Samantha Cobb has plans for her holiday that don't include rolling her car on an icy, backwoods road in the hills of Tennessee. Dylan Drake has his own agenda for the Christmas season that finds him wandering down that same desolate road. When their worlds collide, it will take a Christmas miracle to save Samantha Cobb and restore the grace of the Christmas Cabin.Author J. Patrick Lemarr, author of All That Waits in the Night and Shadow Plays, calls upon his love for holiday favori...

The Brume is a gothic tale of war, sacrifice, and the peril of seeing only part of the truth.As a strange fog creeps across war-torn Georgia in an alternate nineteenth century, the Beaumont siblings shelter themselves-and a handful of wounded strangers-inside their ancestral home. But the brume is no ordinary mist. It blinds, deceives, and draws something ancient and predatory out of the violence already consuming the land.When a young outsider arrives with impossible knowl...

This FREE short tale takes place between "Interlude" and "The Road to Christmas", both of which are found in The Christmas Cabin (Write Crowd Publishing, November 2022.) While The Christmas Cabin stands on its own without this additional tale, I wanted to offer my Patreon supporters (and folks who preordered the book) an extra adventure in advance…an appetizer, if you will, for the meal to come.Dylan Drake, the protagonist of this little fantasy, is a frequent flyer in my fiction, ...

The Brume is a gothic tale of war, sacrifice, and the peril of seeing only part of the truth.As a strange fog creeps across war-torn Georgia in an alternate nineteenth century, the Beaumont siblings shelter themselves-and a handful of wounded strangers-inside their ancestral home. But the brume is no ordinary mist. It blinds, deceives, and draws something ancient and predatory out of the violence already consuming the land.When a young outsider arrives with impossible knowl...

"If The Twilight Zone ever makes a comeback, they need to give J. Patrick Lemarr a call immediately. The man knows how to do creepy, hair-standing-on-end fiction, yet always with a deep moral core that will leave you pondering life's greatest questions. Be sure to share this book with someone you care about, because you're really going to want to talk to someone after reading these stories." - Robin Parrish (from the foreword)J. Patrick Lemarr temporarily leaves behind the...