Short Reads

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Hades 11 by
Series: Short Reads, Book 2. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,300. Language: English. Originally Published: July 30, 2020 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
There are few paths history could have taken that leads humanity to set foot on the Moon. One of the roads paved by time, an intersection avoided over fifty years ago now, leads to a different outcome of the arms race on rocket fuel than the one we remember. There the bombs go off and where they should leave nothing but dust, they leave corpses and these corpses rise again. Down this path, the...
Mount Terror by
Series: Short Reads, Book 7. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 8,520. Language: English. Originally Published: January 21, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
"Do not come here. We are all doomed." The words haunt Henry Chapelton as he braves the unwelcoming waters of the Austral sea, heading toward Antarctica to save Captain Ernst Land and his ill-fated crew. What's supposed to be a rescue mission quickly turns into a fight for survival, a battle against Nature, the elements, and forces of unknown origins. Something has been unearthed in this desert...
The Spirit of Rodeo by
Series: Short Reads, Book 10. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 13,060. Language: English. Originally Published: April 1, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
It's an anxiety dream come true. Curtis Baum, frontman for the up-and-coming rock band Frozen Wanda, is forced to be a rodeo clown for one night, sparring with a snarky shape-shifting bull. This boanthrope, known as Luke Tureaud in human form, is ready to buck his own job and deliver some bovine intervention. Curtis urgently needs to reunite with his band on the eve of their breakthrough tour...
The Bookworm by &
Series: Short Reads, Book 11. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,100. Language: English. Originally Published: June 26, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Gerald prides himself on his librarian skills—he's a teacher, a researcher, a human database, and the one he coined himself, a recommender; with just a few details, he knows the perfect book for every customer. Will his skills help him when a hungry newcomer, desperate to devour the books, arrives in his library. Supernatural horror from Emery and Hort.
Carpe Detritus by
Series: Short Reads, Book 11. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 7,040. Language: English. Originally Published: May 15, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it, right? Refuse collection is a miserable task at the best of times, but Matthew's life is about to get a whole lot worse. A routine clearance job turns his life upside down as something insidious makes its presence felt. Thrown into a waking nightmare of shadowy figures and ancient abominations, can Matthew survive with his body and mind intact?
The Salamandrion by
Series: Short Reads, Book 14. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 10,930. Language: English. Originally Published: July 24, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
In the late 25th century, a systems analyst is called in to diagnose a strange instability in the computers of a base established on the most volcanically active planet ever encountered. What he finds shakes his understanding of reality, because this planet is not as dead as it seems, and it wants humans gone—for their own sake.
This Hideous Joy by
Series: Short Reads, Book 15. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,510. Language: English. Originally Published: August 21, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Spring is in the air. The town of Bract Hollow, Vermont, is a nice, normal place full of nice, normal people, or at least it used to be. Now, everyone smiles a little too widely, even when they ought to be sad, and few seem to notice the difference. Even fewer have noticed the recent spate of mysterious deaths, or the strange, flaky material scattered around each fallen body. No one, however...
The Coroner by
Series: Short Reads, Book 16. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 5,790. Language: English. Originally Published: October 23, 2021 by Black Hare Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
One barb-tongued, big-haired, county coroner, one schoolteacher husband, one Pink Wave. Joan and Richard appear to have the perfect life; one the uncontested county coroner, the other a successful teacher in a high school. But the deadly and mysterious Pink Wave appears and changes their lives forever. As the pink foam tongue alters the path of thousands of lives, can Richard tame Joan's sharp...