I tell the old man about what kept me awake when I was a kid. He doesn’t laugh when I mention vampires.
“They’re in the cellar,” he says.
It must be the heat. The old man is delusional. At least that’s what I tell myself. Things are different in the middle of the night. When monsters come tapping, it’s impossible to dismiss the idea that the Maine woods hold secrets–deadly secrets.

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The apocalypse begins with a blizzard. For a few unlucky survivors, it never ends. Extinct kicks off this series and is available in several formats across most major retailers. Get it for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iOS, or Android, or listen on Audible. The sequels (Black Friday, Instinct, and Distinct) are all available from Amazon.com Please …

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“I heard about that trouble. I also heard that it ended.”“Some things stop, but that doesn’t mean that they’ve ended,” Alan said. The crisis brought them together before, and now it’s calling them back for one more round. Amber is being drawn back to Maine as Ricky is learning more about the monsters that hunted …

Lightning strikes, trees fall, meteors hit, and dogs attack.You never know what tragedy is right around the corner.You never know which conversation might be your last.The only certainty is that when people are trapped together and chaos erupts, they’re going to break into factions. Find it at Amazon (eBook): …

In the middle of the night, there are creatures who hunt. Once they catch your scent, they will track you down. Nothing will stop them. The only way to survive is to fight UNTIL DAWN. This story will grip you from the opening scene and hold you spellbound until the last page. You’ll be drawn …

The door swings in when I nudge it with my toe. I lean to peer through the gap, looking for the old man. Has he collapsed? Is he on the floor in there, suffocating in the summer heat? I want to be a good neighbor, but I don’t want to trespass. I could never guess …

The meek are through waiting. They’re ready to inherit the Earth right now. Rockhold used to be a quiet town in its isolated valley. The people with money were the first to disappear. They vanished at the first sign of trouble. Some headed for vacation homes in the mountains and others ran for the coast. …

Decades ago, in the hills of Georgia, the music of the two brothers was born from pain. That pain was inflicted on them by a demon of a man, and even after he died, he followed them. Their audience grew and the demon grew with it. Desperate to be free of the past, the Brothers …

Every small town has secrets. Some secrets can kill. He’s always been there, the old gentleman in the funeral suit, hanging around the big oak tree. Even before the cemetery was dug, the natives knew about him. He was just as much a part of the landscape as the rocks or the river. If you …

Decades after the apocalypse there is a new threat to the survivors, and Ashley can’t convince anyone to take it seriously. Even her father, the great Robby Pierce, can’t be swayed. Her only recourse is to go off on her own to discover the nature of the approaching calamity. Meanwhile, the settlements are dealing with more …

Every hunter has a story of an expedition gone wrong. Every person who has held a gun has imagined what it would be like to point that barrel at another human being. Some decisions come down to survival. Other decisions are made for us. They’re implanted into a person’s brain from somewhere out there, in …

The house belongs to them now. To provide for her son, June would sacrifice anything. She would live in fear every day and shield her son from it. She would stay, tormented, to hang onto his inheritance.  This year, something is different. Forces in the family are conspiring. June is going to have to step forward and make a claim …

I pledge to yell at my parents, not brush my teeth, and tear up my homework.I pledge to steal the car, and shoplift candy.I pledge to burn down a vacant house, and stab a stranger.I pledge all these things because I don’t want to die. Sometimes, it doesn’t even help.  Our quiet little suburb is …

Robby is seeing ghosts, and he’s not the only one. There are few people left in the world—many of them are thinking about how things might have been. They’re seeing ghosts of a life that was nearly reality. This new war that descends on them is more insidious than the last. This time, they’re battling …

Some secrets, committed to the ground by careful hands, need to stay buried.  Tien and Matt don’t care about that—they’re just fulfilling their obligations to the TV show that made them famous. They survived, vote after vote, as the game progressed. Now, they have to survive one more challenge, and the fate of humanity is …

There’s something out there waiting for your family and it needs you to call. Your baby can sense it. In the middle of the night, when the curtains blow, you can sense it too. All it needs is an opening. Once it’s inside you, it will control everything. What if your family is already doomed? …

In the near future, confessions and evidence won’t be required to convict a criminal. A suspect’s own memories will be Imaged to prove their guilt.  Abel Dayan is in an impossible situation. A despicable child murderer has been captured and Abel has to defend him. Only Abel realizes that there is more to the case …

Desperate for a change, Holly has no idea how strange her life can become. When she is swept away to another world, she finds herself in a fight for her survival. Her only companion doesn’t speak and he could break her in half with one of his massive paws. The people of this strange place …

Since we’re all going to be dead in a week, I might as well tell you—this planet is doomed. Even if we survive the impact, or somehow manage to avoid it, humans only have a few generations left on Earth. Our habitat collapses down to an inevitable end.  And that’s the good news. …

As a species, people have tamed the Earth. Individually, in the face of a superior predator, we’re all just as helpless as the day we were born. And a superior predator is out there. Humans may be the Apex predator, but there’s something even more deadly. It’s the Super Apex. …

My heart is pounding. The bar is packed. My hands are so sweaty that I can barely grip the sticks. It’s just me and the guys against a whole crowd of drunkards. It doesn’t feel like a calling, but it sure as hell doesn’t feel like a life I chose. I fell backwards into drumming. …

This is the third and final book of the “Madelyn” series. Look for “Madelyn’s Nephew” and “Madelyn’s Mistake” before reading this book. The community of Fairbanks is threatened, and there’s only one person who can save them. Unfortunately, the leader of their group just had her hanged. The community has to pull together to fight this …

The town I grew up in is dying, and I know who’s killing it. At least I think I do. But he’s a master manipulator and nobody will believe me. It’s up to me to prove that he’s the serial killer who has been stalking the streets. I have to stop him before he targets …

For so many years, Madelyn had protected her grandmother’s cabin for posterity. Her nephew proved that it simply wasn’t important. Family was important.  Down in Fairbanks, it’s a fragile time for the small community. Any pressure could fracture the structure they’ve achieved. A stiff breeze could disrupt the balance of power.  God help the poor …

Grace Anne Orlov died peacefully in her home on Thursday, the 7th. Her husband, John, survives her in body if not in spirit. John studied killers and death, but failed to learn how to live alone after more than forty years of marriage.Along with two daughters, a son, two grandchildren, and a stray bastard, John …

They just met. Now she has vowed to save him. After the sun turned, Madelyn fled north to escape the riots and the encroaching glaciers. As long as the world was ending, she wanted to live her final days in the one place she had always been happy—her grandmother’s cabin. She survived the Roamers, the …

Kingston Lakes is a quiet town. During long summer days, the residents barely have a care. They almost never have to worry about the rise of a bloodthirsty demon who wants to feast on their flesh and enslave their immortal souls. Almost never. …

The perfect technology would anticipate our every need, solve our problems, and answer questions we hadn’t thought to ask. The perfect technology would defend itself. It would spread everywhere.It would kill if it had to.  In this unique blend of Sci-Fi and Horror, Ike Hamill will bring you into the world of Fyre. The question is, …

Jeff doesn’t want to think about the future. He’s not even sure he can deal with the present. High school, friends who aren’t friendly, and his crumbling family are hard enough. It’s time for him to make a change. Maybe, with a little luck, he’ll survive the summer. …

They were looking for an adventure—a night of harmless fun. Miguel has a map. Kristin’s friend has the equipment. The mine leads to the cave, and the cave is where they’ll find their fortune.But down in the darkness, something waits. It needs them.The caves hold a secret. They’re Inhabited. …

It wasn’t her fault. It wasn’t Lizzy’s fault that she saw the cloaked people out in the yard. It wasn’t her fault that she was drawn by the moonlight to watch them as they advanced on the house. And it definitely wasn’t her fault when people began to die. Lizzy didn’t want the strange dreams where …

Welcome to Camp Sacrifice.You’ll find your cabin clean and comfortable, but please bring the following items to get the most out of your vacation this summer:1 – personal story of bone-chilling fright1 – mirror for summoning spirits1 – sharp knife for things that stalk the night1 – shovel to dispatch the undeadOh, and be sure …

Thomas has found the biggest story of his career, and he can’t believe his luck. He’s sitting in the prison cell that at one time housed each of The Big Four, the state’s most notorious murderers. There’s only one problem: he’s beginning to understand what drove them to commit their crimes. He’s beginning to feel …

Surviving the end of the world wasn’t enough. Driving away an alien invasion wasn’t enough. Faced with certain death, Robby’s group is on the move once more. They’re headed west, hoping to find other people who have escaped the apocalypse. To live, they’ll have to uncover ancient memories. They’ll have to use every Instinct. …

Deep in an Old World forest, an unnamed village lies hidden. Decades pass as the village waits for its special son to return. The boy challenged the lion, bested the snake, and defeated the elephant. He possessed an unearthly skill. His return will bring back balance to the village. High in the Tibetan mountains, a …

Do not speak of them. Your words leave a scent. They will come.Somewhere in the middle of Maine, one of the world’s darkest secrets has been called to the surface. Alan and Liz just wanted a better life for themselves and their son. They decided to move to the country to rescue the home of …

They stopped the monster, but his blood remained. It soaked into the forest floor, poisoning the New Hampshire soil. The witch fed. She, the Blood Ghost, the thief of life’s essence, grew strong on that blood, and she grew bold. Now she’s taken a new lover. Each drop of his young blood feeds the witch …

The blizzard hit like a hammer, right on Thanksgiving Day. But on a little island off the coast of Maine, the falling snow wasn’t the dangerous part.  There was something out there in the storm. Anyone who went outside would vanished. Robby and his family tried to stay inside and wait for help. Something out …

For thousands of years a supernatural killer has slept in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. An amateur ghost hunter has just woken him up. Now that he stalks the night once more, he’s traveling east. Although the monster’s actions are pure evil, he may be the only thing that can save humanity from extinction. …

Gregory was the first to rise from the grave. With no organs and no pulse he burst from his coffin demanding to know why he’d been buried. His subsequent book made him a billionaire and encouraged others to follow in his footsteps. Unfortunately, the decayed, mindless undead who rose next were nothing like him. Lynne, …

The boys have the perfect summer planned. They’ll camp out in the backyard for their last vacation before high school. There’s only one problem — even though they’re just a hundred feet from the safety of the house, they’re being hunted by a serial killer.   Join Jack, Ben, and Stephen as they strap on their …

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