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 ...

The entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero-a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster - a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands.

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.

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.

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 ...

No longer bound to Earth or the Core Sol System, the human race has expanded into the far beyond, seeding itself throughout the final frontier. It has been a time of great expansion, hope, and progress. These remote colonies, some found at the fringes of the Outer Rim, rely on supplies brought to them by deep-space commercial shipping vessels, which transport the needed goods and commodities to keep humanity alive and thriving in the most remote and austere locations.

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.

Humanity has survived. On the far end of the universe, with Earth little more than a faded memory, they thrive on worlds where once they were enslaved. In the millennia since, these persistent beings built new societies, but when the two greatest nations among them met for the first time, there was war. The all-consuming conflict bent the wills and morals of both powers beyond recognition, leading to levels of experimentation and cruelty once thought impossible. Yet, in a universe drowned in blood, an opportunity for peace is seized. In the uncertain aftermath of the truce, a broken soldier...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

We were not created by accident. We were engineered. When a mysterious signal from deep space matches a hidden pattern in human DNA, astrophysicist Dr. Mara Voss uncovers a truth older than civilization — and far more dangerous. Humanity was designed by the Architects, god-like beings who abandoned their experiment… until now. As the signal awakens across the globe, machines begin to think, minds begin to fracture, and Earth itself starts to rewrite its own code. To stop the transformation, Mara must confront the one secret she swore she’d never face — the father she lost, now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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-...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...