A rabies-like super virus bleeds into Melody’s neighborhood, turning all those infected into ravenous aggressors. While watching society crumble beyond her threshold, Melody hides in the safety of her attic, waiting for her husband to return. Four days have passed, and it’s becoming apparent that he’s not coming home. She pushes her fear aside and propels herself out the front door, with a baseball bat in hand, ready to venture across town on a mission to save her husband—and their failing marriage. However, after teaming up with her neighbor John, her determination is put to the test. Despite butting heads with the man next door, she develops an unsettling attraction to him, and they grow to rely on each other for strength and friendship. Unsure if her husband is still alive, her reasons for going on are called into question and it doesn't take long before she begins to doubt her strength. Fair Haven is a viral-outbreak horror story laced with personal struggle, romance, and a tasteful smattering of shoot’em-in-the-head action.

Fair Haven

Literature & Fiction

Lagoe, Red

Genre Fiction

La Red Books

Monsters can take many forms -- mythical creature, human, inner demon, fear? When confronted by such savage beasts, the vulnerability of humanity is often exposed. These sixteen short horror stories explore the supernatural, as well as real life horrors associated with grief, guilt, severed relationships, and severed limbs.

Lucid Screams

The very dust of the stars' explosive pasts traveled lightyears across the unknown, and now that dust pulses through our veins, drawing our eyes up, back to our origins. Since the dawn of humanity, the stars have called for us to gaze upon their brilliance, and we sit around campfires and make up tales of their histories. Tales which are often fraught with horror.\nRanging from psychological to apocalyptic, sci-fi to bizarre, quiet to gruesome and all the horrors in between, these 28 dark stories and poems explore our awe-inspiring-and terrifying-human connection to the stars. Take a look through the eyepiece and into an astronomer's failing mind. Observe an obsessed lover who can't get enough of the celestial view. Board a space station as the last remaining people debate whether humanity is worth saving. And ask yourself... What will you do when the sky begins to devour us all?

Nightmare Sky: Stories of Astronomical Horror

Death Knell Press

If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Karma and Fear (The Better Off Dead Series)

Sargent, R.E.

Pajak, Steven

Alvey Harris, Jane

Krantz, Kayla

Roles, RJ

Rocha, Peter

Merry, Eleanor

Munro, Charlotte

Wilkerson, Chris

Sinister Smile Press

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That noise in the dead of night. The shadow that slips by almost unnoticed. The fear that pulverizes your sense of reasoning and pushes you deep down under seven layers of covers. There is no escaping it, and when the dark forces of the universe come after you, the world will know exactly what you are made of. Will you run? Will you fight? Maybe you'll join forces with the darkness that rips through your quiet little life. Everyone's dying to find out. The Better Off Dead series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness With stories by R.E. Sargent, Steven Pajak, Jane Alvey Harris, Red Lagoe, Kayla Krantz, RJ Roles, Peter Rocha, Mike Duke, Cassandra, Angler, Matthew A. Clarke, Gerald Dean Rice, Alan Derosby and L.K. Pinaire.

If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Supernatural Horror (The Better Off Dead Series)

Angler, Cassandra

Duke, Mike

Clarke, Matthew A

Sometimes, the dead do come back. Sometimes, they crave your flesh...and sometimes, they desire your very soul, but they aren't the only thing you have to fear. You don't believe in what you can't see, yet something is there, watching, waiting. You can feel its unholy intentions deep down in the marrow of your bones. You don't know where it came from, but you know with every fiber of your being that it is not from this earth, and as you feel its gaze searing through your skin, you know the end just might be near. It took its last breath, you watched the dirt being shoveled onto its coffin, yet there it is, standing before you, staring you down like you're its next meal. It's vicious and it's evil and even though you know-you're absolutely positive-that the abomination before you should be dead, somehow it's not, and its ungodly eyes are focused on you. The Otherworldly and Undead are out there and they are coming for you. When you run-and oh, will you run-you don't need to be the fastest...you only need to be faster than the person beside you-at least until there is no one else left. Join us for the most terrifying stories of Otherworldly and Undead beings as they stalk and torment the living, feeding off their souls and their flesh before recruiting them to eternal damnation. The Better Off Dead series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness! With stories by Renee M.P.T. Kray, Jeremy Megargee, Scotty Milder, Steven Pajak, Barry Charman, Red Lagoe, Richard Clive, David A. Anthony, Kristal Stittle, Scott Harper, R.E. Sargent, LP Hernandez, and Bridgett Nelson. Foreword by New York Times Bestselling Author Richard Chizmar.

If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of the Otherworldly and Undead (The Better Off Dead Series)

Megargee, Jeremy

Kray, Renee M.P.T.

Press, Sinister Smile

Nelson, Bridgett

Milder, Scotty

Harper, Scott

Join three of horror's finest storytellers on a journey through the dark heart of Appalachia... AFOOT IN THE NETHERWILD by Ronald Kelly: When the children of Bowden Ayres mysteriously disappear in the woods near their homestead, he enlists the aid of Uriah Coldcreek, a seventh son and purveyor of mountain magic. Together, they travel into the deepest depths of the Devil's Backbone, intent on locating a place known as the Netherwild... the realm of the Coveter, an otherworldly being who steals away the mountains' youth for its own selfish needs. SPIRIT COVEN by Laurel Hightower: For generations, Jude and her coven of witches have co-existed peacefully with the citizens of Arnett, providing them with remedies and top shelf bourbon, especially valued during the draconian days of Prohibition. But when too many townsfolk go missing and dead, trust is broken and the witches find themselves on shaky ground, facing threats from frightened families, from the mountain they protect, and the very magic they steward. THE GATHERER by Red Lagoe: Gray Hollow lies at the foot of evil-a dark part of the forest home to The Devil's Bathtub. Martin is skeptical of the local folklore warning of the dangers of dipping even a toe into its waters. However, after his brother leaves for Vietnam, more people fall victim to the water's summoning darkness, and Martin struggles to make sense of it all, determined to hold onto life's fraying reality. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

The Devil's Backbone: Appalachian Horror (Dark Tide Horror Novellas)

Kelly, Ronald

Hightower, Laurel

Publishing, Crystal Lake

United States

Crystal Lake Publishing

In Excess of Dark

Sobelo Books

Seasons of Severance: Collected Dark Fiction

Tantlinger, Sara

Farrenkopf, Corey

York, Jessi Ann

Independently published

Impulses of a Necrotic Heart: and Other Afflictions

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