**Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.**Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the catacombs, the ruined ...

Sliced Up Press is delighted to present its debut anthology, featuring sixteen sweetly sinister stories.Grab your fork and dig in to tales of tiered cakes and teary eyes, plump currants and sinister undercurrents, all-consuming hunger and bizarre gluttony. There's something for all tastes here, though you might think twice before ordering dessert...With all-new fiction from:Tiffany Michelle BrownV CastroBelinda FergusonDougla...

Nima works at a fancy hotel in the laundry room to make ends meet, but music is her life. She has big dreams of arenas and tour buses like her idol Lita Ford. However, her big breakthrough in the hair band scene and in love has been a difficult road. She wants a miracle.Fate steps in and the lead singer of Blood Moon, Mars Rhodes, happens to be staying at her hotel. She would do anything to get a demo tape into his hands. She wants just a moment from him, but he wants much more fro...

Planet Tepes is the first book in the universe following the mysterious Valeria Tepes.She was the wife of the infamous Lord Vlad Tepes. He was known on Earth as avampire, however, he was so much more. And so were his ancestors.The tale begins in colonial Spain when Valeria first encounters the dark Lord. Theirwhirlwind romance takes them to his home in Eastern Europe until fate sends her toa distant planet.Centuries pass until the year 2100 when a ...

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren’t witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school.”One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It’s all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight throug...

Love Shouldn't Hurt.Scarlett is a witch. Her spell casting takes the form of music for those seeking help in love. However, she is asked for a playlist that isn't to bring in love or make it stay. It's to kill it off for good.She must make the decision to delve into the darkest magic of her life or walk away from a woman in grave danger.

Collected together for the first time, this omnibus brings new authors to the Alien universe. Across three epic novels, discover the origins of fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez and her family, fight extinction at the hands of Xenomorphs, and find the researchers of Pala Station courting disaster of... the Xenomorph kind.Across three epic novels discover the origins of fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez and her family, fight extinction at t...

Sobelo Books brings you an anthology of suffering and revenge, perseverance and submission. A neon splattered landscape painted by your favorite horror authors.It's your fault, world. You made us believe we could, so we did.Just look. Look what you made me do.Join some of today's most dreadfully talented horror writers for thirteen horror stories inspired by the dark undertones of pop culture phenom, Taylor Swift.

Nola has been single for years as she has put her success over love, but this Las Posadas she hopes to find something more with the gorgeous mortician who has just moved into town to take over the local funeral home after the owners die in a house fire.For weeks the tension has been building between Nola and Henry during their weekly meetings at Puzzle Club. At the start of Las Posadas, and her turn to host Puzzle Club, Nola has an unexpected guest in her new home.Pozole and...

It's a few weeks until Halloween and Día de Los Muertos. Tula's friend Carmen has convinced her to go to a new event called Night of the Calavera. It's meant to celebrate the two holidays in the nearby town of Driftwood, Texas, not far from Tula in Slaughter Creek.Tula adores Halloween, but Dia de Los Muertos is the night she loves. Every year, she leaves Slaughter Creek and celebrates on her own in a different location.Despite the forecast set for rain after a week of stor...

Take a journey to the darker side of Christmas. A time of plenty and laughter for some, however, not everyone experiences warmth and joy. Some are hungry. Lonely. Out to kill.A Victorian workhouse.A high rise with dark secrets.Christmas treats turned monstrous.A creature out for blood during the winter solstice.Happy Horror Christmas.

In July 2024, I ventured to the Amazon rainforest in Quito, Equador, for a three day plant medicine retreat after a painful ending to a relationship. This is my account of what I experienced and what I learned about the remaining pain of all my past relationships. This is an honest an quick read if you are plant medicine curious.