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Birthed into a dark eighteenth century environment, The Wanderer begins to realise that something is very wrong with the world. Endeavouring to learn about his own horrific past, he stumbles upon the mystery of God, the secrets of the soul and the terrible fate awaiting the Earth itself.

Entwined - Tales from the City is a collection of 13 individual short horror stories which combine to make one larger tale. It is available from Amazon and Smashwords for 99cents or 86p. So far it has had mostly 5* reviews (15 on UK Amazon, 5 on US Amazon).
Thanks for reading.
Entwined - Tales from the City

During a hot summer night in 1934, tragedy strikes when two local boys search for the truth behind a local legend. They stumble upon the Underground, a network of uncharted caverns just below the surface of Coal Hollow. Time holds no sway in the Underground. People no longer age and their wounds heal as if by magic. By morning, one boy is murdered, while the other never returns home.

The Underground is hidden for a reason. Certain locals want to keep their lair secret, no matter the cost.

After learning a long-held family secret, Theodore Cooper is set adrift. Once well off and set in his ways, he is no longer sure of his role in society. He leaves his comfortable life in Chicago to tramp the countryside, searching for meaning in this new context. During his travels, he's drawn to an abandoned house in Coal Hollow and impulsively buys it.

Cooper doesn't know that a massacre had taken place in his new house. In 1851, a group of bounty hunters tracked a family of runaway slaves to the home. They wound up killing the homeowners as conspirators, then chased the runaways into a cellar tunnel leading to the Underground. The bounty hunters cornered the slaves and killed them. To everyone's astonishment, the slaves then rose from the dead. Over time, the bounty hunters chose to stay below ground, taking advantage of their new slave labor to build what they term "Paradise."

Their numbers are augmented by deathbed miners who are offered immorality in exchange for their subservience and labor.

Below a town struggling to survive both the Great Depression and the closing of the local coal mine, there lives an immortal society built on the backs of slavery and pervasive immorality.

Starla had always imagined that becoming a vampire would make her popular, glamorous and wealthy. But after she and her best friend, Jordan, become undead, Starla realizes one thing: a vampire's life sucks.
Since there's no turning back, she tries to make the best of her situation, but it isn't easy. Especially not after her friend abandons her to serve the oldest, most powerful vampire in the city. Or when she gets on the bad side of a gang of vampires who've taken over the zoo. Or when she meets a really cute boy and ends up falling in love, only to find out that there's a major problem...she's a vampire, and he's a vampire killer.

The Quiet Road, by Annie Frame/published with Pegasus and available world wide from all book book stores.
The author takes the reader on a journey into the mind of another. Murder, mystery and suspence surround an aging police chief as he battles to solve a number of horrific murders. His real world begins to disolve as facts start to present themselves and there is little he can do to stop fate delivering itself.
You will feel love and hate, but also weep for those on The Quiet Road......

DON'T FEAR THE REAPER
Young adult horror

Grief-stricken by the murder of her twin, Keely Morrison is convinced suicide is her ticket to eternal peace and a chance to reunite with her sister. When Keely succeeds in taking her own life, she discovers death isn’t at all what she expected. Instead, she’s trapped in a netherworld on Earth and her only hope for reconnecting with her sister and navigating the afterlife is a bounty-hunting reaper and a sardonic, possibly unscrupulous, demon. But when the demon offers Keely her greatest temptation—revenge on her sister's murderer—she must uncover his motives and determine who she can trust. Because, as Keely soon learns, both reaper and demon are keeping secrets and she fears the worst is true—that her every decision will change how, and with whom, she spends eternity.

Paradox My novel Paradox is about a serial killer who thinks he is killing in the name of God. He also thinks he is haunted by spirits (mostly those of his victims). These spirits encourage him to continue his brutal murder spree. The story also focuses on a dysfunctional family who is never far from the action as they try to sort thru their many problems. Great mystery, horror and character studies. I hope you'll give it a look.

I Zombie I


"The virus has spread."

In a moment of pure chaos, the majority of the Earth's population has become the walking dead. One man promises to help bring the truth to light.

"The lies have spread."

When journalist Jacob Plummer is infected, Jacob turns to the written word to
not only ease the pain of change, but to bring to surface a truth far deeper and
deadlier than anyone could have imagined.

"The truth must now be spread."

With some new friends, Jacob helps to fight off the growing undead horde in
hopes of saving himself and the planet from the rot growing within.

Slime and other stories.
I just posted this in the short story thread also, is that allowed, if not, sorry.
Slime and other stories is a small collection of ten short works by me and intended as a taster before the release of my full length novel, Flux, early in 2012, which is complete. If anybody wants a preview of that one then please mail me.
Mark

The Jakarta Pandemic

July 2011 - Revised, Re-cut AND Re-edited!

"In the late fall of 2013, a lethal pandemic virus emerges from the Islamic Republic of Indonesia and rages unchecked across every continent. When the Jakarta Flu threatens his picture perfect Maine neighborhood, Alex Fletcher, Iraq War veteran, is ready to do whatever it takes to keep his family safe. As a seasoned sales representative for Biosphere Pharmaceuticals, makers of a leading flu virus treatment, Alex understands what a deadly pandemic means for all of them. He particularly knows that strict isolation is the only guaranteed way to protect his family from the new disease.

With his family and home prepared for an extended period of seclusion, Alex has few real concerns about the growing pandemic. But as the deadliest pandemic in human history ravages northern New England, and starts to unravel the fabric of their Maine neighborhood, he starts to realize that the flu itself is the least of his problems. A mounting scarcity of food and critical supplies turns most of the neighbors against him, and Alex is forced to confront their unexpected hostility before it goes too far. Just when he thinks it can’t get any worse, the very face of human evil arrives on Durham Rd. and threatens to destroy them all. Alex and his few remaining friends band together to protect the neighborhood from a threat far deadlier than the flu, as they edge closer to the inevitable confrontation that will test the limits of their humanity."

Deep in the north woods, two sisters become lost; one stalked by a murderous ex-husband, the other unable to rid herself of the leeches that appear mysteriously on her skin.

All are drawn to an old, dilapidated cabin.

Inside lives an old man with awful urges, accompanied by a Rottweiler possessed by something…unnatural.

But it’s what resides beneath the cabin that they should really be worried about.

Please join author Joel Arnold on a ride over the river and through the woods straight into terror in his novel, Northwoods Deep.

Available in both ebook and trade paperback format.

20 Years After The Zombie Apocalypse
Lee Emerick

http://www.amazon.com/Years-After-Zom...

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Harriette Madyson is the last woman alive. Twenty years ago her world came to an end when a zombie plague engulfed the population of Earth. At the tender age of seven she found herself in a nightmarish situation where the dead literally returned to life. Left with little to use and nowhere to hide Harri now finds herself stalked across the frozen desolate landscape of North America pursued by the former love of her life. All that she has to keep her going is the hope that she can make it home to die in peace.

Who will eat Moira first, her husband or the wolves?

The Survivor, a short story by Andre Jute, is an outwrite from his bestselling 1990 novel, IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth. It is 4860 words long.

Read at your own risk!

The Survivor a short story is 99c on Amazon but everywhere else it is free. Here's a link for a free copy, any format, at Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

Reviews of André Jute’s novels

“Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.”
New York Times

“So bizarre, it’s probably all true.”
London Evening News

“This is an important book.”
Sydney Morning Herald

“Keeps up such a pace and such interest that it really satisfies.”
Good Housekeeping

“A masterly story that has pace, humor, tension and excitement with the bonus of truth.”
The Australian

“Jute has clearly conducted a great deal of research into everything he describes, investing the novel with an air of prophecy. His moral and ecological concerns are important.”
Times Literary Supplement

Andre Jute's Iditarod is the finest piece of fiction that I have read about The Greatest Race on Earth. Packed with adventure at every turn, nail-biting suspense, touches of endearing humor and the fine, subtle thread of romance, this tale speaks to what readers crave.
Margie Myers-Culver/Librarian’s Quest

Two Shorts
by André Jute
comprising
Christmas Oratorio
a tiny tale
1050 words
&
High Fidelity
a Christmas flash
242 words
both
extracted from his work-in-progress
Scenes from a Bizarre Life

Two Shorts is 99c on Amazon but everywhere else it is free. Here's a link for a free copy, any format, at Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

Andre Jute is the author of such bestsellers as the novel IDITAROD a novel of The Greatest Race on Earth, the literary biography STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress, and the handbooks WRITING A NOVEL and GRIDS the Stucture of Graphic Design.

Luminous and Ominous

If you had three days' warning of the end of civilization and a safe place to hide:

What would you take with you? Who would you save?

And who would you leave behind?

Henry Willingham and his friends have three days to make the most terrifying decisions of their lives. The world has been infected by an inescapable living nightmare of alien vegetation that will replace all life on Earth. They must get everyone they love safely underground into a fallout shelter. There's not enough time. There's not enough room for everyone. Who will they save? Who will they leave behind?

How will they live with the consequences?

After hiding underground for a year, the last three survivors must brave the otherworldly infestation and travel through what used to be upstate New York struggling for their lives and their humanity.

82,000 words

A doomed vampire hunter. A kid trapped in the sewers with an undead thing. A town that could be yours… but hides a terrible, dark secret. A scary cosmic balance. A dead brother and his revenge beyond the grave. An unspeakable future and three eerie girls: all these elements lurk within Cuentos, 10 Little Creepy Tales that will make you reconsider how you contemplate darkness…

My DEAD series is completing the first story arc. Book 3 comes out in December (the series is slated for 12 books) so now is a good time to read it from the beginning.

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Ugly-Begin...

As my "treat" I am offering a Smashwords code for a free copy of my book DEAD: The Ugly Beginning.--- MB64J (Good for the next 24 hours). Happy Halloween!

For some it takes a lifetime to discover their raison d'être. Imagine searching for eight centuries.

In 1997 Philadelphia, 800 year old vampire Valéry Castellane comes face to face with his reason to be, in the person of Angelina Lacroix, a young mortal woman whose understanding of immortality is about to change all he's known as truth and which will take him, and his readers, on a journey into the human soul.

Discovering a mortal who not only senses his presence, but also somehow knows his name, Valéry becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of how this might be. Confronting the girl, after learning she has knowledge of his entire existence, he is stunned and frustrated when Angelina seems more intent on convincing him that he's not the soulless monster of myth than she is with providing an explanation. Unable to take her life or give her immortality, Valéry embarks on a journey with Angelina that doesn't only take them from Philadelphia to his childhood home in the Provençal Alps, but on a journey into his greatest hopes and dreams, fears and disappointments, and into the strange and frightening past that shaped him.

Book I in the On the Soul Series.

Available in e-book and paperback format.

High Moor


When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror. John knows the truth. A werewolf stalks town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again. He should know. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life.

It’s 1986 and the town is gripped in terror after the mutilated corpse of a young boy is found in the woods. When Sergeant Steven Wilkinson begins an investigation, with the help of a specialist hunter, he soon realises that this is no ordinary animal attack. Werewolves are real, and the trail of bodies is just beginning, with young John and his friends smack in the middle of it.

Twenty years later, John returns to High Moor. The latest attack involved one of his childhood enemies, but there’s more going on than meets the eye. The consequences of his past actions, the reappearance of an old flame and a dying man who will either save or damn him, are the least of his problems. The night of the full moon is approaching and time is running out.

But how can he hope to stop a werewolf, when every full moon he transforms into a bloodthirsty monster himself?

Available for Kindle and ePub now, with paperback due in a couple of weeks

Darkness Calls: A Collection of Short Stories - Volume One

"Darkness Calls - Volume One" is the first in a series of four short story collections. Comprising themes of fear, madness, isolation, violence and the supernatural, "Darkness Calls" builds into a chilling collection of modern horror works.

In volume opener "Dark Rain", a mysterious storm brings about a terrifying change in the residents of a sleepy country village. Taking cues from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Patio" is a dream-like journey into a mysterious world... and the horrific revelation it contains. "An Open Letter..." is a short but powerful, thought-provoking piece of prose; a pointless cry to an ignorant society.

The oldest story in this collection, the violent "Face Value" presents a shocking tale of revenge from beyond the grave. A dystopian future provides a terrifying backdrop to the symbolic existence of five leviathans: the forgotten, the needing, the homeless, the corporation, and Death in "Fallen Angel". The final story in the volume, "Trapped", takes us into the claustrophobic hell of a mother and daughter, imprisoned in their overturned vehicle along an isolated highway.

Featuring a foreword by the author and individual notes on each story contained within, this opening volume serves as the perfect introduction to the works of this exciting new British horror talent.

Folks, Audioboo now carries two of the stories from Season of the Macabre for free, read by me! Go over and give them a listen and let me know what you think.

http://audioboo.fm/damosays

Also, if you head over and Like the book on Facebook, I'm holding a draw for a signed copy once we reach 100!

http://facebook.com/seasonofthemacabre

Thanks!

Damo

Now out!


A discovery of a lifetime turns into a nightmare that will not end...

Far beneath the waves of the mid Pacific, new forms of plant life discovered in the Marianas Trench unleash a horrible affliction among Dr. Tori Cutter's colleagues. When the strange plants are brought aboard an undersea research station, crew members begin to sicken and die.

...Trouble is, they aren't staying dead.

To escape a deadly fate, Tori and her guide Lt. John Akers, must escape to the surface. But life for her may bring death, or something worse, to the world above.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009QM48TW
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009QM48TW

Vampire Dolls The Legend of Adocinda

Vampire Dolls: The Legend of Adocinda
A lone vampire hunter witnesses an ancient ritual that moves the evil spirit of a murdered vampire, into a Victorian doll.
Adocinda, spurred on by her drive to subjugate humans and rebuild her vampire clan, now inhabits a new body. No one suspects the evil within the beautiful doll.
By the time they realize the truth, it could be too late. Alden, Jack, and the other hunters, are now in a fight for their lives.
Because… a beautiful doll is welcome in any home.
http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Dolls-L... amazon kindle

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... for all other e-reader's and pc's

Please check out my free zombie / horror short story ( actually flash fiction ) Beloved at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/114351555/B...

George Cook author of The Dead War Series available on Kindle, Nook and Kobo

When two teenage girls are raped by brutish mercenaries and the witnesses murdered while the thugs are helped to evade justice, Forrest King and Catherine Jordan track the culprits to Greece where they infiltrate the private island of Stefano Balasi, the crime boss who employs the thugs. Determined to make the mercenaries pay for the rapes, Forrest, Catherine and their friends back in England soon find themselves the targets of an ancient demonic cult whose followers have a taste for human flesh.

His visit to the house has awoken that which was sleeping.

How many more will be taken before it is laid to rest?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Showing-e...

Dare you enter my grandfather's house?

"A gripping, scary read"...

Four short tales of Victorian terror, each bound to the other by a chilling thread.

The date is January 10th 1866 and the snow is falling thick on the blood soaked streets of a murderous London…

Mask of The Macabre – A travelling magician appears with a gruesome show. But what secret does it hide?

Doctor Harvey – Bethlem lunatic asylum’s newest patient has a story to tell, but how will he tell it to his doctor?

Memento Mori – A photographer is given a mysterious assignment with disturbing consequences.

The New Costume. – The entertainer discovers a new string to his bow and gives the finest performance of his career.

(13,000 words in total)

You survived the first two volumes of Joel Arnold’s BEDTIME STORIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE…barely. Are you ready for volume 3?

BEDTIME STORIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE III

In this collection of 10 short stories you’ll meet:

A herd of cows protecting a dead woman from her abusive husband.
A beached mermaid on the shores of Lake Superior.
A group of friends whose love of Halloween keeps them together for a long, long time.
A little girl who deals candy – and something far more sinister – from her bright red wagon.
A teenager who must embrace the very dark side to survive a fate worse than death.
A mysterious visitor who drives a man mad with a strange smelling package.
These, plus four other stories, will keep you up late at night with a light on and your teddy bear screaming for mercy.

http://www.amazon.com/Bedtime-Stories...

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Have you ever wondered if there are islands on this planet that haven't been charted on any modern map known to map. In my story "Uncharted Land", I will give you a reason to stay away from such islands.

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Take a ride down the nine circles of Hell in Coffin Riders

The worst part about hell? There aren't enough towels.

Bloom deep-throats the barrel, and pulls the trigger. He waits for Lorraine to follow him into the afterlife, just like they planned, but she never shows. Death has no payoff.

He drops down to the underworld, a place called Paradise Cove, an assisted afterlife facility masquerading as a cheap hotel deep in the bowels of the earth. A modern day Dante, Bloom searches desperately for a way out of hell. He journeys through the nine known underworlds in a mad search for his lady love to take the revenge he thinks he is owed.

Death is a spiral: the deeper you go the worse it gets.

http://www.amazon.com/Coffin-Riders-J...

A Halloween gift for you.

As a present to all the people who have supported me over the last year, I am posting a free Zombie short story on my blog.

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BODYSWITCH If you think your body belongs to you – think again.

This is a multiracial, split personality thriller with a metaphysical twist.

David Callinan

Bodyswitch

Once Upon A Time,,,A monster tried to save the world... During World War One, an Italian fishing boat pulls a young girl out of the water. Horrified and frightened, most of the sailors believe the child to be a flesh-eating mermaid. Luckily for them, the trauma to her lungs cost the girl her memory, and with it, her power to transform. Emilio had been wanting to have a family for a long time. The unfortunate sailor takes the child to his wife just before he is issued off to war. Too soon, Emilio dies in the trenches. From the child's despair grows the desire to end all wars. Wanting to give the girl a better life, Emilio's widow sends her to live with her more fortunate family in the city. But as the child ages into an adult, so does the hungry, uncontrollable monster inside her. In order to save the world, she must find a cure to end her cannibalistic cravings.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578483416/...

Last #Mermay weekend to get Blue for free on Smashwords..
Also available in paperback and e-book on Amazon...https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578483416
I would be grateful for reviews...thank you
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...Blue

My recently published epic fantasy is needing honest reviews, and I am willing to provide free Mobi/pdf file copies for EVERYONE interested.

This novel follows a woman named Nara who can walk into people's dreams. When her kingdom is taken over by a mysterious new king, he takes her from her small village to work in the castle...almost as though he had been looking specifically for her. Now all eyes are on Nara, and between the King, a jealous and tyrannical High Priestess, and a mysterious figure no one else can see, Nara soon finds that she is thrust into a larger arena than she could have dreamed.

Check out my Book Trailer:
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Due out on the 28th February is my latest book 'Mr Roberts' House'

Ann knows her uncle's house is haunted. Things move by themselves, figures manifest in the dark, and voices whisper in her ear whenever she treads on the attic stairs.

A bloody tragedy left its mark upon this place. Two spirits-a malicious poltergeist and a forlorn soul-are bound by what happened here, locked in the conflict that consumed their lives.

Ann holds the key to their freedom-or damnation. As the past seeps through to the present, she must uncover the truth of what happened here, before her family becomes trapped in the house's tragedy forever. 

Horror Ghosts Fiction Paranormal

Available at Amazon
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IT TOOK ME 1265 SUMMERS TO REALIZE



John, a socially inept teenager, has led a frustrating life for as long as he can remember. Until, at the end of a summer, he discovers a magic sphere. Now, instead of going back to school, he can go back two months in time and experience this summer again. As many times as he wishes. John soon realizes that the more times he experiences this summer, the better he makes it. And the better he makes it, the less inclined he is to finally let this damned fall come. And so, he willingly stays in this time loop for years, decades, centuries. He thinks that he's in control, but the truth is that the magic sphere has taken control of his life. Little by little, without him realizing it, this process turns him into something horrific, something he had never imagined he could become. Don't miss this psychological thriller.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

THE TIME LOOP TROPE UTILIZED IN AN INGENIOUS WAY!

Also, here is a review of it on my blog...
https://historystories123.blogspot.co...