Brian Paone

Some houses remember the people who died there. But the Ditto House collects them. During Denise and Ernie Pack’s tour of the most haunted house in Kentucky, they expect only eerie legends and lingering cold spots. What they find instead is a house crowded with centuries of restless spirits: a...

That’s the question at the heart of the beloved cult-classic horror film, Howlers. Relive the perilous adventures of the Bradshaw brothers as they try to save Talbotsville from a Howler infestation. Will Landis Lake ever be safe to swim in again, or will the town fall captive to the beasts?

When she visits a haunted prison, what will she find in the deadly small hours? Hannah is driven to right her wrongs. After a drunken 21st birthday dare left her with a shadow figure always around, the now-sober 28-year-old resolves to return to the scene of the crime. Determined to give back an...

A power-hungry megacorporation. A gang of cyberpunk rebels in their sights. A teen who may be the world’s salvation, if hired killers don’t get to him first. The far future. Adam dreams of simpler times. Running with a crew of underground cyberpunks, the nineteen-year-old plays it fast and...

20 SHORT STORIES OF WHEN THE MACABRE & HUMANITY CLASH Massive spiders attack a hotel. A ghost cat that's part of a paranormal revenge scheme. Two gunslingers refuse to duel. A haunted marine base flightline. A witch barista. A rattlesnake bite that creates multiverses. A fortune teller who is...

The black-veiled witch Anya and her army of ghouls aren’t used to being hunted—especially by her prodigies....

Detective Smith thought his golden years would be easy now that he had retired from killing dames of the night. But the life he left behind isn’t through with him yet....

George Covington loved three things: his family, his job, and the dames he killed every night. Detective Smith hated three things: his family, his job, and the scumbags who killed dames every night. The only thing they had in common was the witch from Salem who pulled the puppet strings....

In a town built on madness and the macabre, even truth can be a deception....

Is it a love triangle if time travel is involved? Jeff Blue made important decisions every day--what clothes to wear, what to eat for breakfast, and what book to teach his high school English class. What he never expected was needing to make a choice between repairing his failing marriage in...

All he wants is to get home alive. But when he barely escapes a violent ambush, can he survive a deadly race across the city? San Francisco, October 1989. Bennett Jacobs is okay with being square. With a loving spouse for company, the introverted software engineer doesn’t want or need to turn...

War broke his spirit. Can a young marine find healing in a world he’ll never see the same way again? The South Atlantic Ocean, 1982. Royal Marine Fletcher Layne never expected to see combat when he enlisted, despite his father’s vehement protests. Yet when he is deployed to the tiny...