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Find the Best Horror stories through a handpicked selection of sample chapters and reviews! Each story is available exclusively on Galatea, an immersive reading platform available on iOS and Android.

The Dark Place in Your Mind

Brace yourself and explore the depths of the supernatural. A disturbing dream is much more than it seems. Strange visions plague a young man. A night after work turns deadly. A prank goes horribly awry. A noise complaint reveals supernatural results. A father rushes in to save his daughter from a fire. Enjoy this series of short stories that mystify, horrify, and may even make you laugh or cry!

Age Rating: 16+

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Attached

The Miller Woods is a vast, mysterious forest that has claimed untold numbers of victims. At fourteen years old, Cory Dunn spent a night lost among its trees and was driven mad by whatever he witnessed there. Now, two years later, he’s finally ready to rejoin society…but will his new friends draw him back toward the horrors that await all who dare enter Miller Woods?

Age Rating: 18+

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Childish Things

Clay Whelan grew up in his local haunted house. He’s come back to find out what happened that fateful summer twenty-five years ago, when his brother died, and why his mother spent the last six years of her life living there. But Clay’s not the only one with unfinished business at the house. Something is still there… under the porch… and upstairs…

Age Rating: 18+

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Primal Fears

When renowned paleontologist Robert D’Graive goes missing, three friends go searching for him in the mysterious Scottish Highlands. The trio discover that there is a far darker secret to Professor D’Graive’s disappearance than they could have ever imagined—a secret old and nearly unfathomable…

Age Rating: 18+

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Don’t Cross The X

Set in rural South Carolina, Don’t Cross the X is the heartbreaking story of Pearl Hayes. In 1919, she crossed a large X etched into the dirt near a local blackberry field and got trapped in a witch’s force of evil. Eighty-two years later, Pearl tells her story to her progeny with a warning: the evil that took her life from her will come to take theirs, too.

Age Rating: 18+ (Content Warning: Murder, Rape, Extreme violence/gore)

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The Zombie Prophecies

A bizarre disease is turning the world into zombies…but Donovan isn’t turning. He’s developing strange psychic abilities. And he’s not the only one.

Age Rating: 18+

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The Book of Bixby

Powerful and impulsive, Haley Bixby is a young warrior witch living in Seattle—and in the shadow of her mother’s legacy. Haley and the Sisters in their Coven live under a strict code, but one rule stands supreme: all wizards must be killed. When Haley botches a mission and risks her Coven’s safety, she vows to make things right. But the wizard she must defeat is most powerful foe she’s ever encountered, and his twisted plot is bigger than anyone could have anticipated. Especially when Haley realizes that his mission is personal.

Age Rating: 16+

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Only in the Dark

Aris’s parents have always spent more time with their experiments than they have with her, until the day that she becomes the experiment. Now she finds herself fighting monstrous urges whenever darkness falls. Can Aris learn what is happening to her before she gives in to her new, bloodthirsty urges…and does she even want to?

Age Rating: 18+

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The Eigengrau Effect

Detective Alex White is obsessed with two things: his work and feeding his sex addiction. But a drug-fueled encounter leaves Alex with a bite on his neck and a woman’s blood on his hands. And if that wasn’t bad enough, now he finds there is a new kind of feeding he needs to do…

Age Rating: 18+

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The Way Out of the Dark

Taryn wakes to find herself in an unknown place, surrounded by frightening criminals. She soon learns that it’s no accident she was taken from her home. Can she hold onto herself through unspeakable horrors, and find a way to escape to a life she’d barely begun to live?

Age Rating: 18+ (Content Warning: Rape, Sexual Assault, Homophobia, Assault, Drug use/overdose, Kidnapping, Torture)

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