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There’s more to Poland than sausages, perogies, and thousand-year-old churches: there’s a hardcore horror movement that’s blowing the rest of Europe out of the water, and here are the four authors leading the pack.

A monster demands candy on Halloween night. “Falconers” train ghosts to harvest bits of human souls. A father stretches the boundaries of reality to bring his son back from the dead. A pious man is tormented by a demon he guards.

Sometimes, otherworldly beings reach out in strange and mysterious ways. They may have a request for you to fulfill, or simply take pleasure in terrifying you senseless. If you’re lucky, you might even live to tell the tale….

This collection is a bundle of the first four books in the Private Investigator Mason Black crime thriller series. Welcome to San Francisco, where depraved serial killers lurk in the dark.

Acclaimed throughout the underground horror world, J.R. Hamantaschen’s stories push the boundaries and refuse to conform to the usual conventions. A mix of nihilism, cosmic horror, and weird fiction, this collection is a must-read for anyone who craves the dark and disturbing.

Author Elford Alley invites you to pull up a chair, sit down by the fire, and spend one last night listening to chilling tales. Three generations are drawn to a haunted farmhouse with a terrifying secret. A grieving couple's chance at rebuilding their family comes with an unexpected price. A paranormal team investigates a haunting that isn't what it seems.

Waking the Dead by breakout author Bryan Asbury features eight short stories that will take you by the hand and lead you down a dark, shadowy path where terror and retribution reign supreme. Asbury, the product of far too many 80’s and 90’s cinematic thrillers, knows what horror fans want, and he knows how to deliver! Lock the doors and sit back, because this is a collection that you will appreciate—at least until it’s time to shut off the lights...

The unsettling stories in this collection will wrap themselves around the lobes of your brain and refuse to let go. Thomas O.’s twisted tales run the course from outright horror all the way to dark humor.

From the award-winning author of Occupational Hazards come nine more tales of blue-collar fiction, including The Destroyer (sequel to Jar Baby) and the author's autobiographical Memoir of a Murderer, narrated by an all-star cast of performers. There's horror, there's humor, there's horrific humor. It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries. Treat yourself. You deserve it.

J.R. Hamantaschen, a name synonymous with groundbreaking underground horror, returns with his latest collection. Channeling the essence of horror legends like H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Clive Barker, T.E.D. Klein, and Dennis Etchison, this collection cements his status as a master storyteller in the realm of dark fiction, blending nihilism, the grotesque, and the philosophical in a way that only he can.

In the void of space, alien creatures puppet dead flesh through darkened corridors. A simple date becomes a dance with a shapeshifting horror, while shadow creatures stalk forgotten towns. And in quiet suburban homes, doors to nightmare realms appear in ordinary basements.

While landscaping his backyard, ever-conscientious Paul Prentice discovers an iron door buried in the soil. His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief, Jay Lightsey, pushes them to explore what's beneath. When the door slams shut above them, Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters, all with a mysterious connection to a command-line, dungeon explorer computer game from the early '80s called The Between.

A grieving father attempts the unthinkable to keep his child alive. A contractor discovers a secret in the soil of a haunted house. A community faces a plague after a drought-stricken lake reveals a forgotten cemetery.

After a journey through time and space and a nightmarish world, two young boys come home to find themselves under a new world order. The place they left behind has changed. A new threat has started to rise, and things look bleak, hopeless. In Rebirth, the final chapter of The CORT Chronicles, Andy and Zack hope to alter the future by saving the present.

How many sausages does it take to change a light bulb? For Jimmy, a fifth-year college senior who dreams of walking the stage to receive his sausage-making diploma, the answer is obvious: Only one, but it's best to have a second just in casing. In his world, where lowbrow humor holds court with high expectations — and pigs live alongside humans as social equals — it's all he can do to reach that lofty goal without stumbling. But stumble he does when, standing in line at the registrar's office, he encounters a vision of loveliness known as Petunia.

Marble Springs is a town with a hundred missing persons cases, a lake harboring a blood-thirsty monster, and a second-generation serial killer on the loose. When undervalued city employee Abe Barret begins to see the dead, he discovers the loss of his family is linked to these unsolved disappearances, and he only has days to solve it, before his time is up.

It’s been five years since Mason returned to work as a private investigator, and he’s just found the balance between his job and family life. Unfortunately for him, there’s a new killer in San Francisco who will stop at nothing to disturb the peace. The Friday Killer has been targeting students, and Mason’s daughter - Amy - is next on the list. Without the help of his friends on the force, it’s up to Mason to find this killer before it gets personal. Before his own daughter becomes another name in the obituary.

Returning with his distinctive brand of unsettling fiction, J. R. Hamantaschen presents a new collection of unsettling and dark tales. These 11 stories refuse to shy away from the profound depths of human desperation and unyielding perseverance. Echoing the voices of weird fiction legends like Thomas Ligotti, H. P. Lovecraft, and Chuck Palahniuk, Hamantaschen’s narratives are a masterful blend of the uncanny and the profoundly insightful. Prepare for a journey that challenges the boundaries of dark fiction and leaves you questioning your sanity.

When a mysterious truck crashes through the gates of the AccuTech factory, the final shift descends into a nightmare of inhuman proportions. An extraterrestrial parasite capable of absorbing and perfectly mimicking any life form has arrived, leaving a trail of blood and chaos in its wake. Desperate to contain the outbreak at any cost, a shadowy military faction places the factory under quarantine, sealing the doors and condemning everyone inside to a grisly fate.

After falling into a time portal during a Little League baseball game in Trinity, New York, 11-year-old Andy finds himself transported to a ghostly version of his hometown - 101 years in the future. Twisted metal, rotten wood, and garbage litter the seemingly empty streets, but Andy will soon discover that the city is controlled by CORT robots...and that this reality is Earth’s possible future. When 13-year-old Zack receives a strange letter that guides him through the portal, he and his brother are reunited.