The best person to fight the monsters is someone who's been one.
When a violent mob invades cop Alex MacCallum's part of town, it's just a typical night for him and the others living there. They expect to be feared and despised - they're survivors of the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters.

But the next day, when a new strain of the virus begins turning the population into eaters faster than ever before, Alex has to join forces with Micah, the leader of the mob, just to stay alive.

Can the two enemies survive the hordes of eaters, as well as each other, long enough to find a way to stop this new outbreak?

Mutation is the first book in a fast-moving, action-filled series that turns the zombie apocalypse on its head. If you like thrilling, original sci-fi, you'll love the Blood Survivors series.

Forget what you think you know about zombies...

Forget the poorly acted movies and the comic books. Forget the endless debates over fast and slow walkers. From this day on, all that crap will fade away to nothing. America is on the precipice of hell and not for a moment do you believe it. You have your cable and your smartphone and your take-out twice a week and your vacation to Disney Land all planned, and you tell yourself you'll drop those ten pounds before you go.

But you aren't going anywhere.

In one horrible day, your world collapses into nothing but a spitting, cursing, bleeding fight for survival. For some, the descent into hell is a long, slow, painful process of going at it tooth and nail, while for others it's over in a scream that's choked off when the blood pours down their windpipe. Those are the lucky ones.

But you will live, somehow, and you'll remember day one of the apocalypse where there was a chance, in fact, there were plenty of chances for someone to stop it in its tracks and you'll wonder why the hell nobody did anything.

At first light on that first morning, Dr. Lee steps into the Walton facility on the initial day of human trials for the cure she's devoted her life to; she can barely contain her excitement. The labs are brand spanking new and everything is sharp and clean. They've been built to her specifications and are, without a doubt, a scientist's dream. Yet even better than the gleaming instruments is the fact that Walton is where cancer is going to be cured once and for all. It's where Dr. Lee is going to become world famous...only she doesn't realize what she's going to be famous for.
By midnight of that first day, Walton is a place of fire, of blood and of death, a death that, like the Apocalypse, is just the beginning.

'From the author of 'The Old Man and The Princess' (Recently optioned to be a major motion picture) - comes a dark, new gripping and twisted tale, of horrifying terror in the Scottish Highlands.'

MY SISTER AND I

(Strong language, Graphic violence, and some Scots Dialect - Not for the faint of heart)

A young teenage girl and her twin sister must grow up hard and fast in the unforgiving Scottish Highlands as their father - a sick and twisted man, obsessed with the end of the world - teaches them how to survive in the wild with no one to rely on but themselves.

- What readers are saying about this truly disturbing novel -

'Truly delicious horror'

'Jeezo, I love a bit of dark depravity fiction, but this was absolutely merciless.'

'I was drawn to this book in the first sentence and could not put it down until the last sentence. It is heartbreaking and evil and sad with a little hopeful all at the same time.'

'Make no mistake, the novel is carried by the heart of the characters, through the sick and the depraved, to the shining little core of hope that is sisterhood.'

'The narrative here is what gets me the most. Written in first person, from the perspective of the gentler twin, it's all thoughts and descriptions, with a lack of dialogue. This made the unfolding of the plot all the more terrifying'

'A road trip tale from hell.'

'Wow. This is dark and perhaps the darkest book so far from Sean-Paul Thomas. I love the way that whatever genre he writes he evokes the atmospheric feel of where it is set. I could feel the isolation and have to say I was impressed with this book.'

'There's a particularly fast pace here, which was excellent. The girls are no sooner released from some form of ‘survival training' nightmare before being plunged into their next woeful task. The appearances of the clearly mentally ill father are sporadic, frightful, and completely concerning. His beliefs, his upbringing, and his treatment of his daughters, all point towards something we hope we'll never encounter in our own lifetimes.'

An ordinary man. An age old evil. A blood soaked nightmare with no escape.
When reporter Phil Sturgess hears of a new rock band called Minstrel's Bargain, his life descends into horror. As the city he lives in succumbs to ever more violent and macabre episodes of shocking murders and barbarous acts of self-destruction, Sturgess begins to understand that there is something very wrong with Minstrel's Bargain. Something very wrong indeed.
With time running out for humanity, Sturgess is threatened with an ancient malevolence. And to stop it, he is forced to confront the terrifying stranger who has been dogging his footsteps for months. The only question is; will Sturgess do what needs to be done? If not, the souls of millions will be destroyed.

In hidden places, they sleep and dream, and through their dreams they touch humanity--but their touch brings only the stains of horror, death, and madness...until the day the Old Ones return.

In The Engines of Sacrifice, acclaimed writer James Chambers delivers four nightmare novellas inspired by the Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

Investigation 37: In the late years of the Vietnam War, Lavender May runs away from home to search for freedom and peace in New York City, but instead, she finds only a world of magic, witchcraft, and lies.

The Ugly Birds: Only one thing could save Carmine Darabont's comics magazine from going under: publishing the next chapter of the hit series "The Otherworlders." But what dark secret drives its creator--Carmine's ex-fiancé--to refuse to deliver it?

The Hidden Room: At the height of the Cold War, Doctor Calvin Lenox is a member of the Nuclear Emergency Search Team. With his life spiraling into despair, he confronts the mystery of a runaway Soviet defector and the death of three men, only to find himself at the mercy of...the Faceless God.

The Engines of Sacrifice: What is the power of words? Can they control the fabric of reality? In a horrifying new world, underground author Rowley Cray struggles against a totalitarian government gone insane and the possibility that he can control the souls of the dead.

Dark Regions Press presents The Engines of Sacrifice by James Chambers as part of Dark Regions Digital. Browse all of our digital titles by searching for "dark regions digital" or "dark regions press."


Publishers Weekly Starred Review:
Chambers (Resurrection House) draws readers deep into H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos with chillingly evocative writing and the clever integration of real-world events. Four interlocking stories take place at least in part in the Long Island town of Knicksport, where portals open into the uncanny dimensions inhabited by the elder gods. Could the emergence into our world of Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath, and Nyarlathotep be tied to the Wiccan enthusiasm of the 1970s, the strong presence of horror themes in 1980s indie comics, or the "accident" at Chernobyl? Can Cthulhu be reached through the transformative powers of fiction? Chambers's damaged characters cling to hope even as the world comes apart at the seams, making the insanity and despair of their circumstances poignant as well as deliciously creepy.

In "Red Devil," an exciting novel of international intrigue by David Saperstein - author of the best seller, "Cocoon" - Nickolai Valarian stalks the Kremlin halls where Vladimir Putin now resides. Valarian spins a fiendish Cold War web of deception and brutality to seize control of the entire Soviet Union and beyond, to world domination. Against that diabolical a threat, the Secret Services of the whole fragmented world must work together to try to stop him.

Otto Van Der Noodle has just been crowned the Bratwurst King of Wisconsin when he is gunned down in cold blood. Otto finds himself in line at the pearly gates when he is accidentally cast through the gates of Hell.
Otto lands in the middle of a power struggle for the throne of Hell. Satan rules the underworld with an iron fist and a delicious bratwurst. Satan's brother, Dagobert has just found his secret weapon, Otto Van Der Noodle and his prize-winning bratwurst.
Dagobert will try to tip the balance of control in Hell using Otto's delectable bratwursts. But Satan may have found the ultimate weapon in his new favorite pet demon.
Souls will be tortured, demons will fight demons and bratwursts will be cooked. Who will come out as the top chef and leader of Hell when the cook-off to end all cook-offs is fought?

"You're not about to step on a rollercoaster. You are about to plummet into the mind and nightmares of a master storyteller."
-Hunter Shea (from his introduction)

You never know what to expect from Terry M. West. A horror author who has delivered the scares for three decades, West chases his dark muse in any direction it goes. Old school creature feature, psychological horror, suspense, B-Movie cheese, humor, dystopia, and extreme horror so dark that it will leave a mark inside-- West refuses categorization. But the one constant to his work: it is always one Hell of a ride. GRUESOME: A Gathering of Nightmares collects some of his best fiction. Included in this 150,000 word collection: Don't the Monsters All Get Scarier at Closing Time, Honger, Morsel, Turning Face, Picaro, It Makes You Sad, The Rose Man, Southern-Fried Hex (featuring the brand new tale, Cecil & Bubba meet a Drunk Gypsy), Hair and Blood Machine, Honger 2, All of the Flesh Served.

Includes an introduction by the one and only Hunter Shea.

Something strange is happening in the city of Everett, Washington and Father Niccolo Paladina is tasked with investigating possible demonic activity. Nothing is as it seems, however, and things quickly begin spiraling out of his control.

When his path crosses with that of an old rival, they discover that things are worse in Everett than either of them could ever have imagined. Arthur is an Occult Hunter struggling to find some semblance of control in his life after his family was murdered. He's finding it difficult to move forward and seeks to punish the person who betrayed him.

They discover in Everett, however, that some stones are best left unturned. As Niccolo's world collapses around him, he will be left with one terrible question: what is my faith worth?

Years ago Brandon Frye was bitten, cursed to transform into a primal killing machine under the light of the full moon... until he met Celine, who introduced him to experimental pills meant to suppress the turning.

Now, after a terrible tragedy has taken Celine's life, Brandon boards a cruise ship bound for Alaska, intending to venture into the cold white north and never return.

But when Brandon meets Ginny, he gains a second chance at love. Nevertheless, circumstances align against him: a storm is building, a hunter is on his trail, and the pills that are meant to prevent the turning...

Are about to trigger it.

We knew they were coming one day; we had just never imagined anything like…this.

Joanna Marks always had a knack for terrible timing. After all, she did get pregnant and run off at 16. With her husband recently deceased, she and her child head back home ten years later… just in time for the invasion.

Sheriff Wayne can never share how he'd known about the Chinese forces before they stormed his beloved little Florida town. The locals would think he was crazy. However, when their harmless city is put under military lockdown, he's not the only one who finds the whole invasion suspicious.

As Joanna and Wayne team up to uncover the truth, they must venture into a terrifying world that defies reality. Moreover, if they journey too deep, they may never make it out alive…

Be consumed in Swallowed by the Beast. Monsters, and ghoulies, and beasts, oh my!

Cleanliness is Next to . . . by Robert Tozer
Maggot by Arnaldo Lopez Jr.
Mowgli Encounters a Bear by Carey Azzara
Vegas Demon by June Lundgren
Night Songs by Anthony V. Pugliese
Mysterious Mind by Amy S. Pacini
The Last of the Siamese Tigers by Danny Campbell
Interview with Bigfoot by Lila Pinord
Bump by Dave Suscheck, Jr.
Ninette: The Lair by Linda Jenkinson
The Emporium by L. H. Davis
A Clinical Case by Alex Winck
Devil Dogs by Joanne Magnus
Mystical Phantoms by Amy S. Pacini
Love Craft by James Harper
Lanterne: Mix by Linda Jenkinson
Of a Curious Matter in those Tangled Fishing Lines by Kamalendu Nath
Carnival Carnage by Samie Sands
The Witch's Spell by Linda Jenkinson
The Kodak Troll by Joanne Magnus
Selfie by Alex Winck
Boo! by Debbie Johnson
Heartbreaker by Kevin S. Hall
Ice Maidens by Stefan Vucak
The Wild Pigs by Danny Campbell
Scrambled by June Rachelson-Ospa
The Devil's Therapist by Alex Winck
The Time Machine by Robert Tozer

How do you fight the thing monsters are afraid of?

After Debbie Dinkendorfer did her tour in the Army as an MP, she returned to her home town, marched into the sheriff's office and demanded a job. Her daddy is the sheriff. Now, you can call her Deputy Debbie -- or if you're really brave, Dinkie.

Her hometown of Prattville isn't like other towns. It's where the monsters go when they retire. The sheriff's job is to keep the peace between the human folk and the vampires, goblins, werewolves and such that call the town home.

It's a good place, and with a slightly alien past, it's a place Debbie can call home.

But when a tragic past re-emerges, and Debbie's bestie disappears--again--in the midst of a spate of attacks on monsters, Debbie fears the worst.

What's killing monsters? Where is it hiding Debbie's friend? And how is one little, human woman supposed to fight something that can shred a goblin, decimate a vampire and put two large trolls in the hospital?

All she knows is that she's got to try. Her friend's life depends on it.

Beware the Boogerman is a horror story for those who have outgrown the Goosebumps series.

Ten years ago, a deadly cult sought to gain favor with an ancient demon named Attaroth. They failed miserably, and eventually they all died during an armed raid. All except a ten-year-old girl named Clay.

At least, that's what she always thought.

Now Clay's on the run, terrified to stay in one place for too long. Pursued by the same demon that spurned the cult members, Clay knows that - for some reason - Attaroth sees her as his route into the mortal world. And as dark forces close in all around her, Clay starts to realize that her days of running might soon be over.

Attaroth is back, and this time he wants the human body he was promised.

Better the Devil (originally released as The Girl Clay but reissued now in this updated edition) is a horror story about a frightened little girl who was once dragged into a nightmare, and about her attempts several years later to ensure that a terrifying prophecy never comes to pass.

An ancient book, a lonely monastery, a house all alone in the woods. Journey to Briar Park if you dare...

Brother Nicholas is tempted by evil forces to read from an ancient book. His fellow monks are the first victims of this awful and irreversible act. Brother Nicholas is taken from the monastery to live in a remote house Briar Park, compelled to live out the rest of his days in tormented solitude. Constantly tortured by the whispering voices, he is instructed to commit a terrible crime.

Can anything end the evil hold on the house in Briar Park?

How far will the unholy acts reach?

And can anything silence the whispering voices?

Keep your wits about you and look carefully over your shoulder as you learn the history of the house in Briar Park…. What was that sound? Is that a faint whispering you can hear in the dark of the night?

The world of man was brought to its knees with the zombie apocalypse. A hundred and fifty years have passed since man has clawed and climbed his way from the brink of extinction. Civilization has rebooted, man has begun to rebuild, to create communities and society. It is on this fragile new shaky ground that a threat worse than the scourge of the dead has sprung. One man finds himself once again thrust into the forefront of a war he wants nothing to do with and seemingly cannot win. Follow along as Michael Talbot attempts to thwart the rise of the werewolf.

After aliens crash-land in fifteenth century Transylvania, their first contact with humans goes horribly wrong.

The Vambir are a species that resemble demons. They inadvertently discover human blood is a nutrient (but also highly addictive). Ingesting blood brings about a physical transformation that enables them to pass as human. Impressed with their superior strength and vicious fighting skills, Prince Vlad Dracula welcomes them into his inner circle, where they attain power through him.

One Vambir, Kevak, refuses to ingest blood. When spotted by villagers, he is blamed for the sudden string of mysterious deaths, and the legend of Nosferatu begins.

"Turn the lights on before you read this, it's a scary one!" -- James R. Tuck author of the Deacon Chalk series.

Seventeen-year-old James Daly's father bought a house in small-town Edington, Georgia to go with a promotion at his Atlanta law firm, only to lose his job when the housing bubble popped and the economy tanked. Now James has to work at the Edington Best Buy to help pay the mortgage they're underwater on. He can't wait until he turns eighteen and can leave Edington behind forever.

But when a local boy challenges him to an ATV race near a tree farm most people avoid, things get much worse. James' rival is dismembered alive by a tentacled horror emerging from a nearby pond. The monstrosity has been worshiped by a murderous coven since before the Civil War, and its devotees don't take kindly to their secrets being threatened.

Now with the aid of Amber Webb, a local girl he doesn't like liking, and a renegade cult member, James must fight to avoid ending up bound to a picnic table and offered up to a monster. He must do battle with both the local cultists and their predatory master, THE THING IN THE WOODS.

Angels, Ghosts and the Otherworld takes the reader on a spine tingling, sometimes humorous journey, into the mind of a reluctant ghost whisperer and even more reluctant psychic. S. Vest weaves an intriguing web full of supernatural and paranormal experiences, that leads one to wonder what is real and what is simply a figment of the imagination.

Twelve strangers wake up in a strange house with no memory of how they got there, and barely any recollection of who they are. They quickly learn that there is no way out, scarcely enough food and water to go around, and eerie music plays constantly in the background of every room. There is nothing to explain their mysterious incarceration except for a few scattered clues, a strange clock with twenty-four numbers and one single hour hand, and a leather-bound sheet of rules that makes their situation all the more fatal.

The House Rules:

Rule one: No escape. You can't leave, plain and simple. Try to escape and you won't like what you find on the other side.

Rule two: Make what you have last. Whatever food and water you currently find in the house is all that you will be provided with during your stay. No more will be given to you under any circumstance.

Rule three: When the music stops, someone must die. The music you can all hear in the background will cease between the hour of twenty-three and twenty-four; when this happens someone must die. Failure to comply with this rule will result in everyone's death.

Rule four: Only one, and only when the music stops! One death, and only one death, must occur in the allotted time between the hour of twenty-three and twenty-four. Again, failure to comply with this rule will result in everyone's death.

We hope you have a pleasant stay, and don't forget: Redemption is the key to escape.

Sometimes the past can come back to haunt you...

John Rydell was 4000 miles away when he got the phone call from his wife, 'John there's someone in the house.'

By the time he was home, tragedy had struck. A tragedy that threatened to engulf him, bringing back long forgotten and repressed memories of his days at university.

Now some of his old friends are dying, one by one. They are found gutted, disembowelled,
ruined. There were twelve of them back in university, and there were twelve of them for a reason.

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS . . .

For centuries the chilling clang of a siren at Cragg Keep, an isolated manor on the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, has warned of global disaster before it happens, somehow debilitating and clouding the minds of occupants and even entire armies in its blood-soaked history.

In the present day, Shona Quinn and her family are lifelong islanders who have just snapped up the property at a bargain - perhaps at a price far higher than she intended. Their waking days and dreams invaded by horrific visions of the man with the deformed face and torturous scenes of pain and suffering.

Meanwhile, the first female US President prepares to face-off with a familiar menace in the Far East, while damning evidence is uncovered concerning that nation's shocking ambitions - and willingness to see them through, whatever the cost.

As shadowy events and forces conspire to bring the world to its knees, the ancient siren's origin and true purpose becomes terrifyingly clear.

From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR and WOLF HUNT comes another action-packed over-the-top creature feature!

Rusty Moss has raised his niece Mia since she was a baby. Now that she's almost eighteen, he's worried that the life he's given her--living off the grid in a cabin deep in the woods--is holding her back from her full potential. But that angst gets pushed aside when the undead forest animals arrive.

At first it's just a squirrel--shockingly violent and almost impossible to kill. Followed by a grizzly bear, also aggressive and resilient, even when point-blank shotgun blasts to the face are involved.

Now the cabin is surrounded by all manner of zombie creatures. They have no way to call for help. The truck that could take them to safety is three miles away, stuck in the mud.

But Rusty and Mia have their courage. They have their wits. And, most importantly, they have an axe and a fully fueled chainsaw...

"A dark, twisted story" (Amazon 5-Star Review)

The discovery of a dead banker sends shock waves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it s up to DI Bob Valentine recently back on the force after his near-fatal stabbing to find the killer. But leads are hard to find and the pressure is on from an anxious Chief Superintendent who is being hounded by the media and still has serious concerns about her DI's mental health. And as it becomes clear that there's a serial killer on the loose, Bob Valentine must battle the demons of his post-traumatic stress, an investigation team that's leaking like a sieve and frightening visions that might just be the key to unlocking the mystery. Valentine is close to breaking point, but can he crack the case before he cracks up?

Diana McCullough has been waiting. Watching. For the one thing that can change her life. The one thing that's always been just out of her reach. Until now.
When Diana McCullough comes into possession of a magic wishing box, she believes her luck has finally changed. But soon she'll discover that the distance between her expectations and a disturbing reality is rapidly narrowing.
She's unearthed something dangerous. And it wants more than Diana's life. But how do you outrun and outsmart what isn't really there?

The macabre comes to sinister life in this small Scottish village in October 1976. Gothic horror, suspense, and a haunted possession will leave you sleeping with the lights on until your own Wishing Box arrives. Then you won't be able to sleep at all.

Edward is lonely, bored with his office job, and he is also deeply disturbed. He enjoys watching women strip on camera, but he wants to go further.

How much fear can one man take?

Marcus Holt thought his worst memories were behind him. A veteran of the Vietnam War, the tough old soldier is haunted by nightmares of brutal conflict. But he's about to discover that his battle for survival has only just begun.

Professor Abel Worthe is brilliant, wealthy, and utterly immoral. He is an expert in a very particular field: the study of fear and death. Using his vast resources, Worthe has purchased a collection of haunted houses and paranormal sites, hidden across the world. And he intends to subject a captive to each location in his collection of horror, all in the name of science.

All he needs is a test subject, a human lab rat to undergo his experiment in terror. And the target of his sinister attention is Marcus Holt. The aging veteran soon finds himself snatched off the streets, and forced to endure a never-ending barrage of horror.

But Marcus is no stranger to fear and death. He's a fighter. And he is determined to survive long enough to find and kill his malicious captor.

Let the games begin.

When Cora Westgate unwittingly brought her Uncle Teddy back from Hell, it was just the start of her problems. She's entered a world of magic and horror filled with evil occultists that want to kill her, demons and monsters lurking around every corner, and a mysterious uncle that might be more dangerous than all the rest.

And that was just the first week.

Read the new book by Brandon Faircloth that is being praised as "often terrifying, sometimes funny, and always entertaining. It provides a very original view of Hell and different systems of magic, but even better are the book's main characters, Uncle Teddy and Cora, who are two of the best new characters in modern horror. They are badass and fun in the best ways possible."

A janitor living in New Orleans unintentionally kills an assailant and is in fear of going to jail. As he contemplates various ways of disposing the corpse, a suppressed curiosity emerges. After digesting the incriminating evidence, he finds himself sharing proclivities of the departed soul. His love for human flesh grows.He soon learns how to channel newly gained talents to manipulate others.

Souls Mates is a humorous horror novelette 8500 words in length teetering near the edge of 'good taste.'

When the shadows come looking, it's time to hide.

The asylum was the last place Seth thought he'd ever go back to, but broke and eager to rest some demons of his own, he accepts a job offer that places him right in the centre of the madness he'd tried so hard to forget.

Seth has the gift, but his prowess as a medium is about to be tested to the full as he leads a ghost hunt around his childhood nightmare. Ravenmeols Mental Hospital should have been levelled when they closed the place down. But, the hospital isn't as abandoned as the ghost party hoped.

Can Seth protect his new friends from the evil that resides deep in the rotting building or will he have to face the horrors of the correction floor alone?

The Correction Floor is the first book of the Dark Corners series--paranormal horror novels that will make you reach for the light.