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Every time one door closes another one opens. The question is, what is behind door number two? Isaac Bishop just got fired from his job as the manager of a local bar and grill. But lady luck throws one helluva curve ball. Isaac learns his great grandmother was executed as a witch in 1692. As the direct descendant of a witch, not only did he inherit the ability to see ghosts, but he also inherited the bar his grandmother once owned.

Enter Halloween Land, a carnival where nightmares come to life. Three never-before-released stories. Sinister, surreal, and darkly twisted, these tales will test courage, morality, and what it truly means to survive… if you dare step inside. Three teens enter the eerie carnival Halloween Land and become trapped in a sinister tent. There, a living clown jack-in-the-box named Koko McKillington III forces them into a deadly game: one will leave, one will stay, and one will die.

Funerals are never easy, and this one is particularly difficult. These community events are the reason why the narrator left home, escaping to the city in the hopes he could forget his fears and past traumas. But now that he's returned to the secretive small town, where neighbours help one another with even the most difficult tasks, he's struggling to fit in and to connect with those around him. Worst of all, he's struggling to make it through the day as he can't help but think of what is being done to prepare for the gruesome burial to come.

Welcome to Bloodhaven, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Mysterious bottling plants they don’t want you to know about, storage lockers with cryptic items, hitchhikers that should never be picked up. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you.

The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird features twenty-five brand-new stories of disquieting and disturbing "New Weird" horror set in landscapes and communities on the edge of the sea. These unsettling stories de-familiarize the ordinary, evoke dread in the daylight, and haunt like half-remembered nightmares. They are tales of mysticism, psychedelia, outsiders, obsessions, collapsed boundaries, weird sea life, and the total abandonment reason. Welcome to the your stay behind the curtain. Please check your sanity at the door.

What would you do if the world kept shitting on you? Thomas is about to crack. An ex-girlfriend on her deathbed, a current girlfriend that tried to murder the both of them, and wounds that may never heal. Meanwhile, JoAnne is having troubles of her own, locked up in a mental ward. Will she ever make it out of there? Will she ever taste the glory of human meat again? Your favorite cannibal couple is back and this time, they're NOT so considerate...

On the campus of Brackenford University, Christmas cheer is about to be violently, messily and hilariously shredded. Dr. Percival Archibald Blenkinsop is a brilliant chemist, catastrophic klutz, and sworn enemy of festive baked goods. And he has finally created the crowning glory of all of his limited achievements... He’s concocted a serum designed to render every mince pie on Earth completely inedible. Unfortunately for humanity, his experiment doesn’t ruin a mince pie… it mutates one.

Everything is bigger in Texas — including the horror! A Piney woods meth dealer clones Adolph Hitler. A nightmare exorcist meets an inexorable fiend. An eyeball collector gets collected. The apparition of a lynching victim tracks down his executioners. A Texas lawman is undone by shades of his past. A Baphomet recruits converts as a local summer camp. The tales of the baker's dozen who appear in this anthology demonstrate why everything is scarier in Texas…

Dyson is a Torso Farmer...and he's going to find out there are worse ways to live and die in Valhalla. Retro is a Spaceman...and he's going to have to choose between retirement and evolution. Stacey talks to dead people... and now she really, really needs them to talk back. Ten tales of horror, sadness and hilarity, as science fiction rubs shoulders with both the magical and the mundane.

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Clowns that haunt your nightmares, mirrors that bring terror to those who gaze too long, babysitters unaware that an escaped maniac stalks the night. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Haunted Hollow?

A chilling anthology of tales centered around the longest nights of the year, paying homage to the time-honored Victorian tradition of ghost stories, edited by Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey. Great writers of centuries past like Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, and Bram Stoker understood that...

A town steeped in tradition. A festival built on hope. A legend that refuses to die. Charli Clarke never wanted to visit Brackenholt, a secluded town in the middle of nowhere. She never wanted to spend a weekend picking pumpkins. She never wanted to leave the city behind. But her fiancé and twin brother had other ideas. They promised her countryside charm, crisp air, and a weekend of peace. What they got was something else entirely.

Follow the tired worker drone looking for something new to break up his daily monotony as he once again gets assigned a 117. An elderly clown combing the streets of a southern Ohio town looking for one last job before he calls it quits. What seems like a simple game of chess between two friends has an unsuspected outcome. A group of fanatical friends trying to save America by trolling the internet get more than they bargained for when the tables turn. A veteran recounts his experience in a Vietnam-era zombie encounter.

Not all nightmares come from sleep. Some come from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeneva Rose. Three horror stories. A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop. You’ll recognize the setup. You won’t recognize what comes next. Never Kill the Medium A thirtieth birthday dinner turns...

Buckle up for another terrifying trip through the twisted minds of sixteen masterful storytellers in Kevin J. Kennedy’s 24th Horror Collection anthology – The Sinister Edition. This chilling new volume delivers a blood-soaked banquet of horror, perfectly crafted for fans of the strange, the grotesque, and the utterly unforgettable. From the ashes of the apocalypse to the darkest corners of the digital world, this collection spans a nightmarish spectrum. You'll face unspeakable body horror, stalk the streets with the undead, and howl alongside werewolves under a cursed moon.

Vic has one complaint about his girlfriend Rain—he's not allowed to do butt stuff, even pegging, which he's always wanted to try. What's a man to do? One day, Vic happens upon a very uniquely shaped root vegetable at the restaurant he works at and he gets an idea. What could possibly go wrong?

The Horror Collection (Extreme Edition) marks a brutal milestone for KJK Publishing as the series unleashes its 11th volume—and one of its most dangerous yet. One of only three themed entries in the entire collection, this special edition dives headfirst into the darkest corner of the genre: extreme horror.

On the outskirts of a sleepy town stands Raven’s Hollow, an abandoned amusement park long shuttered, long whispered about, and long avoided. What began as local legend has become something far darker. Those who dare to cross its rusted gates never return, and with each passing season, the park’s atmosphere seems to grow heavier and its shadows become darker. Beneath its broken rides and collapsing funhouse lies a growing graveyard of trespassers and, more chillingly, the missing children the town has been quietly mourning. And, watching over it all, one man...

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival anthology, a captivating collection that emerges from the shadows of our most primal fears. Within these pages, you will find an array of four chilling short stories crafted by talented writers whose works were selected from the festival’s 2024 submissions. As you delve into this collection, you’ll encounter tales that evoke the eerie strangeness of reality, the supernatural, and the psychological tension inherent in our existence.

A long hot night in the city, pregnant with possibilities. The devil itself, visiting our realm to claim an errant soul. A jaded rockstar summoning a goddess of judgment for the hell of it. An abandoned lot whose sordid history has been long forgotten. Paramilitary Christians who travel through time to rescue Jesus from his crucifixion. A hotel room where a creature manifests as your most intimate desires so that it may feed off your synapses. These are just some of the places and people you will be introduced to in this unique collection of stories from the mind of Mike Krutz.