Part I Michael and I had been best friends since the first week of high school. I met him in the lunch line, both of us shuffling forward with our plastic trays, silently weighing whether the nachos looked edible. He cracked a joke about the cheese...
Every morning, the grave of Ken Kline is found disturbed, as if he has been climbing out in the dead of night. Pastor David Locklear isn’t one to believe in ghost stories, but when he sees Ken rise with his own eyes, he follows him—and...
Roger Westle is no stranger to artificial intelligence, but when his experiments with the latest AI model take a bizarre turn, he begins to question whether he’s dealing with mere lines of code—or something far more sinister. At first, the responses seem normal. Then come...
When teenage metal detectorist Edward Hartwell unearths an old silver ring, he doesn’t expect much. But the moment he slips it onto his finger, strange things begin to happen. Weeds wither at his touch. A creeping warmth pulses through him. The ring isn’t just metal—it’s...
When an antiquarian stumbles upon a long-lost manuscript at an estate sale, he believes he has found a mere relic of forgotten folklore. But The Nether Codex is no ordinary book. As he studies its cryptic passages, reality itself begins to shift around him—words change,...
Disgraced archaeologist Dr. Graham Westley has spent his life chasing knowledge, desperate to uncover what the world has forgotten. But when a visit to Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar leads him to an enigmatic merchant and an unassuming brass lamp, he finds himself entangled in something far...
Dr. Gaslow has seen his fair share of desperate patients, but none have ever shown up at his doorstep in the dead of night. When a mysterious, hooded man arrives seeking urgent dental care, Gaslow is thrust into a horrifying encounter that defies all reason....
When twelve-year-old Tommy discovers a strange, leathery disc on his way home, he chalks it up to an odd curiosity—until it moves. Fascinated and unable to resist, he takes it home, unaware that he has just invited something alien into his world. As the object...
When Simon Fletcher moves into a quiet old house on Sycamore Street, he thinks he’s found a new beginning. But then the dreams start—visions of an altered version of his home, a shadowed figure at his window, and a whispered warning: Don’t let him in....
When Stephen Coolidge finds a corpse in his basement, he assumes it’s a terrible accident. But when new bodies continue to appear, with no sign of how they got there, he is drawn into a horrifying mystery that ties back to his own family’s past....
Part I It started with an ad. At the time, I wasn’t in a position to question good fortune, and $35 an hour for an overnight shift at a 24-hour diner wasn’t something a person in my situation ignored. I didn’t stop to ask why a tiny...
Paulo has spent years using his unnatural gift for fire to serve the mafia, hoping to earn his freedom one job at a time. But when he’s asked to cross a line he swore he never would, everything changes. Now hunted by the people he...
When paranormal investigators Wayne Carter and Wesley Hanlon livestream their exploration of Blackwood National Forest, they expect the usual cryptid-hunting thrills. Instead, they encounter something that watches, learns, and mimics—something that doesn’t just repeat words, but steals them. Days later, they’re found dead, their bodies...
Part I I never told a soul about what happened that night forty years ago. Not the whole truth, anyway. That day, I signed my name on a stack of papers handed to me by men who didn’t ask me to understand what I was agreeing to—only...
Part I Leonardo Vorelli had spent most of his life studying dead languages and the myths that surrounded them. He had once believed that history was an unbroken chain, a series of recorded events with only the occasional missing link. A lie, but an orderly one. The...
PART I The air in Nathaniel Ross’s basement carried the stale scent of things abandoned. Dust and mildew thickened in the corners, creeping over old furniture draped in sheets. The basement itself was larger than expected, the concrete walls marked with faint discolorations where shelves had...
Seeking solace in the bottom of a whiskey glass, a man meets a woman in a red dress who offers him more than just companionship—she promises renewal. Following her into the depths of a surreal and monstrous city, he is drawn into a procession of...
I used to think rock bottom was just an expression. A place people talked about when they were down on their luck, but never a real, tangible thing. Now I know better. Rock bottom has a smell—stale beer and cheap takeout. It has a sound—silence...
When Wendy’s family goes searching for her in a decaying house marked by strange graffiti and unsettling energy, they are drawn into a world ruled by invisible, terrifying forces. As Wendy becomes more consumed by the will of the "little Gods," her family must decide...
Emmett, a young pastor, arrives in the town of Culling to take over for the late Pastor Orshank. The church, abandoned and locked, seems to hold the key to the town's spiritual unrest. But as Emmett pushes to reopen the church, he uncovers unsettling truths...
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