In 1992, The Frequency Brothers board a plane following a sold out concert in Austin, Texas. The plan is to fly to New York to shoot their next video. But then their plane goes down. Injured and stranded in a seemingly endless forest, The Frequency Brothers now find themselves fighting for survival. Everywhere they look, they see signs that they are not alone, that something waits in the darkness. They can hear it, and it sounds angry. There’s something else out there, though. Something much worse. And it wants to drag them Down.

Down

Literature & Fiction

Southard, Nate

Genre Fiction

Sinister Grin Press

In 1911, Atlanta’s African American community was terrorized by a serial killer that preyed on young bi-racial women, cutting their throats and mutilating their corpses. The killer was never found. In the 1980s, more than twenty African American boys were murdered throughout Atlanta. In 2011, another string of sadistic murders have begun, and this time it’s more brutal than ever. Carmen Mendoza, an investigative reporter working forAtlanta’s oldest newspaper. has uncovered a link between the three murder cases suggesting an unending series of murders going back more than a century. If she can solve the murders, she may find the key to ending the violent curse grippingAtlanta’s Black community. If not, she might just become the next victim. From J.F. Gonzalez and Wrath James White comes a novel of hatred, prejudice, extreme violence and bone-chilling terror.

The Killings

White, Wrath James

Gonzalez, J.F.

Now I’m way beyond confusion. Now I’m scared. I’ve slid down the rabbit-hole and what’s down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she’s having. She’s changed, somehow overnight. I don’t know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you’d thread a belt through the loops of your jeans. And now I’m shivering too. In some fundamental way she’s changed…

I'm Not Sam

Jack Ketchum

Lucky McKee

A surprisingly brutal and graphically violent novel by the same writer who brought us Suffer the Flesh and Poisoning Eros (with Wrath James White). Warning: rape scene may be a trigger for some people. Tread carefully!  Manhattan died, along with much of the country. Twelve-year-old Janelle lost her family in one horrific night and managed to escape into a no-longer-recognizable city. As she struggles for survival, she comes across something much worse than the decimated landscape, much worse than the enemy soldiers patrolling the streets night and day. How can anyone survive a society when the rules no longer apply?  "O'Rourke digs down into some loamy soil--what she comes up with is disturbingly dark and often very funny."--Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door "O'Rourke writes with rare confidence and style. Though undoubtedly disturbing and sometimes brutal, still her work has something quite rare and special--heart."--Tim Lebbon, author of Echo City

What Happens in the Darkness

O'Rourke, Monica J.

In 2005, twenty year-old Joseph Miles went in search of a cure for a disease he was convinced was turning him into a monster. The result was a killing spree that left a string of dismembered and cannibalized bodies from San Francisco to Seattle. Eight years later, after being tried and sentenced to life in prison, Joseph is still searching for a cure. To do so, he must first escape from super maximum security prison where he has been involved in underground death matches sponsored by the prison guards and has been targeted by two of the prison's most dangerous inmates. Joseph enlists the aid of a lonely female guard with a history of inappropriate behavior with inmates, and a young model named Selene whom Joseph met in art class when he was still a psychology student. She has followed him obsessively over the years and will do anything to help Joseph escape. But could Selene be even more dangerous and twisted than Joseph Miles? Is she really trying to help him find a cure or does she have darker motivations?

Prey Drive

Wrath James White

Millwood was a good place to be when the dead rose. It was small, isolated, and easy to defend. The survivors there forged a community, weathered what came, and began to prosper. But then they ran out of food. Now, Millwood is sending five men to the neighboring town of Rundberg, a place ruled by three thousand living dead, to find enough food to save their community. Five against three thousand? They don't stand a chance. Nate Southard's Scavengers has got everything fans of the zombie genre crave. Huge cannibalistic crowds of the undead. Violent, almost continuous action. Mounting paranoia and dread. And if he had stopped there it would probably have been enough to secure Scavengers a spot on the short list of great zombie fiction. But Southard's real gift is showing us the psychology of the regular guy - guys like you and me. Not since Richard Matheson have we had a writer so adept at dangling the average American guy on the end of a rope so we can watch him twitch and turn in the wind. Scavengers is great stuff! – Joe Mckinney, author of The Dead World Series Scavengers is a wild, violent, and ultimately heart wrenching journey through a zombie-infested landscape. The action is relentless, and the sharp prose provides the reader an unflinching look at the grisly world the book’s characters must navigate. Southard excels at creating the epic scope of an apocalypse, while maintaining the intimate and often devastating emotional notes of an individual’s fight for survival. He shows us what we’ve lost, and he reminds us what we are fighting for. - Lee Thomas, Lambda Literary Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The German and Butcher’s Road. "With Scavengers, Southard breathes fresh life into the zombie genre, setting those blackened hearts beating and thick, fevered blood pumping through rotting veins. This one moves like a bullet and will have you reading straight through the night. Just check under the bed when you're done..." -Ronald Malfi, author of SNOW

Scavengers

Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will’s dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the most sadistic upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will’s troubles, however, are just beginning. Because one of the nation’s most notorious criminals—the Moonlight Killer—has escaped from prison and is headed straight toward Will’s hometown. And something else is lurking in Savage Hollow, the forest surrounding Will’s rundown house. Something ancient and infinitely evil. When the worst storm of the decade descends on Shadeland, Will and his friends must confront unfathomable horrors. Everyone Will loves—his mother, his little sister, Mia, and his friends—will be threatened. And very few of them will escape with their lives.

Children of the Dark

Janz, Jonathan

They call her Blister. She's a hideously disfigured twenty-three-year-old woman, living in a shed next to her father's house, hidden away from the world. Jason Tray is a successful cartoonist, banished to his agent's lakeside cabin for a few days of mandatory rest and relaxation. One night, while hanging out with a couple of the locals at a dive bar, he takes them up on their offer to go "see Blister," having no idea what they're talking about. He peeks through the window at the most nightmarish thing he's ever seen. In the morning, he wakes up, hung over and regretful. He's better than this. He needs to...apologize? From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE and DWELLER comes a tale of fiendish secrets, ghastly crimes, and human monsters.

Blister

Strand, Jeff.

Xibalba, home of torture and sacrifice, is the kingdom of the lord of death. He stalked the night in the guise of a putrefied corpse, with the head of an owl and adorned with a necklace of disembodied eyes that hung from nerve cords. He commanded legions of shapeshifting creatures, spectral shamans, and corpses hungry for the flesh of the living. The Mayans feared him and his realm of horror. He sat atop his pyramid temple surrounded by his demon kings and demanded sacrifices of blood and beating hearts as tribute to him and his ghostly world. These legends, along with those that lived in fear of them, have been dead and gone for centuries. Yet now, a doorway has been opened in Georgia. A group of college students seek their missing professor, a man who has secretly uncovered the answer to one of history’s greatest mysteries. However, what they find is more than the evidence of a hidden civilization. It’s also a gateway to a world of living nightmares.

Mayan Blue

Garza, Michelle

Lason, Melissa

Mercy just wanted a quiet evening with her folks after a hard week at work, followed by a rather eerie phone call. Instead, she finds herself alone in the old family home as the dark descends. Unfortunately for Mercy, she’s not alone for long. For reasons she can’t understand, she finds herself surrounded by men in masks with an unclear but obviously sinister purpose. What Mercy does know, is that her situation is dire and that she can’t let them take her. No matter what.

Merciless

Stittle, Kristal

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