Surreal Horror

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition". Now, eating human meat - "special meat" - is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982.

Welcome to the Murder House. We investigate a Mystery House, one floor at a time. We start at the top. And work our way down through the Life-cycle of the insane house, picking up the jigsaw pieces to work out the deep mystery held within. And the Omega Circle group of friends are back. But terrible things are happening inside. All kinds of body horror and monsters and weird shit. Incredible things in deep bizarro surrealism.

From Dust Bowl freakshows to modern day existential horror, Deathtripping collects thirty-five short stories written over a twenty-year period. Disturbing, provoking, surreal, absurd, and bitingly morbid, these stories are invitations to a world that wants to swallow the reader whole. Contains the following stories: ROOM 19 • MARKET ADJUSTMENT • THE DUST SEASON • THE MAN WITH THE FACE LIKE A BRUISE • THE PHOTOGRAPHER • THE FUNERALGOER • THE NIGHT THE MOON MADE A SOUND • THE JACKTHIEF • THE SCREAMING ORCHARD • GLOWERS POINT • CRUEL WOMEN WITH WHIPLIKE SMILES • THE SMOKE...

Nyaaa~ Join me, Sophie, as I embark on the wildest journey of my life in "Sophie's Awakening"! I was just an ordinary, happy-go-lucky 18-year-old girl living my kawaii high school life when I was cursed by a mysterious witch. As my reality unravels, I'm whisked away to an enchanted world where I make friends with monstrous creatures, explore eerie forests, and gain magical powers that challenge everything I know! Well, I'm not one to back down from an adventure, so I learn to harness my newfound abilities - but at what cost, nya? As my story unfolds, I plunge deeper into my own fractured ...

Using previously undiscovered material, Surreal tells the riveting story of Gala Dalí, (1894-1982) who broke away from her cultured but penurious background in pre-Revolutionary Russia to live in Paris with both France’s most famous poet Paul Éluard and Max Ernst. By the time she met the budding artist Salvador Dalí in 1929, Gala was known as the Mother of Surrealism. She rapidly became his mentor and protector, marrying him in 1934 and subsequently engineering their vast fortune.

Seven tales. One unraveling world. This is horror for those who’ve looked too long into reflective glass, who’ve heard their name whispered from empty rooms, who’ve sensed something watching from the cracks in routine. In this anthology of cosmic and post-Lovecraftian horror, everyday settings become the staging ground for reality’s slow undoing. Roadside diners, coworking spaces, nursery monitors, and forgotten hospital wings—all bend under the weight of something unknowable, ancient, and still evolving.Inside, you’ll find: “Late Night at The Mother’s Way Diner” – A ...

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

Some mirrors don’t reflect. They remember. When Eleanor Winslow returns to her ancestral home after years away, she intends only to settle her brother’s estate and leave the past behind. But Fogwatch House has been waiting—and it hasn’t forgotten her. Whispers follow her through empty hallways. Doors lead to rooms that were never built. And in the attic, a cracked mirror holds more than dust—it holds versions of herself she tried to forget. As Eleanor peels back layers of memory, she uncovers a hidden history of her family, the town of Darnwick, and the strange figure watching ...

These disturbing and rather eerie tales were put together as a result of a discovery of strange stories in a woodshed in Rutland, England. The author then put them together with other stories that had been handed down in the villages of the Pennine Hills of Lancashire plus some stories that had been collected from friends in the USA and Europe.

In his third volume of film essays, best-selling author Scott Colbert takes a look at the work of David Lynch With his conversational tone, and knowledge, which made his work on John Waters and David Cronenberg so successful, Colbert manages to make Lynch accessible and interesting. From Eraserhead to Inland Empire, he runs the gamut, and one thing is certain, you probably won't agree with all of what he says!

Delphi has spent years working at a vast and iconic theme park in California after fleeing a trauma in her rural hometown. But following the disturbing death of a beloved Hollywood starlet on the park grounds, Delphi is tasked with shuttering it for good. Meanwhile, two siblings with ties to the park exchange letters, trying to understand why people who work there have been disappearing. Before long, they learn that there’s a reason no one is meant to see behind its carefully guarded curtain.

Tensions are at a fever pitch as Liam and Mina are confronted by their neighbors about they are raising their son Christopher. The couple fight doggedly, but will they keep custody of their child when the federal government sends in three of their top agents to settle the matter?

A terrifying set of four short stories sure to tingle your spine. In the "End-forcer" a repairman messing around with an old television accidentally releases a woman's soul from hell. As he struggles to protect her from a demon that is bent on her capture, he is forced to consider some disturbing questions about why she was in hell in the first place. In "Spare Parts Department" a hard-boiled Bronx detective is hot on the trial of the man who killed her partner. However, her quarry seems to have supernatural capabilities and the closer she gets to solving the mystery the more disturbing the...

Deadknobs and Doomsticks is a collection of 13 short horror stories by I'm a Celebrity Get Me out of Here's "King of the Jungle" and one of the UK's favourite comedians, Joe Pasquale. Ranging from the darkly bizarre to the horrifically surreal, many of the stories are laced with a theme of bullying and bullies.

For many years, the Witherby family has been most cruel to animals and insects. But one day Mother Nature says "enough is enough," and unleashes vengeance upon the Witherby family in the form of a giant, man-eating spider. Will any of the Witherbys get out of this tale alive?

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence. Initially, conversing, eating, sleeping, looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house, all is well. But as the days start to blur together, Penny starts to lose her grip on the passage of time and on her place in the world.

Catherine O'Chancey is a young submissive who has found her happily ever after, with a man far better than she'd ever dreamed. Or has she? Is life that easy? Jayden Masterson first opened his playroom to Catherine - a provocative Irish beauty with a penchant for pain - and then his heart to her everyday persona, Erin. For him, life has never been more perfect...or more confusing.

Her life is overdue, and tonight she has to pay. Rachel Dankworth finds her name on a library due date card. The fine? Her entire existence. “You shouldn’t be alive,” the card whispers at midnight. “You stole someone else’s story.” Nineteen years ago, Rachel survived falling through ice when she should have died. Now the Emberwick Library has come to collect—with interest. Text crawls beneath her skin like living tattoos. Her body flickers transparent at the edges. She’s being erased, word by word, paragraph by paragraph. “You’re nineteen years overdue,” warns Dexter, ...

One afternoon, young Thomas fails to return home for dinner and is soon reported as missing. His disappearance is told from the points of view of all involved, and what unfolds is a tale of ghosts, murder, grief, magic, and necromancy. It is always certain that Thomas will return...but the nature of his reappearance will haunt the minds of all protagonists involved, and each will be changed forever.