Dark Minds : Horror & Dark Fantasy Writers

Greg Gifune - Pack Animals

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Six men. One night. A ravenous evil. No way out.Lost in a remote wilderness, a group of old friends trapped in a relentless blizzard are stalked and h...

Chris McAuley - When the Stars Scream

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris McAuley writes prose novels, magazine short stories, video and tabletop games, and audio dramas. Together with Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand nephe...

Richard & W.H. Chizmar - Widow's Point

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

New York Times bestselling author Richard Chizmar, “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste), and his son W.H. Chizmar, critically ac...

D. W. Gillespie - Grin

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Full of chills and twists, a twelve-year-old boy is thrilled that he'll get to play endless games at his family’s arcade, but soon realizes he’s i...

Jeff Oliver - Reading 'Sunrise' from the Novel ' Voices in Your Head'

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you hear voices in your head? I surely do. I believe that, as writers, we all experience this, with words pounding in our brains and screaming to b...

Jeff Oliver - The Voices in your Head

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you hear voices in your head? I surely do. I believe that, as writers, we all experience this, with words pounding in our brains and screaming to b...

Philip Fracassi - The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brimming with dark humor, violence, and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers guessing u...

Jason Kristopher - The Dying of the Light Series

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where the dead hunger for the living, these classified tales reveal humanity's darkest hours and unexpected heroes. From remote wilderness ...

Hellbound Books - James Longmore & Xtina Marie

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

HellBound Books are the veritable tour de force in the Independent publishing world - For eight years and counting, we have published novels, novellas...

C.C. Robinson - Caged Book Two

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The walls are closing in on Rose.But when powerful enemies move her from house arrest to a literal prison, Rose finds herself alone. Caged. And withou...

David North-Martino - Year of the Demon

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To his martial arts students, Vance Palladian is more than just a teacher; he is the Paladin, a man of warrior virtue. Now a widower, and with his fin...

Michael Harbron - Return of the Devil

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Halloween, the War ends.In the eighth and final installment of the Interview with the Devil series, Armageddon, Lucifer has return...

Jeffrey Konvitz - The Circus of Satan

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1878 a teenage Jew, the Hessex Kid, kills an Irish thug in a Five Point’s bar fight in front of hundreds of drugged and drunken killers, all memb...

Keith Anthony Baird & Beverley Lee - A Light of Little Radiance

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Selina Dragavei wanders the northern wastes in fear of persecution from the Holy Roman Church. In Europe's Dark Age, witchfinders scour the lands and ...

Brian D. Anderson - The Sorcerer's Song (3 book series)

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chron...

Arthur Slade - Dragon Assassin 1: Twin Fury

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

She's the only dragonrider in the world of Ellos. The empire wants her dead. But her dragon's snarky sense of humor might kill her first.Carmen is an ...

Zachary Hagen - Eternity's End

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Either let it burn, or drown it in the waves.Taariq has continued his descent into madness, and his supporters are more devoted than ever, at least fo...

James Bow - The Sun Runners

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Hello, people of Mercury. This is planet Earth. Are you receiving this? Please respond.”Lieutenant Adelheid Koning was only twenty-three whe...

Oliver Seneca - Shaded Grove

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On their rainy drive home from a haunted house tour in a small Pennsylvania town, sisters Megan and Dianne Willis come across a drenched, confused old...

JP Behrens - Missing in Miskatonic

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Step into the shadowed streets of 1928 Arkham, where Miskatonic University holds secrets darker than the night.In this supernatural thriller reminisce...

Beau Johnson - Chainsaw Noir

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I have published before, usually on the darker side of town. Seeing as I'm Canadian, I will always wish you well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Nick Cutter - The Queen

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-poun...

Chris McAuley - Horror News

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris McAuley writes prose novels, magazine short stories, video and tabletop games, and audio dramas. Together with Bram Stoker’s Great-Grand nephe...

Jenna Greene - Silencers

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On the "Best Young Adult Dystopian Novels" list on Goodreads!Scona must choose. Protect her father, or embrace the darkness she's been trained to dest...

Alethea Lyons - Reawakening

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After centuries of suppression, the magic of England isReawakeningReturn to the world of The Seer of York with this collection of new tales ...

Richard Chizmar - Memorials

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times&nb...

Josh & Heather Daughrity - Hospital of Haunts

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far m...

Marie Lanza - Hospital of Haunts

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far m...

Mark Rainey - Hospital of Haunts

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far m...

Rebecca Cuthbert - Hospital of Haunts

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far m...

Dawn Kurtagich - The Madness

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror, in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept sh...

Daemon Manx - The Ojanox

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The year is 1979. A small New York town prepares to welcome the fall season in all the expected ways: young children bicker and boast over Halloween c...

Rick Poldark - Cryptid Slayer

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Monster slayer Sandra Barlowe ventures to Madrugar, Mexico to investigate the brutal death of a local rancher. While the signs initially point to a va...

Christopher Golden - The House of Last Resort

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden.Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, n...

J.T. Patten - Brothers of Blood

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the sun sets over New Orleans, two brothers, John and Wayne Carter, find themselves standing in a French Quarter alleyway, their clothes stained wi...

Dan Flanigan - An American Tragedy

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No Good Deed Goes UnpunishedIn the scorching summer of 1988, amidst the frenzy of the Satanic Panic gripping the nation, private detective O’Keefe f...

Keith Anthony Baird - Sin: thetica

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Sino-Nippon war is over. It is 2113 and Japan is crushed under the might of Chinese-Allied Forces. A former Coalition Corps soldier, US Marine Bal...

Robert J Sawyer - The Downloaded

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario.One group consists of astronauts preparing fo...

Dacre Stoker - Father of Dracula

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bram Stoker, his life, his research and writing of Dracula to promote a documentary film called Father of Dracula, being made by an Iri...

Shadows By Gaslight - Chris McAuley

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No one ever knows what lurks beyond the light until it's too late. And for the unsuspecting victims, their worst nightmares come to life when they ven...

Alethea Lyons - The Hiding

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Arcane archivist Harper has always been plagued by dreams of grotesque creatures and bloody deaths. When she bumps into a ghostwalker in the Shambles ...

Joel McKay - It came from the Trees

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tree planters on the run from parasitic insects. A physicist who has become the target of a murderous airline. Teenagers trapped in a museum with an e...

Brigid's Gate Press - Heather Ventura & S.D. Vassallo

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Brigids Gate Press, an indie press established in 2021 by Heather, Clyde, and S.D. Ventura-Vassallo, believes in the power of STORY. We seek to be a f...

Jack Wells - Jack of all Trades

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Classic horror monsters never die. Like Count Dracula, the Great Old Ones, Scrooge's Christmas ghosts, and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe they continu...

David Kempf - Tales of Monster Madness

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Classic horror monsters never die. Like Count Dracula, the Great Old Ones, Scrooge's Christmas ghosts, and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe they continu...

Edward Green - The Blessed Flock

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Somewhere in the back of Pastor Tuckers unhinged mind, where murderous thoughts swarmed with contempt for every soul around him, a dark nursery rhyme ...

Joshua Lloyd Fox & Heather Daughrity - House of Haunts

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1823, Josiah Hale built his family a grand home in the sultry heat and blinding glare of the Deep South.It wasn’t long before the shadows crept i...

Richard Chizmar - Becoming the Boogeyman

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The terrifying sequel to the acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAYbestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman, which w...

William Holloway - Lucky's Girl

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Something Ancient has awakened on Grove Island.Something has slept for millennia. Patient, wise, and hungry. Something that hunted the forest primeval...

Neil R. Storey - Bram Stoker

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre an...

Dacre Stoker & Chris McAuley - Dracula

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

4.20 - Oct 2/2023 Alan R Warren & David North Martino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jennifer Anne Gordon - The Japanese Box

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Japanese Box is a story that blends memoir, creative nonfiction, and the horror of a coming-of-agestory, and a coming of middle-aged story.Imagine...

Jason Parent - An Unholy Triquetra

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Knot Within A Knot by Jason Parent: A man survives a plane crash only to find himself in darker circumstances, with a winter storm on the ...

Vince A. Liaguno - Unspeakable Horror 3

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The third terrifying volume in the award-winning anthology series of original queer horror.Like the final girl in a slasher film, the LGBTQIA communit...

Curtis M. Lawson - An Unholy Triquetra

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Three unique voices in today's horror bring you new takes on an old power that threatens to reshape our world. Celtic legends are reborn within these ...

Colin Leonard - Country Roads

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Something is outside; in the fields, by the ditches, on the roads. Something old and cruel and vicious.When Luke Sheridan moves out of Dublin city to ...

Luna Rey Hall - The Patient Routine

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"the patient routine is a merciless, anxiety-charged, possible-apocalypse, possible-zombie thriller, long narrative poem about the body in madden...

Zachary Ashford - The Morass : Servant of the Fly God

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you had been kidnapped by a serial killer and your only hope of escape was cut off by rising floodwater?“A terrifying descent into a nightma...

Mo Moshaty - Love the Sinner

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

According to Dante, a sin is the misdirection of love - the human will, or essentially, the direction of our beings. Love the Sinner is an examination...

Ashley Earley - Heart of Skulls

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Scott Nelson first meets Natalie, all he can think about is slitting her throat. Until he realizes they share alarmingly similar homelives. Scott...

Nick Roberts - It Haunts the Mind

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From Nick Roberts, the best-selling author of The Exorcist's House and Anathema, comes fifteen dark tales that are as horrific as they ...

Mark Allan Gunnells - Septic (Against the Clock)

27 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Septic by Mark Allan Gunnells: The year is 1988. When Carl finds himself trapped in a school bathroom with a faulty lock over Christmas break, th...

Jess Landry - The Night Belongs to Us

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes the deepest wounds are from those we hold the closest.In her debut collection, Bram Stoker Award-winner Jess Landry blurs the line between g...

Michael Clark - Hell on High

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Prepare for adventure as Juliana, a nineteen-year-old Brazilian, finds herself forced to run from an occult overlord, leaving her sister in peril. Tem...

Ben Monroe - The Seething

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A family's relocation looked like a chance to relax and regroup—but as they settle into their new home, teenage Kimmie Barnes’ special senses make...

Kyle Toucher - Live Wire

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

 Kyle Toucher (rhymes with voucher) wrote his first Godzilla story in grade school, read The Exorcist at the age of fourteen, then bought a guita...

Preston & Child - The Cabinet of Dr. Leng

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene, as they cross paths with New Yor...

Philip Fracassi - Gothic

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique desk from his partner, Sarah, in the hopes it will r...

KC Grifant - Melinda West : Monster Gunslinger

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sharpshooter Melinda West, 29, has encountered more than her share of supernatural creatures after a monster infection killed her mother. Now, Melinda...

Rich Burgin - Fang

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's winter in Chicago and Billy Cochran (Dylan LaRay) can't stop alienating the people around him. His mother Gina (Lynn Lowry) is in and out of the ...

Dean Koontz - Quicksilver

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery—abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, ...

JP Mclean - Blood Marks

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What if your lifelong curse is the only thing keeping you alive? Abandoned at birth, life has always been a battle for Jane Walker. She and her b...

Anna J Walner - Garkain: Book One of The Uluru Legacy Series

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The International Bestselling debut of The Uluru Legacy Series.Colorful, imaginative, well scribed, this novel signals the arrival of a very fine new ...

J.T. Patten - Whispers of a Gypsy

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neurodivergent, young Dwight Skinner considers his mental challenges to be a superpower, but it's a pure bloodline that will put him in danger. When a...

Amy Grech - The One that Got Away

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What doesn't kill me, might make me kill you!30 women authors from around the world were challenged to write about The One That Got Away. Here you'll ...

Scott Goriscak - Horrorgeddon

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first complete edition of Scott Goriscak's Books. These stories take you on a spine-chilling journey of his writing.Consequences for a you...

Daemon Manx & Will Scott - Hacked in Two

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DEACON (Hacked in Two - Daemon Manx)Two worlds collide—a post-apocalyptic place of harsh survival and awful violence and a tortured author whose rea...

Jerry Roth - Throwing Shadows

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A woman develops an unhealthy obsession with a scarecrow. A boy plays with a Ouija board and receives a terrifying warning of murder. A down-on-his-lu...

Jack Wells - Monochrome Noir 3

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A down-on-his-luck private investigator who loves whiskey as much as he loves solving cases. An outcast medical technician with a heavy heart and an u...

Stephanie Ellis - Reborn

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Return to the Weald, the world Stephanie Ellis introduced us to in The Five Turns of the Wheel.Reborn is the story of Cernunnos, the Father ...

Mike Thorn - Shelter of the Damned

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While looking for a secret place to smoke cigarettes with his two best friends, troubled teenager Mark discovers a mysterious shack in a suburban fiel...

Mark Leslie - Fear and Longing in Los Angeles (Canadian Werewolf Book 3)

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If New York is the city that never sleeps, then L.A. is the city where you have to sleep with one eye open.Michael Andrews learns quickly that it's no...

Jeff Strand -Cemetery Closing (Everything Must Go)

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The long-awaited fifth book in the wildly popular series of horror/comedy novels featuring Andrew Mayhem!As a stay-at-home dad taking care of triplets...

David North-Martino - Wolves of Vengeance

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

THEY ARE COMING…Detective Adrian Callahan misses his wife, and can’t find a new meaningful relationship. To take his mind off his own troubles, he...

Ronald Malfi - Come With Me

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence—and her ghost—Aaron goes through her belo...

Mark Matthews - Hobgoblins of Little Minds

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kori Persephone Driscoe suffered through her dad's mental illness. All she wanted was for him to get better, but instead he disappeared. Kori trespass...

Jennifer Anne Gordon - Pretty/Ugly

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pretty/Ugly is a lyrical, hallucinogenic train ride through the end of the world. It’s the story of two people falling in and out of loneliness a...

Ian Cadena - The Nexus: Samhain (Unlocking The Nexus Book 1)

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Nexus is the realm of magick, located between Death and the Afterlife, and has been sealed for centuries. Max Dane, an eleven-year-old boy turning...

Jennifer Anne Gordon - From Daylight To Madness: The Hotel #1

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine, a Hotel looms over the shore, an ever-present gray lady that stands strong like a guar...

James G. Carlson - Seven Exhumations

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“James G. Carlson's lyrical dark tales steadily unfurl before the reader with the pace of a master. He shows us worlds that exist beyond our own, me...

Greg F. Gifune - Blue Hell

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A homeless man plagued by hideous nightmares awakens in a hospital with no knowledge of how he came to be there. When he accepts the help of an organi...

Jack Wells - Monochrome Noir Book 1 Gathering Storm

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Monochrome Noir: Book I: A Gathering StormA down-on-his-luck private investigator who loves whiskey as much as he loves solving cases. An outcast medi...

Patrick C Harrison III - A Savage Breed

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A ruthless band of outlaws makes good their escape from execution. A mountain man seeks justice following the grisly murders of his wife and daughter....

Abigail Cutter - Long Shadows

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Smiley signed up as a private in the Confederate army when he was eighteen and quickly came to regret it. Spending the last year of the war in a U...

Angela Yuriko Smith - Dancing in the Shadows

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A tribute to author Anne Rice, 19 authors show their love to the Queen of Horror with a collection of Gothic tales inspired by her legacy. A charity a...

Philip Fracassi - A Child Alone with Strangers

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“Fracassi’s novel hits me like a cross between McCammon and '80s King. Might be one of them summer blockbusters readers love.” —Laird Bar...

Meg Hafdahl - Science of Stephen King

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Uncover the theories behind the master of horror's macabre tales: It, The Shining, Carrie, Cujo, Misery, Pet Semetary, a...

Aaron Lebold - Genocide

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A gripping novel, GENOCIDE turns victim to villain as the character goes from a kidnapped youth to a vengeful teenager. Cheer him on or hope for his c...

David Kempf - Four Murder Mystery Plays

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alcoholism is a serious problem, but then again so is murder. A gruff detective investigates foul play in these four one-act thrillers revolving aroun...

Jeff Strand - Deathless

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The horrifying sequel to the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel Pressure.Though Darren Rust is serving a life sentence in prison, Alex Fletcher is...