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Welcome to Wyevale, a riverside book-town where every cottage has a story, every bookshelf hides a secret, and mysteries wander the cobblestone lanes like curious cats. When odd happenings begin stirring during the town’s bustling literary festivals—vanishing books, wandering doors, whispering shelves, cryptic pages, and clues that appear where no one has stepped—illustrator June Wren finds herself drawn into a series of puzzles no ordinary sleuth could untangle. With her sketchbook in hand and her mischievous cat Thimble at her side, June teams up with the quietly observant Detective...

Filed Without Resolution is a true-crime collection about the moments that almost made sense, and then didn’t. Drawn from publicly available cold-case files, these stories are told not by detectives chasing answers, but by the ordinary people who encountered the evidence first: a highway patrol officer logging mismatched shoes by the freeway, a family arriving minutes too late to an abandoned picnic, a mail carrier who noticed when someone stopped answering the door, a postal worker recognizing handwriting that should not have returned. Each account is written in first-person, ...

“No one rides untouched by myth. Some ride to escape. Others… to return.” From Norse battlefields to the cosmic roads between stars, The Horses of Fate is a sweeping mythic anthology exploring the sacred power of the horse, warrior, ferrier, dream-bearer, and judge. Each tale stands alone yet echoes the others, bound by a single truth: freedom always carries a price. Sleipnir: The Rider of Storms – A shield-maiden bargains with Odin’s eight-legged steed to rewrite destiny, only to learn that every saved life demands a sacrifice. Pegasus: Born in Blood and Light – A disgraced ...

Haunted Stone: True Accounts from Edinburgh Castle’s Ghost Watchers by G.J. Fene is a chilling, first-person collection of real-life encounters inside one of the world’s most haunted fortresses. From whispering pipers and phantom soldiers to vanished prisoners and impossible doorways, these stories come straight from those who’ve seen too much and dared to speak. Told in their own words, guards, historians, tourists, and skeptics, this gripping anthology reveals the spirits still walking Edinburgh Castle’s stone corridors. Each chapter pulls you deeper into centuries of secrets, ...

Beyond the Veranda: Ghost Stories from the Myrtles invites you deep into the haunting heart of one of America’s most mysterious plantations. From phantom duels played out beneath moonlit oaks to the sorrowful Lady of the Veranda beckoning newlyweds over the railing, these eight chilling tales reveal secrets whispered through centuries of moss-draped silence. Step inside the Myrtles, where history and the supernatural collide, and where every creak of the floorboards might be the footsteps of a spirit longing to be heard.

Witness to Silence: Tales of Vanished Friends is a haunting collection of gripping short stories by G.J. Fene, exploring the chilling moment when someone you love simply… vanishes. From eerie carnivals and dark forests to chaotic protests and midnight highways, each story immerses readers in tales of friends who disappear without a trace, and the ones left behind, desperate for answers. Blending mystery, thriller, and supernatural elements, these tales pulse with raw emotion, psychological tension, and the chilling question: What if the ones we’ve lost are still out there, watching us ...

Ghost Playlist By G.J. Fene In a hyper-connected world, some connections should never be made. From vanished friends and haunted signals to playlists that whisper secrets from the grave, Ghost Playlist weaves six chilling tales where technology becomes the conduit for the supernatural. A mysterious social network that can erase a person from both memory and reality… A train carriage that vanishes into silence, taking a passenger with it… A lighthouse beacon sending distress signals from the other side… A location pin that leads deeper into the dark—and someone who’s no longer ...

Rooms You Don’t Deserve by G.J. Fene is a chilling anthology of modern horror where guilt becomes architecture, and each room knows what you did. In twelve unnerving tales, scientists, priests, doctors, and frauds are lured into surreal punishment chambers that mirror their sins, and refuse to let them go. From a fertility clinic island where all the guests look alike… to a recursive memory trail in a fire-scorched forest… to a nursery where every infant cries with your voice, these are rooms built not for shelter, but for reckoning. Each story is a closed system. A confession box. A ...

Strange Hours: Pop Fiction Stories for the Restless Mind is a hauntingly addictive collection of short fiction that blurs the line between the ordinary and the uncanny. Each story is designed for late-night reading, when the world is quiet but the mind won’t rest. From a dating app that knows too much, to a midnight TV channel that speaks your secrets, to an elevator ride that swallows its passengers whole, these tales lure readers into unsettling worlds that feel one step removed from reality, and dangerously close to home.

In the shadowed corridors of history, entire truths vanish, not by accident, but by design. The Society of Omission follows a network of women across decades and continents, each uncovering a dangerous fragment of a hidden archive detailing betrayals, crimes, and unspoken bargains that shaped nations. From famine-struck Ireland to Ottoman Istanbul, from plague-quarantined Sydney to pre-war Paris, each heroine is forced to choose between exposure and survival, knowing the wrong choice could topple lives, or erase them completely. Bound together by an unspoken code, these women become ...

Every crime leaves a pattern. Only one detective can see the numbers hiding inside it. Mira Devereux doesn’t just solve cases—she reads the invisible math of fate. To everyone else, clues are physical: footprints, fingerprints, broken locks. To Mira, they are sequences, echoes, and symbols only she can see: drifting numbers that whisper warnings, shifting patterns that predict danger, and impossible visions that overlay past, present, and future. When impossible deaths, vanishing victims, and reality-bending scenes begin converging around her investigations, Mira is forced to confront ...

Across six continents and countless bunkbeds, strangers whisper the same thing after lights-out: some rooms don’t empty when the guests check out. In Whispers from Hostels: Paranormal Travel Tales, a mosaic of globe-trotting narrators, an ex–night auditor revisiting London’s infamous Room 6C, a tango-loving backpacker bargaining with the Río de la Plata, an underwater photographer chasing a vanished friend through Thai islands, a compassionate night guard keeping vigil in a Mexico City basement, a UX researcher meeting a midnight receptionist in a Budapest bathhouse, and a sardonic ...

In these six paranormal tales, ordinary people stumble into patterns of digits that refuse to stay on clocks, calendars, tickets, or walls. What begins as superstition becomes a code written into reality itself, tying grief to chance, time to debt, and fate to the simple act of counting. Each story stands alone, but together they trace a chilling question: when the universe starts talking in numbers, what does it want from you?

The open road promises freedom, but some journeys were never meant to be taken. Haunted Highways is a chilling collection of five first-person tales where ordinary road trips twist into encounters with the impossible. A hitchhiker vanishes from the back seat, leaving only a damp coat behind. A roadside motel traps its guests in endless loops. Strange lights over the desert steal time, and perhaps something more. A phantom woman warns of a cursed river bend where drivers drown year after year. And in a forgotten mountain tunnel, whispers and lullabies lure travelers toward a gate sealed shut...

Behind the Eyes: Tales of Psychological Terror What if the most dangerous place isn’t a haunted house or a dark alley, but your own mind? In this chilling collection, ordinary lives unravel as reality twists and fractures in ways too intimate to escape. A woman’s new flatmate insists he never touched her belongings, yet she finds a journal in her own handwriting filled with memories she doesn’t recall. A commuter loses an hour of her day, every day, only to discover someone else may be living that missing time for her. A smiling stranger appears in subway cars and grocery aisles, ...

Across ancient empires and forgotten horizons, six mythic beings descend from the clouds, eagles, hawks, thunderbirds, and falcons, each a divine messenger bearing judgment, mercy, or ruin. In this epic anthology, mortals are tested not by swords, but by the sky itself. A Mesopotamian scribe must bargain with the Zu Bird to reclaim the Tablets of Destiny before time unravels. A condemned philosopher debates Zeus’s Eagle atop a cliff, where wisdom may cost his life. A drought-stricken tribe dances for rain and loses a child to the Thunderbird’s storm-world. An embalmer in Egypt dreams of...

Nine Myths. Nine Civilizations. One Shadow in Every Age. Crows of the Vanishing Earth is a sweeping anthology of dark myth and historical fiction, weaving nine epic tales across ancient civilizations, from Celtic battlefields and Babylonian palaces to desert canyons and Norse longhouses. In every age, a crow appears. Sometimes as omen. Sometimes as witness. Always as judge. Across these stories, kings fall, cities burn, and oaths are broken, but the crow endures, carrying memory through flame, famine, and forgotten gods. Warriors defy fate, scribes confront prophecy, queens awaken curses, ...

In the mist-shrouded village of Moonridge Hollow, witchcraft was supposed to have died out long ago. But when a nobleman’s mysterious death stirs whispers of dark magic, herbalist Penelope Hawthorne knows better. Beneath her quiet shop and calm smile lies a power the old covens once feared, and the secrets she buried are waking again. Her only companion is Aurelius, a silver-eyed familiar with a mind as sharp as his claws. Together, they uncover a chilling truth: a forbidden order known as the Umbrael is corrupting animals into living conduits, “Borrowed Skins”, to spy, possess, and ...

WOLFBLOOD is a mythic anthology of seven interwoven tales, where wolves are more than beasts, they are omens, guardians, judges, and mirrors of the human soul. Across ancient empires, frozen wilderness, feudal mountains, modern highways, and even the courtroom of law, the wolf shape-shifts through time and legend to confront one timeless question: Are we the hunters… or the hunted within ourselves? From the she-wolf who nurses the founders of Rome, to Fenrir chained by prophecy, to the spirit guide who leads a grieving father through snow, each story explores loyalty, hunger, exile, and ...

They escaped. Their friends didn’t. And what came for them... no one’s ever named. From flooded motels to broken-down desert roads, from abandoned subway tunnels to blackouts in quiet towns, these are the final testimonies of the ones who lived. Each survivor tells their story of a new, unknowable predator: creatures born not of myth, but of silence, shadows, and blood. These monsters don’t stalk the legends. They create them. I Shouldn’t Have Lived: Survivors of the Unnamed is a chilling anthology of first-person accounts from the edge of death, and the edge of reason. If you’ve ...