The definitive horror movie guide for fans of killer animals. Leading horror writers and filmmakers present their favorite “animals attack” films through in-depth essays – from well-known predators such as sharks and lions to unusual killing machines like turkeys, elephants, frogs, cats, and rabbits.
Shadow & Bone
The world has been thrown into chaos. People have lost their families. They’ve lost their homes. They’ve lost everything they hold dear. And worst of all, no one is going to save them.
When a new, deadly variant of COVID-19 emerges, COVID-X, the world is unprepared for its devastating consequences. Families are torn apart as those infected descend into a frenzied state of rage, barbarity, and bloodlust.
The infected become known as Shadow Seekers, and for now, there is no cure. The Shadow Seekers are brutal, savage creatures of the night, devoid of humanity and slaughtering anyone they come across, even their loved ones.
Blood & Shadow follows two families on opposite sides of the globe, as the world descends into chaos and madness.
The Wu family live in a dilapidated, cramped building in the heart of the initial outbreak, the city of Wuhan. They must form a coalition with their neighbors to protect themselves from the Shadow Seekers which are appearing all around them.
The Campbell family lives in an affluent neighborhood of New Jersey where they experience a new reality of danger and horror. They must confront violent, bloodthirsty Shadow Seekers as they attempt to force their way into their home.
As the families fight for their lives, they must also face the grim reality of a world on the brink of collapse. Will they be able to overcome the dangers of the virus and the Shadow Seekers, or will they succumb to the darkness that threatens to engulf them?
Each chapter sees the world spiral more and more out of control with increasing levels of disorder, terror, and carnage. In the end few remain as the Shadow Seekers overrun the populations of many major cities, and whoever is left must do whatever they can to survive.
Will the world be able to stop the spread of this deadly virus before it’s too late? There is no end in sight, no light at the end of the tunnel, only heartbreak and ruin. Yet, humanity fights on and maintains hope, for now.
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Dracula’s True Story
The most historically accurate Dracula novel ever written — plus vampires. Vlad the Impaler was not a count from Transylvania, but a blood-thirsty prince of Wallachia like his father and brothers. Feast your eyes on the fascinating man who impaled thousands, got praised by the Pope, and fought kings, cousins, and Mehmed the Conqueror.
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Dog Flight by D. T. Adams
Tyler’s Bones by Mary Hallberg
About Tyler’s Bones by Mary Hallberg:
All that’s left of Tyler is his bones. So what’s making those noises?
Violet’s brother, Tyler, went missing five years ago and his body has finally been found. His home funeral is tomorrow, and their parents are in the city giving interviews about his untimely death. Violet insisted she would be fine alone with his body.
But flickering lights, mysterious phone messages and large objects falling over are making her think twice about that. The raging snowstorm keeps her trapped indoors, and it’s not long before she can’t pretend all the strange occurrences are the result of an overactive imagination.
Is Tyler trying to communicate with Violet from beyond the grave? And if so…what could he possibly want to tell her?
Supernatural horror fans will enjoy this tense novella that explores facing our fears and saying goodbye to someone we love.
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The Great and Terrible
Dracula travels to another realm to engage in a fatal duel with the Wizard of Oz. Horror author David Kempf spins a new point of view on Bram Stoker and L. Frank Baum’s classic characters. With an introduction by Chris McAuley.
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A Cold Hand
“Any deal is better than no deal.”
When the desperate reach out and shake A Cold Hand at the crossroads, their lives are no longer their own. Frank, like so many near him, has made a deal, but when he shook that Cold Hand, he never thought the day would come when his bill would come due. Now that it has, he has a choice to make in Frank.
“It’s going to be fine, my love. It’s all going to be fine. Don’t worry, my love. It’s going to be fine.” Chris knew every facet of every deal he made, but when the biggest deal he ever made was coming to its conclusion, he had to find a way to renegotiate the terms in Out of Road.
Steven was positive who was responsible for his parents’ deaths and he was determined to make him pay in The Ride.
A night out turned strange, so strange it still haunts all who were there in The Strange Disappearance of John Whitey Burnett.
All he wanted was an escape, but how he went out about it will stay with him in Repeater.
Finding love in the strangest places can lead to some strange results in Passing it Forward.
Sometimes you owe even though you didn’t agree to the price in A Question of Payment. An obsession grew from a single night out in I Hate the Blues.
What Allen finds as he looks into his partner’s apparent mental break challenges his own stability in Man of Flies.
A bad day can seem to go on forever in One of those Mornings.
A Cold Hand is the third collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE.
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I am now Dog
I am now Dog is dedicated to my Dad and my brother.
We are all bastards and get away with far too much in life. But life is pure and so are we. This is the reason I wrote I am now dog.
It’s funny, hip and toys with the human condition as well as current socio-political events in a way that that, frankly, turns my literary head on.
There is a debt of honour for Mikhail Bulgakov’s heart of the dog, which I felt, failed/meandered in many places.
Such is life, such are other people’s stories the foundation for which I borrow and steal ever so zealously wherever I can.
Do not fear for never will I fail to innovate and add in the new. Such is my want, such is my style.
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I am now Dog
I am now Dog is dedicated to my Dad and my brother.
We are all bastards and get away with far too much in life. But life is pure and so are we. This is the reason I wrote I am now dog.
It’s funny, hip and toys with the human condition as well as current socio-political events in a way that that, frankly, turns my literary head on.
There is a debt of honour for Mikhail Bulgakov’s heart of the dog, which I felt, failed/meandered in many places.
Such is life, such are other people’s stories the foundation for which I borrow and steal ever so zealously wherever I can.
Do not fear for never will I fail to innovate and add in the new. Such is my want, such is my style.
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The Box Men
The box men or Or how I learned to love the box, is an unusual type of modern day horror. It holds a mirror up to us, as well as society at large. It does not preach and is written in a rather disturbing manner. The manner mainly being satire and tiny jabs of humour that keep the story grooving.
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The Vampire Maurice
The mob is out for blood—literally.
At the height of prohibition, the real threat on the streets of 1929 Chicago isn’t Al Capone and his empire built on bootleg whiskey; it’s the vampire mafia. And the liquid they trade is of an altogether deadlier variety.
In this hidden world, the vampire mafia is bootlegging an addictive and deadly synthetic blood called Thrill. When the vampire Maurice discovers their blood-running operation, he must act to stop the flow of bootlegged blood, or risk the power balance of the vampire world tipping entirely into the hands of those who have been corrupted.
But the mafia doesn’t take kindly to interlopers, even those with fangs.
The Vampire Maurice is a brand-new, full-length novel set in the world of Johnny B. Truant’s bestselling Fat Vampire series. Scroll up and download your copy today!
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The Demon Inside Me
FREE 11/16 to 11/20
A deadly virus spreads across the world, changing the way humankind behaves.
Jackie Mendoza quarantines herself in her home for weeks, fearful of catching the disease.
But is it the virus or something more she should fear?
Bestselling author Scott W. Kimak takes you into the deepest depths of the human psyche and unlocks its inner demons in this scary page-turner.
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Nightmare Destinations by Fred Felton
About Nightmare Destinations by Fred Felton:
Nightmare Destinations is a collection of six short stories by South African author Fred Felton. that explores the dark side of humanity and how some people are prepared to do anything for their own twisted purposes, even if it means taking the lives of others. Come on a journey down a very dark and scary road and discover different characters that find themselves in unusual situations and see what they are willing to do in order to survive.
Imagine the horrors that lurk in your nightmares, now discover them in this collection of horror tales which include The Demon Drone, The Guard Dog, Off The Rails, The Axe, The Storage Facility and The Head.
This book will keep you turning the pages till way past midnight.
On sale at $2.99
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Knock ‘Em Dead, Donny
There is only one way out of purgatory. Wait until your sentence is up. But I ain’t got time for that.
My name is Donny, and this is the story of my death. The good news is there is an afterlife, the bad news is I didn’t make it into Heaven. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Remanded to purgatory, Saint Peter offers me a reduced sentence if I opt for the seventh level. It sounded like a great deal, but it turned into my worst nightmare.
Now my daughter is in trouble back on Earth. I can’t let her end up in purgatory, or God forbid, someplace worse. I need to save her before it’s too late. But that would mean the impossible—breaking out. I’ll do anything to save my daughter. I just hope I don’t lose my soul in the process.
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Five Horror Stories: Tales of Mystery, Misery, and the Macabre. A Collection
About Five Horror Stories: Tales of Mystery, Misery, and the Macabre. A Collection:
“I shouldn’t have agreed to the procedure. I shouldn’t have signed my name, but who didn’t?” from The Curse of a Heartbeat
“I lived in a small, simple flat, almost devoid of life. The front of the building was as the face of one who perished. The windows were his clouded eyes, and the door his gaping mouth. Even the smell of the place seemed to remind most of a rotting corpse. The place complimented me well, as I am one who was, and is, close to Death.”from When Old Men Hang
“You want this?” I held it out to him. He reached out and took it, but it dropped straight through his hand. I collapsed, shaking, to the ground, crawling backward, my hands slipping in the mud (and God knows what else).” from When Young Men Die
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This book is a collection of five short stories selected by the author Michael Henderson. They were written sporadically over a span of seven years, between 2015 and 2022.
The collection is composed of five stories, “When Old Men Hang,” “The Curse of a Heartbeat,” “The Lost Biologist,” “When Young Men Die,” and “The City and the Devil.”.
The content in this collection is for adults. The stories contain disturbing imagery.
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Blood Roots
Thirteen years after the disappearance of her son and the murder of her husband Ben, Ellen Wells fears an old evil might just be raising its head above the haunted hills of Colden Town. But what can she do, a lone woman, locked away in White Springs Psychiatric Hospital?
Sidney Portley is a typical teenage boy, bent on women, baseball and beer. But his past is more mysterious than he could have ever imagined.
Events begin to spiral as old events come into play once more.
The Burning Tree is watching. . .
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HAUNTIN3S: 3 Ghost Tales
About HAUNTIN3S: 3 Ghost Tales:
From suburb to city central, from cathedral to churchyard to the house on your block, get a taste of horror—and humor—in these three Halloween treats. They’re calorie-free, but you’ll find the haunting tricks chilling.
Remember to keep the light on.
Within these pages:
Heart of Ice: A seemingly innocent old tattered book leads to a secret horror that curses those living.
Ghosting in Suburbia: The travails of modern haunting can be difficult, disturbing and daunting, especially for a struggling, infuriated, newbie ghost. She would have been happy, and alive, with a divorce. But no… Instead this frustrated spirit must deal with running toilets and much worse.
Cathedral Song: Sometimes things need to remain as they are. Sometimes change destroys rather than creates. Sometimes unseen friends turn deadly.
FREE October 30, 2022
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Black Tales
In Dwane’s Horror Anthology experience the spooky and the scary this Halloween! From a story about a sinister monster lurking in the soul of a tree, to a typewriter that feeds on the blood of those who use it, find yourself immersed in R.C.J.’s nightmarish realm.
Enjoy most of Dwane’s collections of Horror short-stories, novelettes and everything in between, including his popular novelette ‘The Burning Tree’ which was voted top 9 horror stories on Freebooks.net, along with two never before seen short stories!
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Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection
About Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection:
This Halloween, Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection is available to download for just £0.99 from Amazon.co.uk! This special offer is available from 24th to 31st October.
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“Satisfying and surprising”
“Ode to a classic”
– reader feedback
EVIL WAS SO SURE TO COME
A middle-aged neuroscientist’s career is in the doldrums when he stumbles upon a notebook written by his ancestor, Dr Henry Jekyll, over a century ago. Working alone and late at night, he strives to recreate his forefather’s discovery.
In the weeks that follow, a wave of murders breaks across London. Metropolitan Police officers race to trace the killer. But as the net closes on a young man with mental health problems, one driven detective begins to have her doubts. Can she catch the real killer, before he commits his most heinous act of all?
Read the pulse-pounding sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Rebooted as a gritty British thriller, Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection is anarchic, twisty and blisteringly-paced. Its release date marked the 135th anniversary of the publication of the original.
Please note this book contains violence, adult themes, and language some readers may find offensive.
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Arkham Anonymous
As you walk into the basement, people sitting in a circle tell stories of cosmic horrors. Stories that cannot and should not be told depict a man stuck inside a never-ending nightmare. The dream filled with horrors embodies; a college student searching for the nameless church only to find oblivion, an assassin sent to kill a demonic rabbit and a young, trans woman kidnapped for sacrifice to an underground cult. The stories defy all comprehension. Welcome to Arkham Anonymous.