Dark Fantasy Short Stories

Eighteen suspenseful short stories with a twist for lovers of Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. Journey into strange worlds and meet their unusual and sometimes terrifying residents in these stories spanning suspense, horror, paranormal, science fiction, and supernatural from the dark mind of short story award-winning author Susan May.

Hidden deep within the sewers of our world roosts a vile creature known only as the Dark Goblin. He holds in his possession the Spellmaster’s Book, a text with the power to make him practically immortal. He fears no one and turns all those who dare cross him into brainless goblins who obey his every command.

Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it. Clock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Carmilla is Le Fanu's famous classic vampire story which has been filmed numerous times, including Vampyre (1932), Blood and Roses (1960), Crypt of Horror (1964), The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Carmilla (1999).

Ten tales of worlds gone wrong: "The Mold of Memory" - Nanotech run amok.

Stories for a Storm Filled Night, is the first book of short stories sent within the dark fantasy trilogy the Storm Series. It’s a standalone book, hence will be perfect for new listeners to the saga. It will transport them to the land of Talocants, where they will meet, werewolves, heroes, and villains.

In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted. When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home. Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world is turned upside down. When everything she loves comes under attack, she must choose between running away and revealing a gift that could alter the kingdom forever....

Death and destruction follow the demon wherever he treads, and Gabriel is rarely far behind, waiting for his chance to extinguish the creature known as Temple once and for all. But in Singapore during the Second World War, a lone soldier in possession of a shattering secret gets caught up in their battle. The knowledge he holds could change the course of their ancient conflict...and the fate of the world.

Ken Goldman, author of more than 650 published stories, brings you a chapbook containing two dark novellas and three of his best twisted tales.

Don't cry. Don't spill a drop. Valda risks her life every day to cross the Waters and bring supplies to her people. The Drubs are slaves, forced to live and work in the middle of the Waters, but they have hope. If they work hard enough, they can buy freedom. At least, that's what they've been told. The waters come for everyone. When Valda is refused freedom she must fight back and free the Drubs, but the Waters are hungry, and they don't take sides.

Shaking rural America to its core in 2016, behold the reenactment of the Their Yard phenomena. The witness-based story in which three dissimilar families, each residing within three various locations, are tied together by one chilling and astonishing connection.

A dozen tumultuous years after the dramatic events at the Paris Opera House Raoul, Comte de Chagny is still haunted by the mysterious Opera Ghost - the creature of legend who held staff at the Opera House under his thrall, kidnapped Raoul’s lover, and murdered his brother. In Raoul’s troubled imagination the ghosts of the past are everywhere, and a strange and powerful music still calls in his dreams. Madness, obsession, and the legacy of the past weave their spell in this short, tragic tale based on the Phantom of the Opera.

Welcome to Hawkes Eye. Inside, you'll find the first of my anthologies. Listen and enjoy. And tell a friend.

A collection of three stories by John Kaniecki: "Heretic", "Johnny Can't Run", and "The Psychology of Lady Jane Perkins". Religion and truth battle for control in a future society underground on Earth. In the not-so-far-off future a group of Nazis have been exiled to a distant planet. An engineering student is swept away in love by one Lady Jane Perkins, but what does the young man see in this homeless psychiatric patient?

Captain Torren, the warden of the Dormigan Prison, knows that the mysterious Prisoner 34 is much more dangerous than the authorities think. Torren does his best to guard him, going so far as to break some of his orders, but the new governor's sudden wish to personally inspect the prison threatens to destroy the shaky balance the warden has achieved. Will the Prisoner comply and help Torren through the inspection? What will he ask in return? And will he keep his word?

Beelzebub's got a busy day ahead of him and his printer's gone on the fritz. People to do, things to visit...what's a stressed-out Prince of Darkness to do?

Cuando los humanos vienen a talar el último bosque, se llevan una desagradable sorpresa. Un corto y oscuro cuento de fantasía sobre la ira de la naturaleza.

Quando gli umani arrivano per abbattere l'ultima foresta, hanno una brutta sorpresa. Un racconto sull'ira della natura.

In the late 1590s, Scotland was on the verge of many changes that would shape its future, such as religious reformation and the union of the crowns with England. But in many ways the country, was still rooted in its medieval past, and fear of witches and demons was still a large part of everyday life. Seton confronts his demons, both internal and external, as he wanders on the fringes of history.

Alec Bailey knows a thing or two about the supernatural world and its dangers. When the local news crew shows up to do a piece on his hotel, he knows he should send them away…especially with that unchecked demon lurking on the property perimeter. Supernatural protocol dictates he call in Jacquelyn, McCall’s own demon hunter, but he isn’t ready to say goodbye to the beautiful crew member who reminds of a time in his life long past.