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In all of human experience, there is very little that holds more intimate horror than childbirth. Bodies are ravaged, minds are torn, and lives are caught in a precarious balance of hope and fear. In this anthology of seventeen authors, the horrors of childbirth are scalpel-sharp and womb-deep.
The stories in this anthology are painful and dark. A surprising parasite deeply planted in its mother's womb. A harrowing choice made by a mother with no options. Demon babies. Post-partum madness. Lifeblood lost.
Check your triggers (found here), gird your loins, and dive in to this delightful, strange, and horrifying selection of childbirth horror.
A medical system that keeps you alive as long as your cash holds out. A sure-fire weight-loss treatment with only a ten percent fatality rate. A flesh-sloughing, muscle-shredding disease that leaves the sufferer begging to be put in a tub full of maggots. A son giving everything to care for his mother as she wastes away.
Our bodies are fragile and destructible things, and one of the few knowable things in life is that they will fail us, painfully and entirely. With the destruction of our flesh and bones, whether from the inside or out, comes true fear. And therein lies the horror.
This collection of stories by indie horror author Ruth Anna Evans also features a guest story by award-winning author Rik Hoskin. This book will gut you, will fill you with a very personal dread, and will leave you with thoughts in your head that you won't easily forget.
OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror
This tiny anthology is full of gross, grimy, creepy, crawly, bubbling, bursting fun, but what will surprise you is how much heart and story can be squeezed into such small packages.
With twenty-one authors putting forth their best short works of body horror, be prepared to be smacked in the face with a combination of what you look for when you pick up a book like this—the transformation, dissolution, and decay—but also by a delightful number of heartfelt and surprising twists on the genre.
With weird and wonderful cover art for each story, a foreword by Bridgett Nelson, and stories by Judith Sonnet and Rowland Bercy Jr., OOZE brings body horror to you in twenty-one disgustingly bite-size chunks.
This book is revolting, touching, and terrifying. Don’t forget to wash your hands after reading this little burst of fantastic new horror fiction.
AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE
AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE
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Also available to bookstores through Ingram Spark.
Frank's six-year-old daughter Maddie is sick. Very sick. Her mother is out of town and he's on his own to handle the emergency. But the doctors can't find anything wrong and money is quickly running out. Frank is desperate, and he begins to consider the unthinkable.
Shelly is a social worker with a pill problem. When a case spins out of control, she finds herself out of pills and at the end of her rope. Then she gets a call to check into a tip from an EMT: A father who may be making his own daughter ill. Will Shelly intervene in time, or will she fail to save a child...again?
From the author of OH FUCK OH FUCK IT HURTS comes this gripping, fast-paced novella of medical horror that will make you question: How far would you go when the only thing you can do is Against Medical Advice?
When a true-crime podcaster uncovers the cold case of a child murder, she thinks she’s found her next big story. But the gruesome tale triggers a bipolar episode, and Maggie just can’t stay away from the house where the heinous crime took place. A few bad decisions later, Maggie finds herself trapped at the scene of the crime, hallucinating the murdered child’s ghost. It may not just be her mania keeping her there, though. It may be something truly evil.
Jordan Sharp has been writing for the local newspaper for two years. But when a sinister ghost-child emerges from a suspicious house fire and brings to life her darkest memories, she finds herself in the middle of the story. After a life of isolating herself from others, Jordan needs to reach out for help. And there’s a handsome, sympathetic firefighter just waiting for her to ask. But as people around her start falling victim to the deadly haunting, is it worth putting him at risk? And can Jordan resolve her troubled past before it's too late?
Girls come of age in so many ways. In this book, they come of age by battling monsters, watching their friends die, losing their mothers, and killing for the first time. Their periods are the least of their concerns.
In this anthology of girls' coming-of-age stories by women of many kinds, we get to meet sixteen heroines, girls facing the challenges of adulthood and rising to meet them. Dark Blooms doesn't miss a beat in telling a wide variety of important stories that might have otherwise been buried and ignored.
These fresh and fantastic voices will reach inside of you and make you feel something you haven't felt since your own coming-of-age horror.
NO ONE CAN HELP YOU: Tales of Lost Children and Other Nightmares
The world is a scary place…
A five-year old boy tries to tell his parents there’s something not right about the cleaning lady, but it may be too late. The ghost of a child killed in a mass shooting begs his mother to take revenge. A police officer sees visions of people dying and is helpless to stop it--then he sees his own daughter die. Doctors tell a woman she’s perfectly healthy. She’s not.
Think of the worst thing that can happen, then add in the supernatural, the strange, and some heartbreaking twists. You’ll have No One Can Help You: Tales of Lost Children and Other Nightmares.
With brand new novelette Trigger Warning, new short story Anxiety, and never-before-published flash fiction, this collection is your worst real-life fears come true. Then magic makes it so much worse.
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