Browse by Genre: Horror/Ghost Stories

Every House is Haunted

In this brilliant debut collection, Ian Rogers explores the border-places between our world and the dark reaches of the supernatural. The landscape of death becomes the new frontier for scientific exploration. A honeymoon cabin with an unspeakable appetite finally meets … Continue reading

In the Service of Samurai

In the hands of demons… For the first time in his life, Toshi discovers that monsters do roam the earth. And this one has come for him. Dragged from his home and into the company of the undead, Toshi must … Continue reading

The Hair Wreath and Other Stories

Girls and boys disappear; couples caught in the heat and suppressed rage of urban life are haunted by the ghosts of their own making; neighbourhoods drift in the murky atmosphere of buried emotions, where the echoes of distrust and dissonance … Continue reading

Monstrous Affections

This collection of short stories won the Black Quill Award, Best Dark Genre Collection (2010). A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. … Continue reading

Horror Story and Other Horror Stories

Love and loss are the two prevailing themes in this 93,000-word short story collection, featuring 19 of the author’s tales — five of which are original to this collection: – “When Fat Men Love Thin Women” – “The Death Artist” … Continue reading

A Book of Tongues

Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercover with one of the weird West’s most dangerous outlaw gangs-the troop led by “Reverend” Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned “hexslinger,” and his notorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess … Continue reading

From Dark Places

From Dark Places is a collection of dark short stories. Abby finds a creative solution to her father’s problems. Ben makes a pact with the Devil for a new Mum. Katie is pursued by unrelenting voices. John just found his … Continue reading

Homing

A funny, urban love story, Homing is the story of Leah, a woman who’s grown afraid of the outdoors; a ghost that’s lost its way; a musician who’s trying to find his; and Sandy and Harold, a pair of homing … Continue reading

A Rope of Thorns

You must let blood to get blood. New Mexico, 1867. As consort to resurrected Mayan goddess Ixchel, hexslinger “Reverend” Asher Rook has founded “Hex City,” the first place in all of human history where magicians can live and work together … Continue reading