Joe's telepathy sends him to Brightside, a beautiful mountain town that is really a prison, where every resident can hear the thoughts he cannot hide.Across the country, people who can read minds are being rounded up. Joe is one of them. His ability lands him in Brightside, a secluded mountain town sold as a peaceful refuge and run like a prison. The residents have homes, jobs, relationships, and no privacy at all. Everyone around Joe can hear the thoughts he can't...

Eleven extreme-horror authors explore whether Satan invades the innocent, or simply gives the willing permission to become what they already are.Evil doesn't always arrive with horns and fire. Sometimes it whispers. Sometimes it tempts. Sometimes it wears your face. Across eleven unflinching stories, Who's Satan Inside? digs into possession, religious terror, bodily violation, psychological unraveling, and the moment temptation becomes consent.Edited by And...

It should be the happiest night of your life. Then the churches start burning, the town turns on itself, and your fiancée looks at you with Satan behind her eyes.You should be celebrating your engagement. Instead, churches burn, suicides spread like wildfire, and brutal murders tear your town apart. The happiest night of your life collapses into hell on earth.Then your fiancée is possessed by Satan himself, and every impossible choice drags you deeper into ...

Teenage Joe Nolan's telepathy turns an intimate mistake into a dangerous lesson about secrets, long before the government sends him to Brightside.Before telepaths were rounded up and locked away in Brightside, Joe Nolan was just a teenager drowning in everyone else's thoughts. A compromising encounter with Mandy forces him to reckon with desire, secrecy, embarrassment, and the cost of knowing what someone else never meant to say out loud.A short prequel to ...

Twenty-eight dark stories drag ordinary people through grief, obsession, violence, guilt, and the twisted consequences of choices they can never undo.Twenty-eight terrifying tales. Mark Tullius takes familiar relationships, private guilt, small disappointments, and moments of weakness and twists them into psychological horror, brutal violence, supernatural unease, and grim morality.A reunion might bring a family together, or expose what one of them has been...

Five familiar lives take one step beyond safety, and discover the horror waiting in homes, jobs, families, entertainment, and the mind of the author himself.Horror doesn't always wait in abandoned castles or distant woods. Sometimes it lives across the street, clocks in for work, comes on over the radio, or sits beside the people you love.Across five stories, Mark Tullius follows an overworked father trying to protect his son, an injured construction worker...

Joshua's father raises him as the returned Messiah, and surviving every attempt to escape the prophecy may be the most frightening evidence that the old man is right.What if you were the Second Coming, and couldn't believe it? Joshua is born into a prophecy he never asked for. His father reads the boy's survival as a divine sign and builds a church around the belief that Joshua has returned to judge the living and redeem the faithful. Instead of love, Joshua gets w...

Four short, brutal doses of Mark Tullius: three dark stories, and one true reckoning with a damaged brain.A father no one in his house can hear anymore. A gang member who walks into a church where something is very wrong. A cameraman who exposes a trafficking ring and can't outrun what he saw.Then the collection turns on its author. In the final piece, Tullius counts the cost of a life spent absorbing punishment (football, boxing, MMA) and what it did to th...

After a crash leaves you and your little sister orphaned, every choice inside Grandma's isolated mountain home could save you both, or end in a gruesome death.Surviving the crash was the easy part. Your parents are gone, your little sister is terrified, and the two of you have been shipped off to grandparents you barely know, deep in a Virginia mountain cottage where no one can hear you.Grandma smiles. Grandpa watches. The house feels safe, right up until t...

Thirty lives reveal how faith becomes law, law becomes punishment, and a nation learns to call tyranny perfect.The Church of the American Way promises order, faith, and national renewal. What it builds is a theocracy where obedience is law, dissent is treason, the prisons keep growing, and cruelty gets rebranded as virtue.Told through thirty interconnected stories, it follows people at every level of the new system: officials and prisoners, believers and do...

Twenty-four violent stories reveal the monsters hiding in ordinary people, damaged minds, desperate relationships, and the choices that turn fear into mayhem.Some monsters are born. Others get made. Untold Mayhem unleashes twenty-four tales of madmen, monsters, twisted minds, damaged relationships, and brutal ends. Mark Tullius moves from psychological horror and dark crime to supernatural violence, body horror, grief, and grim humor, always circling back to the ch...

Former fighter and Ivy League football player Mark Tullius confronts the brain-injury symptoms that changed his behavior, relationships, memory, and sense of self.For years, Mark Tullius ignored the warning signs. A former Brown University football player, boxer, and mixed martial artist, he'd learned to treat pain and repeated blows to the head as proof he was tough enough to keep going.Then the symptoms stopped being ignorable. Memory, focus, mood, behavi...