With a new introduction by Monica Ali The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeting, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

Evil Dark: An Occult Crime Unit Investigation

Literature & Fiction

Gustainis, Justin

United States

Angry Robot

Scranton, the strangest city on earth has an uneasy live and let unlive relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim, or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell, that's when they call me. My name's Markowski, a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD's Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit. I carry a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets. This title takes you on a magical mystery tour of a murder case rife with supernatural suspects. Sit down for an enchanted evening of otherworldly entertainment - Laura Resnick, author of "Unsympathetic" and "Vamparazzi".

Hard Spell: An Occult Crimes Unit Investigation

Stan Markowski is a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD's Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit. Like the rest of America, Scranton's got an uneasy 'live and let unlive' relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim, or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell, that's when they call Markowski. He carries a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets. File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Dial V For Vampire | Forbidden Spells | Bite Club | Scranton By Night ]

Hard Spell

My name's Markowski. I carry a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets. A series of seemingly motiveless murders of supernatural creatures points to a vigilante targeting the supe community. Markowski wouldn't normally have much of a problem with that, but his daughter may be next on the killer's list... File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Unnatural Law | Thicker Than Water | The Bite Stuff | Duty Calls ] e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-137-1

“My name’s Markowski. I carry a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets. “A new supernatural gang is intent on invading Scranton and it looks like I’m going to have to work with the current mob to prevent a demonic gang war. “If there’s one thing I hate more than living with supernatural scumbags, it’s working with them! But you know that they say, better the devil you know…” File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Fang Warfare | Invading Forces | Uneasy Alliances | The Devil You Know ]

Known Devil: An Occult Crimes Unit Investigation

Some doors should never be opened. A group of scientists found just such a door, and got a lot more than they bargained for -- but none of them lived to tell the tale. Federal agent Michael Pacilio, assigned to investigate their murders, finds himself following a trail of corpses left by a demonic killer with a grisly sense of humor and a terrifying master plan. Can Pacilio stop him ... before all Hell breaks loose?

The Hades Project

Genre Fiction

Wahmpreneur Books

In this special Halloween edition of Shroud, Kevin Lucia took the helm as guest editor and chose an array of chilling stories from dark fiction notables and newcomers alike. With startling and intelligent fiction and nonfiction from Rio Youers, Lisa Mannetti, Jeremy Shipp, Nicholas Grabowski, Kelli Owen, Norman Partridge, Dan Keohane, Jodi Lee, Brian Hatcher and so many more. Beautiful cover art by renowned horror artist, Steven Gilberts, striking layout, design, and original woodcut prints by Danny Evarts. FICTION: THREE DOORS, Norman Patridge LEFT-HANDED RADIO, Rio Youers 1925: A FALL RIVER HALLOWEEN, Lisa Mannetti WAITING FOR G.P., Justin Gustainis RED LANTERN, Alethea Kontis CHILDHOOD GHOSTS, Kelli Owen VACCINATION, Thomas Phillips GEORGIE, Robert Ford THE PROPHET ON THE SAND, Val Muller THE LOVE STORY OF HENRY VAN PENNYSHAW, Chandler Kaiden ALMOST PARADISE, Jeremy C. Shipp LAST HALLOWEEN, Daniel G. Keohane NONFICTION : HALLOWEENED BE THY NAME, Nicholas Grabowski TAMPER (SOST), Scott Christian Carr SAM HANE IT'S NOT, Jodi Lee TEN QUESTIONS WITH NORMAN PARTRIDGE, Brian J. Hatcher EXPLODING PUMPKINS AND POISONED CANDY, Elizabeth Tucker WHERE DID ALL THE MONSTERS GO?, Kelli Owen AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: RIO YOUERS, Kevin Lucia MORE... DEMENTIS MORTUUS, Word Games for the Rest of Us, Victorya &amp; Danny Evarts BOOK REVIEWS Art from Danny Evarts &amp; Tyler Hoglund Cover by Steven Gilberts

Shroud 10: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art

Youers, Rio

Partridge, Norman

Phillips, Thomas

Kontis, Alethea

Evarts, Danny

Owen, Kelli

Mannetti, Lisa

Shroud Publishing, LLC

Twenty-one stories that will scare you to death.  You may or may not believe in the old gentleman known variously as Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, Satan, or simply the devil -- but it is impossible to deny the existence of evil in the world. And all those arguments about whether evil originates in the fires of Hades or in the smoldering heart of humankind don't change the fact that evil has always been with us -- and, most likely, always will be.  The stories you are about to read are about evil, in one form or another. Several of them give evil a supernatural origin, but others place it squarely in the lap of ordinary (or maybe not so ordinary) human beings. Some of the people you are about to meet will overcome the evil that confronts them, while others won't be quite so fortunate. Either way, all of them are going to be changed by the encounter. These stories are best read late at night, preferably while you're alone in the house. I recommend leaving only a single light on. Try to use a reading lamp that illuminates the page while throwing the rest of the room into shadows -- shadows where anything might be hiding. Anything. Later, as you lie in the iron dark, waiting for sleep, perhaps you'll start to wonder if there really is a Devil, and if this is the night he might choose to come -- for you. I wish you pleasant dreams. Well, no -- not really.

The Devil Will Come

EDGE Science Fiction and Fanta

Hired to free a family from a deadly curse that may date back to the Salem witch trials, occult investigator Quincey Morris and his ally, white witch Libby Chastain, risk their lives as they seek out the source of the evil, following a trail that leads them to the occult underworlds of Boston, New York, and San Francisco, before journeying to the heart of darkness in Salem itself. Original.

Black Magic Woman (Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation)

Contemporary

Solaris

In a story that ranges from Baghdad to Los Angeles, EVIL WAYS sees eccentric billionaire Walter Grobius attempt to unleash a devastating magical apocalypse. Quincey Morris and his partner, white witch Libby Chastain, are drawn into their deadliest case yet, but from different directions. In Los Angeles, Quincey is blackmailed by the FBI into investigating a series of ritualistic child murders. In New York, Libby barely escapes an attempt on her life by assassins armed with magical weapons. Both of these threads eventually intertwine, leading the investigators to a conspiracy so vast and diabolical as to defy belief. 
The final, bloody confrontation takes place at Grobius’s isolated Idaho estate, on Walpurgis Night -- the night of the Witches’ Sabbath. Quincey and Libby, and their allies, must fight a desperate battle against immensely powerful dark forces that threaten the future of all mankind.

Evil Ways (Quincey Morris, Book 2)

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Evil Dark: An Occult Crime Unit Investigation

Hard Spell: An Occult Crimes Unit Investigation

Hard Spell

Evil Dark: An Occult Crime Unit Investigation

Known Devil: An Occult Crimes Unit Investigation

The Hades Project

Shroud 10: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art

The Devil Will Come

Black Magic Woman (Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation)

Evil Ways (Quincey Morris, Book 2)