Dark Occult

The Coffin Maker, your host and guide, presents 12 ghastly tales from two of the most gifted voices in modern horror.

A house in the mountains, the roads to and from it impassable. The perfect place for best-selling author Peter’s annual holiday; a refuge from the pressures of life and an opportunity to recharge his creative batteries in solitude. A dream location. Except this year, something else has taken residence on the snow-covered slopes, something filled with malignant intent and a desire to kill. Driven by impulses beyond its ken, it seeks out the house in which Peter is staying and the writer soon finds himself in a battle with the deadliest of foes, a creature born of nightmares...

Take a quick journey through three tales that will make you wonder, make you shiver, and make you avoid your own reflection. Buckle up and hang on as Leigh Grissom, author of The Eden Evolution Series, takes a side trip through the darker parts of her mind in her triumphant return to writing short stories.

Karen and Joel are not the only ones inhabiting Joel's house. An unknown evil lurks within, and it's determined to rid itself of Karen, the troublesome new roommate. Stalked through the night by an ancient assailant, Karen must shift her focus. It's no longer enough simply to unravel the house's mysteries. Now, she must worry about making it out alive....

Cassie is an awkward girl just trying to fit in. No matter how hard she tries, she always ends up the outcast. In her solitude, she dabbles in the occult where she finds peace and her own sense of power. Some people, however, can't leave her be. They harass and terrorize Cassie until she takes her own life. That should be the end, but is far from it. Cassie is intercepted in the afterlife by the Clerics of Dolor who give her another chance.

Some families hand down wealth through generations; some hand down wisdom. Some families, whether they want to or not, hand down the secret burdens they carry and the dangerous debts they owe. Lissa Nevsky's grandmother leaves her a big, empty house and a legacy of magic: folk magic, old magic, brought with Baba when she fled the Gulag. In the wake of her passing, the Russian community of Toronto will depend on Lissa now to give them their remedies and be their koldun'ia.

Katie MacAlister’s sultry paranormal romances zip to the top of best-seller lists across the globe. Here, Corazon Ferreira discovers she was the mate of a gorgeous vampire in a previous life. But despite the lingering attraction Corazon feels, the image of the vampire killing a victim just won’t leave her mind. Only when her life depends on him does she finally decide to ignore her head and listen to her heart.

While on a singles tour of Europe, Seattle's own Pia Thomason is looking for a man and trying not to think about her 40th birthday. Too bad her choice of suitors is less than appealing. But when she meets two mysterious strangers in Iceland, Pia becomes immersed in an undead love affair.

After joining a gang of street kids, he rose to be their leader. Peter became a callous criminal, preying on the weak and defenseless, dreaming of bloodshed.

This shivering tale chronicles the gruesome murders of seven women suspected of dabbling in witchcraft back in 1901, triggering a terrible curse on the dwellers of the quiet town of Swallowfield. A treacherous bargain was struck with the devil himself for the women to return from their graves years later to unleash unspeakable evil and vengeance on the perpetrators of the homicides, their offspring, and anyone daring to get in their way.

When actress Cassidy May lands the lead in the story of Hellen Grimaldi’s life, she believes it could be the boost her career needs. However, the more she looks into the past of Hellen and the shocking events that led to her death, the more fearful Cassidy becomes about taking the role. Did Hellen truly summon demons during that fateful performance? Was Cassidy about to unleash the same hell that Hellen had? What dark forces were really at play behind the curtain?

Brenda Strange is back and is spooked by a fishy apparition that leaves wet footprints behind. During her most current murder investigation, she's got the living and the dead wanting a piece of the action.

A short story introducing the characters of the coming book The Mysterious World of Professor Darkk and Miss Shadow. Two strange individuals come to the aid of a group of people being attacked by a demonic being.

Stefan Korzh continues to unleash his bloodthirsty haunted antiques onto an unsuspecting world. But as his past catches up with him, he discovers that there's a price to pay for his murderous desires. The latest item is an eerily cold, silver class ring that drives its wearer into a frenzy for human flesh. A brutal urge to plunge a knife deep into innocent bystanders is overtaking the residents of Concord, New Hampshire. An unlikely alliance is formed between Ariana Leckie and Victor Daniels on their hunt for Stefan and the collectibles.

It's a nice house on a country road. Jack and Erika Harris expect to be happy there. It doesn't matter that they're living in a deserted suburb where, years ago, murders and mutilations destroyed the residents. It doesn't matter...until those that caused the deaths come back - those that sprang from the earth. Those that need. Those that are not human. The Harris's nice house stands between them and what they must have. Nothing has ever mattered more.

The life of deadly Russian slayer, Trace, has always revolved around death and preventing humankind from learning about the legendary creatures of the night. But now his position as a Watcher has become a prison, and dealing death for the Nation isn't as prestigious as he once believed it to be. College dropout Bessina Darrow has witnessed things she isn't permitted to see, a simple case of wrong place at the wrong time puts her life in danger. When Bessina becomes his mark, Trace is prepared to eliminate her.

Combinando a sensibilidade gótica do século XIX de Edgar Allan Poe com uma visão interna ousada, os contos de Lovecraft prenunciam um século psiquicamente conturbado. Situado em uma paisagem da Nova Inglaterra descrita de modo minucioso e historicamente fundamentada, suas histórias angustiantes exploram o colapso da sanidade sob o peso dos eventos caóticos. O universo de Lovecraft é um mundo de sombras onde a realidade e o pesadelo se entrelaçam e a redenção ninguém sabe de onde vem.

Life isn’t all that easy when you’re a paranormal private investigator involved with a police chief who’s convinced the paranormal world doesn’t exist. When he sees it up close and first hand, Jack knows that Miranda hasn’t been entirely truthful about her profession. Not that great for a relationship in its early stages.

Utilize dark psychology and manipulation techniques to achieve victory.

Sit back and enjoy this compelling dark fantasy novella by International best-selling author, Jaclyn Roche. A reincarnated goddess... An unrisen long-dead god... Only she can bring him back to life....