Dark Occult

Failing to kill a god brings more than a stain to your reputation as a killer. It brings the wrath of others upon your head - those who hired you, those you tried to kill, the family of the target...all of whom have the ability to destroy you with a mere thought. When Sven took on the task of removing a Norse lesser god from creation, his reward wasn't gold or silver, but his very soul. After hunting the trickster, he is thwarted by the god of thunder, who ejects his soul from Valhalla and into the great beyond. Neither ancient spells nor modern witches can locate his lost soul.

John Nomad once was a normal man, with a good job, loving wife, and beautiful daughter. A demonic creature took their lives, and destroyed everything that John cared about. In the depths of his depression, a blind monk introduced him to a hidden world of power, of men and gods who use exotic powers to change the world around them. He showed John that a powerful group was behind his family's death, and were the real power behind every government and political power on earth.

Evil lurks from beyond its tomb, summoning the souls of the damned to his clutches, feeding from their auras to replenish its strength so he may reclaim his throne. In his absence, a new beast rises to claim the seat of power, threatening pain and destruction upon the world. Fueled by hatred and the lust for power, the fiend known as Atrin lurks in the shadows and slaughters the creatures known as rifters, suckling on their souls to build his own power.

Tam Taylor’s first memory is drowning in the ocean. Although her father saved her, she has never returned. In fact, in the 20 years since, she’s barely left her sleepy rural hometown of Sylvester, Georgia. Every night she dreams of this horrible event. To help her cope and move on, her best friend Cary Jo forces Tam to take a trip to the beach. That’s when the tentacles sprout from Tam's skin. In a small town like Sylvester, everyone instantly knows when you change your hair color or start a new job. Blending in has always been Tam’s survival method. Now she’s forced to adapt.

Humanity lives in the sunlit world of what we believe to be reality. Unknown to most there is, unseen by most, another world, possibly many other worlds, running side by side with our own. The Marquette Institute and Department of Preternatural Activities (DPA) are the latest in a long and illustrious line of organizations established to help safeguard the human race from the monsters living in the spaces between reality and nightmares. These stories just scratch the surface of the operations and investigations conducted in almost 200 years of operation.

Frank Bishop has been at war with fallen angels since he was five years old. That's when they first tried to kill him. A group of supernatural warriors called the Watchers saved Frank that fateful day. They taught him how to be a powerful wizard and warrior. But nothing could prepare him for what Jessie and Arraziel have planned. Frank blurs the line between good and evil in his all-consuming quest to stop Jessie and the Fallen in book one of the dark urban fantasy series, The Second Death.

Hank's wife dies in a tragic car accident and he's left to raise his handicapped son alone. His in-laws invite him to move from San Francisco back to Cleveland, Ohio, where an abandoned observatory pulses with a mysterious energy that can bring the dead back to life. When Hank discovers the ancient secret of resurrection, he faces the most critical decision of his life - one with consequences for all of humanity.

There are incidents and emergencies in the world that defy logical explanation, events that could be defined as supernatural, extraterrestrial, or simply otherworldly. Standard laws do not allow for such instances, nor are most officials or authorities trained to handle them. In recognition of these facts, one organization has been created that can. Assembled by a loose international coalition, their mission is to deal with these situations using diplomacy, guile, force, and strategy as necessary.

Bryan Armstrong and Kyle Detwiler, two college students on the cusp of graduation, are the lucky winners of a contest to become interns on the paranormal television show The Specter Slayers. Their excitement turns to jubilation when they discover that they'll be aiding in the investigation of The Danver Church, one of the most haunted places in America. Nestled in the remote mountains of Pennsylvania, the church is world renowned for the massacre that occurred there forty years earlier.

When Cletus J. Diggs and his buddy Jasper decide to go fishing, Jasper tells him two fishermen they know saw a dinosaur in The Great Dismal Swamp, Cletus is ready to chock it up to shadows and too much beer. When he and Jasper are out fishing themselves and find a bass boat jammed nose first into the bottom of the Perquimans River with nothing left of the other two men but a boot with a leg protruding from it and one big-assed track in the mud, things get serious.

What started as a simple sim soon showed signs of crossing over, of opening a rift to the afterlife. But that's not all. Parts of that world are coming our way, and what used to be worlds for the dead are changing...evolving? This is my story - a journey into the world beyond to find my lost fiancée, in the process changing myself and my understanding of this new reality. An adventure that involves leveling up, forming bonds with demons and spirits, and even going up against a very odd dungeon master.

Two boys in the west of Scotland awaken an ancient vampire. And the only way to stop it is in the power of a book - a bible detailing the dark religion of the Eldren. But time is running out, and the sun is getting low.

On a dark New England night, Cassie Stevens startles awake–something’s in the room with her. Something she can’t see or hear, but feels in the icy air, and the weight of unseen eyes watching her from the darkness. Ever since surviving a near-death experience in a crash, Cassie’s been haunted by this malevolent presence. She sees brief flashes of it from the corner of her eye and in the subtle stir of shadows in dark corners. It’s coming for her, invading her mind and thoughts with dark, grotesque horrors and madness

A long time ago, Joseph woke up next to a lake with his past scrubbed from his memory. Now, 10 years later, secrets will be revealed. It’s time for Joseph to discover the truth of his mysterious past, but for that to happen, it seems he’ll need to embrace his dark destiny. And that’s not all poor Joseph has to deal with. There’s also a spate of bizarre animal slaughters sweeping the area, a strange man who believes something monstrous is taking over his village, and a blossoming romance that may or may not be tainted with pure evil.

Baxter Zevcenko's life is pretty sweet. He's making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high school syndicate, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he's dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter who goes by the name of Jackson "Jackie" Ronin.

Jebediah Skayne has been hunting husks his entire adult life, but there's something different about the trail leading to the fishing town of Portis on the shores of the Chalice Sea: no spoor, no footprints; nothing save the unmistakable feeling of wrongness. Finding a husk in Portis would be near impossible for someone who didn't have the sixth sense, but the instant Jeb arrives, all trace of the incursion vanishes.

Yancy Lazarus is having a bad day: there's a bullet lodged in his butt cheek, his face looks like the site of a demolition derby, and he's been saran-wrapped to a banquet table. He never should have answered the phone. Stupid bleeding heart - helping others in his circles is a good way to die - just ask the gang members ripped to pieces by some kind of demonic nightmare in LA.

When seers Céline and Amelie Fawe fled Shetâna under threat of death, they vowed never to return. Yet less than a year later, they are summoned back - to aid the man who once tried to kill them.... The cruel prince Damek is on the verge of closing marriage negotiations with the powerful family of a young noblewoman when his intended's sister is murdered. To keep the engagement from falling through, Damek must expose the killer quickly - and he needs the seers' powers to do so.

Michelle was brutally attacked in her locked hotel room in Las Vegas. The police didn't believe her and thought she must have lured a man up to her hotel room for a little sexual adventure, which went dangerously out of control. Michelle sustained visible scars from the terrifying and almost lethal attack, but pure fear motivated the move from her home in California to Hawaii. She's scared her attacker will come back. She's sure the next time he'll kill her.

I have no idea who I am anymore. In Los Angeles, I would have given anything to go home to Orenda, my world where magic was alive and nature spoke to me. Now that I'm back I feel out of place, burdened with responsibility. The human part of me misses the simplicity of Earth, the mage part begs for connection with magic, and the demon part? I don't want to admit that exists.