Showing results for "The Borrowed" in Horror

When Elias Mercer, a former crime scene photographer who lost his sight in a violent attack, accepts an experimental medical procedure from a private biotech company, he believes he is finally being given his life back. Sight returns. But it does not come alone. Through a neural optic interface...

Imagine being shot, thrown into a pool, and left for dead. But by some miracle, you survive - only to be tormented by visions of young women being murdered.... When Suzanne Cash’s dead fiancé, Jack, appears during her near-death experience, she credits him for saving her life. But when he keeps reappearing, hijacking her sanity, and insisting she revisit her past, she questions his motives. Why would he lead her into the lair of a serial killer? And what is his connection to the victims?

In her debut collection, Christa Carmen combines horror, charm, humor, and social critique to shape 13 haunting, harrowing narratives of women struggling with both otherworldly and real-world problems. From grief, substance abuse, and mental health disorders, to a post-apocalyptic exodus, a seemingly sinister babysitter with unusual motivations, and a group of pesky ex-boyfriends who won’t stay dead, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked is a compelling exploration of horrors both supernatural and psychological....

A boy stands in a bathroom and discovers his face can change. Asa Greer is five years old when the mirror shows him something that should be impossible: the features of the boy next door, worn on his own skull. The borrowed face lasts three seconds. The cost is permanent. He will never smell his own skin again. Over the next fifty years, Asa consumes more than a hundred faces. Each acquisition deposits a blueprint into his nervous system and extracts an irreversible sensory payment.

Gole never thought he'd be faced with such a decision, but when a clandestine and mysterious company offers him a deal, he's forced to consider the unimaginable. With his sick mother in mind, Gole takes the deal to leave behind a life of poverty for a utopian world. But as he delves deeper into this new reality, he soon realizes that things are not as they seem.

Callie Delgado always puts family first, and unfortunately her brother knows it. She’s emptied her savings, lost work, and spilled countless tears trying to keep him out of trouble, but now he’s in deeper than ever, and his debt is on Callie’s head. She’s given a choice: Do some dirty work for the mob, or have her brother returned to her in tiny pieces.

Daniella Reyes is back! She’s a badass warrior ready to take back what is already hers. Once a wounded soul, she’s now a fearless warrior rising up in the ranks among the secret society of The Willow Wood Women with a new "Guardian" status. A new and dangerous mission will take her undercover to expose a most secretive and dangerous cult. She must rescue another soul before she and her new charges become victims themselves.

For Julia Moreau, life seems complicated. Emerging from a failed marriage and managing a lifetime of diabetes, she lives alone in her childhood home, where she communicates with the spirit of her great-aunt Lilia. But Julia doesn't have a clue what complicated is until she is thrust into being the key chess piece in a match between two powerful men of extraordinary abilities on the wild hunt for a mystical creature hidden in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter.

Cassie marries the man of her dreams, but her happily-ever-after-life is flipped upside down when she spots an eerie woman in her wedding photos and encounters a dangerous spirit in her home. Cassie discovers that her mother-in-law passed her a curse through the haunted barrette she wore to her wedding as her something borrowed. With her marriage, her life, and her sanity on the brink of ruin, Cassie must uncover the terrifying truth about the haunted barrette and free herself from this nightmarish curse.