Ben Farthing

During a routine scan of deep space, our sensors uncovered fifteen cosmic nightmares from the furthest reaches of the galaxy. We have assembled them in this anthology for review along with a foreword by S.A. Barnes.Proceed with Caution. This volume collects the final moments of doomed crews as...

Thirty-one nights. Thirty-one chapters. One final nightmare. Last Halloween, thirty trick-or-treaters vanished into the night. This October, they’re coming back—one by one, each day of the month. But every child carries the same chilling warning: something is returning on the 31st. Bob has...

The Boogeyman is waiting to tuck you in… Rachel's parents have a simple rule: five hours of sleep. No more, no less. But after six months of this "simple" schedule, Rachel's exhausted mind plays tricks on her. She sees things that can't be real. Like the Boogeyman in her little brother's room...

Lisa finds her senile old coworker, Saswin, lost in an abandoned mall hallway. He's talking to a circle of mannequins, their limbs twisted and fused in unnatural ways. When Lisa looks away, she swears the mannequins have moved, and that this abandoned hallway has grown longer.

Eddie has encountered impossible buildings before. He knows it’s a mysterious lure to an ancient evil. But when Dad disappears inside the infinite maze of library shelves, Eddie has no choice. He enters the library to solve its mysteries and confront its terror.

Something festive is growing in the sewer....

Riley boards the cruise ship Aria with plans to steal her inheritance back from her wealthy uncle. But this isn’t the Aria from the brochure. It’s been replaced....

In the darkest corners of Washington D.C. lies the Periphery—the entrance into the horrific dimensions that touch our own. During a bumper-to-bumper commute, Everard is almost murdered by a woman whose skin is covered in a living swarm of holes. Furious, Everard chases her down an impossible...

Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed. He recognizes the furry monster: Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio....

The tower appeared overnight, but it wants to keep you forever. Thursday night, it was a dirt lot. Friday morning, it was a 60-story skyscraper. A tech billionaire wants the building’s secrets for herself. She hires a team to reverse-engineer the overnight construction, but she knows more than...

Cessy returns home to search for her missing sister. She finds a half-abandoned town under siege by unexplainable threats....

Lost in a labyrinth of circus tents.... "Truly unsettling... a great read from beginning to end." (Candace Nola, Splatterpunk Award Winner) Dave and his four-year-old, Jacob, find a circus tent in the woods behind their house. A strange voice invites them through the dark doorway. When they...