On the heels of personal tragedy and career disappointment, a young woman stumbles on brutal violence and eldritch secrets in an old Louisiana mansion.Will the residue of magick and powerful unfinished rituals fuel fresh terror?Bryn Hudson's lost her job, her baby and her husband. Rather than let despair destroy her, she's seized an opportunity she might have once disdained: paranormal journalist.Along with videographer Reyes Segarr...

An unsolved mystery upends Si Reardon's sunny Florida plans to recover from the events of Fool's Run and reconnect with his daughter. Si's strange luck throws him into a bizarre sometimes zany maelstrom of Hollywood stars, sleazy producers grim practical jokers and a ghostly presence that won't let him rest.Gretta Carr disappeared years ago, just after a standout turn in a big-budget film. Now that film's fading stars and producers are back on Florida beaches for a lower-budget seq...

Saturday Morning FunHeaven was only four and a half, but she knew everything about the Gnelfs. She watched the little green men on TV, "read" her Gnelf books, and watched the Gnelf movies her mommy rented for the VCR. Sometimes Heaven even dreamed about the adorable little creatures. She just loved the Gnelfs.Saturday Night TerrorThen the Gnelfs changed. Instead of being cute and lovable, they were ugly and mean. They hurt Heaven and made her cry. Then they started ...

With an escaped murderer rumored to be hiding on a small college campus, student journalist Allison Rose accepts a dangerous offer – an exclusive interview with the killer. He wants his side of the story told. She wants to expose the school administration's disregard for student safety. Following a text-message negotiation, she heads to a secret meeting. There, her careful safeguards quickly fall away, and Allison finds herself embroiled in a game of wits with a twisted but brilliant mind....

Cries in the night from her daughter Heaven are just the beginning for Gabrielle Harris. What seem to be nightmares about Heaven's favorite cartoon characters soon lead Gab to a stranger paranormal conspiracy focused on revenge. She's faced with a living nightmare in which friends die and dangeroussorcery is at work. With only the help of a strange holy man named Danube, Gabrielle battles supernatural forces for her daughter's life and soul and for her own sanity, especially when she learn...

Si Reardon knows nobody wants to hire an ex-cop fresh out of prison unless it's for a job nobody wants.His only offer's from Rose Cantor, an elegant and beautiful "special counsel" who just wants him to take a meeting.Her clients Grace and Adam Holst are asking for extreme justice. A very bad man named Valentine Alexeeva, a criminal on the rise, once ordered the deaths of their young daughters over a business deal gone wrong. Alexeeva covered his tracks well. Now he's still...

In Dublin, Ireland, academics and historians are dying. An unidentified venom is to blame. Strange markings from deep in the Emerald Isle's past suggest adherents to lost and forbidden knowledge may have reorganized.Detective Aileen O'Donnell of Ireland's National Police Service, An Garda Síochána, has never heard of the agency's sub rosa unit devoted to investigation of the strange and paranormal. That is, until a shooting incident leads to her suspension from the Special Detectiv...

It's a 10-minute walk to the town square for a Christmas concert, until a mysterious white truck turns up.In seconds, after a detour to shake her stalker, Amity Nichols is in a test of endurance and a game of survival that are one and the same.Does the mysterious driver know about the dark secret she's harboring? Or does he want something worse for her than silence?As darkness falls, Amity will have to face a challenge of stealth and patience until decisions on life...

The drought-stricken Louisiana town of Bristol Springs was turning into a living grave. Little by little its desperate citizens were watching their dreams die. But the terrible blight was bringing something else to life--a deadly horror far worse than any earthly bane. A vampire as old as time with powers greater than mere legend, she summoned the beasts of the night to serve her foul will. Fierce, relentless, they made humans their unnatural prey, leaving them helpless victims of her endl...

Scars and Candy opens the door on a dark world of monsters, crime, mayhem and human evil. Demons, dark creatures and dangerous humans lurk in 16 tales that gaze into the darkness of the human heart and paths of revenge, retribution and terror.

It was kind of a joke, the legend about the swamp. The old folks of Aimsley, Louisiana, still whispered about the evil entities that dwelled there—the Mormo—but hardly anyone else actually believed the tales. The swamp was just a real quiet place, and the Mormo was the result of somebody's imagination, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. Debra and her reporter boyfriend thought it would make a great feature story for the local newspaper or maybe the National Enquirer. "The Return of the...

Bran Hatten is big, mean and unpredictable. He'll pound any guy that crosses his path, and he's a complete jerk to girls who spurn his affections. Tess Ryan and her friends are looking for options, even those the mysterious new girl at Pembrook High might offer. Charisse Bienville lives in the old dark house at the edge of town, and she's hinted that she commands powerful magical forces. Tess and her friends join Charisse in a ritual to end Bran's reign of terror, but they don't count on w...