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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

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: adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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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: adult

Balor

Mixed martial arts meets Mississippi hoodoo in this supernatural tale.

Reader ages: adult

Path of Angels

The path less traveled is dangerous.

Reader ages: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

House

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

Reader ages: adult

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: adult

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“Jason William Karpf’s post-apocalyptic novel The Deliverer transports a grim yet hopeful story, leading to satisfying conclusions for his characters.”
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