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Fake Nora, Kelly Martin

Fake Nora

Sucked into an antique mirror and replaced by an evil doppelgänger, Nora must team up with another trapped boy to escape the mirror and its dark residents.
Reader ages: middle grade
Chapel Street, Sean Paul Murphy

Chapel Street

Rick Bakos straddles the boundary between sanity and madness while battling a demonic curse that has driven his family members to suicide for generations.
Reader ages: adults
Winter, Oliver D. King

Winter

A college Goth girl discovers she has the gift of prophecy and must use it to protect her friends from a Satanic priest.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Amish Werewolves of Space, Kerry Nietz

Amish Werewolves of Space

A resurgent zombie horde and mysterious nightly howls signal doom, not only for the Amish, but for the entire galaxy.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Thoughtreal, Michael Gryboski
Reviewed

Thoughtreal

Two people who have developed the power to bend reality with their minds have come to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for mysterious reasons.
“Michael Gryboski has thought up an intricate narrative that avoids potential tropes while touching on important issues.”
—Lorehaven review, winter 2018
Reader ages: adults

Balor

Mixed martial arts meets Mississippi hoodoo in this supernatural tale.
Reader ages: adults
Path of Angels, Dawn Witzke

Path of Angels

The path less traveled is dangerous.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Demien

Young physicist and archaeologist Trevor Pendleton is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the mysteries of the natural and supernatural that threaten to ravage mankind and rip the world apart.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Cyn

CYN

When her husband volunteers both of them for a mission to a planetary colony infamous for debauchery and lawlessness, CJ finds how deep the darkness can be.
Reader ages: adults

The Maze

With his family in danger and his soul in peril, Jamie Burroughs is forced to reevaluate the kind of man he truly is as he struggles to escape The Maze before it’s too late. Book 1 of the The Lost Labyrinth series, spiritual-warfare fantasy for young-adult readers.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Dark Hour

Greensboro has fallen. For ex-reverend Jeff Weldon and those under his care, it is a losing battle, but the tale turns with the return of his brother Dras.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Anticipation Of The Penitent

After Alezea is trapped by the Devil, she bears him a son and knows her life will never be her own.
Reader ages: adults

Rift Jump

Michael Morrison has been recruited, ripped from his own violent life, and sent rift-jumping to other worlds seeking out the agents of the Dark.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Enemies Of The Cross

After Dras Weldon’s stand against the Strange Man, Dras’s older brother Jeff discovers the demon’s arrival was no accident.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

New Blood

A pale immigrant wanders into the backcountry of 1755 Pennsylvania. Her name is Rebecca. Her curse is a rare genetic disorder.
Reader ages: adults

Forever Richard

Now mortal once again, Richard and Ceese thought their troubles were behind them. What will they do when they learn that isn’t true?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Ripper Grimm

“It’s only a puppet. It’s only a puppet.” Perhaps blessing the puppet wasn’t such a good idea. Yet, the more Chelsea Grant tries to reverse this seemingly harmless spell, the more vampiric her college project becomes. Contemporary horror for adult readers.
Reader ages: adults

Electric Angel

Because of her cancer, Anna Chadwick wouldn’t live long enough to carry her twin infants to term. But when an electrical entity arrives to take the place of her stillborn, some would reflect that prayers aren’t always answered the way we’d expect them to be. Fantasy horror for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Something Stirs

A malevolent entity becomes trapped in the wood and stone of Ben and Rachel Chalmers’ house and it will do whatever it takes, to find a way to complete its bloody transference to our world. Paranormal suspense/horror for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Strange Man

Twenty-two and unemployed, Dras Weldon is content to hide in the shadow of spiritual adolescence. But when a demonic stranger arrives, Dras is drawn into a battle that forces him to choose which side he is on. Book 1 of the The Coming Evil Trilogy series.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Never Ceese

A vampire. A werewolf. Can two who were wronged make it right? What happens when a determined werewolf and a skeptical vampire join forces at the request of an aging friend? Book 1 in the Thirsting for Blood series, fantasy horror for young-adult readers and older.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker

House

The only way out is in. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn.
Reader ages: adults

The Departed

Joshua Lazarus and his wife, Maggie, are reeling from the overnight success of his new television show, starring Joshua as a medium. It’s all a sham, of course — but then strange voices begin to haunt him without relief. Horror for adults by Kathryn Mackel.
Reader ages: adults

Chayatocha

In a desperate search for his missing family, Paradine comes face-to-face with the beast responsible for the terror — an ancient creature, beyond human, that allows him to live only to accomplish its most sinister desire. By Shane Johnson.
Reader ages: adults

The Last Guardian

In 1975, the life of Cornell graduate student T.G. Shass is forever changed when he finds himself in possession of a mysterious and ancient artifact. By Shane Johnson.
Reader ages: adults
Reviewed

The Oath

An ancient sin. A long forgotten oath. A town with a deadly secret.
“With deepening suspense, slow-reveals, and terrifying imagery, this literary creature features a foe you might not expect.”
—Lorehaven review, 2022
Reader ages: adults

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