Detective Gabriel Collins is the new guy to vampire crimes and he's ready to make a difference. But his new partner, Harper, turns everything into a joke. Now with the biggest murder Vampire Crimes has ever seen, Gabe needs every advantage. But how can he solve this case with his partner holding him back every step of the way?

As a child, Ellis Irvine was kidnapped from his bedroom and taken to a camp of unforgettable horrors. Ten years later, the prince of Tealwaters is no longer a boy but a man with a dark and traumatic past. When fate brings him face to face with Violet Danes, the very girl who once kept his hope alive, he can't seem to stay away. Violet Danes has many scars, having been the victim of experiments involving dark and dangerous magic. But one scar remains-the...

Roommates rent an apartment with peculiar neighbors that were more than they bargained for, jeopardizing their sanity.

Quincy Harker needs a vacation, but there's no peace to be found in the usually sleepy seaside resort of North Carolina's Outer Banks. No, there's a serial killer stalking the streets of Manteo, and there's even more to the crimes than usual. Add in a heavily warded cemetery with hints of magic long thought to have vanished from the earth, a mystery centuries in the making, and a string of horrifyingly realistic nightmares plaguing Rebecca Flynn,...

NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #138 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Keith Rosson ("Second Deaths") and Fatima Taqvi ("Our Very Best Selves!"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("A Guide to Camping in the Forest") from Oyedotun Damilola...

A captured commander, a ruthless King, and a Fae Prince who will do anything to save her. King Oberon has her. His mate. The mortal King is ruthless in seeking ways to end all of the Fae kind. And now he has the one person in his grasp that Rist Frost would tear apart the realms for. But as the Prince desperately searches for Aurora Thorn, his time is slowly running out. Rist has Crispin in his mind, Rory in his heart, and Prince Cierian at...

Artifacts lost in time, supernatural alliances, and a desperate choice that changed the world. The adventure that began with The Monarch Papers continues with Ackerly Green's Secret Society. When Deirdre Green places the stewardship of Ackerly Green Publishing in author C.J. Bernstein's hands, he expects his days to be filled with copy edits, contracts, and cover designs. But when a box of collectible pins is discovered in a long-forgotten storage...

After facing Death himself and banishing a reaper bent on the destruction of Sheriff's deputy Boyd Davies, Hallie Michaels had hoped things would finally settle down; that she and Boyd would find more time to spend together, and that the ghosts she attracts would stay in the cemeteries where they belong. But on a wintry night in mid-December, a woman is murdered with a high-powered rifle. Not long after, another of West Prairie City's citizens is...

For a Fallen that has nothing but time, it is suddenly against him. And now he has to be the good guy? Damn.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~The Silk Road. In ancient times it was a well-established trade route that began in China. But to Larien, it is the veiled entrance to the underworld where no human belongs.Jayla Protegenu is as typical as they come. She owns a chain of gyms in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoys popcorn-and-movie night with her two best friends...

Son. Brother. Friend. Lover. Husband. Father.Warrior.Throughout his long life, he has been all of these things. But before all else, he has been a protector. He has made friends, but more importantly, he has made enemies. One has stalked him through the millennia, centuries before he took the name Chang and long before he found a lost, orphaned boy who would one day become one of the most powerful Alphas in the world.Take a step back in time and look...