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The old man had treasures to sell and a scary secret to keep. This collection of eleven short occult stories tells his tale of bloodcurdling horror.Ten people buy treasures from the flea market with one common thread. The vendor is a mysterious old man selling off his collection of old stuff. This short story collection chronicles the nightmare of the buyers endured.One by one, the buyers discover that their treasure is really a horror in disguise....

The world is cruel. Lycans have enslaved humans. Killing them as they please, calling their slaves toys. The king and his sons, known to be the worst of them all. But in all that cruelty, a girl was born. Deep in the woods, amongst a group of humans calling themselves the resistance. Elizabeth was stubborn, fearless and never strayed from danger. But Elizabeth was also born blind. Due to her puny and innocent appearance most felt a need to protect...

NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #136 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from George Sandison ("The Cut Cares Not for the Flesh") and H.B. Menendez ("Preamble to the Death of a Small God"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("First Girls") from...

As a child, Ellis Irvine was kidnapped from his bedroom and taken to a camp of unforgettable horrors. Ten years later, the prince of Tealwaters is no longer a boy but a man with a dark and traumatic past. When fate brings him face to face with Violet Danes, the very girl who once kept his hope alive, he can't seem to stay away. Violet Danes has many scars, having been the victim of experiments involving dark and dangerous magic. But one scar remains-the...

What's one lifetime, when he's been fighting to save her since the beginning of time? They imprisoned his soul. She was the promise he needed to be set free. He loved her through the time that separated them. Every new incarnation of her life brings her back to him, until her life is taken again in hopes of trapping him in an eternity of suffering. If it takes his very last breath, Gabriel will fight to keep her safe, keep her free, keep her alive....

The Startling Sequel to The MoonQuest! Travel back in time to the Q'ntana before The MoonQuest. Here, despite the yoke of a ruthless brutality, a legend will not die...of the Heart of the Star and of the Fair One who will rekindle it to return peace to the land. Book 2 of Mark David Gerson's epic, time-twisting True Fantasy series.

Remembering five missing weeks can save one world and doom another.When David Purcell is rescued from a cave, he is missing for five weeks and has no memory of his time in the cave. He is also free of any signs of starvation, injury or cave blindness.Adam Maho is an elderly Native American who has seen visions of Kuskurza, the Third World of Hopi creation stories. Adam's visions show him that the ancient evils that have been long-believed dead were...

Leonel Anglian was born of greatness he never wanted. So he threw it away for his freedom. Leo's father and grandfather, Daleon and Leoric Anglian, were paragons of their era, great warrior-generals of Ellaria who helped free the southern kingdom of Rolanse from the unstoppable orc invasion during the Rolanse Liberation War. Leo's path was set for him to follow in their footsteps to become the next great warrior of Ellaria. Until his grandfather died,...

Lost and confused, Michael wanders into a strange, dark land filled with even stranger characters. He and his newfound friends have nothing to do but wait in the darkness until an unseen force carries them to The Outside for indeterminate periods of time. Theodore and Maggie, the elders of the group, have come to terms with this strange existence, but not everyone is so lucky. The eccentric Jack and an enchanting woman by the name of Vanessa have...

In Ar Saoghal, two kinds of people exist: those born with no abilities, and norois. Feared and persecuted, the norois have been forced to live as outcasts for centuries; a situation which only worsens when the Republic of Morkt falls under a coup d'etat led by Bernhard Naden, whose divine manifesto is to exterminate every last one of them. Under the new regime, having been born with the ability to sense life and others' emotions, Floyd Collins...