Occult

The UEC has been fighting a losing battle against the demonic hordes, forced to surrender more ground every day. But aboard the U.S.S. Shotgun Opera, the Overmaiden—a sixth-generation Ghost AI—has just forged humanity’s perfect weapon and best hope: a supersoldier.

Something wickedly sexy this way comes… A laugh out loud witchy romcom for fans of Lana Harper and Erin Sterling ! Things you should know about Poppy: 1. She’s a witch 2. She has magical hair like Rapunzel from Tangled 3. She lives with Iris, the head of her coven, in a beautiful, ramshackle...

A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world's most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills....

A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.

She’d always been my destiny. The woman whose life was tied to mine. I just hadn’t planned on falling in love and being forced to choose between my vows and my soul....

She has no idea how to escape. She has no idea how to survive. Only one thing is certain: Ashburn's dead are not at rest....

Unwitting time traveler Joseph Bridgeman is adjusting to life in the present and wondering if his traveling days are behind him. But when he’s contacted by the Continuum, an organized group of time travelers based in the future, he learns his career is just getting started....

Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost . . . until a mysterious fog bank creeps inland.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the Universe to thrive as...

There isn’t enough whiskey in the world to drown the memories that plague Shane Ryan. A retired Marine, Shane is no stranger to violence and bloodshed. And as a ghost hunter, he has faced nightmares beyond imagination. But nothing could prepare him for this….

An army of monsters walks among us. A war wages between petty gods. The end of the world draws ever closer. And worst of all—Jack can't find anybody to help cover the night shift....

"Iron...and...salt," whispers the old man. The dead old man. "Hurry or it will be too late...." In a bid to escape the stresses of city life, Brian Roy moves his family out into the country, a decision that will forever thrust him into the chilling world of ghosts....

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind. They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation. All the test subjects went violently insane....

On the Day of Reckoning, the witches of Eileanan were outlawed - and violations of the new order were punishable by death. Eileanan’s Great Towers, once meccas of magic and learning, were left in ruins. And now, the entire land trembles in fear....

Betrayed, terrified and alone, Elizabeth Cage has fled her home. With no plan and no friends, she arrives at the picturesque village of Greyston and finds herself involved in an ages-old ceremony that will end in death.

A sudden burst of radiation is detected beneath the desert in Iran....

Growing up in Stone Brook with my aunt and uncles, I wanted nothing more than to find my place in this world. I longed to discover more about my missing past and make sense of my wild magic. Little did I know those answers would come with so many more questions....

Glasgow law student David Hunter is drifting through life and feels something is missing. When on a night out someone tries to kill him and he discovers he is from a long line of witches known as Dream Dancers, his life is turned upside down....

USA Today Bestseller! “As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. . . . This is the unhinged cannibal book of my dreams—and my nightmares.” —Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A...

An extraterrestrial bounty hunter turns a Southern community into its private hunting ground in “the ultimate horror novel” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) .

An alcoholic teacher and father’s world spirals out of control when a former student is killed and he is left with her dog and the dark presence that follows it.

How do you keep the people you care about safe from enemies you can’t remember?....

Necroscope: The Last of the Lost Years, Volume 1, the 19th in Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, contains two short novels, one long novella, and one short story....

His name is Nathan Garrett, but he’s also known as Hellequin. And murdering one of his friends and trying to blow him up is a good way to get this centuries-old sorcerer’s full attention....

There are some things that even a centuries-old sorcerer hesitates to challenge....

Annie Ashworth is on maternity leave from her police job, enjoying spending time with baby Alfie. Perhaps her days at home are a little boring, but after all of the horrific crimes she’s witnessed, that’s fine with her. But when she starts having strange dreams – dreams that turn out to be linked to a local murder – she can’t stop herself from digging. There’s an eerie connection to a serial killer from the 1950s, and Annie fears that the same dark forces are back.

Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot resist. Chia runs one of the best restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria, and is renowned among the male clientele for her captivating beauty and delicious hot pepper soup. But her hot pepper soup has a secret ingredient, and her beauty is not what it seems.

Between 1923 and 1954, Weird Tales magazine shaped the landscape of modern horror, fantasy, and science fiction. It was the crucible of cosmic terror, sword-and-sorcery, and supernatural fiction, a publication that launched the careers of some of the twentieth century’s most enduring genre writers. Weird Tales presents a carefully curated selection of standout stories from the magazine’s golden age. This anthology brings together a wide spectrum of speculative fiction, ranging from mythic fantasy and Gothic mystery to tales of metaphysical horror and existential dread.

"Monsters aren't real." That's what sixteen-year-old Lucy Brannigan has always believed, until, broke and desperate, she and her father move to an isolated farmhouse in the small Scottish town of Helsbridge. It's their last chance, and they have to make it work. For Lucy, life appears to be over. With no friends, and surrounded by miles of thick woodland, there's nothing to do. But why did the previous occupants leave their belongings behind?

Charles Dickens’s The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848) was the last of his five Christmas books, following A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Battle of Life. Like its predecessors, it is not a simple tale of the festive season but a moral study that uses the supernatural to explore human sympathy, memory, and redemption.

When Makenna Hadley loses her job, and her long-term relationship ends abruptly, she gets away from it all by taking a trip to New England, where she stays with her Aunt Jenny Markham, an eccentric widowed farmer living in Connecticut's famous Quiet Corner. When she finds a diary in a box from a garage sale at her aunt's house, she becomes enthralled with the tragic love story of Jemima Brown and the Revolutionary War soldier she loved and tried to save. She also learns about the local legend that says her apparition still inhabits the town.

A group of friends are given a weird game by a strange man. As they begin playing, they get pulled inside the game. The only way out is by completing the game.

If you have found this booklet, I am hopefully already dead, buried next to my father and mother, within spitting distance of Thomas, Elsie, and Sally Somers. And, though it is called the Gilley Burying Ground, my father would be irked (when was he not?) to lie for eternity next to the neighbors he so despised. Though I wanted to understand his feelings, I wanted even more to understand the Somers, whose exploits in Southwest Harbor were the subject of so much scrutiny and conjecture, but whose daily lives were full of earnest hard work.

Two weeks ago, I logged my first failure as an Oracle. Two days ago, I learned that magic is a fickle thing. Two hours ago, I unleashed a posse of the undead. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, they did. Not only did I need to figure out how to free Nina, I had a new consultant. Double booked is an understatement. Now, I must discover why Hazel Dane, one of the most stressed out—and most impolite—consultants I've ever had is cursed. Or enchanted. Or something. She doesn't know.

A young woman pours acid over her body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. Who or what has made ordinary Londoners commit such horrific acts? DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting police are at a loss. With no obvious connection between the killings, they fear a virus. Something evil is stirring in the city. A supernatural force that infects its victims with a lust to murder. And Jerry and Jamila are powerless to stop it...

Author Eli Bonner buys a historic home on Pensacola Bay where he inadvertently meets a French ghost in the form of a 5-year-old girl who constantly returns to the home looking for something. In an effort to learn more about her, he organizes a séance and receives an impossible task from a celestial parliament called “Le Grand Discours.”

When Charlotte Stone, an aspiring writer, rents a decrepit mansion on the outskirts of Harrowford, she expects nothing more than quiet solitude to inspire her next book. What she doesn’t expect is to find herself trapped in a sinister web of supernatural forces, hidden within the crumbling walls of The Empty House. With each passing day, strange and terrifying occurrences begin to unfold. Whispers in the night, flickering shadows, and the chilling presence of a woman in white haunt Charlotte’s every step.

Six years after the Marquil Mansion burned to the ground, Willow Village tried to pick up the pieces. Moving on from a scandal like that can take a toll on any community. The town’s Sheriff, Crispen Zellar and the newly Widowed Zia Dreyfuss ran off into the sunset leaving Lucinda Zellar, a Senior at Willow High essentially orphaned and alone. Now, in 2004, Lucinda has followed in her father’s footsteps, gaining popularity and merit as the town’s newest acting Sheriff.

Grab yourself a hot cocoa on a stormy and rainy night in front of the fire and submerse yourself into a world of the supernatural and Goth. From the witch clans of 1600's Pendle Hill to the glitz and glam of 1840's New Orleans French Quarter, or a conversation with the devil himself perhaps? If you love fantasy and horror, then there is something for everyone in these 13 short stories.

Every hero has a beginning and this is Neve Richard's story. Every town has a haunted house or haunted woods and Grayson is no different. Come on a journey with Neve as she tries to solve the mystery of Devil's Half Acre before it is too late to save her friends.

Hollywood, 1956. Journalist and war widow Evangeline Kilhooley is assigned to write a "star profile" of the fading actor Bela Lugosi, made famous by his role as Count Dracula. During a series of interviews, Lugosi draws Evi into his curious Eastern European background, gradually revealing the link between Old World shadows and the twilight realm of modern horror films. Along the way, Evi meets another English expatriate, Hugo Radelle, a movie buff who offers to help with her research.

In the aftermath of Goliath’s murder spree in New Orleans, Nola Maor has committed herself to becoming a more skilled hunter in order to cope with the bloodshed in her city. Confronted with tragedy in her life, but unwilling to process her own trauma and grief, she leaves her career as a New Orleans police detective behind, and suffers in solitude. Nola’s lethal reputation has grown among the most savage and depraved for her unwavering resolve to eliminate the nightmarish creatures that stalk and feed on humans.

Imogen Carlisle’s job at a Milwaukee bar was supposed to be temporary, a lifeline when her world was crumbling. But eight years of making drinks and offering customers a listening ear made her past as a rising actress feel like a bad dream. When Luca, a handsome, mysterious man with an uncanny interest in her, comes to the bar near last call, he begins probing into her past. As they talk, she remembers long-suppressed memories of lead roles, traveling shows, and the true nature of her relationship with the bar’s owner that ended it all.

1612 saw one of the largest and well-documented witch hunts in England. To the people of Pendle, Demdike is a name both scorned and feared. Matriarch or monster, they only see an impoverished hag. At her age, Demdike knows she should be long in her grave, but with mouths to feed she hasn't the luxury of rest. Trained in the cunning arts, she uses her craft to help others, but not all look favourably on her gift. When the Justice of the Peace arrives in Pendle, Demdike soon realises the whispers of witches are spreading, and they're focused on her.

After a breakthrough experiment, a doctor arrives in a bizarre city and searches for evidence to prove its existence to his peers.

From summer vacations soaked in blood to cursed castles buried deep in Europe, Allen DeShawn’s life has been anything but ordinary. This pulse-pounding omnibus collects all five terrifying, action-packed books in the I Kill Cursed Creatures series—a coming-of-age saga drenched in horror, heartbreak, and tooth-and-claw survival.

Penny Alcott-Lee is a rising academic star—brilliant, methodical, and firmly rooted in science. Her project to observe an uncontacted tribe from afar is meant to be a triumph of technology over myth. There are no gods. No monsters. Just culture, waiting to be studied. But when her mentor insists on bringing in Ryan McKenzie—a quiet, battle-scarred ex-soldier with a past steeped in covert operations—Penny reluctantly agrees. Ryan’s job is simple: infiltrate the island and discreetly install the surveillance equipment. No contact. No risk. Just precision work. But then he vanishes.

This Church Will Drive You to Your Knees. Pray for Deliverance. Ben has a dream and a plan. He’s just bought an old, disused church and will turn it into a thriving coffee bar. There’s just one problem: these grounds aren’t so holy. Strange and sinister whispers drift from dark corners. Accidents befall the work crew. There’s the hideous, massive spider lurking in the dark bell tower. And what’s up with that locked door in the basement that no one, not even the former pastor, knows anything about?

A teenage boy and his dog face an unimaginable evil in this coming-of-age horror novel. Seth Granger returns home from summer camp to find that there’s something wrong with the people in his small town. Even his dog is behaving strangely. His mother is distant and distracted, but she may have a very good reason: her husband, Seth’s abusive father, has been murdered and dismembered—and several of his limbs have gone missing. This brutal murder is only the latest in a long line of strange occurrences in the tight-knit community.

The story revolves around John, Mary, and their daughter Emily, who move into the eerie Blackwood Manor. From the moment they arrive, they are confronted with unsettling occurrences and a palpable sense of decay and malevolence. The house seems to pulse with a low hum, and the silence is pregnant with something unseen and sinister. As they settle in, they experience cold spots, whispers, and shadows that seem to move on their own. Emily becomes increasingly affected, experiencing vivid nightmares and visions of a fiery claw and shadowy figures.