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We live in stressful times. Some say that this is the most challenging time in history, it is fueled by ego, competition, injustice, and anxiety. Just glancing at news headlines each day is enough to cause alarm. Mental health experts, psychologists, therapists, and counselors have reported the rising levels of stress, depression, anxiety, worry, and fear, year after year, for the last two decades. We can either wring our hands and doom-scrolling, or we can do something about it.

Find out what sort of game the Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team play. Discover haunted toilets, strange beasts, the hungry dead, weird off-trail shops that sell unique hats and twisted dreams. Spend time with a courageous barber, meet a mythological being that may be part of all our myths, and is well-versed in the various games of shooting marbles. Ghostly cars, ghostly hotels, a shrinking world, gorillas in the yard, a brave and industrious mouse and a less than noble elephant are also here.

HellBound Books are incredibly proud to present raw and visceral horror with two-dozen suitably graphic, horrific tales of terror designed to churn the stomach and curdle the blood.

After a not-so-entertaining evening at a "haunted house," the Gibsons go about their unconventional routines on Halloween day. Little do they realize, the free passes to another haunted house experience they received upon exiting THE DARK SIDE OF HELL are tickets to the most horrifying times of their lives.

With the human race facing sudden extinction, the world descends into chaos. Now that no one has anything to lose, hidden horrors are unearthed and brought to the light. Serial killers and other predators no longer have to hide, indulging their dark appetites without fear of reprisal.

An abandoned motel. A woman flees an unknown danger, taking refuge in a motel. She is never seen again. A mad scientist. A geneticist stretches the boundaries of nature. His experiments, once human, are now something else. Something new. Something hungry. The couple. Michael and his husband Geoff have lost something precious. Their search takes them to a motel. What they find there will reveal a cruelty neither knew existed. And creatures beyond imagination.

Welcome to the ultimate backstage pass to the afterlife, where the music never stops and the encores are eternal. In this collection of spectral true tales, we'll journey from smoke-filled recording studios to haunted hotel rooms, chasing the ghosts of rock & roll royalty who refuse to let a little thing like death keep them from the spotlight. These aren't your grandmother's ghost stories—unless, of course, your gran was a groupie for The Doors.

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener...

From the public's perception, Luckenbach Presses is one of the top vinyl record pressing plants in the country, with the employees constantly working against tight deadlines set by some of the industry’s top musicians and music labels to deliver the highest quality vinyl records. However, soon after Ruston Kilgore suffers a preventable workplace accident, he rises with an insatiable lust for brutal workplace bloodshed.

During the Revolutionary War, the colonies were outnumbered, outmanned, out-financed, and out-strategized. By any reasonable measure, they should have lost the war. And they certainly should not have been able to establish a government so well designed and organized that the new country would soon become the most powerful and prosperous country on Earth. But they did.

In a rapidly advancing technological world, Xander, a gifted scientist, develops Koda, an artificial intelligence (AI) system with the power to transform humanity's future. Sentient Reminiscence unravels the enigma of artificial intelligence and the human soul as it delves into the intertwined lives of Xander and Koda, exploring deep human emotions and thought-provoking philosophical questions about consciousness, existence, and the potential consequences of mankind's relentless pursuit of innovation.

Paxton Kerry has worked hard to overcome his injury, but still might not be able to play in the NFL again. He's a risk, and the team may not be willing to gamble on his ability to perform. He decides to take a vacation, and convinces his agent's assistant he needs her to join him.

What do you get when fabulous western authors blend a twist of terror into their western stories and horror authors add a touch of the American Old West to their scary horror tales?

Welcome to "Cabaret of the Dead," where Hollywood's hottest burlesque dancers face their most terrifying audience yet—zombies! After a freak storm unleashes chaos, headliner Bettie and her fellow performers must battle for their lives against their transformed clientele. This isn't just another night at the Fetish Factory—it's survival of the foxiest!

With an Introduction by Shirley Jackson Award-winner Gemma Files, this outstanding anthology of all things monstrous includes spine-chilling stories from Bentley Little, Simon Clark, Elizabeth Massie, Tim Waggoner, Sumiko Saulson, plus some of the best emerging horror writers working today.

Featuring contributions from fabulous horror indie authors, this filthy collection of extreme body horror tales is not for those easily offended. These stories contain common tropes used within the broader horror genre, as well as some characteristics more specific to the body horror subgenre to include; pornography, invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.

A young woman confessed to a murder. Criminal psychologist, Dr. Victor Lukman, has to find out why. What he gets is a psychopath unlike one he’s ever met before. The serial killer, Mina Bassey. Her victims of choice: men. Through his sessions, Mina uncovers tales of torture and gruesome murders.

In compiling this anthology, it was my intention to focus on stories of crime motivated by hate. Not racially, politically, or religiously motivated violence, even though these are labeled ‘hate crimes’ in contemporary media.