Dark Occult

Picking up a small, pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee’s life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead - murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well - but the shoe itself told him so. Tessa’s death triggers an even more horrific family massacre that, combined with this new talent he neither wants nor can handle, throws Jack’s life into a tailspin. The years quickly take him from state homes to the streets to grifting in a seedy carnival, until he finally becomes the cynical All Seeing Eye, psychic-for-hire. At last, Jackson has left his troubled past behind and found a semblance of peace....

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.

E se in una tiepida notte di luna piena vi capitasse di incontrare Satana? È questo quello che accade a due esimi letterati moscoviti e purtroppo per loro, l'incontro significherà dolore e morte. Non saranno gli unici ad avere a che fare con il signore del male e il suo seguito di demoni. Lo strano e pericolosissimo gruppetto si fermerà infatti alcuni giorni a Mosca, provocando catastrofi e sconvolgimenti a tutte le persone che avranno la sventura di incontrarli, ma darà vita anche a situazioni esilaranti al limite dell'assurdo, descritte con una straordinaria comicità.

When a high-profile child disappears from his family’s Hollywood mansion, Cecile Trudeau receives a call to investigate. The circumstances of the crime bring her back together with movie star Chris Tam, hot off the wrap of his latest film. Together, they set out to find those responsible for the abduction and save the victim. As a Savant - a human awakened to the world of the Supernatural - Cecile has been cleaning up threats to humanity for years.

Pid's Aunt Betti has been mysteriously committed to the Porirua Lunatic Hospital; it's up to Investigative Journalist Benton Bright and their Finnish friend Marcus to determine why. The Dark That Dwells Beneath Te Aro is a cosmic horror set in 1920s Wellington, New Zealand.

In Turn Up the Sun, Hazard, the eccentric drug dealer from Criterium, is horrified to discover he has a doppelganger who appears at the scene of a grisly murder. In Stridor, a pediatrician is not only haunted by her mistakes, but stalked by them. In Sidewinder, a young musician receives a custom, otherworldly guitar pedal.

Dark and Light Tales of Ripton Town is a collection of three short stories by John Decarteret, set in a strange town where nothing, and no one, is ever quite what it seems.

My name is Nelly and I belong to one of the oldest cults in the world, The Cult of Mothers. For years, the Masters have been kidnapping witches, stealing our rituals, and forcing us to be their slaves. They took our spirits, our very ancestors, and turned them into shadow slaves. Now, the very spirits that helped us are out to destroy us. Yet, we Mothers are going to keep fighting. We will fight tooth and nail to lead the shadows back into the light.

Thrilling tales of despair litter the countryside of Rustle County, where children have been disappearing for hundreds of years. This collection of terrifying short stories details the odious occurrences that have haunted Boltsville for generations. Follow Sheriff LeBuff and his affable deputy, Officer LeBlanc, as they try to piece together the dark mystery.

Death fears the men who can use magic against it, but what are those guys scared of? Well, necromancers are only human. Jakub Russo has a big heart but a dark past, and when he's banished from the magical academy for failure in his first assignment, he finds himself needing new allies, new spells, and new weapons.

On January 3rd, 2001, documentary writer/producer Wayne Darwen brought a professional TV news crew into the Temple of the O.T.A. to visually record a remarkable event: the summoning of the ancient spirit Vassago. On February 1st, the Los Angeles affiliate of a National TV Network broadcast an edited version of Vassago's Prophecy, confirming that the Spirit had predicted a major news event. Only 13 days after the ritual was visually recorded, President Laurent Kabila of the Congo was assassinated!

Magic always comes with a price. This is the lesson Alex Hendricks, a young practitioner, learns when she is forced to confront a terrifying entity set on claiming her soul for his own. Secrets from her past are revealed, and she must decide whether to meet the entity's demands or sacrifice herself, allowing him to end her life and condemn her to eternal torment. This short tale follows Alex on her journey over the course of two days time as she battles supernatural forces and comes into her own power. But, will it be enough to save her life and retain command of her own soul?

Amber has emerged from the Cauldron of Rebirth, the first resurrection since Christ. The news of a new Dark Messiah spreads chaos and fear through the magical world, as the small harbor city of Portland prepares for doomsday to descend on the quiet harbors of Portland. With her human life dead and buried, Amber must find a new purpose in the second chance she has been given.The Heavenly Host and their army of the faithful will not rest until this dark new messiah is returned to the afterlife.

Gabe is being held prisoner by the sheriff and heir to the ranch, Owen Rutherford. Owen is determined to harness the power of the Tree of Life - and he needs Gabe to reveal its magic. Secretly, the sheriff has also made a pact to free a creature of the underground, a flesh-devouring mermaid. Muirenn has vowed to exact vengeance on Gabe, who helped imprison her, but first...she's hungry. Once freed, she will swim into Yellowstone - to feed. With her coyote sidekick, Sig, Petra must descend into the underworld to rescue Gabe before it's too late...for both of them.

With their magic diminishing, warring factions of New Orleans witches desperately search for the Book of the Unwinding - a legendary grimoire, hidden by spells, that holds the key to unimaginable powers. As a ruthless struggle erupts in a maelstrom of malevolent magic, psychic Nathalie Boudreau finds her destiny intertwined with that of an exiled witch. Her name is Alice Marin, a vulnerable young woman trapped in a realm of illusion. Only Nathalie can free her, but first she must come to understand and master her own extraordinary abilities.

Framed for a casino massacre, Harmony and Jessie are on the run - in the real world and in their own. From the seedy casinos of Atlantic City to the steamy bayous of Louisiana and the imposing facades of Washington, DC, there's not a soul on earth they can trust. The only way they can clear their names is to take down the conspiracy from within and uncover the truth behind a secret that both the government and the powers of hell want to keep buried.

Discover J.T. Withelder’s first collection of five unforgettable novellas that explore the darkest depths of his brilliant yet twisted imagination. In “Stevie”, revisit one of your earliest fears, the monster under the bed, in a violent reimagining of the childhood trauma. “Magic Eight” blends the believable with the unbelievable when a father discovers a clairvoyant toy amongst his children’s belongings, capable of predicting an ominous future. Will he believe before it’s too late?

A year since she started working for the Devil’s Deals Souls on Loan Exchange program, Darcie Rose has been promoted to demon. But the perk of portal-controlling powers doesn’t overshadow the cold-hearted task of her next mission: “Handle” all the taxidermied animals that she accidentally reanimated in order to restore Earth to its natural order.