Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because it’s a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that don’t belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl she’s dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a restaurant, Sarah realizes that her closet is actually a gateway to another time. Another world. A place where the same apartment belonged to the boyfriend of the final murder victim of a notorious serial killer that was never caught.\nSometimes the doorway takes her to another floor in the building, to the apartment the girl herself—Regina—lived in on the 11th floor, the apartment where the murder actually happened, but it always takes her to 1987. The two people connected to her through the gateway in her closet are the owners of the initials carved into the tree out in front of Sunnycrest.\nSarah’s girlfriend, Felicia, has been at Sunnycrest longer and helps her to understand that the whole building is haunted. 
There is something strange about the place they live. 
The dead are everywhere and some of them are dangerous. The living are not to be trusted, either. Sarah gets drawn in further and can’t let go. She wants to understand what Regina’s spirit is trying to tell her, what she needs, and how to turn her closet back into a closet. One thing she needs to remember though, is that there is a killer in 1987.\nCan he still hurt her? Is any of it even real? Where will the gateway in Apartment 8 actually lead her?

The Gateway in Apartment 8

Literature & Fiction

Healy, Chisto

United States

Slashic Horror Press

Tales of deadly machinery have long fascinated us, from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic pendulum to the Terminator films. Murder and Machinery pays homage to this tradition, offering you gripping tales following this theme but set in different times and places, from colonial America and London during the First World War to dystopian futures on this planet and beyond. Never before has an anthology brought tales of science fiction and suspense together in such a terrifying way, showcasing the nightmarish imagination of authors who know how to play on the reader’s fears and who share those fears of uncontrollable machines, or perhaps even more frightening, of fellow humans mastering technology for their own evil purposes. 
A word of advice before you start. By all means, settle down in your living room and let this anthology of technological terror and mechanical madness enthral you, but first, you might want to lock your doors and switch the power off at the mains. Best keep it low-tech tonight. Trust me. I hope you have candles? 
The Secret Zeppelin - Duncan Richardson 
#Selfie - Linda Brucesmith 
Fargan’s Termination - Paul Williams 
A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way - Chisto Healy 
The Box - Sarah Jane Justice 
The Wheel - Michael Picco 
The Wedge - Kurt Newton 
Tenterhooks - Cameron Trost 
Leonora - Danielle Birch 
Vanitas - James Dorr 
Don - Steve Dubois 
Foul Beasts - Karen Bayly 
A Whole New World - KG McAbee 
Suicide Blonde - Paulene Turner 
Driverless - Robert Bagnall 
The Screen in the Sky - Kerilee S. Nickles 
"Anxiety about machines taking over our existence and eventually becoming the catalyst for our destruction as a species is not a new concept. However, it is one that seems to have been shoved to the back of the fear line in the last decade, the dark fiction genres instead overrun with zombies, serial killers, and spirit possessions. We’ve forgotten, it seems, that the scariest creatures are the ones we usher willingly into our own homes. Luckily, the authors of Murder and Machinery: Tales of Technological Terror and Mechanical Madness are here to remind us. In a potluck of dystopian, steampunk, and sci-fi-inspired horror, Murder and Machinery has something for every speculative fiction fan, especially those for whom creepiness is best served on cold metal." - Rebecca Rowland, posted on Ginger Nuts of Horror

Murder and Machinery: Tales of Technological Terror and Mechanical Madness

Newton, Kurt

Trost, Cameron

Turner, Paulene

Dorr, James

Picco, Michael

Justice, Sarah Jane

Bayly, Karen

Brucesmith, Linda

Birch, Danielle

Genre Fiction

Black Beacon Books

Something stirs in the darkness of these stories. Join twelve authors as they explore the holiday season's scary side. From monsters to ghosts and villainous people, there's sure to be a scare for you.As the first of Jazz House's winter holiday anthologies, Krampus Tales: A Killer Anthology compiles the best horror stories from over 60 submissions submitted by independent authors. Jazz House is dedicated to uplifting marginalized voices and giving a platform to independent authors. To see how we do this, visit us at jazzhousepublications.com.

Krampus Tales: A Killer Anthology

Miltimore, K. A.

Gould, Kelly

Edwards, E.D.

McCabe, Sinéad

Davanti, D.M.

Sullivan, Della

Cumpton, Alyssa

Carlan, H.H

Power, Gary

Jazz House Publications

The follow up to the award winning Laundered - An Anthology of Monster Messes.When hitting the grocery store is as adventuresome as your life gets, we've got some truly epic journeys for your action-craved reading pleasure Epic usually means long. Not for these journeys. The Legion of Dorks has managed to cram an enormous amount of travel into bite-sized stories.Sail with a queen as she travels across the sea in a desperate attempt to save her kingdom and her newborn babe.Go on a spiritual quest with a young tribe member who believes in mermaids.Fly with a princess across the skies in her inexplicably floating castle.Explore Death from the dead's point of view.Re-visit the Old West as two old cowboys travel east one last time.Find these and more in this collection of stories from ten authors who dared accept the challenge to head to the Horizon and see what awaits.Half of all net profit goes to the Legion of Dorks Gaming and Giving Charity held each December.

Horizons: An Anthology of Epic Journeys (Legion of Dorks presents)

Collins, Ben

Adams, Stephen

Payne, John D.

Colby, Kelly Lynn

Hartsell, A.F.

Ossio, Citlalin

Adel, Taylor

Adams, L.T.

Bair, Jen

Short Stories & Anthologies

Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing, LLC

Some mistakes haunt the guilty, while others seek revenge.\nRoger leaves the house filled with the memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up.\nThat is until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own. Brian's screams mixed with Alice's are too much for Roger to handle. He feels like he has to save the girl from her father's violence, but his own fear and trauma interfere, and Alice dies.\nAs he tries to move on, to get past the biggest mistake of his life, Alice has other ideas.\nNow Roger must do for himself what he couldn't for Alice. Make it out of Sunnycrest alive.

Accidental Murderer in Apt 34

A battle to avenge the past is also a fight to protect the future.\nTwelve years ago, Marista, warrior for the royal guard of Avaron, was given the sworn duty of protecting her fallen kingdom's infant prince, Derrin. Marista was hidden away with the prince while her people fought and died at the hands of the Vorcan raiders.\nNow... Lord Vorcan is hunting them to eliminate what remains of his enemy. With no one to oppose him he could replace the Lands' many cultures with a one world dictatorship ruled by his own iron fist. Avaron lives on in Marista's heart and now she has more than a fallen kingdom to fight for. Derrin is no longer just her king, he is her son, and she will do anything to keep him safe. This means taking on slave traders, pirates, and the Vorcan Empire itself, and this is just the beginning. All of the Lands are about to discover that there is no greater fight than the one driven by love.\nFor Avaron.

The Guardian: The Journey Begins (Women of Avaron)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Devil's Gulch: A Collaborative Horror Experience

Brown, Claire

Sargent, R.E.

Pajak, Steven

Krantz, Kayla

Clarke, Matthew A

Press, Sinister Smile

Wilkerson, Chris

Miller, Jon

Morgan, T.M.

Sinister Smile Press

In our spine-chilling homage to the late, great Dennis Wheatley and the inimitable Hammer Horror films spawned from his works, HellBound Books presents twenty superlatively satanic stories guaranteed to have you fearing for your very soul?A whole host of Hell's denizens skulk within these pages, waiting with growing impatience for brave of heart - or the relentlessly foolhardy - to make their otherworldly acquaintance, so please, do venture inside.If you dare?Featuring hellish tales from: L. G. Merrick, Henry Myllylä, Alan Derosby, A.K. McCarthy, Brian James Lewis, C. C. Parker, Chisto Healy, Leo J. Winters, R.C. Mulhare, Henry Myllylä, J.B. Toner, Glen Damien Campbell, Nathan Blake, Gerald Dean Rice, Ricki Whatley, Carlton Herzog, Len M. Ruth, Vivian Kasley, Carson Demmans, and Alexander Marais

Satan Rides Your Daughter

Publishing, HellBound Books

Merrick, L. G.

Myllylä, Henry

Toner, J.B.

Campbell, Glen Damien

Blake, Nathan

Rice, Gerald Dean

Whatley, Ricki

Herzog, Carlton

Hellbound Books Publishing

Shocking Sojourns: Anthology of Splatterpunk & Extreme Horror

Sonnet, Judith

Phillips, Harrison

Colavito, J Rocky

Daly, R.J.

Shrader, Dan

Nasty, Chuck

Shiv, Sidney

Allister, K.L.

DeRosa, Sarah

Independently published

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