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Joshua Scribner


Biography

Joshua Scribner is the author of eight published novels and over 100 short stories. He currently lives in Michigan with his wife and two daughters. Up to date information on his work can be found at joshuascribner.com.

Where to find Joshua Scribner online

Website: http://joshuascribner.com
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Books

Fear's Child: A Novel    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 46490 words. Published on January 24, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
After teenager Maddy Crandale assaults the captain of the cheerleaders, her parents move her to the country, where there’s no trouble for Maddy to find. But trouble finds Maddy. Animals stalk her. She dreams that she’s someone else. Odd fears arise. With both parents caught up in their own weirdness, can this problem child defeat a strange menace alone, or will it take what it came for?
Cursed Highway: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 5000 words. Published on January 15, 2012. Fiction.
A ghost story on a lonely Oklahoma highway.
Methods of the Darkened Soul: 5 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 6370 words. Published on January 4, 2012. Fiction.
5 stories of wicked little tricks.
A Haunting Beauty: A Novel    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 59210 words. Published on October 25, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Strange things are happening in the Becker's new home. Noises come from the attic. Stevie Becker speaks of infidelity, but only in her sleep. Roony Becker finds himself both tempted and injured by sexual indiscretions. It seems something has come for them, something both wicked and beautiful, something far beyond normal reality. Can they resist its temptations? Will they survive its attacks?
Strange Magic: 12 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 11700 words. Published on September 15, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
12 brief stories about the use and misuse of magical powers.
Horror and Other Emotions: 9 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 10690 words. Published on September 15, 2011. Fiction.
9 short works that focus on fear and other emotional reactions.
Cryptic Zoology: 6 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 6530 words. Published on September 11, 2011. Fiction.
6 brief creature features.
Wishing Well: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3010 words. Published on September 11, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
It sounds like easy money. But Joe will have to follow the shady Clark into the dark woods to get it. Once there, Joe will find something more horrific than even his worst fears.
7 Ways to Steal a Person: 7 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 8550 words. Published on September 10, 2011. Fiction.
7 stories about different kinds of abduction.
What's in Your Head: 8 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 8800 words. Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction.
8 short works that consider things that can get in your head.
Strange Connections: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3700 words. Published on September 4, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Pickles, wine and tornados. What's the common thread? It's just one of the puzzles three college friends will have to solve. And they're doing it late at night, on a farm out in the middle of nowhere, because these puzzles keep popping into their minds. Is something trying to send them a message? Does it need help? Are its intentions good?
The Hitch: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 4570 words. Published on September 3, 2011. Fiction.
Kite's father told him he should stick with his friend Dozer to achieve greatness. That's why Kite follows Dozer into a building with flickering lights and up floors that seem increase with madness the higher they go. Will Kite's confident friend keep him safe, or is Dozer leading him to certain disaster?
Favored Son: A Short Novelette    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 8100 words. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction.
A town's four most popular high-school boys have died in a car accident. A surprise visitor comes to the funeral. He then visits Andrea, the leader of the dead boy's mother. As the rest of Andrea's family falls to ruin, she takes solace in her new friend and tries to figure out what this creature wants. Can anything be done to salvage what remains, or did her family die with the favored son?
Unimagined: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 7160 words. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Tamara keeps her daughter, Roni, on a tight leash. Roni's imaginary friend, Curtis, is her only friend. A strange man appears to be stalking them. He walks by their house every night, staring at the windows with a grin on his face. Little Roni says the man wants to take her away. For Tamara, that's unimaginable.
Lucidity: Book 3 of the Beyond Reception Series    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 93160 words. Published on June 22, 2011. Fiction.
In this third installment of the Beyond Reception Series, Alice Shoemaker travels to Oklahoma. She meets interesting characters along the way, including Andy, whose crippling disability is also a tool for incredible foresight. Meanwhile, Jade Parker, whose mere presence brings death to those close to him, waits for her to arrive and help him battle the biggest demon ever to visit this realm.
Horror and Crap: 11 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 8010 words. Published on May 22, 2011. Fiction.
Stories that emphasize brevity, horror, and sometimes crap.
20 Days in the Darkness: 20 Flash Fiction Stories    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 11980 words. Published on May 20, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
20 flash fiction stories intended to scare and disturb. Approach with caution.
3 Powers: 3 Short Works    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2930 words. Published on May 6, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
Stories about people with strange abilities.
Broken Rule: A short story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2920 words. Published on May 5, 2011. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
The sign says evil cannot enter. But evil will still try.
Tortured Spirit: A short story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 6160 words. Published on May 3, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Kellan is used to waking up in strange places. But this place, a cafeteria filled with crazy women and doors that only Kellan can open, might be the strangest of all.
Psyche Horror: Five Short Works by Joshua Scribner    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 5990 words. Published on April 27, 2011. Fiction.
These stories blend psychological suspense with horror in a style reminiscent of Joshua Scribner's Novels FEAR AND REPULSION and SEED.
Dead? Three Short Stories by Joshua Scribner    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3860 words. Published on April 25, 2011. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
Three stories that speculate on the other side.
Rape the Earth and Trendsetter: Two Animal Horror Stories    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 4340 words. Published on April 23, 2011. Fiction.
Two creature features.
The Lighter Side of Darkness: Nine Flash Stories    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 5290 words. Published on April 21, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.75 from 4 reviews)
Nine brief, lighthearted horror stories.
Replaced: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3710 words. Published on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A haunting love story.
Soul Tripping: Book 2 of the Beyond Reception Series    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 76370 words. Published on April 1, 2011. Fiction.
Joseph Stanton is haunted by the spirit of a past flame and a song that manages to play on its own. Donald Pagel feels a strange presence and senses inhuman changes occurring inside. Across the state, Alice Shoemaker is awoken by a strange light that leads her from the Shares' home. The ancient evil she will face is more powerful than any to date. It seems unstoppable.
Rogue Demon: Book 1 of the Beyond Reception Series    by Joshua Scribner
Price: Free! 61660 words. Published on March 31, 2011. Fiction.
Odd things are happening to the Shares. Nightmares haunt them. Their toddler seems to see things no one else can. Pictures fall. Cryptic messages appear on frosted glass. Something bad is coming. Many miles away, demented elders deliver strangely coherent messages to Alice Shoemaker. Is it time for the quest she’s been waiting for? Can she find the Shares and help them thwart this evil menace?
The Zone: Book 3 of the Prairie Wolf Trilogy    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 44550 words. Published on March 17, 2011. Fiction.
The Wolf has returned with powers refined. It wants to battle all over again. But it won't fight in the place where Jonnie can win. It has prepared a battlefield and plans to take them all.
Sidewalks: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2980 words. Published on March 16, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Sometimes the paths we're shown are too good to be true. Life becomes more and more strange the longer we follow them anyway.
Christoph Salem: A Novel    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 91430 words. Published on March 12, 2011. Fiction.
Green Pastures, South Carolina is a wonderful place to live. That is, as long as you don't step out of line and your value system doesn't differ from the moral majority. It also helps to be born the right color and worship in the right church. Many miles away, an immortal waits for prophesy to be fulfilled. Then the man will travel, bringing with him a special kind of justice.
Oklahoma Dust: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 1970 words. Published on March 11, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
A rural haunting.
A Beast with four Heads: Book 2 of the Prairie Wolf Trilogy    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 41140 words. Published on March 10, 2011. Fiction.
Years later, Jonnie, Seth and Mikey are grown up. All three are very successful in what they do. But the entity that stalks them has also evolved. To destroy them it will build a monster.
The Demon's Field: Book 1 of the Prairie Wolf Trilogy    by Joshua Scribner
Price: Free! 44490 words. Published on March 4, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Mikey, Jonnie and Seth, three prodigious 11-year-olds, and best friends, set off for a day of hunting rabbits. Little do they know that something so much more is waiting for them and that it will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Fright Reaction: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3270 words. Published on March 3, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.75 from 4 reviews)
The end of the world seems near. Curtis Hillard is hidden deep in the woods. But he might not be as alone as he thinks.
Nothing Happened: A short story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3990 words. Published on February 28, 2011. Fiction.
Marsha's boyfriend, Chase, often wakes in the night shouting. He says it's nothing. She doesn't believe him. When they travel to his childhood home, she learns the truth.
Hell and Back: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3350 words. Published on February 25, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.67 from 3 reviews)
The ghosts of one's past are the worst ghosts of all.
Urgent Questions 2: Five Flash Pieces    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 5030 words. Published on February 21, 2011. Fiction.
Five brief stories of monsters and horrific situations similar in style to the novels of Joshua Scribner's Mantis series.
The Pause Ghost: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3250 words. Published on February 18, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A Christmas present with a dark surprise.
Urgent Questions 1: Five Flash Pieces    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 3970 words. Published on February 16, 2011. Fiction.
Five brief horror tales in a keep-you-guessing-to-the-end style, similar to Joshua Scribner's novel Eleven O'clock Fright.
Under the Bed and Funny Cats: 2 Somewhat Silly Horror Stories    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 4040 words. Published on February 12, 2011. Fiction.
Two campy horror stories by Joshua Scribner.
Within: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2950 words. Published on February 6, 2011. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Reminiscent of Joshua Scribner's novels FEAR AND REPULSION and SEED, Within follows psychologist Dr. Caffer as he tracks unspeakable evil to the deepest recesses of the human mind.
Coryanna: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2990 words. Published on February 2, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 13 reviews)
A ghost story on a maternity ward.
The Safest Place: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 1720 words. Published on January 31, 2011. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
The last thing Coy remembers, he was about to die. So why is he in this strange house, with even stranger creatures, vying for his attention?
Conductors: A short story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 6590 words. Published on January 27, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Two men awake within the confines of an electrified chain-link fence. Machine guns point at them from every direction. Fanged beasts stalk the outside. An hourglass shows they're running out of time. They have no idea why they're here.
Violet Lights: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2650 words. Published on January 23, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Something is disturbing Dennis Harkum's sleep. Is it real? Is it only in his head? Will he figure it out in time?
Back Roads: A Short Story    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $0.99 USD. 2110 words. Published on January 21, 2011. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.38 from 8 reviews)
Something has come out in the night, and it's waiting down the road.
Mantis Coma: Book 2 of the Mantis Series    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 74950 words. Published on January 8, 2011. Fiction.
In this second installment of the series, Mantis finds himself in a coma. Meanwhile, a wicked spirit in human forms treks across the country en route to kill him. Without a body to fight with, Mantis must find a way to ward off the evil intruder or die motionlessly.
Mantis Nights: Book 1 of the Mantis Series    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 74400 words. Published on January 8, 2011. Fiction.
Late at night, when the sidewalks are quiet, Mantis Shed walks with his eyes closed. Engaging visions, he becomes one with fantastic worlds, battling mighty warriors, conquering fantastic realms. Mantis chooses when to come and go. It’s the perfect escape from a boring world. Then, when visions begin to trap him, losing is no longer an option and winning is a matter of life and death.
Fear and Repulsion: A Novel    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 62920 words. Published on January 7, 2011. Fiction.
Doctor David Porter has found a tunnel into the deepest recesses of the human mind. Using hypnosis he’ll apply his secret techniques on three previously incurable patients. The signs say stop. His thirst for knowledge won’t let him. Little does he know that what’s waiting for his patients could be worse than what brought them to him in the first place.
Seed: A Novel    by Joshua Scribner
Price: $1.99 USD. 53100 words. Published on January 7, 2011. Fiction.
Psychologist Jonah Singer has obsessive-compulsive disorder, chain smokes, and is haunted by a blurry past. Enter Tate, a counselor with a wicked laugh and uncanny ability to get inside Jonah’s head. Tate shows him the most horrific depths of the human psyche. Inside his mind, Jonah will find more than tools to heal. He’ll engage in a battle, with ramifications for the entire planet.
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