Grant Palmquist

Biography

Grant Palmquist is the author of the science-fiction novel Azure and four horror novels: A Song After Dark, Permanent Winter, Dirge, and The Seer. His short stories have appeared in Chizine, Dogmatika, and Underground Voices.

Books

Sacred Witchery
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 36,090. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2024 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
Sleeping Beauty meets Basic Instinct. Sacred Witchery goes beneath the surface of reality, beyond what be can seen and heard, deep inside nightmares and dreams, within delusions and visions, past the veneer of an illusory world and into a valley of darkness, where it will cast its spell on you.
Veil
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 87,270. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
Seamlessly blending horror and drama, Veil is a thrilling odyssey into the heart of the unknown where loneliness and love meet, where the fantastical and macabre intertwine, where dreams and horrors come to life.
Transfiguration
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 9,180. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost
(4.00 from 1 review)
Bill discovers a well in the middle of a nearby forest. At its bottom is a notebook almost daring him to read its contents… and when he does, Bill will unleash something that has been dormant for decades, something that will result in a Transfiguration of not only him, but his wife and the world around him.
Strange Attraction
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 13,800. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost
Someone must have a crush on Glenn, because he’s receiving strange texts and pictures from a secret admirer, a mysterious woman who watches him from afar keeps reappearing, and in the small town of Blarney, Texas, there are no coincidences. A Strange Attraction is taking hold of Glenn, changing him from the inside out, and when it’s over he’ll never be the same again.
Horrors and Dreams: A Short Novel
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 35,890. Language: English. Published: March 17, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost
Hope has eluded Ray Reznick ever since his wife died in a car accident and left him alone with his only son. Ray’s tried every trick in the book to meet a special woman who might save him from his loneliness, but she remains elusive, just out of reach… until a magical old friend named Ben who rescued Ray from his forlorn childhood comes to visit...
Feral Beauty
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 61,420. Language: English. Published: March 8, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
On a Friday night in a fit of loneliness, Stephanie searches for someone who can see her inner beauty, and in a dimly lit club she meets a mysterious man named Adrian who invites her to a party that could change her life… Stephanie’s greatest desire is waiting to take hold of her, transform her, and make her dreams a reality… but it will come at a cost so great she may never recover.
Sinkhole: A Novella of Terror
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 23,230. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
On a lazy spring afternoon, a sinkhole opens up and swallows Bobby Page’s mother whole… Bobby thinks it must be a nightmare, but he’s never been a in a nightmare this real in all his fourteen years in Kinsale, Texas. When he edges closer to the hole in an attempt to save his mother, he sees something sinister lurking within it, something monstrous that threatens to destroy the whole town.
The Seer
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 118,180. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult
The first time Nick Northfield saw a demon was the summer of 1988 in Houston, Texas, when he was nine years old. It wouldn’t be the last. . . . Beware, the Pied Piper is coming to town, and he’s bringing his lust for murder and mayhem with him. The Seer is a terrifying novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat...and up till morning.
Libertines: A Horror Story
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 19,790. Language: English. Published: June 10, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
When Samantha finds an advertisement in a tawdry magazine that promises to jumpstart her sex life, she can’t help but tell her husband about it. All they have to do is pay fifty bucks and listen to a subliminal recording daily, so there’s nothing to lose. Only once they buy it and begin listening to it, they start to change, subtly at first, then dramatically. . . .
Engel: A Novelette of Terror
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 19,850. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Horror » General
THE ULTIMATE HORROR HAS BEEN UNLEASHED UPON AN UNSUSPECTING CITY. When an advertisement encourages Charlie to murder his boss, he begins to wonder whether he’s losing his grip on reality. When an archangel visits Adam one night and reveals the evil skulking beneath the surface of society, it will alter his life in ways he never could have foreseen. Their paths will collide in Engel.
Azure
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 71,060. Language: English. Published: May 1, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
(3.80 from 5 reviews)
A tyrannical nation... An ordinary man... An extraordinary dystopian adventure... Asher Cain is a model employee for the nation of Azure, obsessed with bringing perpetrators of its myriad laws to justice. But when the nation targets him as a transgressor, he finds himself on the run from justice, seeking a way out of the nation, a place from which few have ever escaped.
Dirge: A Novel
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 68,560. Language: English. Published: December 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
WHAT’S MORE FRIGHTENING THAN DEATH? Sterling Davis has everything a man could want—a big house, a fancy car, and more women than he can handle. But someone lurks in the shadows, waiting to take it all away, and when she does he’ll have to face death and worse to get it all back. YOU’RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT. . . .
Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 28,500. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » Ghost
(3.83 from 6 reviews)
In a distant future, Stan works at a dead-end job, handcuffed to his desk, forbidden to look out the window. His life seems hopeless till he meets Meredith, a coworker who harbors secrets about this world and the next, secrets that could make his life worth living . . . Thus begins Cemeteries of the Heart and Other Stories, eight mind-bending tales of madness that will leave their mark on you.
Permanent Winter
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 72,560. Language: English. Published: April 30, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » Crime
(3.20 from 5 reviews)
Deep in the underbelly of Nepenthe, California, an ageless evil stalks the night, killing without mercy, drawing weak and strong alike into its eternal embrace…and this frigid winter the evil is spreading like a black plague that threatens to swallow the city whole. Permanent Winter is a roller-coaster ride of terror that will send chills up your spine.
Isolated Howl: A Short Story
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 8,780. Language: English. Published: April 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
(4.50 from 4 reviews)
Three boys think they’ve found their ticket to fortune and fame when they find the body of a werewolf near the woods. Then it disappears, and a trail of bent grass leads straight into the heart of the forest . . . which makes the boys think there must be more of them out there. When a full moon hits and they decide to hunt one down, they’ll get more than they ever bargained for . . .
A Song After Dark
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 59,140. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
(4.25 from 4 reviews)
Norman thought he'd hit the jackpot when he met Zach, trading his boring straight-A lifestyle for one filled with parties, drugs, and more girls than he ever imagined he'd meet in his lifetime. But there’s something dangerous about Zach, something not quite right. For Zach has a dark secret, that once revealed will drag his newfound sidekick into a nightmare world mired in death and destruction.

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