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Terrifying Tales: The Complete Set gathers all 28 stories from Samuel Brower’s four acclaimed horror collections into one definitive omnibus—spanning supernatural terror, psychological dread, folk horror, and Lovecraftian unease. This omnibus includes “Patricia Lendrum, Exorcist for Hire,” introducing a hard-edged occult investigator who confronts possessions and entities that refuse to play by the rules. In “Apparitions in the Railyard,” a stretch of track becomes the site of a haunting rooted in tragedy and unfinished business. The chilling novella “Something in the Walls”...

Deep in a crime-ridden Kentucky holler, where the law barely holds and darkness hides more than just desperate men, Sheriff Hunter Gallogly is about to face a nightmare unlike any other. When a devastating mine collapse is followed by a string of gruesome murders, the evidence points to something beyond human—something ancient, relentless, and bloodthirsty.

Mr. Atlas—the carnival’s owner, strongman, and wrestling champion—can bend railroad spikes with his bare hands. Saul Abraham, known as Solomon the Sorcerer while performing magic shows on the carnival stage, wields a power that has little to do with sleight of hand. And Carny, the tattooed son of a gypsy fortune teller, has a strange and mysterious ability that is yet to be truly understood. These men specialize in helping folks who have nowhere else to turn, and they are quite capable at the task.

Greg Gallogly swore he’d never go back. Leaving his Kentucky hometown meant escaping the dead-end roads, the violence, and the ghosts of his past. But when his stolen chopper turns up in a gang-run warehouse, one reckless decision forces him and his new friend Tanya on a desperate cross-country escape—one that leads him straight back to Haint’s Hollow. Meanwhile, deep in the Appalachian hollers, Sheriff Hunter Gallogly discovers a badly burned man in a wolf den. The man should be dead. Or, if he is who Hunter thinks he is, he should have turned. But he hasn’t.

Drugs. Delusions. Or the biggest mystery in Florida since the will-o’-the-wisp? Meet Barry Babcock: swamp-dwelling, self-medicated, unemployed—and now infamous. After a death-defying stunt lands him in a psychiatric ward, Barry swears the real reason he’s locked up isn’t booze or bad decisions. It’s the frog people. According to Barry, deep in central Florida’s swamps lives a secret race of amphibious cryptids—ancient, bizarre, and very real. His story spirals from alligator dodging and backwoods chaos into conspiracy, cryptids, and the kind of madness only Florida could cook ...

In the rapidly growing Appalachian city of Watershed—dubbed “The Silicon Valley of the East"—a new dating app called eRos promises perfect matches, better relationships, and fewer mistakes. Then women start turning up dead. February “ Feb” Ferreira has just landed her first real reporting job when she’s assigned to cover the murders, which police insist are isolated incidents. But as Feb digs into the cases, familiar details begin to repeat, and coincidence starts to feel like choreography. Chasing answers means navigating a city desperate to protect its image, a tech CEO ...

Write faster. Publish smarter. Build a catalog that sells. For years, Samuel Brower wrote and self-published fiction as a hobby. He didn’t promote, didn’t advertise, and his royalties barely added up to beer money. But over that time, through trial and error, he developed a writing system based on proven story beats and inspired by the pulp tradition. Then, on his 42nd birthday, he put that system to the test. The result? A breakthrough novel that turned his pastime into a profitable publishing side-hustle—and a repeatable method that any indie author can follow. In The Pulp Method: ...

Detroit was already dying. Then people started turning feral. When a citywide curse unleashes chaos in the streets—turning ordinary citizens into red-eyed killers—only two people know the truth behind it. Frank Xavier, an ex-con with a knack for getting punched in the face, and Raina Whatley, a funeral director who happens to be a powerful witch. The enemy wears plague doctor masks. Their magic spreads like a disease. And the body count is climbing fast. As rival witch families, outlaw bikers, and the city's citizens are dragged into the fallout, Frank and Raina race against time to ...

In the heart of the Appalachians, an ancient power stirs—and a family must decide whether to hide or fight. For generations, the Reillys have practiced the old druidic ways in secret: communing with spirits, binding themselves to beasts, and guarding the wilds of Virginia. But the 1930s bring new enemies. Coal barons and their hired guns want the land. Mafia enforcers smell moonshine profits. And the people of Amber’s Hollow, trapped in the middle, are running out of time. Now Sean Reilly, a novice still awaiting his first animal form, must stand with his father, Erin the scarred bear, ...

Two novels. One family. A legacy of druidic power in the heart of the Appalachians. For generations, the Reillys have guarded the old ways—magic rooted in the hollers of Virginia, bound to the land, the spirits, and the beasts of the wild. Hidden from a world that once hunted them, they’ve lived in silence. But the 1930s bring more than hardship. Coal barons, mob enforcers, and bootleggers are spilling blood in the mountains, and Amber’s Hollow is caught in the crossfire. To protect their home, the Reillys must risk everything. Sean, the untested heir, wrestles with his legacy and the...

Some towns keep their secrets buried. This one kills to protect them. Summer, 1991. Claire Conrad, a water analyst for the Charleston Sanitary Board, is sent to the backwoods town of Palestine, West Virginia. She expects bad drinking water. What she finds is a sickness spreading through the town—something far darker than any chemical contaminant. The people of Palestine don’t want help. Led by Mary Ellen Bishop, the iron-fisted wife of a snake-handling preacher, they call the illness God’s punishment. To them, Claire’s science is blasphemy. At first it’s glares and locked doors. ...

In Terrifying Tales 4, Samuel Brower returns with a chilling new collection of horror stories that explore secrets buried for decades, places that refuse to forget, and the terrible cost of uncovering the truth. A veteran investigator confronts a haunted orphanage hiding a secret unlike anything he’s faced before. An outlaw couple on the run takes shelter in a remote mountain cabin—only to discover its elderly occupant is far more dangerous than she appears. A father and daughter’s hiking trip turns into a nightmare when they stumble upon a discovery that marks them for death. Along ...

NEW ORLEANS IS A CITY OF THE DEAD—AND SOMETHING HUNGRY HAS WOKEN AMONG THEM. 1951, New Orleans. The Thunder & Shield Traveling Carnival rolls into Louisiana, but money troubles are the least of their worries. In the swamps outside the Big Easy, a Klansman’s corpse has become a vessel for something ancient and vengeful—a force neither alive nor dead, feeding on hate and blood. Atlas, Carny, and Saul—the strongman, the scarred fighter, and the sorcerer—are drawn into a battle that pits them against robed murderers, corrupt lawmen, and a darkness older than the bayou itself. At their...

The magic is changing. The land is turning. And in the shadows, something stirs. Weeks after blood was spilled in Amber’s Hollow, the Reilly family struggles to hold themselves—and their secrets—together. Sean wrestles with his new form and the burden of legacy. Erin sees enemies in every shadow. Donovan, once the mountain’s fiercest protector, knows all too well that peace in the valley never lasts. Moonshine wars spread like wildfire, and a fragile alliance between coal barons and the New York mob is about to collapse. But beneath the greed and gun smoke, a darker bargain brews—...

The forest has rules. Rin of the Red Bough has lived by them all his life. A lone hunter raised in the towering canopy of Tahlva, Rin survives by skill, silence, and stubborn independence. He trades with river folk who distrust him, lives apart from the forest tribes who won’t fully claim him, and keeps the old ways alive by blade and bow alone. But the forest is changing, and so is the world beyond its borders. When a single night of hunting leaves Rin bloodied, haunted, and marked by impossible choices, the careful balance he has built begins to unravel. Zealots bearing fire and faith ...

THE PLAINS ARE HAUNTED BY A NEW MONSTER—AND THE CARNIVAL MUST FACE IT BEFORE NIGHTFALL. 1952, South Dakota. The Thunder & Shield Traveling Carnival arrives on the prairie expecting ticket sales, not a war. But when Sheriff Peter Hahkota calls on Atlas, Saul, and Carny for help, they discover something far worse than crooked lawmen or Klansmen waiting in the dark. A wendigo is loose on the reservation—an ancient man-eater born of hunger and human flesh. Mangled bodies litter the plains, and every night the killings spread. No rifle, no fire, no ordinary weapon can stop it. To fight the ...

Some doors should never be opened. Some bargains should never be made. Some evils don’t stay buried. In Terrifying Tales, Samuel Brower drags readers into a world where the familiar curdles into the grotesque and the ordinary becomes a gateway to nightmare. These stories roam from haunted homes and cursed objects to back roads, forgotten towns, and the thin places where something old and hungry waits to be noticed. A hard-boiled paranormal investigator confronts the lingering echoes of violent death in “A Haunting in Baltimore.” A birthday gift becomes an instrument of terror in “...

A mind-bending horror that will keep you awake at night David Howell came to Hollywood in pursuit of a dream. He never expected to wake up in a nightmare. When an earthquake rips through his aging apartment building, David thinks the worst is over once the shaking stops. But the damage runs deeper than cracked plaster and shattered nerves. Something beneath the building has been disturbed. Something that should have stayed buried. At first, it’s easy to ignore—unexplained vibrations in the walls, faint sounds in the vents, the creeping feeling of being watched. Then a tenant vanishes. ...

San Diego, 1986. His father’s ghost is calling—and it wants blood. Riku Ramirez has spent his life avoiding his father’s shadow. A straight-A student. A disciplined karate instructor. A kid with a future. His old man? An outlaw biker and career criminal. But when Riku inherits his father’s battered motorcycle and a sukajan jacket hand-stitched by his mother, the past won’t stay buried. The bike roars beneath him, the jacket fits like destiny—and suddenly Riku feels power, identity, and danger pulling him into a world he doesn’t understand. A case of mistaken identity changes ...

Cleveland belongs to the mob… but the Hatchet Man has other plans. Cleveland, 1946. A man wakes up on the banks of the Cuyahoga River—bandaged, broken, and with no memory of who he is. The only thing he remembers: visions of a child’s drawings of a hatchet-wielding hero… and the face of a woman who might be the key to his past. With nothing to lose and rage burning in his veins, he takes up the hatchet and carves a bloody path through the city’s crime-ridden underworld. Every fight, every dead gangster brings him closer to the truth. But Cleveland is owned by a ruthless mob boss ...