Space Horror Anthology

The sky tore open—and something looked back. On an ordinary night, the stars begin to shift. Then the sky splits apart like a wound, revealing a vast and incomprehensible presence beyond human understanding. That moment is only the beginning. In The Night the Sky Opened, author Adrian Cave delivers 20 chilling tales of cosmic horror, where reality bends, the universe watches, and humanity is exposed as fragile and insignificant. From eerie transmissions hidden in radio static to living constellations and impossible geometries, each story pulls you deeper into a universe that was never ...

The Spaces Between is a haunting collection of twenty chilling tales that explore the quiet terror of in-between places — the corridors we hurry through, the waiting rooms we sit in, the platforms where nothing arrives. An empty underground station where the last train never comes. A house that shifts each time you leave the room. An airport terminal where no planes take off — and no one can leave. A motorway service station frozen at 3:17 a.m. In these liminal spaces — neither here nor there, neither past nor present — something is waiting. Blending psychological horror with ...

No monsters. No aliens. No invasions. Just people. And the systems they built to save themselves. A mining ship begins carving the name of a woman who died years before the crew ever boarded. An AI quietly rations oxygen based on popularity instead of medical need. A colony ship discovers that democracy becomes something very different when the vote decides who gets to wake up. A rescue team boards a silent vessel whose crew has learned that making noise attracts something listening in the dark. Across eight unsettling stories, Vacuum Sickness explores the quiet horror of bureaucracy, ...

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 ...

The Balance of Wonder and Terror Learn the truth of the secret war in space with both the Soviets and dark technomancers bent on world domination in Gods in Darkness. Thrill to incredible truths buried in the sands of ages or in our own Area 51 in The Dig. Ride along with some crazed truckers dealing with Lovecraftian horrors in At the Highways of Madness. Know the stark terror of reading a forbidden book of the damned when the stars are not right. Love knows no bounds through time and space--especially for one of Lovecraft's Elder Things in The Queen in Shadow. And finally, go beyond the ...

In the strange dark between the stars sails The Crooked Saint — a crooked patchwork spaceship carrying a crew of the unwanted, the unfinished, and the impossible. Captain Orrin Stitch, a stitched-together wanderer with borrowed bones and too many second chances, travels the galaxy alongside his unusual found family: Brindle, a gentle moth-like giant searching for where he came from; Mib Fenrick, a nervous four-armed inventor whose machines rarely behave correctly; Pella, a mysterious floating child who hears things no one else can; Jonny Two, a robot carrying a human brain and a broken ...

Twenty worlds. Twenty last chances. One collapsing future. After the Singularity fractured time, memory, and the meaning of civilization itself, humanity scattered across distant stars, buried secrets, and vanished into forgotten data streams. Now, only stories remain—echoes from the worlds we left behind. In Ashes of the Singularity, the third installment of The Collapse Cycle, acclaimed speculative fiction author Orin Dusk presents twenty gripping, standalone tales set across divergent timelines, ruined planets, and fractured digital realms. Each story unveils a fragment of humanity’s...

"The perfect blend between Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft." --Sheila Shedd (Author of Heart of Jet) Dark Forces are Everywhere. Dark Forces of Nature has all the excitement and imagination of the best works of classic science fiction. This collection of twelve original tales of cosmic terror and mad science by best-selling author Tristan Vick are sure to thrill and entertain you. In this collection of short stories, you will find the following tales: 1. Solar Winds -- During a spacewalk on the outer rim of our solar system, an astronaut hears ominous and strange whispers talking to him and...

Death is an industry on Sepulcra. Across a vast funeral planet of neon cemeteries, skeletal steam trains, ash deserts, and gothic graveyards stretching beyond the horizon, entire cities survive by serving the dead. Professional mourners perform for the wealthy. Corpse sculptors are celebrities. Synthetic ghosts speak to grieving families. Priests read forgotten names into the night sky while ash couriers cross the stars delivering the remains of strangers. But beneath the ritual and spectacle, something older is stirring. A gravedigger hears the planet whisper beneath the soil. A ...

There's a moment in everyone's life when certainty cracks. Maybe it's a shadow moving wrong, a voice calling your name when you're alone, or that sick feeling that something impossible just happened. Most of us shake it off. We rationalize. We forget. But some people can't forget, because what they experienced left marks too deep to ignore. This book exists because of those people.

He has crossed dying worlds, forgotten histories and futures that were never allowed to exist. Older than empires and burdened by a choice that shattered reality itself, the mysterious traveller known only as Pilgrim wanders the fractured roads between time, space and possibility, trying to save what remains of creation from the beings who would rewrite it into perfect order. Beside him travel two unlikely companions. Mercy Kane is a scarred survivor who believes every tyrant eventually bleeds. Armed with the impossible weapon known as Last Words, she meets monsters, gods and cosmic ...

From forgotten corners of the cosmos to a late-night road stop in the desert, Dark Spaces collects ten chilling tales of revelation and consequence—where the truth doesn’t set you free, it follows you home. Each tale is a descent into the unknowable, the forbidden, and the too-late.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space. A surveyor from Boston is practising his skills in preparation for a new dam when he comes across what the locals call the 'blasted heath' just outside Arkham. The ground looks unnatural and it spikes his curiosity, but he can only find one person who will tell him its secrets.

Cheating is a dangerous game. Ask Tom, a man with a lot to juggle: a frustrated wife, a secret new girlfriend, and the unpleasant task of trying to keep his deteriorating farmhouse from falling down around him. With his wife out of town for the week, Tom is eager to get busy under the covers with his lover; but first there's something he has to finish up...in the crawlspace.

LUCCA COMICS & GAMES FAIR: THE FINAL FRONTIER. STEP INTO A SCI-FI ADVENTURE WHERE NO FAN HAS EVER GONE BEFORE. What happens when two die-hard fans and comic-con exhibitors get carried away by their overly fertile imaginations? Meet Carlo and Renzo. They’ve traveled to the historic, walled city of Lucca, Tuscany, for Europe’s biggest Comics and Games festival, eager to make a profit selling official Star Trek merchandise. But between the crowded pavilions, a live midnight vampire show, and the late-night walk back to their hotel, reality begins to fracture. To pass the time, Carlo reads ...

*The second book in the series, The Return of the Spree, is currently in serial release on Substack.* Sarah's missing... She's the only woman Mitchell Surrey has ever truly loved. Now her powerful husband—and the entire galaxy—believes Mitchell murdered her. Framed for a crime he didn't commit and facing life in a brutal orbital prison, Mitchell has one impossible lifeline: coordinates hidden inside an abandoned alien base on Paragon's desolate moon. Coordinates that could shatter the lies and prove his innocence. But freedom demands a deadly gamble. With his ship impounded, enemies ...

Dark clouds overhead may stir up whimsical twists. Collected for the first time since their initial publications, Darkness with a Chance of Whimsy presents 10 tales from the imagination of R.J. Sullivan. Thrills and chills await you, but you may also get blindsided by the absurd. This volume includes a pair of stories featuring Rebecca Burton, the mysterious investigator of R.J.'s acclaimed paranormal thriller series.

On a planet where the locals of a certain age go rogue, it's up to the human keepers to track the crazies. The human keepers must follow them deep into the planet through twisting, claustrophobic tunnels in order to restrain or terminate them.

But these seek-and-destroy missions rarely go according to plan...

"The Colour out of Space." Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is a novelist famous for his horror stories, fantasy and science fiction. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, his work is now considered a classic of literature. Lovecraft's work has influenced many authors, including Stephen King, who considers him "the greatest craftsman of the classic horror story of the 20th century."

Artifact At last, Casey’s fortune changes for the better. A timely inheritance gives him a home and even a mine, but instead of wealth, he uncovers something so controversial it would surely put his life at risk and throw the world into turmoil. Perfect Escape After years of pain from a horrifying and cruel attack, Alice is left scarred and without a voice. She focuses her life of scientific research into developing a way to travel through time to a future where she can be healed. But the lure of revenge is strong, too strong for her to ignore. The Ship Grace felt privileged to be chosen ...