Suppose you were offered a million dollars to spend ten years on a deserted, but beautiful, tropical island paradise? Plenty of fresh water and natural growing food and great fishing. Would you?Here are a few more details, before you decide. This is a secret, off-book, experiment. It involves forty healthy subjects - twenty men, twenty women, between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-two. Once the forty subjects are on the island, they will have no way of getting off and no way of communicating with the outside world. The subjects arrive with only the clothes on their backs. Not even shoes.There's more ¿ The people running the experiment, own the island and its sovereignty. This means that the island is an independent nation, answering to no other country or authority. There are no rules or laws, except those made by the owners. They don't make any. The island government is, thus, "Anything goes."There you have it: Deserted island. No rules, no laws. No government. Anything goes. Forty people. Clothes on your back. Ten years. No way off. Completely isolated. Completely on your own. Whatever happens ¿ you deal with it. One million dollars.Are you in?Then let's see how it goes ¿Best of luck.

The Experiment on the Island of Angleland

Literature & Fiction

Ray, Terry

Action & Adventure

Hellbender Books

The Devil Tree

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS....Back in the 1970s, a series of bizarre incidents occurred at what has since been known as "The Devil Tree." Beneath this ancient denizen, evil was wrought by a sick serial killer, calling upon forces most evil and dark. People were hung there ... and bodies buried there ... exhumed by the police. Overcome by superstition, some tried to cut down the tree, to no avail. Since then, it has stood in a remote section of a local park --- left to its own devices --- quiet in its eerie repose -- until now!Best-selling psychological-thriller author Keith Rommel has imagined the whole tale anew. He's brought the tree to life and retold the tale with gory detail only possible in a fiction novel. Action-packed, with spine-tingling detail, this thriller is beyond parallel in the ground it uncovers ... one author's explanation of what may have really been said -- what may have really happened -- under Port St. Lucie's "Devil Tree."

Rommel, Keith

Genre Fiction

Dark Entry

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Kachuba, John B.

Thrillers & Suspense

There is a thin line between reality and illusion, between sanity and insanity, between life and death. Through no fault of his own, David Matson is thrust into a world of darkness, of illusion, of hallucinations and never-ending nightmares; a world from which he longs to awaken but cannot. Join him in his interminable struggle to return to reality and see what horrors fate has in store him. This is Thomas M. Malafarina's third full-length novel for Hellbender Books. From the Dark has plenty of suspense, terror, gore, and surprises to keep the reader glued to his seat wanting the horror to end yet still dying for more.

From the Dark

Malafarina, Thomas M.

What if the Virgin Mary was bitten by a vampire? Danyaela Morrigan is an ex-Catholic, ex-college student, and ex-human, furious at the God who allowed her to be turned into a demoness. In the mountain town of Medjugorje, where the Blessed Virgin is rumored to appear, Danyaela seeks to share her eternal curse with the Mother of God. In the bitter, destructive battle that follows, she becomes afflicted with the power to enter the spirit world and touch the soul of every human being at will. On Christmas Day, two Boston cops unwittingly find the body of a man who used to hunt vampires. Following the twisted trail, Detectives Blake and McArdle uncover the disappearance of a girl called Danyaela—and the woman known as Lady Claudia, who turned her. As they track the mortal servants of the damned, they draw ever closer to the heart of the Dark Lady’s plan to return from Hell for a virgin birth and a resurrection of her own. 
But the thirsting dead and the hunters from the Vatican are both thrown out of their plans when Danyaela meets Blake and begins to remember ordinary human friendship. Her strange new powers have cracked the ancient detente between the Lord God and the Lord Satan, and the mortal world is becoming the field of all-out battle, as she finds herself questioning her loyalties for the first time in twelve years. When Easter comes, many things will arise from the shadows of death—for good, or for evil.

Whisper Music (The Morrigan Canticles)

Toner, J.B.

When Stephanie Wright and her family inherit and move into a luxuriously renovated rural Schuylkill County farmette, she believes all of her worries are over. But then her husband, Jason stumbles on a small ancient family burial site on the property. He decides to destroy the headstones, keeping the gravesite a secret so not to spoil his wife's newfound happiness. But sometimes the dead have their own agenda. When Stephanie begins researching her family genealogy she uncovers a terrible family tragedy, the true unholy reason for what they originally perceived as good fortune rears it hideous head. Horror Master Thomas M. Malafarina brings you his usual serving of horror, complete with plenty of suspense, supernatural intrigue, and down and out gut wrenching terror to keep any reader, horror fan or not flipping pages and hungry for more.

Circle of Blood

The Devil's Judgment (The Vengeful Prince Saga)

Koscienski, Brian

Pisano, Chris

Whether it's to finish college or muster up the courage to talk to the cute girl in his class, Jonathan Barnes wants nothing more than to make something of himself. To be a man and make it on his own. That is, if his constantly questioning and racing mind lets him.After a sudden, bloodied brawl on campus that leaves over half of White Haven College dead, Jon finds himself thrust into a world turned completely upside down by violence. The news is overwhelmed with reports of rioting across the country, plane crashes, and countless innocent lives lost. They say it is going global.With no explanation as to the cause of the nationwide catastrophes and a cryptic phone message from his parents, Jon has no choice but to traverse into the horror to find his loved ones. His family may be dead or worse, turned into rage-filled maniacs that pay no mercy to anyone or anything when night falls.Nothing is certain except for one thing: Jon wants to be inside when the sky goes dark.

When the Sky Goes Dark

Seneca, Oliver C

Would you recognize the Devil if you met him?A decaying prison hides a dark secret. Robert Deville, the youngest prison warden in the history of the state, never expected to feel a supernatural connection in a prison. After discovering a diary, Robert learns a prisoner, rumored to be the Devil, was hidden away under his feet. Was this prisoner responsible for a fire that killed hundreds of prisoners? Did he play a part in the murder of a local family years earlier? Robert must learn the prisoner's true identity and unravel why he hasn't aged in decades? Surviving a relationship with an abusive ex-husband, Jenny Deville is dealing with the pain of her past. Noticing a sudden change in her son's behavior, and his horrifying drawings of murders, no child should ever witness, she must discover the cause.As local children mysteriously disappear, there is little time to prove who the killer really is.

Bottom Feeders

Roth, Jerry

The authors publishing under the Hellbender Books imprint have gathered together to produce a volume of short stories. Enjoy these spine-tingling tales of horror and suspense by established and emerging writers in the genre. Included in this volume: Foreword - Thomas M. MalafarinaIntroduction - Catherine JordanParallelism - Thomas M. MalafarinaPanty Lines - Catherine JordanA Modern Fable - John B. KachubaDelerium Tremens - Kyle Alexander RominesChirurgeon - Chris Pisano & Brian KoscienskiSuspect Number Twelve - Michael L. HawleyEscalation - J. B. TonerChihuahuas - Will FalconerThe Mimics - Travis LeibertLaney - Thomas M. MalafarinaMean Streak - Catherine JordanHeaven Scent - John B. KachubaThe Torment of the Crows - Kyle Alexander RominesIcelus - Chris Pisano & Brian KoscienskiThe Day in the Life of a Navy Helicopter Pilot, 1989 - Michael L. HawleyThe Kindly Dark - J. B. TonerThe Hangin' Tree - Thomas M. MalafarinaBurning For You - Will Falconer... and a handful of horror classicsBiographies

Hellbent Volume 1

Romines, Kyle Alexander

Hawley, Michael L.

Jordan, Catherine

Falconer, Wil

Leibert, Travis

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