Military Horror Fiction

Spring, 1865. The Southern armies are close to defeat. Union Cavalry Commander Philip Sheridan has loosed his scouts into the Virginia countryside in search of an opportunity to intercept and destroy General Robert E. Lee's rebel army and bring the war to an end. One such scout is Captain Benjamin Lawson, a man haunted by the scenes of senseless slaughter he has endured from Antietam to Gettysburg. On a dark, rainy night, Lawson's party of scouts stumbles upon a large group of Rebel cavalry. All Hell breaks loose.

Seaman Apprentice Steve Johnson hated standing the mid-watch at the schoolhouse where he was stationed in the Navy. He didn't mind the duty, he just didn't like that creepy place in the middle of the night. Was it just his overactive imagination getting the best of him, or was there truly something not right about that place? This short story will reveal the answer to that question.

In a dystopian, war-torn future where a godless global network reprograms the masses for compliance, the Requiem units are a dying breed. Manned by sciocists - scientific exorcists - the units sweep cemeteries of "latent soul energy". However, there's a lot more than just ghosts in Graviton. Father Aguste Lax, military chaplain to Requiem 4, has his own doubts. The cross around his neck is a feeble reminder of his waning faith. Yet when they encounter a Type Six entity, no amount of quantum firepower can save them. Lax becomes their only hope for escaping Graviton alive.

Roy Holland and the crew of the Poseidon were tasked with bringing home the scientists aboard the unresponsive research vessel Athena II. But as the Poseidon approached the ship resting near the event horizon of black hole V616, they discovered something truly terrible.

David Joseph has established himself as one of the most unique military fiction writers of our time. Wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller, Joseph delivers in Spooky Military Tales the stories the military does not want you to know. He introduces the origins behind the haunted KC-135 tanker that still flies, the aircraft that flew the remains to the US from Jonestown, the strange sightings at Arlington National Cemetery.

Iraq, 2003. Army Sergeant John Armstrong leads his team into the middle of the desert in search of weapons of mass destruction. What they find is something far more terrifying, and alive.

Have you ever had a nightmare that was so real, you could have sworn it actually happened? You woke up in a cold sweat, looked around your bedroom in the dark, and tried desperately to remember who you were and why you were so terrified? Then you remembered and everything was better, but the dream stayed with you. It haunted everything you did all throughout the next day. You could never really relax because every time you did, you would remember the dream. It infected your brain like a disease and tainted your every thought.