R. Saint Claire

After a malicious spirit made flesh attacks seventeen-year-old Hannah Gares and her best friend, she discovers that the Ghosts of Dark Hollow are more than just legends. The mystery deepens when a stranger arrives from Europe to reclaim his family's estate, and Hannah finds herself inexplicably drawn to the haunted Blackshire Manor and its eccentric inhabitants, including Sebastian Cravens, the dashing and dangerous heir to the Blackshire fortune. As she digs into the workings of a centuries-old mystery, Hannah will learn about the origins of these restless spirits that haunt her community and uncover the truth about herself.

The Ghosts of Dark Hollow

Michael Taylor

James Flynn

Cameron Chaney

Marie McWilliams

Nicholas Gray

Kevin David Anderson

Dane Cobain

Ryan Stroud

CJ Wright

Andrew Lyall

Ken Poirier

Mihalis Georgostathis

Cam Wolfe

D.L. Tillery

Lydia Peever

Matt Wall

E.D. Lewis

Jason White

Nineteen twisted tales from a vibrant, online community of horror enthusiasts! What’s HorrorTube? A creepy, new carnival ride combining a water slide park with a haunted funhouse? Not quite, although that sounds like a blast. A subset of BookTube, HorrorTube is an online community of horror enthusiasts who regularly post YouTube videos about horror-related topics, including books, films, and fiction writing. Some of the writers included in this anthology cover horror exclusively. You’ll find them posting creepy photos on Instagram or waxing poetic about the seventies drive-in flick that kept them up all night. Some read widely, only delving into the horror genre occasionally. All are passionate about books and writing. Joined together by this vibrant, online community of readers and writers, these nineteen authors bring you scary stories from all parts of the globe, proving that fear is universal. Local Haunts has taken the horror BookTube community’s global influence and shrunk it down into one village of horror and mayhem you’ll not soon forget. Inside these pages are frightening stories from around the globe, telling tales of haunts, monsters, and other terrible things local to each author’s place of residence. Within these pages you’ll find terrifying tales from North America, my own included, joined by terrible happenings in the Australian bushlands, ghosts haunting an old Greek mansion, an abandoned Vietnamese hospital, and a creepy museum, among many other eldritch encounters. From the foreword by Jason White A Stone’s Throw by Dane Cobain The Gentleman by Ryan Stroud The Salt Hag by CJ Wright Crowthorne by Andrew Lyall Mount Gilead by R. Saint Claire Screen Eight by Michael Taylor Drive Like Hell by Ken Poirier The Mount of Death by Kevin David Anderson The Drifter by James Flynn The Blocked Cellar by Mihalis Georgostathis The Night Watchman by Marie McWilliams Alone Among the Gum Trees by Cam Wolfe Highway to Hell by Nicholas Gray The Room Within by D.L. Tillery Fading Applause in Quintland by Lydia Peever A Full Moon Over Black Star Canyon by Matt Wall Long Buried by E.D. Lewis Darkness Descends by Jason White At the End of the Rope by Cameron Chaney Cover art by Cameron Roubique

Local Haunts: a HorrorTube Anthology

Red Masquerade

Kay Oliver

Angel Gelique

Rajeev Singh

Len Streeper

Devon Tarantino

Brett O'Reilly

Bethany Daines

Bradley Poage

Clare de Lune

Map to Desire will entice and disturb your innermost erotic appetites. It will viciously twist and taunt your imagination. And it will tug and gnaw at your tethers for adventure. This anthology includes nine short stories from a diverse group of talented authors who span the globe, an introduction from Black Quill Editing and a closing poem from a young and upcoming writer. WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME AND GRAPHIC NOVEL; you will not close this book unscathed. Each story includes a map leading characters to their deepest desires, good or bad. Go on a gondola ride into the underworld to initiate a trade of life and death with the keeper of Hades. Survive a plane crash only to gear up for battle in the dense, dark forestry of the Smoky Mountains. Meet up with a jaded bank employee who harbors an obsession with death. Join a treasure hunt in an old, abandoned mine that holds an entity of fear known only in the most malevolent of nightmares. Work alongside two necromancers as they journey into a life of greed, lust, immortality, and sin. Venture into secret stone ruins to search for a true love that reveals its true, insidious self. Enter an apartment building with hidden peepholes into the residents' lives and the wicked, sinister past of the building itself. Meet a priest as he realizes his baptismal rite and takes the unholiest of communions to bring mankind to its knees. Finally, an alien vampire inhabits the body of a handsome college student to feed off fleshy freshmen while he searches for his ideal mate; night school was never this terrifying. All proceeds from this book will go to First Book to provide new books, learning materials, and other essentials to children in need.

An Anthology

Map to Desire:

Witch of Long Shadows

Jacob Peyton

Janine Pipe

N.M. Brown

Donnie Goodman

Steve Donoghue

A.B. Frank

Alfie Tobutt

Mers Sumida

Mike DeFrench

Aphrodite Lee

Madison Estes

Gloria McNeely

Served Cold: A HorrorTube Anthology Twenty-two teeth-chattering tales! Wrap yourself in your favorite blanket, curl up by a fireside or in a warm bed, and enjoy these tales of sub-zero terror brought to you by some of the many voices of HorrorTube. Foreword by Steve Donoghue Karakoncolos by Cameron Chaney The Rescue by Janine Pipe Red Albums by Cam Wolfe Magic in the Hat by Donnie Goodman Isolation by N.M. Brown Sweep in the Sidestreet by A.B. Frank Frostbite by Alfie Tobutt Black Wood by Marie McWilliams The Cold Traps by Steve Donoghue This Grey Winter by Mihalis Georgostathis Orpheus Descends by Andrew Lyall Thou by Mers Sumida The Walk-in by Mike DeFrench Ensnared by Aphrodite Lee Cold Crossing by Jacob Peyton Snow Boy by Ryan Stroud The Woods and Mister Softee by R. Saint Claire Revival by Madison Estes Lake Alice by Michael Taylor Fractals by D.L. Tillery Water of Life by Gloria McNeely Black Solstice by Dane Cobain Praise for Local Haunts: A HorrorTube Anthology "An excellent collection of stories from authors around the world." Alex from The Bookubus "This was such a fun collection to read." Rachel from The Shades of Orange Edited by R.Saint Claire and Steve Donoghue Cover art by Cameron Roubique Additional editing by Black Quill Editing

Served Cold: A HorrorTube Anthology

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