Books published by Hellbound Books Publishing

A terrifying insight into the deteriorating mind of a serial killer. "I took Heather to the bathroom to mask her identity before we departed, and she became hysterical at the sight of her parents - still lying where they dropped. It had been over 24 hours since their death, and she was still freaking out about it. I couldn't have someone with me who was going to scream at the sight of blood; I understood some training was in order, so I sat her beside her mom and handed her a kitchen knife..." A stunning debut novel, your unique opportunity to join the murderous spree of an escalating serial killer, who is hellbent on achieving his sick goal of killing in each and every state of the USA. Through the killer's increasingly unhinged diary entries, gain an insight into his thoughts, imaginings and internal struggles, as he fights against his primal urge to satisfy the growing bloodlust, and to justify his nefarious actions to a rapidly crumbling mind. A wholly original book, that will shock, amuse and appall - plus provide you, the reader, with a ringside seat inside the psyche of a brutal killer... Evolution of a Monster wasn't written just for a read, it was written as a follow-along experience. Though the names, houses, and addresses are all make-believe, the streets, roads, cities, and landscape are all real. When read, while referring to a map, Evolution of a Monster takes you on the killer's journey for real. You can find the streets on a map, and see his actual path through woods, rivers and towns; and it is especially fun for those people who live on the actual streets, and who have been through these towns...

Another superlative collection from the critically acclaimed David Owain Hughes; a selection of 20 mind-bending, soul-tearing tales of terror designed to make even the hardiest of souls weak at the knees!Firstly, Hughes brought us the delicious madness that is White Walls and Straitjackets, followed by the unhinged Choice Cuts, before unleashing a whole host of batshit crazy with Psychological Breakdown. Each of these collections displays stories of cracked minds, disturbed individuals and the scariest monster of all-human-with a few sick, slick twists thrown in for Hughes' own personal, perverted kicks. And, oh, dear sweet, want-to-gobble-you-all-up reader, Hughes hasn't quite finished screwing with your mind just yet. Figuratively speaking, of course... We hope! Within Brain Damaged, Hughes' fourth collection of sadistic nightmares to date, lay a further twenty tales involving debauched individuals, dark humour, smut and more bends and turns than a Formula One race course! Buckle up, sick babies - this is another trip to Hughes' Land of Perverse Psychosis you won't want to miss. What's the matter, your tiny mind can't hack it? It's not all about the size...

By popular demand, the third volume in our bestselling anthology series, twenty-one spine-chilling, terrifyingly creepy tales of terror by a bunch of the best independent horror authors writing today!Featuring horror stories - and shopping lists - from: Richard Raven, Dhinoj Dings, Jeremy Thompson, Jeremy Wagner, Nick Manzolillo, Steve Stark, Jeff C. Stevenson, Kevin McHugh, James Watts, D.W. Jones, Nick Swain, Mark Thomas, Brian McGowan, Jason Gelehrt, Mark Deloy, Richard Barber, Sergio Palumbo, Megan E. Morales, Alizure Indigo, JN Cameron, and David Simon

An anthology of short stories in loving homage to those wonderful gorefest movies and books of the 1980's, that golden age when horror well and truly came kicking, screaming and spraying blood, gore & body parts out from the shadows... It was the decade that brought us everything in the cinema and VHS, from the Italian 'nasties' to Elm Street, The Lost Boys, Hellraiser, The Thing, Day of the Dead, Reanimator, Return of the Living Dead, My Bloody Valentine, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Cannibal Holocaust....and superlative directors such as David Cronenburg, John Waters, Roger Corman and - of course - Clive Barker. This exemplary 80's themed/inspired tales of terror has been adjudicated and compiled by one Mr Bret McCormick, himself a writer, producer and director of many a schlock classic, including Bio-Tech Warrior, Time Tracers, The Abomination, Ozone: The Attack of the Redneck Mutants and the inimitable Repligator. Todd Sullivan, Timothy C Hobbs, Mark Thomas, Andrew Post, James B. Pepe, Thomas Vaughn, Edward Karpp, Jaap Boekestein, Lisa Alfano, L.C.Holt, John Adam Gosham, Brandon Cracraft, M. Earl Smith, Sarah Cannavo, James Gardner, Bret McCormick, James H Longmore

Everything is bigger in Texas - including the horror! A Piney woods meth dealer clones Adolph Hitler. A nightmare exorcist meets an inexorable fined. An eyeball collector gets collected. The apparition of a lynching victim tracks down his executioners. A Texas lawman is undone by shades of his past. A Baphomet recruits converts as a local summer camp. The tales of the baker's dozen who appear in this anthology demonstrate why everything is scarier in Texas... Including tales of terror from Jeremy Hepler Madison Estes Bret McCormick James H Longmore ER Bills Shawana Borman And many more...

The second release by acclaimed mixed-media artist, Lee Todd Lacks, Nothing Between Friends tells the story of two irrepressible women growing up in Bangor, Maine during the early 1960''s. When Trixie LaFleur shares an intimate secret with her lifelong friend, June Jenkins, they both experience a crisis of conscience that tests their friendship and their faith. This compelling, fully-illustrated stage play celebrates every woman''s perogative to experience pleasure on her own terms.

Reeling from the tragic loss of his infant daughter Molly and the disappearance of his wife Melody, Garrett Webb begins a journey that will ultimately bring him to Gamble's Run, a long-abandoned canal hidden deep in central Florida. If he has any hope of finding his wife, he must penetrate the mysteries surrounding the canal and confront the evil that has festered there for untold centuries. Webb will make deadly enemies, but will also gain steadfast friends and allies, and together they will confront a power that exists beyond time and space. Unearthly forces clash in ancient conflict with a single question hanging in the balance: What dwells beneath the forgotten waters of Gamble's Run?

Black City: Tales From the Edge of the Abyss is an occult fiction anthology from elusive American author and artist Jane Grey. Written from beyond the shattered lens of reality, the eternal Abyss reaches Its invisible and alien influence into a bizarre mosaic of intersecting victims and willing participants. Twisting the short tales together alongside esoteric ink illustrations by the author, the anthology focuses on the darkest side of spirituality, the occult, and the demonic. Warping sensibilities by using ancient barbarous names and incantations, the collection itself is an occult working wrapped in the cloak of fictional horror. Enter the Black City.

In the ultimate battle between evil and evil...only one can win. Four hundred years ago, Benjamin Harwood butchered whoever he saw fit to kill, knowing that sacrificing his murder victims to a demon would keep him safe from eternal punishment. But now, their agreement has been torn in half and the demon is coming for Harwood's soul, coming to set him to burn. Preparing for war, Harwood gathers the worst of the worst, the monsters and murderers he calls friends. With this group of damned killers, Harwood must return to the crimes of his past and seek help from his most recent prey: a teenage girl whose family he destroyed, a girl with more reason to loathe him than anyone in his life or death. Only then he can try for a redemption that may be impossible or face a universe of suffering. But Harwood doesn't know there is a hole in the floor of the world. And something much worse than the dead is down there...

A contemporary ghost story made all the more terrifying for being based upon actual events." When the terrifying entity that Maggie and Katie Fox unleashed in Hydesville in 1848 returns in 2018, a gallery owner, his wife, a journalist and her boyfriend join forces to battle it. Manhattanites Derek David and his wife Edith receive an invitation to visit the Keilgarden Colony. Founded in 1948 with funds from Derek's great grandfather, the Colony is a secluded community dedicated to nurturing children with psychic abilities. Located five hours north of the city in the village of Hydesville, the compound was built on land that includes the cottage where Maggie and Katie Fox first heard the ghostly rappings in 1848 which started the Spiritualist movement. But what begins as a late-summer respite swiftly turns into a confusing and terrifying ordeal for the couple and Derek's brother, Oswald. From the moment they are greeted by the Colony's beautiful yet mysterious host, Vanya Avery, they begin experiencing bizarre and disturbing events: Memory loss, unsettling visions and dreams, otherworldly manifestations, voices and apparitions that repeatedly beckon them back to the haunted Fox cottage. To end the escalating phenomena, Derek sets fire to the house. Months later, New York Times reporter Sheila Irving and her boyfriend, Kevin Jackson, visit Hydesville to determine what motivated Derek to burn down the Fox property. Soon, the powerful entity that controls the area-something that can see as well as hear-unleashes its most cunning tactic, a deceptive command once uttered by Maggie Fox to "Do as I do." If those gathered in the village-Derek and Edith, Sheila and Kevin-succumb to the edict, they will partake in the creation of union children, psychically gifted offspring whose malevolent powers will reach far beyond the confines of the township. Like the Spiritualist movement from which they originated, if allowed to be birthed, the children of Hydesville will eventually impact the entire world.

A truly eclectic, psychological horror story collection, in which the true monsters are those that skulk about the darkest wrinkles and fissures of the human brain... Decades ago, the sciences of the brain were in their infancy. One such science was phrenology. Phrenology concerned the study of the skull to deduce the qualities of the brain, and thus the aptitudes of the person themselves. It seems silly today, but it laid the foundation for later work, including the discipline of modern nanoscience and embodied cognition. Reading triggers neural responses in the brain that mimic the stimuli of actual activities. Will you subject yourself to the cerebral storm? Leaving your mind awash in the shadows and phantoms of reality, flickering electrical impulses to tease your senses as you make your way down a dark and winding path into the mire of cerebral horror. You'll find no ghosts here. No pale, cold vampires with fetid breath. No werewolves baying at the moon. Only the tangling cobwebs and mildewed, dusty chambers of the one place mankind may never truly understand. Our own minds.

One man. Two fiends. A cold, dark basement. A table of torture devices. A garrote chair. Jacob Falgoust has woken into his own private Hell where Pain and Misery greet him with open arms. A reason wrapped in riddles of beauty and pain may be his only chance to escape the suffering. Jacob must find the answer before his very essence is torn asunder.

A delicious collection of horrific tales and darkest poetry from the cream of the crop, all lovingly compiled by the incomparable Gerri R Gray! Nestling between the covers of this formidable tome are twenty-five of the very best lady authors writing on the horror scene today! These tales of terror are guaranteed to chill your very soul and awaken you in the dead of the night with fear-sweat clinging to your every pore and your heart pounding hard and heavy in your labored breast... Featuring stories from: Xtina Marie, MW Brown, Rebecca Kolodziej, Anya Lee, Barbara Jacobson, Gerri R Gray, Christina Bergling, Julia Benally, Olga Werby, Kelly Glover, Lee Franklin, Linda M. Crate, Vanessa Hawkins, P. Alanna Roethle, J. Snow, Evelyn Eve, Serena Daniels, S.E. Davis, Sam Hill, J.C. Raye, Donna J.W. Munro, R.J. Murray, C. Bailey-Bacchus, Varonica Chaney and Marian Finch.

"A brutally smart gorefest, and uproariously funny to boot!" James H Longmore. Brian has survived for ten years beyond the end of the world, but he's not sure why. He's not even sure if he cares anymore. When the dead began strolling around and eating people, society was certain to collapse. Brian never realized how lonely a guy could be in a world with six billion hungry zombies hanging around. Or how empty a life of just surviving could be. Meeting survivors in Brian's world is dangerous. Living with survivors is almost suicidal. Zombies like large groups of people: the more, the merrier. Caring about people in Brian's world is insane. How often can someone lose every person they've ever known or loved before they just quit trying? When he hooks up with a new group of survivors, they all find a way to...well...survive together. After so many years, surviving is easy part. The real challenge: can they find a reason to live? To love? Can they find a reason to hope? Can they remember how to laugh when so much of the world is dark and despairing?

When three-year-old Charlotte witnessed her mother's death and was left alone with the body, she began hearing the voice of a person living in the walls of her house. This voice comforted her as best it could, guiding her to call 9-1-1. Twenty five years later, Charlotte has returned with her own family to reconnect with this presence. The recent death of her son leaves her distracted and mourning, though, so she doesn't realize her daughter can hear this entity too.

Betty is sexy. Betty is scarred. Betty is an outsider. Betty is a genius... ...But most of all, Betty wants recognition. Whether it be a controlling mother or ghosts from her past, it feels like she is always trying to please someone. Will she be able to find her own peace, or will the real world catch up to her? There will be blood. There will be j**z. There will be unusual sexual releases. But most of all, there will be murder...

In the blurred lines between good and evil - who will win? Jezebel White is a court-appointed psychologist who runs an underground human trafficking empire. In order to justify her nefarious actions to her conscience, she selects victims based solely upon whom she deems immoral. Now, she finds herself being framed for a crime she had only intended to commit. A detective has placed a target on Jezebel's back, and the time to catch her predator is quickly running out

Welcome to Volume Four of our best-selling horror anthology, featuring tales of terror and dark, slithering things to chill the marrow and keep even the most resolute of horror fans awake in the small hours of the night when the inherently evil and deliciously malevolent come out to explore our earthly realm. Featuring: Erin Lee, Thomas Gunther, Sheah Herlihy-Abba, Richard Raven, Josh Darling, JJ Smith, Shawn Chang, Patrick winters, Bill Evans, J. Snow, Tim J. Finn, James Watts, David Clark, Danae Wulfe, Kane Gordon, Shane Porteous, and the ever-present Feind Gottes. Another superlative gathering of the dark and disturbing from some of the best independent authors writing today...

Dead is Dead, but Not Always is the first solo collection from Canadian author Eddie Generous. The mountain winds Howl and blood flows to appease, tradition runs deep and transforms the skin for the sake of togetherness, buried beneath the soil is a book to bridge the eternal dark with the light of life, God's way is with a hiss but Satan's way is with a kiss, in the Arctic only the bears can hear your screams, when it's your time go the lake will tell you, and being a kid ain't easy when the natural and supernatural collide to peel the layers from your back. From dread to thriller to cosmic, the seven novelettes collected here meld into one bone-jarringly bleak outing, bound to rattle cores and test readers' nerves.

An incredibly touching, yet unapologetically brutal trek through a post-apocalyptic wasteland of a civilization that once was. Two strangers, reliant upon each other for survival face impossible odds, driven by little more than the primitive desire to live, are hunted by vicious hoardes of those who were once human - savages... Mindless murdering savages. Are they zombies? Are they still human? Whatever the other survivors have become, they no longer speak; they only kill and live like animals. Parker and Marcus navigate through the ruins and battle through these lingering savages with no answers, searching for the last strain of humanity. Until one discovery changes everything... The infant's cry shatters their already destroyed world. For Parker, the babe invokes the ghosts of her dead husband and sons. For Iraq war veteran Marcus, the child embodies his hope and gives him innocence to protect. For both, they struggle to determine if faded notions like romance can even still exist in this bleak, dying world. In this grim post-apocalyptic portrait, the survivors face the horror of not knowing what happened to the world around them as they question whether humanity was ever human at all.

Prepare for an excursion into a gloomy world of shadows, where the days are never sunlit and blithe, and where the nights are wrapped in endless nightmares. No happy endings or silver linings are found in the clouds that fill these gray skies. But what you will find, gathered in one volume, are the darkest of poems and tales of horror, waiting to take your mind on a journey into realms of the uncheerful and the unholy. An amazingly surreal collection of short stories and the darkest of poetry, all interspersed with stunning graveyard photographs taken by the multitalented author herself - an absolute must for every bookshelf!

"The closest in originality to Books of Blood I've read in many a year..." James H Longmore This exceptional collection or spine-chillers follows the inevitable path travelled towards truth or justice, whether their own, or from the universe at large: A tough teen meets his match in an elderly woman who has been ridding the neighborhood of its thugs, one by one. A repeat drunk driver is cursed to spend the rest of his days trapped behind the wheel. A pregnant teen murders her parents and devises a gruesome nativity scene. A woman uncovers a preacher's deadly solution to ridding the world of evildoers. A serial killer looks to reunite with his estranged mother. The little things you think you see can lead to crippling paranoia, but a little self-surgery can take care of your troublesome eyes. A young woman discovers her family's fate is to sacrifice themselves to horrific mermaids. An anxious gardener murders his nosy neighbor to keep the secret about his chemically-enhanced prize rose garden. A woman is afraid of the dark because it will release the beast that lives inside her. A woman tries hypnotherapy for childhood trauma and learns her abuser is now her doctor. A woman tries to forget the murders of her baby and husband by ignoring the proof in the back seat of her car. Satan seeks revenge on the woman who spurned him by forcing her to give birth to him. A dying woman returns to her childhood home and encounters the ghosts of her enslaved ancestors.

This book's title comes from the reality that - like a moth to the flame - we're all just one event, mishap, or decision away from things that could change our lives forever. What would you do if fate led you astray into a grim world where you encountered vengeful ghosts, homicidal maniacs, ancient gods, apocalyptic nightmares, dark magic, deadly space aliens, and more? If you dare, why not find out? Read for yourself the twenty-two gloriously provocative tales that dwell within this book - but be warned, some of my dear readers have experienced lasting nightmares...

"Straw Dogs meets Fifty Shades - heart pounding, gut-wrenching, sexy as all hell and with a twist you'll never see coming!" Meet the Sewells, your typical, all-American couple; happily married for ten years, respected high school teachers, still crazy about one another and with a secret, shared dark side. During their annual Spring Break vacation to recharge their batteries and reconnect as a couple, they are waylaid by a perverse gang of misfits in the one horse, North Texas town of Flanagan. Taken hostage as the focus of the gang's twisted games, the Sewells are brutalized into performing increasingly vicious physical, sexual and emotional acts upon one another, until events take an unexpected turn - triggered by an unintentional death. As their circumstance descends into the worse nightmare imaginable, the Sewells find themselves involved in an altogether different situation...

The second in HellBound Books' flagship horror anthology - this one bursting at the seams with even more fantastically dark horror from the cream of the rising stars in today's horror scene! Featuring: Tracey A. Cross, Charles Tillerman, Elizabeth Zemlicka, Matthew Gillies, Spinster Essie, Stephen Clements, Ken Goldman, Nathan Robinson, K.M. Campbell, Cody Grady, Sebastian Bendix, Leo X. Robertson, David Owain Hughes, Timothy McGivney, Kane Gordon, Todd Sullivan, Mike Mayak, Edward Ahern, Rose Garnett, Jaap Bolkestein, Brandy Delight, Stanley B. Webb, D. Norfolk, Thomas Gunther.

The third - and incredibly special volume in HellBound Books' flagship horror anthology - this one bursting at the seams with even more fantastically dark horror from the cream of today's horror scene, each one of whom was specially invited to contribute. Featuring: Jack Ketchum, Michael Bray, Jeff Strand, Chad Lutzke, Eddie Generous, Lance Tuck, Wade H. Garrett, Richard Chizmar and Billy Chizmar, James H Longmore, Jaap Boekestein, Iain Rob Wright, Michael McBride, Edward Lee, David Owain Hughes, Ray Garton & Benjamin Blake Twenty-two tales of disturbing terror and nefarious imagination - the perfect antidote to a peaceful night's sleep!