Horror Macabre

Step into The Macabre Day, (Todd Clayton’s) CD Fairborne's Gothic horror collection where desire meets danger. Featuring eight stories of lesbian romance, dark seduction, and supernatural suspense, this collection blends erotic intimacy with haunting landscapes—from fog-shrouded villages and crumbling estates to urban nightmares pulsing with shadowed secrets. Perfect for fans of Gothic horror, dark romance, and macabre storytelling, The Macabre Day invites you to explore passion in perilous places, love under threat, and intimacy in the shadow of fear.

Every tale of terror, every poem of unearthly beauty, every essay of dark philosophy — collected in one definitive volume. This is the complete and unabridged collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works: the gothic horror tales that invented a genre, the poems that still haunt the English language, the mystery stories that created the detective novel, and the critical essays that changed how we think about literature. Includes all tales of horror and suspense: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "...

From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them…or be...

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS' FAVORITE From the best selling and multi award winning author of "Gated" "Asylum" and "Abra-Cadaver" comes the third installment of the anthology series "After Darkness Falls". These are stories with a horrifying beat, a black heart and a vicious twist in the tale. Here are 10 more tales to read with the lights on. TALE #1 - "Ride Like the Wind" TALE #2 - "One Hell of a Knockout" TALE #3 - "Healing Hands" TALE #4 - "The Price of Fame" TALE #5 - "Return to Sender" TALE #6 - "Heist of a...

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but...

NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO! Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer). From the author of dozens of #1...

A reminder from the master storyteller Alexander Kuprin—sometimes, there are but a few steps between your own front door and unimaginable horror.

The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community...until the O'Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local town folk. The thing began to happen. Strange things...horrible, unspeakable things...in the dead of night. The sighting of wolfish beasts congregating around an open grave in the town cemetery.

NOTE: THIS IS A REVISED EDITION OF SIGN OF FEAR which has been unpublished. The Story FOOTLOOSE has been replaced due to its publication in a magazine, and has been replaced by the true story of THE MIRANDA EXORCISM MURDER. Other than that change, the contents remain the same as the original SIGN OF FEAR. In this anthology... NOBODY'S VAULT-Crime doesn't pay when the long arm of the law is helped by a hand of glory. OLD SEA AND THE MAN-It's hard to keep a good extra-dimensional monster down. THE MIRANDA EXORCISM MURDER-A true story of how faith turned a family into killers. If horror is ...

Don't look in the shadows. A banshee wails for her victim. A phone app with unusual powers traps an unwary man. A housewife discovers that one can never be too clean. A fair comes to town, bringing death along for a ride. These and other macabre tales await as Anthony M. Strong takes you on a joyride to a dark place where anything is possible, and fear is never far away.

When the Grim Reaper develops feelings for the children’s librarian whose soul he is supposed to collect, he finds that with feelings comes something far worse than death—life. Helena Hart isn’t having the best night. Her date just ditched her, her Halloween costume bombed, and her only...

A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN FRIGHTENING AND TERRIFYING STORIES Midnight Macabre contains fourteen short horror stories by author Christopher Michael Blake. The stories are intended to fill the reader with a sense of dread and leave them craving more. The ominous versatility of these stories grabs your curiosity, instilling fear in your imagination. The stories in Midnight Macabre's anothology deal with lust, greed, wrath, foreboding, and the impossible. Beware of sinister beings lurking in the shadows or hiding under your bed. Midnight Macabre encompasses seven years of Christopher Michael ...

A horrifying collection that will linger in your mind... while you're alone at night. For ages 18 and over. These 10 terrifying tales by Richard Van Gramberg will leave a lasting impression on you, well after the last page. They are fast-paced, mysterious, and end with creepy revelations. Includes: 9 short horror stories from Richard Van Gramberg's Paranormal Suspense Collection Volumes 1-3 Plus: Soul Match. A vampire story. Volume 1: A doorbell that won't stop ringing at 3 a.m. - who could it be? An art project in an ancient woodland uncovers a dark and disturbing secret, and a six-year-...

H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.

There are dark places in the forest.... Cold, sun-starved places where man wasn’t meant to go. But the hunters didn't—couldn’t—know that. They just knew what their leader had told them that the expedition was meant to test their mettle, to separate the men from the boys. Four men went into the forest that day, entering the valley where the ancient evil hid. And when the winds came to collect them, when the animals they slew refused to die, they quickly learned who among them was weakest and strongest.

Some inherit wealth. Callie Mercer inherited a cage. When Edith Mercer dies, she leaves behind an isolated cabin deep in the mountains, a locked chest of journals, and a family legacy that her niece Callie never wanted. Returning to the remote, off-the-grid property to settle the estate, Callie expects a quick sale and a permanent escape. Instead, she finds a land steeped in isolation and a growing, suffocating dread. There is no cell service. The silence of the ancient trees feels like a physical weight. And something massive is moving in the timberline, scratching at the heavy wooden ...

They went looking for a missing girl. They found something else. Twelve-year-old Lily Mercer vanished into the deep timber of the Pacific Northwest. When a specialized tracking team answers the call, they expect to find a lost child frightened by the dark. Instead, they find a trail of impossible footprints, a campsite torn apart by staggering force, and the crushing realization that they are no longer the hunters. As night falls over the remote mountain ridge, the operation transforms into a desperate fight to stay alive. The isolated timberline hides an intelligent, relentless apex ...

Bloodsuckers—fanged and feral creatures who don’t play by the vampire rules—now far outnumber humans. All the major cities have fallen. Life is an ongoing struggle to simply survive. However, nineteen-year-old Lance Black has spent the past several years living with his mother in Out of Harm’s Way County. It’s a lonely existence, but it keeps them from falling prey to the monsters…until Lance, walking through the forest, finds a stranger named Bill Tremaine covered in blood. He’s so badly injured that he’ll be lucky to make it through the night.

Step into the shadows of small towns where nothing is as it seems… 🌙 “Twilight Crossings: 21 Sinister Small-Town Horrors with Hidden Malice” by Hully Dusk is a chilling collection of 21 standalone tales that will grip your imagination and refuse to let go. Each story plunges you into a world of quiet dread—fog-choked streets, forgotten forests, isolated villages, and eerie rituals where the ordinary becomes terrifyingly unnatural. Meet haunting characters like grieving widowers drawn to spectral figures, curious strangers lured by forbidden places, and townsfolk bound by ancient,...

Seven tortured souls, trapped in an emergency shelter as a mystery apocalypse rages outside. There they share their confessions and tales of the macabre. You the reader will be like a fly on the wall, watching and listening as our seven heroes (or villains?) share their stories. You will hear of vampires, aliens, ghosts and serial killers. You will wonder who is telling the truth and who is lying. As the lines blur between good and evil, you will wonder, just as they are wondering why they are there. Is it by chance, by luck or something far more sinister? Will the shelter be their ...