Mark enjoyed his carefree bachelor’s life in Los Angeles. He had no steady girlfriend, no children, few responsibilities outside of work. But that all changed when “The Call” came. Genevieve, his eighty-nine-year-old mother, was on her deathbed. He rushed back to New Jersey to be by her side. Hours became days, days became weeks, then she woke up. So, he moved back into his childhood home and took over her care. His first task was to remove all hazards, which included the ...

For six centuries, the world has worshipped Jan van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece. Few know that the painter hid something inside it. Fewer still know he killed to protect it.When a fragment of a lost Nazi diary surfaces in Ghent, young art historian Sophia Rossi stumbles onto a trail long dismissed as myth—a trail leading to the missing panel of the altarpiece, stolen in 1934 and never recovered. The diary hints at something far older buried within the painting’s creati...

Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter - an Austrian-born cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens - stands over the body of Friedrich, contemplating the age-old question: who did it? Friedrich might have been one of the finest minds of his age, but he was problematic: arrogant a...

Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays is a collection of writing published by Four Corners Writers based in Cortez, Colorado. The pieces included (12 short stories, 24 poems, and 13 essays) were gathered through a submission process in the summer of 2024.In 2025, Four Corners Voices was named the winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology and, in 2026, Four Corners Voices was named by Colorado Humanities as Colorado's selection for the 2026 National Book Festi...

Two Halloween enthusiasts get their hands on an ancient grimoire and decide to use the recipes within to make seasonal pies for trick-or-treaters. People die.

Two Halloween enthusiasts get their hands on an ancient grimoire and decide to use the recipes within to make seasonal pies for trick-or-treaters. People die.

A modern take on Washington Irving's classic, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.Set three years after the Y2K panic in 1999, history teacher Ian Crane, is hunted by a ghost — a spectral demon hellbent on reaping souls on Halloween night — and behind the wheel of a midnight-black, 1969 Mustang Mach 1.

Splatter Capital shows how a popular subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a ni...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An abusive father and husband meets a hellish fate by his own carelessness, temperament and ignorance. Without repentance, his tomb may lie between the ears of a small, antique toy.boohousebooks.com

Dracula is dead. Now his three vampire daughters must inherit the living kingdom he built—and decide whether they can save it without becoming him.For centuries, Drevanor has been more than Dracula's castle. It is a vast, living kingdom—a refuge for humans, monsters, outcasts, and supernatural beings that have nowhere else to go.Now its ruler is dead.And Drevanor is beginning to fail.Ancient defenses falter. Gates obey comma...

A young, Los Angeles contracting assistant suggests that office team-building should come in the form of a local 'Race To Feed The Hungry'. Although, what the event turns out to be feeding comes as a disgusting and devastating surprise.Check out the companion podcast for this story: Boohouse PodcastSee upcoming titles by this author at boohousebooks.com

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Ormy lives a life of isolation and insomnia. One day as he walks the beach with his metal detector, he finds a miniature mermiad caught in cruelly discarded trash. He brings the treasure home, nurses her back to health and gives her a home in a fishbowl beside his bed. That night, he finds that the tiny siren's musical lulls finally get him to sleep after years of restlessness. Days later, an aquatic monstrosity rises from the ocean and...