First Contact Horror

August 1888. Jericho Mannion is the captain of an old, cash-strapped steamer named the Orion. He's been steadily losing money to his competitors, the railways. When he finds out from his first mate, Tal MacTavish, that the next passage across Lake Erie has only a few passengers, his hopes sink of ever getting out of debt. But Providence has smiled upon him. Though the passenger list is small, they have almost a full cargo hold, thanks to William Ross and the university he works for.

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.

Evil resides in Amon Palace. Something worse came to visit. Four veterans of the Iraq War seeking a cure for Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder arrive at a notoriously haunted house in the bogs of Galveston Island called Amon Palace...At first, their stay seems to conjure nothing more than spooky encounters with inexplicable phenomena. But Amon Palace is gathering its powers-and soon it will reveal that these veterans are not who they seem.

Michael Kanuckel's story creeped me out from the start. It has moments that combine classic VHS movies like McQueen's The Blob and some from John Carpenters The Thing. It does this with minimal characters and locations and uses its uniquely crafted story to conjure up images straight from nightmares. The characters are drawn so well that they are real. Their (and your own) fear becomes truly and horrifically tangible. When you enter this desolate nightmare, it leaves you wanting more. It has one of the best cliff-hangers I have read.

On the threshold of opening the moon to tourist excursions, a private space firm owned by a visionary billionaire takes a team of non-astronauts to the lunar surface. To address concerns that the moon's barren rock may not hold long-term allure for an uber-wealthy clientele, the company's charismatic owner reveals to the group the ultimate discovery: life on the moon. But what is initially a triumphant and world-changing moment soon gives way to unrelenting terror as the team experiences firsthand that the moon still holds many secrets.

In 1988, Lydia Conner was taken from her cabin near Specter Lake, Minnesota, while her husband lay in bed, temporarily paralyzed. She screamed at him for help as she floated up to the ceiling in a blinding flash of light...and then she was gone. In 2009, four film school students journeyed to the Specter Lake cabin where the abduction of Lydia Conner took place. They hoped to capture proof of an alien visitation on film; they hoped to re-create events from the abduction; they hoped to use themselves as bait...but they encountered much more than they ever could've imagined.

Lisa only wants to follow orders from her mysterious leader, Superior Mother, and get back to life in The Grey. When she is sent on her first mission among the humans, Lisa realizes she is more human than Superior Mother led her to believe. In her first mission for the Women of the Grey Lisa begins to not only challenge her orders from Superior Mother but everything she has ever known. Defiant and on a quest for the truth Lisa will follow orders no more while she creates a path of her own.

Shy and introverted, Dash grew up reserved and with few friends. Once meeting Bria and Talyn on his home planet's academy, they became his best friends. With more courage and knowledge than he could hope for, the pair consistently managed to pull Dash into adventures he would have otherwise avoided.

First the birds went quiet. Then the evening sky filled with strange clouds that trapped the heat below. Now Callum wakes, dripping in sweat. Something has come to his isolated Welsh farm. If he's going to keep his family alive during this single night when all hell breaks loose, he'll have to think fast. And when he sees what he's facing, he suspects even that may not be enough.

It's supposed to be a simple job, a look-see operation to make sure something terrible hasn't happened. The leader is prone to fits of violence, and there are rumors of previous human rights abuses. Only, when they arrive, the ship is...empty. The question is - where did everybody go? Armed only with riot gear, they explore the ship, intent on discovering the truth about what's happened on The Ark. What they find will be more nightmarish than anything they've seen before. Indeed, it's worse than anything they could imagine.

The odds of an alien spaceship slamming into a secret military aircraft over Antarctica are astronomical.... A team of specialists are hastily deployed to find out what happened and if the situation can be contained. The expedition quickly descends into a hellish battle to survive not only an extreme environment but also a terrifying creature from beyond. An alien force has landed on planet earth and it is anything but friendly.

Los cuentos de terror deben provocar en el lector el temor a lo desconocido. Sin duda, H.P Lovecraft lo genera en cada una de sus historias. Reconocido como uno de los autores más influyentes de la literatura fantástica, cada uno de sus cuentos son una puerta abierta al estremecimiento. Creador del estilo horror cósmico, su obra mezcla elementos de la ciencia ficción, tales como extraterrestres, viajes en el tiempo y dimensiones paralelas, con las historias de terror sobrenatural.

Revelations: On Honeycomb, a young lawman guide heads into a mine looking to find a lost miner and the reason for a vicious attack. What he finds are lifeforms no one ever expected. Fast, hungry, and climbing back up the food chain. Lethal Cargo: A transport ship returns from Honeycomb with more passengers that they'd had planned on, and a mad murderer. It's up to a young doctor Zara to figure out who killed her predecessor, and what's taking out the rest of the crew.

Following an earthquake,, tourists have begun to disappear in the Lorenzo Caverns. The FBI claims that a bear is the culprit, but the local sheriff and an esteemed archaeologist suspect that the missing people have become the victims of a bloodthirsty alien creature.

A man trapped in the woods searches for his missing little girl. All the while, a strange light in the sky chases him. Will he ever find his little girl, and will they be able to escape the woods unscathed?

After years of hiding in plain sight, the alien race known as the Taus are finally ready to get off this planet. But before they do, they need one thing first. Carl. No one could have imagined the true intentions of the Facebook event “Storm Area 51” or the dire consequences that would befall all those that came seeking answers beyond the gates.

Mrs. Poole, a gifted British medium living in the United States, is recruited by an Alien force called the Opportunity to rescue four of their own trapped in the spirit world. The ghosts in Jennifer's house are driving her crazy. She seeks out Mrs. Poole's help to hold a seance to cleanse her house of the unwelcome guests. In order for that to happen she must accept a fantastic tale that alien spirits can possess humans and then offer herself, her friends, and a family member to be possessed themselves.

Winter was worse than I could have ever imagined. I lost my home and my friends and everything I ever knew. Good thing Timmy Carter’s still around. At least for now. But spring comes with its own set of horrors, including crypto-monsters, melonhead kids, mad scientists, and at long last, the return of the Hive. I’m going to need a lot of allies if I’m going to make it through alive.

An unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago, a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby. Vegetation grows large but foul-tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die, one by one.

One room. Six People. No way out. And every 13 minutes one of them dies - horribly. Do the math; in 78 minutes they will all be dead - unless they can figure out what their nameless, faceless, and creepily mysterious captor wants from them. One woman holds the key to their survival or deaths. But, only if she faces her own bloody past and the earth-shattering truth of why they are all trapped together. Her final choice to own the truth can bring freedom or oblivion - 13 little minutes will tell the tale - for all of humanity.