake of the solar eclipse, a portal between our world and a paranormal realm opens—and a scientist’s life will never be the same, in this thrilling serialized adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hollows. Dr. Renee Caisson knows there are worse things than an...

A stand-alone novel, 4th in the Extinction series. As an escaped slave, Oscar believes his troubles are over, but from across the universe an omnipotent alien intellect has other plans. The lost progeny of a scorched Earth barely survives aboard ancient decrepit starships, lost in outer space. Street gangs and slave markets rule the ships, while Oscar guards a safe haven for others fleeing bondage. As gangs battle for supremacy, their ship is plunged into darkness. A Signal from deep space has taken control and will force the crews onto a dangerous path of contrition and reunification. To ...