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Castle of Horror Vol 11: Revenge

Featuring stories of pulse-pounding, blood-curdling revenge from Leanna Renee Hieber, Claire Low, Dotti Enderle, Jeremiah Dylan Cook, Will McDermott, Sara Martinez, Scott Pearson, Rob Nisbet, Serena Jayne, Katya de Becerra, Carmen Gray, Michael Joseph Tharnish Roby, Charles R. Rutledge, Melanie Schubert, Heath W. Shelby, Bryan Young, Alethea Kontis and Liz Holliday.

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Castle of Horror Vol 10: Thinly Veiled: Saturday Mornings

The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of Saturday morning pop culture, from the Smurfs to Soul Train– but every one of these brands is “thinly veiled.” This time we feature stories from P. J. Hoover, Jeremiah Dylan Cook, Dennis K. Crosby, Alethea Kontis, Joy Preble,…

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Castle of Horror Vol 9: YA

The Castle of Horror Anthology returns with stories of the young– horrible, thrilling, terrible flamin’ youth at its most harrowing. Featuring stories by David Bowles, Jennifer Brody, Julian Michael Carver, Debbie Daughetee, Carmen Gray, Ammar Habib, Jess Hagemann, Leanna Renee Hieber, Sam Knight, Alethea Kontis, Mike Owsley, Scott Pearson, S.N. Rodriguez, and Bryan Young. The Most Dangerous Game gets…

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Castle of Horror Vol 8: Thinly Veiled: the ’80s

The popular THINLY VEILED collection from the Castle of Horror continues with this anthology of horror stories in the world of 80s pop culture– from movies like ROBOCOP and THE KEEP to shows like THE FACTS OF LIFE and MORK AND MINDY– but every one of these brands is “thinly veiled.” See if you can recognize them all! Featuring…

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Castle of Horror Vol 7: Love Gone Wrong

The Castle of Horror Anthology is back with a brand-new collection of stories intended to curdle the blood and freeze the heart! This time the theme is love– family love, romantic love, dedicated love, obsessive love, but what they all have in common is a misstep, a slide into the uncanny. Featuring stories by Alethea Kontis, Tom Waltz, Scott…

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Castle of Horror Vol 5: Thinly Veiled: the ’70s

Enter a very strange wing of the Castle of Horror– a wing of reflections of the familiar. Specifically: reflections of the 1970s, from TV sitcoms like THE ODD COUPLE to films like HALLOWEEN and THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. But every one of them– from the mismatched roomate bachelors to the bus-traveling pop star family– are all “thinly veiled”…

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Castle of Horror Vol 4: Women Running From Houses

The theme is Gothic– the horror of Gothic romance. Throughout the mid-century, paperback Gothic romance books dominated the shelves, always featuring a woman running away from a house. (Go ahead, Google “women running from houses.”) Gothic romances tended to tell stories of women coming into conflict with old families, old houses and old traditions. So we’ve asked a bevy…

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Castle of Horror Vol 3: Scary Summer Lovin’

The Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 3 (available in Kindle and paperback) is the third collection of horror stories to be put out under the Castle of Horror brand. This go-around, the theme is summer! If you’re headed to the beach in reality or in your dreams, watch out for our collection of ghostly gothic tales, deadly toys, time…

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Elemental

In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy stories, all new and never published elsewhere, from many of the top writers in the genres today, and received…

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Wild & Wishful, Dark & Dreaming

Things that never were, things that might be, and things that may yet come to pass… A monster under the bed. A Rock God in deep space. A haunted castle in post-war Germany. A dark secret in Harlan County, Kentucky. The birth of an angel and a demon. A garage band composed of misfit teen weres. Babes and bayous,…

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