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Sawney Bone by
Series: 101 Ways to Hell Series, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 124,600. Language: English. Originally Published: March 7, 2024 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
From the 17th century and Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean's reign of terror to the 20th century and a runaway child hiding in an ominous cave, two destinies become entwined and an evil course is set. Mild-mannered Jack Breen works in a video shop in Bristol, living out a dull, uncomplicated existence. But Jack has no clue as to how complicated his life is about to become when a menacing figure...
Midnight Men: The Supernatural Adventures of Earl and Dale by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 63,320. Language: English. Originally Published: March 5, 2020 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Midnight. The Witching Hour. But the creatures of darkness are not confined to the shadows of the night. Lonely stretches of highways… Bustling college campuses… Quiet suburban neighborhoods… Pricey, upscale day spas… They're everywhere. Earl and Dale, a pair of burly truckers, seem to be drawn to those that dwell in the darkness. Monster hunters by default, they confront the evil...
Lost Girl of the Lake by &
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 28,620. Language: English. Originally Published: February 1, 2018 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Lake Livingston: August, 1961. Mark Gaitlin is 15, the son of one of the wealthiest men in Texas, and on the most boring summer vacation of his life. His days are filled with the pomp and circumstance of country club life, while his nights are a parade of one embarrassment after another at the hands of giggling teenage girls. But the piney woods above Lake Livingston are dark at night, and hold...
The Witching Well by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 45,210. Language: English. Originally Published: October 16, 2018 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Horror
It's the end of the world... ...as Murray Macabe knows it. The security of his home life has been ripped out from under him when his mother was brutally murdered. Rejected by his aunt, Murray only has one place left to go, and that's to live the rest of his life with a woman he barely knows. To Grandmother's House He Goes At first, life with his grandmother doesn't seem like it's going to be...
Evil Never Dies by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 67,940. Language: English. Originally Published: October 16, 2018 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
In the Spring of 1912, evil came to the small town of Kings Shore. A creature with a voracious appetite for blood took up residence within the town's shadows. Network newsman Roland Millhouse arrived in town to interview Patricia Owens on the occasion of her 120th birthday. He envisioned a feeble old woman in a wheelchair. The woman he met was anything but. She possessed more energy than most...
A Pig's View of Heaven by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 90,990. Language: English. Originally Published: May 12, 2015 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
Twenty years ago, a young woman was murdered, then raped. A short while later, within the narrow confines of her grave, she gave birth to a child. Now that child is grown and walking among us, causing the secrets the townsfolk thought buried to dig themselves out of shallow graves. Say your prayers, because the End Times are nigh, but you best be careful who you pray to.
The Goat Parade by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 113,620. Language: English. Originally Published: February 27, 2018 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
Suffer the little children to come unto me… and be like goats in my parade The city of Portland, Maine, is preparing for a parade to end all parades, one that will usher in a thousand years of darkness. The only thing is, they don't know it. Four strangers will engage each other on the Devil's battlefield and fight not only for the future of the city, but for the entire world. Warren Pembroke...
Effectively Wild by
Price: $3.49 USD. Words: 33,460. Language: English. Originally Published: October 27, 2022 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Sports
Martin "Wags" Wagner, an aging catcher in the San Francisco Giants farm system, is offered a new assignment—take a promising young pitcher under his wing and show him the ropes. Martin's manager is cagey about the new player, giving only his name, Andrei Dinescu, and his country of origin, Moldova. Despite the mysterious circumstances, Martin accepts the assignment, hoping to earn a return to...
Always Beside You by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 101,470. Language: English. Originally Published: March 7, 2021 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Religious, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Help her open the door. It wants to come through… First, the dream. Now this message from the mouth of a stranger. It was too much of a coincidence for Nate Carver, and has him dropping everything to help a woman he hasn't even thought about in eight years, not since the overdose that almost took Cathy Deveraux's life. The prison escape of Thomas Elbert stirs up memories for Detective Alec...
Blood Cult of the Booby Farmers by
Series: The Cold Current Chronicles, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 27,000. Language: English. Originally Published: June 4, 2022 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
Under the burning sun of Cold Currant, Mississippi, right on the banks of the Mississippi River, sits an old antebellum farmhouse that has been passed down through the generations. The farm's current occupants, the Tucker clan, are on the brink of losing their family's legacy. Only, the Tuckers have been hiding a depraved, murderous secret under the very soil of the farmland they continue to...
Gypsy by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 38,710. Language: English. Originally Published: March 2, 2017 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
What do your future hold? Tim Ritter's future isn't very bright. Recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, the doctors have give him months. When a carnival gypsy tells him it doesn't have to be that way, he scoffs, thinking it's all part of a scam to get money out of him. But her words haunt him and the next day he returns, wanting to know what he would have to do. The gypsy is looking for an...
Dread and Breakfast by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 79,630. Language: English. Originally Published: December 21, 2016 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Welcome to the Dandy Drop Inn, where everybody is treated like family! Checkin' in is easy… Checkin' out's a bitch… During what the weathermen are calling The Storm of the Century, ten strangers, each with their own secrets (some more dangerous than others), find themselves sharing a roof at the inn. Before the storm is over, blood will flow. Who among them will be strong enough and quick...
Corporate Wolf by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 101,040. Language: English. Originally Published: August 11, 2019 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
If you can't run with the big dogs… It was supposed to be a corporate retreat and a series of morale-boosting exercises. It was a weekend Shawn Biltmore nearly didn't survive. There was something else playing in the woods that night, something other than a bunch of corporate drones with paintball guns. And it had chosen Shawn as its new chew toy. …rip 'em to shreds. The local authorities...
Lucifer Sam by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 88,300. Language: English. Originally Published: April 17, 2019 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
"Leo Darke has created a heavy metal nightmare made of hard-driving prose, a dark sense of humor, and a jovial nod to 1980s horror fiction. There's sex, gore, and suspense to spare, and it all unfolds to a heavy metal beat. An enjoyable read." —Ray Garton, author of Crucifax and Ravenous "Death Metal has a new vanguard band—and a literal meaning. This band's music is truly Killer." —Mallory A...
Horrorfrost by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 60,380. Language: English. Originally Published: February 18, 2020 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Supernatural
Twenty years ago, Roman Carver turned his back on civilization and retreated to the mountains for a simpler, albeit more rugged existence. During that time, he's had to face a number of predators that threatened his new way of life, but nothing that he's encountered in the past could have prepared him for this new threat. There's something in the white… It came with the snow, perfectly...
Things That Don't Belong in the Light by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 61,410. Language: English. Originally Published: October 29, 2021 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » Occult
What is your deepest fear? Things that exist in plain sight? Those that hide in the darkest corners of your soul? Our deepest fears come in many forms. The seen and the hidden. The real and the imagined. The flesh and the incorporeal. Between the covers of this book, you'll find a bit of all this. Monsters, real and imagined. The familiar and the alien. So open the book. Be prepared to confront...
Infernal by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 57,600. Language: English. Originally Published: October 25, 2018 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
Shrouded in Mystery The locals call it Isla de los Perdidos. Island of the Lost. According to the legends, those who venture onto the shores of this cursed island never return. Abandoned Valarie DeNola and her sister Julie have chosen to ignore the legends and the warnings. They have been selected to lead a team of explorers to the island to discover the mystery surrounding it. But once ashore...
Godland by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 66,100. Language: English. Originally Published: June 10, 2022 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
An embittered farmer. A New York corporate raider. Two teenage high school girls. A failed small business owner. Past and present collide, secrets are revealed. These disparate people gather at a desolate Kansas farm for a hellish night not everyone will survive. Godland is a dark psychological suspense horror thriller. A Midwestern nightmare. Farm noir.
Peculiar County by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 104,520. Language: English. Originally Published: May 21, 2021 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Horror, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Paranormal
Life is different in Peculiar County. So is death, as Dibby Caldwell, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Hangwell's mortician, is about to find out. Witches lurk in the shadows. A menacing creature haunts the skies. And the dead refuse to stay dead. A cry for help in the middle of the night finds Dibby in the neighbor's cornfield, where the ghost of a young boy manifests, clings to her, and...
Twisted Tales from Tornado Alley by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 79,770. Language: English. Originally Published: December 1, 2018 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
Welcome to Tornado Alley, where the tales are as dangerous and as twisted as the storms that ravage the great plains of Kansas. Here, you'll meet an arachnophobe whose plans for a romantic weekend become a nightmare far worse than anything she could ever have imagined. Holidays are all about food and family, but this year there's a darkness hovering over Don Carmelo's Thanksgiving feast. A hen...
Pandemonium by
Series: Book One in the 101 Ways to Hell Series. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 80,940. Language: English. Originally Published: September 10, 2020 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult
From the moment their eyes met across the crowded sales floor, Billy knew he had met his soulmate, the woman he was meant to be with. While on a date, the appearance of three hooded figures in a field spooks Aura, and she tells Billy he needs to put her from his mind, forget she ever existed. Then she was gone. But how do you forget the one you are destined to be with? The only clue to his...
Emily in the Wall: Twelve Chilling Tales of Horror and Suspense by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 54,830. Language: English. Originally Published: September 27, 2020 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Occult
It's not only houses that are haunted. People can be haunted too. In fact, we're all haunted. By the past. By the truth. By our own failures. By ghosts. From the warped mind of Neil Davies comes a collection of chilling tales that will follow you into sleep, twist your dreams into nightmares, and haunt your waking hours. Be prepared to meet… A war hero haunted by a past he can't remember… A...
Containment Room 7 by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 73,770. Language: English. Originally Published: March 30, 2023 by Grinning Skull Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
In a far corner of space, orbiting a massive black hole, the research ship DARC12 discovers a strange asteroid—one that seems to be alive. After loading the rock on board for study, the ship quickly descends into madness. It begins with voices, whispers filling the shadows and the minds of the crew. A once-sane man declares that their discovery is not just a rock, but a god. Then the killing...

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