Surreal Horror

What if you found a doorway to another reality, only to discover it was a one-way ticket to an infinite nightmare? Nate is obsessed with escaping his suffocatingly mundane life. He’s tried every method to "shift" his consciousness, and on the brink of madness, he finally finds the key: a mental gateway to a place that shouldn't exist. At first, the hotel seems like the ultimate escape. But this is no ordinary building. It's a sentient equation, a trap of impossible geometry designed to break its guests. The sterile halls stretch into eternity, the clock ticks toward insanity, and every ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv...

THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATION Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about...

Rooms You Don’t Deserve by G.J. Fene is a chilling anthology of modern horror where guilt becomes architecture, and each room knows what you did. In twelve unnerving tales, scientists, priests, doctors, and frauds are lured into surreal punishment chambers that mirror their sins, and refuse to let them go. From a fertility clinic island where all the guests look alike… to a recursive memory trail in a fire-scorched forest… to a nursery where every infant cries with your voice, these are rooms built not for shelter, but for reckoning. Each story is a closed system. A confession box. A ...

The Bachman Files, Book 2 The second volume of The Bachman Files delivers seven haunting and provocative short stories that blur the line between humanity and horror. From the surreal, dream-like mystery of a gun’s violent legacy (Chekhov’s Gun), to a town’s descent into madness as it becomes a feeding ground for unspeakable horrors (The Journal of John Doe), to a tech worker’s terrifying fusion of flesh and machine (Flesh and Silicon), and a factory consumed by an insatiable, otherworldly hunger (The Factory), this collection pushes the boundaries of fear and imagination. Also ...

Seven tales. One unraveling world. This is horror for those who’ve looked too long into reflective glass, who’ve heard their name whispered from empty rooms, who’ve sensed something watching from the cracks in routine. In this anthology of cosmic and post-Lovecraftian horror, everyday settings become the staging ground for reality’s slow undoing. Roadside diners, coworking spaces, nursery monitors, and forgotten hospital wings, all bend under the weight of something unknowable, ancient, and still evolving. Inside, you’ll find: “Late Night at The Mother’s Way Diner” – A ...

A man awakens suspended in a cage—thirty meters above an alien landscape beneath unfamiliar moons. Trapped inside a living prison of flesh and bone, he quickly realizes he is not alone. Hundreds of grotesque beings surround him, each confined to their own biological cells, each screaming in voices no human could comprehend. What follows is a descent—literal and psychological—into a terrifying display of cruelty, science, and something far more disturbing: recognition. As he tries to piece together how he arrived in this nightmare, memories surface, reality bends, and a horrifying ...

Behind locked doors and flickering lights, Ward Nine is where routine swallows reality and the line between patient and staff dissolves. A young man hears his name whispered in the night. A woman refuses her medication and finds herself replaced by a calmer version of herself. A nurse on endless night rounds discovers his name written in a book decades old. Meals never satisfy, visitors never arrive, and the quiet room is never truly quiet. In this chilling collection of interconnected stories, each voice pulls you deeper into a psychiatric ward where time loops, hunger grows, and identity ...

Bill has a strange obsession: every Saturday he must take his wife and six-year-old son on a drive about the city, endlessly searching yard sales for some hidden treasure that will complete his life. His fanatic interest in yard sale ads dominates the rest of the week, and he ignores his family. One cold day, his refusal to turn the car around and go home makes his son cry and his wife threaten to leave him. While yard sales seem harmless, they aren’t always as safe or innocent as you might think. Who knows what Bill will find this morning in a garage just ahead, lurking silently in the ...

Step into the eerie and the unexpected with The Bachman Files, Book 1—a spine-tingling collection of short fiction that blends classic horror, speculative twists, and dark satire. From a cursed forest that devours its victims (The Hungry Forest), to a dystopian AI controlling life and death (The Algorithm), and a old Television that unlocks unspeakable terror (Dead Air), these tales will keep you on edge. With five gripping stories, including The Signal and The Gospel According to Dave, this anthology delivers bite-sized doses of fear and intrigue, perfect for fans who enjoy thought-...

Some nightmares are memories. And some memories stay with your every waking moment. Every time Ella thinks about the past, it feels like a dream she's not sure she ever woke from. When she was a child, it was always the two of them: Ella and Michael, Michael and Ella. Twins. Soulmates. Two halves of a single whole. Best friends against the world. Until the day Michael vanished without a trace. Twelve years later, Ella begins dreaming again—of what might have happened back then. Of the black beach with its waves crashing over diamonds of ice. Of Michael’s voice calling from somewhere ...

The Hollow Feast: An Anthology of Cosmic Transformation Three interconnected tales of consciousness, decay, and the terrible beauty of becoming. In a universe where time itself can be wounded, where libraries exist at the edge of dreams, and where decay is both curse and sacrament, three stories explore what it means to transform - and what transformation costs. “Clockwork Covenant” - When the Great Clock fractures and time begins to unravel, a disgraced horologist and a prophetic princess must descend into the mechanical heart of their city to prevent reality itself from coming undone....

Milla's Haunted Halloween As the shadows deepen in the ancient forest, sixteen-year-old Milla steps into a world where secrets breathe in the wind, and whispers fill the night air. It’s Halloween, but this year, the veil between worlds seems thinner than ever. When Milla joins her friends for a Celtic ritual under a cold October moon, she encounters something—or someone—lurking just out of sight. Drawn to a mysterious spirit, she finds herself entangled in a web of hidden fears and unspoken truths, echoing the very loss she's tried to bury. In the heart of the forest, where the past ...

Welcome to the Murder House. We investigate a Mystery House, one floor at a time. We start at the top. And work our way down through the Life-cycle of the insane house, picking up the jigsaw pieces to work out the deep mystery held within. And the Omega Circle group of friends are back. But terrible things are happening inside. All kinds of body horror and monsters and weird shit. Incredible things in deep bizarro surrealism.

""Michele Gerber Klein—at long last—gives Gala Dalí the close-up she deserves. When Gala met Salvador, they met their destinies. Surreal takes us backstage at the endless performance piece that was the couple’s life’s work and life’s play—a salient ingredient—and reshuffles art...

In cities all around the world, people whisper about staircases that were never built—steps that appear in malls, schools, subway stations, and forgotten corners of the urban landscape. Some lead upward into blinding light. Others descend into impossible darkness. A few circle back to doors that shouldn’t exist. And many… lead to places no person should ever find. The Staircases That Go Nowhere gathers forty chilling urban legends inspired by these mysterious structures: • stairwells that grow taller every night • mall steps that whisper your name • emergency exits that open ...

Part of The Seers Trilogy. Recovered from the journals of an unnamed boy. Where redemption and ruin are one and the same. In this visionary YA trilogy finale, the boundaries between Dreaming and reality collapse. As Jake, Brooke, Emma, and Juan confront the source of their unraveling world, power becomes a burden—and the cost of truth becomes unthinkable. For fans of The Raven Cycle, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and Annihilation, The Corrupted One delivers a mythic, emotionally charged ending where nothing is as it seems… and no one leaves untouched. Power always leaves a mark. ...

The Dragon Street Press Grab Bag Anthology series delivers bold, genre-spanning short fiction designed to grab you by the imagination. Grab Bag #3 features nineteen original stories across science fiction, epic fantasy, dystopian fiction, magical realism, dark fantasy, speculative horror, and surreal fiction. From the bottom of the ocean to the edge of the universe, these tales explore transformation, identity, loss, rebellion, and the uncanny—with plenty of strange stops along the way. Whether you're drawn to monsters and magicians, haunted futures, sentient insects, mythic quests, or ...

A Weird Girl Story Lena has always loved the magic of old films. But when the projector flickers to life in her dimly lit room, the movies start watching back. She and her brother Theo used to watch their grandfather’s strange, silent reels together in his dusty old theater — films full of faces no one could name, stories that never seemed to end. Grandpa always warned them: “Never watch them alone.” Now Theo’s gone to college, and Lena breaks the rule. The films begin to change. Shadows move on their own. People in the frames turn their heads. And shadowy figures start to step ...

The world is humming. Are you listening? Ashford Bend is gone—absorbed, remembered, and rooted in silence. Tessa Morrell walks free, but she is no longer alone. Something breathes in her. Something ancient. Something watching. Across towns and cities, the signs reappear: Crops growing in perfect spirals People dreaming the same three-note song Forgotten ruins blooming in the earth’s pulseThe Bloom has not ended. It is spreading. Softly. Organically. Globally. As Tessa follows the signal beneath deserts, oceans, and memory itself, she uncovers the truth: the Bloom is not a parasite. It ...