Surreal Horror

The Bachman Files, Book 5 The fifth volume of The Bachman Files delivers pure horror and grotesque imagination with four chilling stories. A sinister scarecrow feeds on secrets and souls (The Scarecrow), a monstrous worm turns a superstore into a nightmare (Clean Up on Aisle 7), a haunted forest becomes a deadly trap (The Dead Forest), and alien abduction takes a terrifying twist of body horror (The Abduction). Perfect for fans of atmospheric, spine-chilling fiction, this collection blends psychological terror, cosmic dread, and visceral thrills that will keep you turning the pages.

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 ...

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...

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

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...

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 ...

What would you do if the world around you suddenly stopped following the rules you have always trusted? 30 Horror Stories Where Reality Slips explores the frightening space between certainty and confusion, where everyday life begins to unravel in ways that cannot be explained. A familiar street leads somewhere impossible. A loved one remembers events that never happened. Entire buildings appear overnight and vanish without a trace. Clocks disagree, photographs change, and reality itself seems to shift beneath your feet. These thirty chilling stories follow ordinary people as they encounter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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-...

From the award-winning director and NYT bestselling author of If Cats Disappeared from the World, the thrilling novelization of his hit film Exit 8, adapting the indie game of the same name. A young man is commuting on a packed Tokyo subway, when he receives a phone call from his ex, with...

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 ...

You can escape your past, your fears, even your mind—but never the body you occupy. The body is the first prison, the final battlefield, and the one thing we can never abandon. Yet what happens when the flesh betrays us, when consciousness claws against its cage, when skin, bone, and blood twist into something unrecognisable? Occupying Bodies is a visceral anthology of body horror that explores the dread of living inside fragile, treacherous vessels. Within these pages, nightmares take the form of grotesque mutations, psychological unravelings, everyday afflictions magnified into terrors,...

Dollhouse, Maine: Where Reality Begins to Fray Janine Baker built her life on lies. As a traveling psychic, she survives by reading strangers, selling comfort and pretending to speak to the dead. It’s a con; until the dead begin answering back. When a violent collapse on a remote Maine coast tears open something ancient beneath the town of Dollhouse, Janine is dragged into a place where memory twists, roads refuse to lead where they should, and entire pieces of reality begin to unravel. Fog rolls like living architecture. Houses shift. Mirrors remember. Time loops like a wound that ...

A blackout. A wedding ring in a toilet. A dead man texting from the grave. Mason Barnes wakes in a Las Vegas motel room with blood on his shirt, a hospital bracelet on his wrist, and no memory of the night before. Hanging from the ceiling fan is a red dress. Waiting in the bathroom mirror is a woman named Mila Cruz, who claims he made her a promise he cannot remember. Then Mason finds the ring. According to the paperwork, he married Mila at three in the morning. According to the police, she has been missing for years. According to the dead friend now texting his phone, Mason has been here ...

Jonah Rourke is a railroad man, and railroad men don’t believe in miracles. So when his sister, Nell, disappears into a town that shouldn’t exist—one that won’t let anyone in, and won’t let anyone out, Jonah follows her anyway. Past the last streetlamp. Past the last honest mile. Onto a road that counts down like an execution and charges for every step. On this road, you don’t pay in money. You pay in pieces of yourself. Because something is coming. Something hungry. Something that doesn’t care who you are, only what you’re willing to surrender to keep moving. Jonah isn’t ...

A macabre and chilling supernatural gothic horror about a group of teenagers cursed to die on their 18th birthday from the Stoker Award shortlisted author of The Book of the Baku. Perfect for fans of Clay McLeod Chapman, The September House by Carissa Orlando and The Shining Girls by Lauren...

What if the worst thing in your life… was feeding on your time? Ben has always thought of himself as forgettable. Not a failure exactly—just someone drifting through life, surviving one distracted moment at a time. When a strange swelling appears on his lip, the doctor isn’t concerned. Probably nothing. But something is wrong. Ben keeps losing time. Minutes slip into hours. Memories blur. Thoughts appear that don’t feel like his own. And always—lurking just beneath awareness—there’s something else. A spider. He only remembers it when it wants him to. A disturbing blend of ...

You picked up a Node—an ordinary-looking object with an unfair advantage: it turns everyday life into a readable map. A Pocket Universe is a room you can enter without leaving your life. The world outside stays the same—work, family, love, money, hunger, pride—but the noise stops pretending it’s neutral. You start noticing what was always there: who gets rewarded, who gets punished, who benefits when you stay confused, and what it costs to accept the role you’re being offered. That pattern is the Great Game: the invisible trade of attention, status, fear, desire, and control. It ...