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My friend Brian wanted to be a comedy writer. His house had other plans. Inspired by true events. This is a fictionalized recount of some of the occurrences within Brian's Fort Worth home and surrounding street as described by the owner to the author. Some of the names and places have been changed to protect the innocent. When Ryan O’Connor and his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, they thought they found the home of their dreams. A struggling comedy writer, Ryan finds new purpose in a mysterious manuscript discovered in the attic.

In the nation’s Capital, someone is re-enacting the murders from a series of grisly horror books, and all the evidence points towards the author as the perpetrator. The big problem with that? He died a year ago. In suspicious circumstances. There were rumours of murder, but no arrests followed the original investigation. Now the victims are those who were closest to him, and it looks like the author has come back from the dead to exact his revenge.

Bloomsbury presents Pixie by Jill Dawson, read by Kristin Atherton “Pixie”. I like it. “Pixie Pamela”. It’s a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on everyone. It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’...

Suggesting this historic anthology is just a regional horror collection is like calling Frankenstein's monster a simple misstep in medical technology. Road Kill is no longer just an annual anthology of horror stories. It's a serial collection of some of the most serious voices in Lone Star literature. It's a chronicle of Texas terror, and Vol. 9 is eerie, edgy and feral. It will haunt you long after its first reading. It's as fine a selection of horror fiction as you'll find today. It's alive!

Diabolic choppers. A getaway gateway. A Ghostly inheritance. A cemetery daze. A terrifying love bug. A bizarre case of Big Bend bloodshed. Be sure to look both ways before you crack the cover of this terrifying Texas tome because everything is scarier in the Lone Star State! Road Kill is back with a vengeance and bloodlust — with exceptional stories from: Stephen Graham Jones, Jacklyn Baker, Bev Vincent, Patrick C. Harrison, Johnathan Louis Duckworth, E.R. Bills, Lauran J. Campbell, Corey Lamb, Mario E. Martinez, and so many more!

The unifying factor of this collection is that, without exception, every author included here was in some way or another involved with or interested in the occult. In some cases, they were members of an occult organization, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Theosophical Society, or similar such groups. Others simply had a strong personal interest in the subject matter or practiced some form of the esoteric sciences in private.

Somewhere, lurking in Mecklenburg, Jeremy Gunn is uniquely collecting another body. He is the Body Remover. Jeremy comes for you when you die, but that's not his gift. His gift is stealing your secret, the one you died with, the one you never told a soul. But the daring story isn't about him taking your secret, not at all. Explore two absolutely addictive stories detailed with terrifying regret, pulse-racing revenge, and a haunting decades in the making.

From a young age, evil pursued Alezea. Isolated with her son, who is raised to be a killer of little girls, she finds no way out. Until an old employer guides her to a holy place. There, Alezea will either fight for her own redemption or sink into total ruin. While Alezea's battle rages on, her son Thomas seeks a young woman to continue his father’s lineage. He encounters and beguiles Rachel, who soon learns of Thomas’ atrocious history. From the teachings of a young prophet, Rachel believes she can transform Thomas.