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Step into the abyss of horror and dark fiction with To Hell and Back...where each story is a gateway to the unimaginable.To Hell and Back serves as a mosaic of contemporary fears and timeless terrors, curated and edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning Joe Mynhardt. This collection of horror stories brings together a diverse array of tales from both beloved and emerging voices in the horror genre, each story a unique exploration of the dark corners of the human psyche.With an introduction by Lee Murray, this horror anthology includes disturbing tales by Jeff Strand, Gage Greenwood, Gregg Stewart, Jasper Bark, Kenneth W. Cain, James Aquilone, Taylor Grant, Colin J. Northwood, Chad Lutzke, Felix Blackwell, J.P. Behrens, Bridget Nelson, Jay Bechtol, Nick Roberts, Kyle Toucher, Diana Olney, Devin Cabrera, Naching T. Kassa, John Durgin, Francesca Maria, James H. Longmore, and Rowan Hill.To Hell and Back invites readers on a journey through cityscapes and small towns, into office blocks and family homes, along lonely roads, and wooded trails. It confronts external threats like predators and cults as well as internal battles with ambition, mental illness, and moral weakness. Themes of road rage, childhood trauma, the horrors of war, and the supernatural intertwine, offering a chilling snapshot of contemporary societal fears. With stories that range from political and cultural tensions to tales of creeping unease, this anthology not only aims to terrify but also to offer a means of confronting and reflecting on our fears from a safe distance.Uncover the shadows lurking within and beyond with To Hell and Back-dare to turn the page and confront your darkest fears.

A collection of paranormal thrillers... SALEM'S SECRET Dani has her issues. Drugs. Alcohol. Even a jail stint. But she loves her father. When he is diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, she doesn't know what to do. Following a rumor, she discovers a local witch in the mountains who can "fix" such things...for a price. The price is steep but Dani doesn't think it through. She never thinks things through but this time her decision has devastating consequences in this horror/thriller. BROKEN GLASS A fanatical photographer wants to recreate the scene of his mother's car accident when he hires a young drifter named Terry to model opposite his girlfriend Cindy. Things go awry, however, when Cindy begins to fall for Terry and persuades the young man to run away with her.

A CAPTIVATING BLEND OF CRIME, HORROR, AND THE SUPERNATURAL A missing girl whose bloodline traces back to the Salem Witch Trials is the perfect prize for a demonic cult operating on the fringes of Salem's witchcraft underground.Desperate to find his missing niece, a Boston police captain loans his best detective, Ray Hanley, to Salem PD to lead the investigation. But tensions flare when Ray is partnered with Elena Martinez, a rookie detective who resents his intrusion on her first big case.As they navigate a treacherous landscape of occult rituals and black magic, the horrific discovery of additional victims deepens the mystery and hints at a more sinister plot... one involving a powerful enemy whose secrets include ancestral ties, malevolent forces, and the fulfillment of a dark prophecy.As the days count down to Halloween, the race is on to stop an unspeakable evil from plunging Salem into eternal darkness.A National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist for HorrorFrom the multi-award-winning author of THE ART OF DYINGAlthough THE BURYING POINT picks up where THE ART OF DYING leaves off, it follows Detective Ray Hanley on a brand new case that can be read as a standalone novel."An unpredictable blend of crime and horror... The Burying Point grabs from the first pages with crisp, focused prose and dialogue-driven scenecraft." -BookLife Reviews (Editor's Pick)"A brilliant and unmissable dance with the devil. Salem witch lore has rarely been as terrifying as it is in The Burying Point." -Bestthrillers.com¿"[Cavignano's] fictionalized version of Salem makes for a wonderfully spooky backdrop... An effectively atmospheric crime novel that pits no-nonsense cops against wicked Massachusetts magic." -Kirkus Reviews"The book moves at a gripping pace between its chilling events... The limits of faith and sanity are tested in a missing person's investigation in the chilling thriller The Burying Point." --Foreword Clarion Reviews"THE BURYING POINT demonstrates Cavignano's skill at creating the perfect blend of police procedural and chilling horror story. Detective Ray Hanley confronts his toughest case with occult magic and ritual murder born within the darkest corners of Salem. If you're not reading Cavignano, you need to change that!" -Douglas Ford, award-winning author of THE TRICK

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was England's greatest writer of weird fiction in the early twentieth century. He escaped a repressive religious education by absorbing Hindu and Buddhist texts. Venturing to Canada to look for work, he established a deep connection with the natural world on frequent camping trips. But his subsequent years in New York (1892-99) thrust him in a filthy, overcrowded megalopolis that affected Blackwood profoundly. Returning to England, he began a literary career in earnest in the early years of the new century. This is the first complete edition of Blackwood's short fiction, planned for six volumes. This volume contains stories he wrote from 1889 to 1907. Included are numerous stories uncollected in Blackwood's lifetime, including several interesting tales of romance, adventure, and childhood. "A Haunted Island" initiates his weird work; it and other stories in this volume were gathered in Blackwood's first book, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories (1906). Blackwood's work is profoundly autobiographical, and in this volume we find stories reflecting his experiences in Canada ("Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp"), New York (the striking psychological horror tale "Max Hensig"), England ("The Listener"), and elsewhere. It culminates with "The Willows," which H. P. Lovecraft believed to be the greatest weird tale in literature. It is a fictionalization of a trip made by Blackwood and a friend in 1900 down the Danube. In an appendix, his long essay "Down the Danube in a Canadian Canoe" is printed. The volume has been edited by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction who has established the most accurate text of Blackwood's tales.

Garrett was an ordinary New Yorker, appeasing annoying neighbors and paying over-inflated rent for a dumpy apartment in Hell's Kitchen. That is...Until the larvae hatched.As the end of the year draws near, Garrett unleashes his violent wrath upon the city of Manhattan. NYPD officers Luca Han and Mel Tredo are on a mission to find the depraved lunatic before he can kill again. Can they capture the homicidal madman in the surging sea of potential victims before the ball drops in Times Square?Writhe is a hyper-violent novella of extreme horror from twisted sisters Erica Summers (Vanity Kills, Bad God's Tower, Mantis) and H. M. Wohl (From Ashes, Desdemona in Embers)

The only novel completed by the master of the short-story form, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym relates the rollicking adventures of a boy from Nantucket as he boards a succession of ships and travels in the farthest regions of the southern hemisphere. On the way, he experiences the hardships and dangers of life at sea, surviving a violent storm, stowing away on a whaling ship and being reduced to the most extreme measures by hunger. The result is a yarn as thrilling as any of Poe's horror stories.Alongside Pym's exploits, this collection includes many celebrated tales, such as ?The Cask of Amontillado', ?The Gold Bug' and ?Hop-Frog', as well as Poe's second, unfinished novel, The Journal of Julius Rodman, all of which bear witness to the narrative genius of one of America's greatest storytellers.

In the stillness of the night, Catherine is jolted awake by an unsettling dream, her daughter Ava sharing in this nocturnal unease. The clock chimes 3:33. After tossing and turning she finally falls back to sleep. Morning arrives, revealing a disrupted routine as Ava's father drops the bombshell of an impending move, injecting chaos into their lives. Simultaneously, news of Catherine's estranged father's demise emerges, a haunting echo from a past she desperately tried to erase.Balancing the demands of her legal work and the intricacies of her personal life, Catherine stands at a crossroads, faced with an imminent decision-confront the unresolved shadows of her past or navigate the convoluted path of her present. Arriving in Wyoming for the first time since leaving at age 8, Catherine is met with a new reality. The city is not the same way as she left it. So many sad memories. She meets with Sheriff Bob shares troubling stories about her father's last days.The story moves through the intricate paths of family ties, societal norms, betrayals, friendship, personal quandaries, and unexpected loss against a backdrop of legal complexities. But just when things seem settled, a shocking event occurs.

Five stories set in the same world, held together by one constant mysterious figure. Unknown supernatural entities threaten the very existence of life and with each character, comes a whole new challenge as they face these Nightmares From Beyond.¿Part I: The Navigator - Tabatha Jones has just died and now wakes up in a mysterious realm. As she explores she finds something inside her has awakened.Part II: The Boy and the Room - Stephanie Hartwell's son Adam, has been conversing with new "imaginary friends". Soon she realizes that there is something even more sinister at play and it wants her son.Part III: The Table - Edward Sanchez has had a mysterious voice speak to him, claiming to be Satan. He must sacrifice thirty-two souls and he will have a throne in Hell next to the Dark Lord. But can this voice be trusted?Part IV: The Siren's Song - Six friends have just graduated college and are ready to move on with their lives. Since it will probably be their last time together, the friends decide to rent a yacht and have a weekend they will never forget. But deep in the waters, awaits something malicious and is stalking them.Part V: The Secrets of Saturn - In the year 2135, humankind has found the means to travel to distant planets. After colonizing Mars, it is decided that Saturn is the next planet to scrounge for resources. Six members are chosen as a flight crew and embark on their journey to Saturn. Upon arrival they find a mysterious artifact. What does this rock and loved ones passed, have in common?

The survivor of an abusive childhood returns home to confront a deteriorating family for the last time. Memories and demons lurk in the barn, the only structure still standing in the crumbling farmyard. There lies the only hope for reconciliation, but the path passes through Hell.

Jana has just moved in with her grandmother in a retirement community in order to help her out. She begins to notice that there is a ghoulish old man who comes to the community in a black hearse. Jana begins to realize that the man is the Grim Reaper come to life and she tries desperately to fight him off when he comes for her grandmother.

There is a man in the rural town of Jonesburg, burned from head to toe. He is seldom seen among the residents but when two of the local pastors are murdered back to back, the mysterious "burned man" becomes the primary suspect. Pastor Evan Givens and his wife arrive into town, inheriting the church and home from the murdered preacher. While doing some rummaging around the church, Givens finds a box of letters which detail the strange goings on in the town from years ago; tales of demon possession and cult sacrifices. Can the new pastor figure out who the burning man is before he becomes his next victim?

I have to tell you, I love Indie Authors! They are so talented and bring so many stories to light that otherwise may have gone untold! And like me they pour their hearts and souls into pages to entertain the world!I bring to you 4 delightfully crafted tales by 4 incredibly talented writers in each volume! There are 2 volumes with 8 authors total!Come see what lies "Beyond the Stones"! Bwahaha!Beyond the Stones is a two volume Anthology of horror and fantasy with each author spinning his or her own tale all inspired by one photo. The rest is left to each individual author to create each mind melding story. Come inside! If you dare!

Four drunken teenagers out for a joyride crash into a metal pole. The Grim Reaper comes to collect their bodies...but he falls in love with one of the girls inside...and brings her back to life. But does she even want to live again?

Nikki and Luke Wilds had it all. The perfect marriage. A child everyone loved named Kenny. Susie his sister and of course, the family dog.Everything changed when Susie disappeared one day after school only to have her body discovered a week later in a cold dumpster in the back alley of a New York back alley. Tension entered into the perfection. Rattled the foundations of what the two thought was an impenetrable marriage. However, one thing remained constant - their love for their son, Kenny. They vowed they would never quite if only for him.

Female porn stars suddenly go missing; their bodies are found at various church steps around LA. A middle-aged detective, a sex-addict himself, must get into the murderer's distorted mind as he tries to see if the killer is motivated by a religious faith or perhaps personal reasons rooted in his/her private life? The detective goes inside the porn business and finds himself falling in love with a most unlikely woman only to find out that she's the serial killer's next target.

Set in the 1970s, a young rebellious woman named Lyla hitches her way home back to college in California. She's picked up numerous times with no incident until she meets what she first thinks is a harmless looking man. But as the miles go on and the roads get more isolated, she becomes more and more suspicious of her driver who introduces himself as "Bob Crane"...Knowing that isn't his real name, she becomes especially concerned when she hears warnings of a highway serial killer on a radio broadcast. A verbal game of cat and mouse then begins as the young woman finds herself figuring out how to escape the clutches of a man she believes will kill her...But is he the real killer? Or is there someone else on the road with them with evil intent?

Detective Lars Mitchum received commendations for tracking down elusive "Candy Man"...a highly intelligent serial killer that moved across several cities. The investigation would take its toll on Mitchum, however, putting him on the receiving end of divorce papers and a severe substance abuse problem...Now years into retirement, Mitchum spends his days watching old police procedural re-runs on television. But when a little boy disappears in the city, authorities call him in as a consultant. The modus operandi is identical to the "Candy Man"...so much so that Mitchum starts to believe that he may have caught the wrong man all those years ago. Can the detective put his life together in time to stop the Candy Man from claiming more victims?

Cali was a sweet-faced teenage girl who drowned in the local lagoon. A few weeks later, her friends decide to hire a parapsychologist who uses various psychic methods to uncover some things about the girl's past. They discover that she has led a secret, double life and was murdered...but by whom?

Na nepoznatoj lokaciji u Meksiku nalazi se sablasna tvrdjava pretvorena u ozloglaseni zatvor ¿Don Hoze" gde se brutalno kaznjavaju i muce najtezi zlocinci u drzavi. Blek je bivsi pripadnik elitnih jedinica americke vojske. Osudjen na smrtnu kaznu za zlocin koji nije pocinio, spletom cudnih okolnosti dospeva u ovaj zatvor gde je primoran da obavlja ulogu mucitelja-dzelata.Mracna tajna zatvora je da se u njemu odvijaju ilegalna biotehnoloska istrazivanja, ukljucujuci i eksperimente nad mrtvim zatvorenicima. Eksplozija u zatvorskoj laboratoriji dovodi do pojave zivih mrtvaca i mutanata, koji brzo prenose zarazu na prezivele zatvorenike i cuvare. Blek je prinudjen da bezi, da se bori za zivot i usput pokusa da pronadje uzrok nevidjenog horora.

When Sam's ex, Danny, winds up gutted beyond recognition, Sam has no memory of where he was at the time. He can only remember the strange comfort of his new house. The endless ticking of a clock he can't find. The bloody knife he woke up holding the morning Danny was killed.Sam's guilt over Danny is undercut by the endless ticking, a growing desire to drink from the dead, and anonymous GPS pings that lead him to corpses. The stench of them rotting makes him hungry.He begins to feel the ticking inside him, feeding a darkness he's long ignored. It compels him to take what he wants, regardless of the price. When he begins to act on his bloodlust, the ticking leads him to the death of a loved one.The clock begins to point to more of Sam's friends and family, begging for their blood. Fuelled by a deep desire to feed, and compelled by the power of the ticking clock, how far will Sam go to get what he wants?

A bloody, botched bank robbery leaves Tom, Logan and the other survivors of Marlon Lee's gang running for their lives from legendary bounty hunter Cross.Desperate to escape him, they cut far north into a remote, snowbound territory and find survivors of a wagon train attacked by an Indian war party. Tom's Comanche friend Billy warns them the area is known to Indians as the home of a fierce, but little seen tribe, that hunt everything at this time of year, including men. The group push on north regardless, more afraid of Cross than of Billy's superstitions. The snows come and the wagon train is attacked that night by an unseen tribe. The group journey on, hoping to escape the tribe's hunting grounds before nightfall. They prepare to defend the camp that night, but are ambushed during a snowstorm. Tom and Marlon witness one of their group being killed by a figure more beast than man. The next day Cross offers a temporary truce and leads them to a cavalry outpost in a nearby forest. But the fort is abandoned and bears the bloody marks of a terrible battle. Cross finds the commanding officer's diary and reads of how the soldiers tried to repel a savage tribe of creatures that hunt at night. As darkness falls, Tom, Cross and the other survivors prepare to make a final stand.

The lives of three teenage girls, Gal, Jane, and Sue, take a terrifying turn when they are lured into the clutches of a malevolent witch, Ms. Hassan. The witch tasks them with retrieving three powerful amulets spread across different dimensions in exchange for their deepest desires. As the girls navigate through haunted mansions, deserted islands infested with zombies, and eerie cornfields haunted by sinister entities, they must confront their fears and work together to overcome the challenges thrown their way. Along the journey, they encounter unexpected allies and unearth dark secrets about Ms. Hassan's evil family. With sacrifices made and alliances tested, the girls ultimately face off against Ms. Hassan in a final showdown to prevent her from gaining ultimate power. As the dust settles and life returns to normal, Gal, Jane, and their newfound ally Jacob embark on a new adventure together, ready to explore the supernatural world and hunt down witches.

A ruthless, sixteenth-century pedophile monk is granted immortality by a mysterious robed sect secluded in the highlands of Guatemala. He carves a tortuous, secretive path forward in time until he is discovered by a troubled airline pilot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Pilot and priest engage in a holy war only to discover that both share a painful, common past. The winner in this epoch battle carries the fate of humanity in his palms. Victory or defeat may well rest in the secrets and power of a single robe.

Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called "Weird Menace" lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best suspense, mystery and terror stories to see print in the pulps. This facsimile of the March 1935 issue contains stories by Arthur Leo Zagat, E. Hoffmann Price, Nat Schachner, Raymond Whetstone, Arthur J. Burks, Mindret Lord, and George Edson.