Sleep Mythology

A threatened mother and relentless detective collide in this mesmerizing novel from a rising voice in literary horror, perfect for fans of Gabino Iglesias, Carmen Maria Machado, Augustina Bazterrica, and Stephen Graham Jones. A mother’s love is the oldest curse Fortuna Miércoles has finally...

Tired of tossing and turning at night? Do you go to sleep only to wake up feeling even more tired than the night before? Bedtime Stories for Stressed Adults: Mythical Gods and Heroes takes you on a calming journey through the timeless worlds of Greek, Norse, Roman, and Egyptian mythology, weaving together relaxation and inspiration to lull you into restful sleep.

He is not a kindly dream‑bringer. In The Sandman: Keeper of Eternal Sleep, JD Arden follows the Sandman’s darker trail — from Hoffmann’s eye‑stealer and Andersen’s Ole Lukøje to modern sleep paralysis, medicine, and marketable slumber. This is a forensic, mythic tour of lullabies as threat: sand and sacks, masks and mornings, the tiny grit that marks a stolen waking. Through close readings, folklore, case vignettes, and conversations with sleep researchers, Arden shows how a bedside figure became a mechanism of control — punishing wakefulness, monetizing surrender, and ...

Alexis has a mission: to awaken the sleeping gods. However, she is at the point of giving up, feeling like there is nothing left of herself. Regardless, she knows she has to pick up the broken pieces of her heart and pull herself together. That is when a friend becomes her savior. And as Patryck helps put Alexis back together again, she starts to see him as something more than a friend. Together, with her brother Alex, her father Edmund, and a team of angels, they make their way to Mount Latmos, to awaken the gods. But obstacles are in their way, one of them being Cole, the traitor, the one...

In the next installment of the Happily Harem After Series, Snow White, Goldilocks, The Wizard of Oz, and Sleeping Beauty are retold with a reverse harem twist. Four classic tales, four brave women, and far too many sexy men to count. If you haven't read reverse harem before, this book will convert you.

When the going gets tough … the tough keep getting hit. Hard. The immortal behind Robert Knox, the one to blame for all the crazy we’ve suffered lately, has finally revealed herself. She’s left the Real in disarray, with Oberon out of the picture and loyal supporters tying up the Courts in civil war. Leaving us all alone to face the madness in the Mortal Realm. Gregory Allen is dead, and Elspeth’s lost to her grief. We’re out of leads, and the mortal authorities are dancing to Knox’s too-obvious Pied Piper tune, leading them off in completely the wrong direction. With nothing ...

Two women are drawn toward a hidden loch where it’s rumored the thing you’ve lost can be returned—at a deadly cost—in this stunning novel exploring love, grief, and fate, perfect for readers of Meg Shaffer, Alix E. Harrow, and Erin Morgenstern. A lost lake. Toby has recently lost her...

Drift into deep sleep and melt away midnight anxiety with soothing mythology stories built for total relaxation. Wander through tranquil, moonlit olive groves and starlit palaces where legendary ancient figures move at an unhurried, peaceful pace. This atmospheric journey transforms familiar...

Karma is a beast—It will hunt you down… I am thrilled to put together this collection of creepy short stories set in different parts of the world!! From the bustling streets of Bangalore to the rugged plains of the Himalayas, from the sandy beaches of Phuket to the Savanna grasslands of Kenya— the locations are as beautiful as the horrifying events which unravel in them! All the short stories have a common thread— Revenge. This volume contains 5 horror stories that will have you feverishly turning pages, wanting more—Whether it is elderly spinster sisters who don’t want to sell ...

Each story in this 11+ hour collection is woven with the finesse to soothe your mind and whisk you away from the stresses of the modern world. As you delve into tales of heroes and their epic quests, you'll find yourself journeying alongside them, exploring lands of imagination and wonder. The narrations are designed to calm your mind, with a pacing and rhythm conducive to relaxation and sleep.

A sizzling stand-alone fantasy featuring a second-chance romance inspired by Sleeping Beauty and the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur from the author of The North Wind. Princess Sarai of Ammara is cursed: on her twenty-fifth birthday she will fall into an endless, deadly sleep, plunging...

Girl, Serpent, Thorn is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” (Kirkus Reviews) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse. There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for...

The Night Mother: An Old Croatian Hearth-Tale A Short Story from Echoes of the Old Country In the villages between forest and field, families once believed that night was never truly quiet. The darkness held its own presence, and among the many shadows that moved through Croatian homes, none inspired more whispering than the Noćnica, the Night Mother. She was not a witch and not a demon. She was something older, a figure who visited sleepers when the fire burned low and the house grew still. In this chilling and intimate retelling, a weary mother named Marija struggles to protect her ...

She is a weight, not a face: something that settles between heartbeat and breath and will not be shrugged off. The Night Hag: Terror in Sleep follows that pressure around the world — from Scandinavia’s mare to Japan’s kanashibari, Turkey’s karabasan to Newfoundland’s Old Hag — and asks why a universal physiological limbo became a rider, a witch, a demon, and sometimes a crime. Part detective work, part folklore, part bedside neuroscience, this book moves from sharpened tales and archival finds to the labs and temples that try to explain them. Expect bruises that people read as ...

Supernatural Encounters: A Comprehensive Guide What happens when the world you know collides with something that shouldn't exist? For forty-five years, one investigator has walked the shadowed corridors between the seen and the unseen—recording, documenting, and seeking understanding. Now, for the first time, that lifetime of research is gathered into a single, definitive volume. Supernatural Encounters: A Comprehensive Guide is not a collection of campfire tales. It is a rigorous, wide-ranging examination of the phenomena that have haunted humanity since the dawn of consciousness. From ...

There will be Hell to pay. Deep within the Devil's house there's a room where demons sleep. They send their souls into humans and entrust their bodies to Satan. No one has ever disturbed them. No one would dare. Until now. Demons are dying; their souls taken before they can return to Hell. With only weeks to spare, Vervain and the God Squad attempt to track down the murderer. The trail is twisted and full of traps; blurring the truth in the most devious ways. But this about family, and the Godhunter refuses to turn back, no matter how rough the going gets... or how much she may lose along ...

What happens when reality TV ventures out into space and awakens ancient gods who would really rather be left alone? ⛥♠⛥ Watch the human race tear itself apart in the face of cosmic forces unleashed after millennia. ⛥♠⛥ Science-fiction horror, written during Corona lockdown as part of the 2020 Zombie Pirate Writing Week Challenge. And yes, I was influenced by Lovecraft. Always have been. Always will be.

The Titans had risen from their Great Sleep and carved kingdoms out of humanity's mighty cities. The Ancients and humans alike became trapped under their iron-fisted rule. Prodded by Pan, the Titan Theus is tasked to fight his brothers and cast them down. To take down his father and cousins, yet he’s stuck in the middle, between the family he once betrayed and the humans he had forsaken. Only The Sirens Sleep is a fantasy/sci-fi adventure novel.

From a Coast to Coast AM insider, a mind-expanding exploration of sleep disorders and unusual dream states--the scientific explanations and the paranormal possibilities. The sleeping mind is a mysterious backdrop that science is just beginning to shed light on. It was only some sixty years ago...

Sora is the wise, young High Chieftess of the Black Falcon Nation. For many winters her heart belonged to her husband, Flint, a warrior from a neighboring clan. Flint truly loved Sora, and together they explored the world of passion and love. But Flint was very jealous and on more than one...