Some doors are meant to stay closed.Meet Mortimer, aka Death himself, your charming Southern host with a taste for the macabre and stories that burrow deep under your skin. He's not here to swing a scythe or rattle chains. He's here to tell you three tales that'll make you check your locks twice and sleep with the lights on.In a yellow house on Ridgewood Lane, newlyweds Tom and Emily think they've found their slice of heaven until something ancient and hung...

Trevor Hayes is drowning in grief and home repairs he can't handle alone when Alec Rowan walks onto his porch with cold eyes and capable hands. Alec doesn't do emotional connections; he fixes houses, collects payment, and leaves. But Trevor's soft heart and persistent presence begin to crack Alec's carefully constructed armor.As summer turns to fall and repairs turn to renovations, they build something neither expected: a partnership that feels like coming home. Trevor learns that ...

Somewhere, right now, the world you remember and the world you're standing in have quietly stopped matching.You may not know it yet. Most people don't, until something small breaks the illusion, a name, a date, a detail so certain it couldn't be wrong. Except it is.Millions of people have felt it. It's called the Mandela Effect, and it's real, documented, and closer to you than you think.A retired CERN technician has spent nearly twenty years carryi...

For readers who loved A Little Life**,** The Great Believers**, and** Lessons in Chemistry**.**In his final days, Allen Sawyer has one request: tell my whole story.For forty-five years, Allen lived with purpose. A beloved high school English teacher, he saw the invisible students, the misfits, the outcasts, the ones everyone else overlooked. He showed them that being different was...

Beyond Death: The Women of Blackthorn ManorEvelyn Montgomery comes to Blackthorn Manor to escape her grief, the crumbling Vermont estate feels safer than the world that took her wife. But the house has been waiting for her.Supernatural visions reveal a century-old murder. In 1903, a pregnant servant girl and a young medical student were killed to protect a powerful man's secrets. The dead are restless. They want justice. And they've chosen Evelyn.Wi...

Willow Brook Hotel: Haunted and UnderstaffedA dark comedy of ghosts, grudges, and one very confused hotel manager.Charlie Bennett's boring life managing a chain hotel takes a hard left when his weird Uncle Harold dies and leaves him a crumbling, creepy Victorian inn in the middle of nowhere. The good news? He owns a hotel now. The bad news? It's haunted as hell.Furniture moves on its own. Portraits blink. The piano plays itself every Tuesday at midni...

Lucas didn't ask for the dreams.He just couldn't stop having them.Weeks after his world fell apart, a stranger started showing up in his sleep, sharp-cheekboned, dark-eyed, and impossibly familiar. Every night the dreams went further.Every morning Lucas woke up aching for someone who couldn't possibly be real.Until he was.What starts as a fever dream becomes something Lucas can't wake up from, a hunger that feels less like desire and more like possession.The man in ...

Tony Danials is seventy-five years old, alone, and carrying one regret he can no longer outrun. He loved Mark for a lifetime but never found the courage to tell him.Dr. Emily Abrams has spent years developing an experimental process she believes can send a person's consciousness into another reality. Tony will be the first human subject. No one knows where his mind will go, what he'll find there, or whether he'll return unchanged.Tony has nothing left to lose. He says yes.

If you liked Tal Bauer, Garrett Leigh, or Sebastian Nothwell, you'll love this sweeping story of love, war, and second chances.James has spent decades grappling with love and loss, haunted by two men who shaped his life. First, there was Ethan, the man he fell for during the chaos of war, a love forged in secrecy and ultimately lost to time.Then came Adam, the man who gave him peace and stability, the one who taught him how to love again. But now, Adam is g...

The fire's gone. The dead stayed behind.Ethan Matthews thought coming back to Crestwood High would bring closure. He's not a student anymore. Now he's a teacher. And he's married to Hanna, his high school sweetheart, one of the few who survived the fire that scarred them both.But something's still lurking in those halls. Whispers echo through empty classrooms. Shadows shift when no one's there. The ones who died? They never left. And they're not here to hau...

Shadows of the ReaperWhen the line between life and death blurs, what price will you pay to protect the ones you love?Joey McCreary's life takes a chilling turn during a mundane night shift at Sunny's Diner when Death himself offers a deal: an extension of life in exchange for becoming the Reaper's apprentice. As Joey collects souls, he is dragged into a dangerous world where morality and mortality clash. Now, he must confront his darkest fears and ultimate...

Some stories don't stay on the page. They follow you home.Death has a name, and he prefers you call him Mort. Charming, well-dressed, and devastatingly patient, he's been collecting what's owed since the first breath became the last. But some debts run deeper than others, and some people think they're too important to pay.In this chilling continuation, Mort returns with three new tales that guide you through shadows where reality bends and the price of defying death compoun...