John Farris

Books

No Sin Unpunished
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 112,780. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
(Originally published as Elvisland) No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories.
High Bloods
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 86,380. Language: English. Published: July 3, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grip of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty-eight days of the month, those who change are no different from those who have managed to stay uninfected—the normals, the High Bloods. But every full moon, they become the most ravenous creatures mankind has ever seen.
Sharp Practice
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 85,910. Language: English. Published: June 21, 2014 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
Anne Ramsdell dreamed of soft rain and stately elms. Reality was a psychopathic maniac who mauled her, battered her, hurled her through a plate-glass window — and now stalks her wherever she goes. She cannot remember his face — she cannot forget her terror.
Soon She Will Be Gone
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 124,680. Language: English. Published: June 19, 2014 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
To the outward eye the billionaire Trevellian family appears to be the paradigm of culture and class. But when hot young artist Sharan Norbeth is taken under their wing, she discovers that family loyalties have become horribly twisted, and hidden evil festers below the surface. Sharan must pry apart the mystery hidden in the family's innermost core—and fast, if she doesn't want to disappear.
Solar Eclipse
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 136,460. Language: English. Published: June 18, 2014 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Shay Waco is a stuntwoman on her way home with her daughter when a semi sends her car over an embankment. The two jump nearly sixty feet, and crash through a nest of conifers, in order to escape. Bruised and bleeding, they walk until they discover a lone house. Planning to call for help, they break in, only to find a family sitting around a dinner table with bullets in their foreheads.
You Don't Scare Me
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 59,010. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Chase Emrick was fourteen when her mother married Crow Tillman. Maybe it was his creepy name, or his sinister good looks; maybe it was the glass eye with the bolt of lightning for a pupil that he kept covered with a black eye patch, or maybe it was the rattlesnake tattoo that curled around his left wrist onto his hand, but for some reason, Chase never trusted Crow. Crow Tillman was pure evil.
Shatter
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 87,040. Language: English. Published: October 7, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Horror » General
SHATTER A novel that joins two generations in fear. SHATTER The story of a murderer's son who returns to the scene of his father's crime only to tall in love with the daughter of his father's victim. SHATTER An epic of love and terror that combines the darkest passions of all...
The Fury and the Terror
Series: The Fury, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 156,080. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
The United States is besieged by terrorists who are working from within the White House itself to overthrow the government. They have frightening weapons at their disposal, not the least of which are techniques of mind control undreamed of even a decade ago. Eden Waring is overwhelmed by a terrible premonition: a DC-10, as yet unseen, is going to crash.
Minotaur
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 120,770. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
Near-naked, flagrantly male, the Minotaur loomed out of the dark places of Greek mythology. Roaring, bull-headed, the creature advanced. The razor-sharp Cretan axe swung murderously, slicing through the air, through flesh, through bone. One by one its enemies died. Out of the past too came the plague – long-dormant seeds awakening to destroy. The victims would be legion, their deaths horrible.
Son of the Endless Night
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 171,860. Language: English. Published: April 1, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
In a peaceful Vermont courtroom, humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable -- armed with sensuality, delusion and horrible death -- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance. Not since The Exorcist has there been such a powerful novel of demonic possession as Son of the Endless Night.
The Axeman Cometh
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 52,430. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Horror » General
Once she cowered in a darkened room while the Axeman murdered her family. Waited, trembling, to meet death... and somehow lived. Twenty year later she waits, each night, struggling to recreate the Axeman's features from her trauma-fogged memories, summoning the madman from the depths of her soul, seeking to capture him with her artist's talent and drive him out of her nightmares.
Wildwood
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 117,460. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2013 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain. His old Army buddy Arn seems insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twisted creatures more beast than man -- until he displays the trophies that prove it.
The Fury and the Power
Series: The Fury, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 112,380. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Horror » General
Eden Waring has known fear in her life. She is an Avatar, a talented young psychic with the ability to produce at will her doppelganger - her mirror image, who calls herself "Gwen" and possesses remarkable powers beyond even Eden's gifts. Gwen can be invisible to mortal eyes, if she chooses to be, and can even travel back and forth in time.
Sacrifice
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 114,310. Language: English. Published: November 16, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Horror » General
Seventeen-year-old Sharissa Walker is beauty personified, decency incarnate and a joy to behold — the apple of her father's eye. By anyone's standards, Greg Walker is the perfect father. He'll do anything to protect her and keep her safe. But in this novel of terror and suspense, nothing is as it seems. Nothing. Not youthful innocence. Not daughterly devotion. Not a father's love...
Dragonfly
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 162,590. Language: English. Published: October 8, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Dr. Joe Bryce, a dedicated physician, has spent the last three years in war-torn Africa. Having left his millionaire fiancee at the altar, the con man continues his string of taking advantage of rich women to fund his living the high life on his yacht, the Dragonfly. In Nimrod's Chapel, GA, he meets Abby Abelard -- a blindingly beautiful and wealthy woman.
When Michael Calls
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 65,930. Language: English. Published: September 4, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
"Auntie Helen," the little boy sobbed, "I'm home, and nobody's here!" The phone trembled in Helen Connolly's hand. She could not believe her ears. This was her nephew, Michael Young, on the phone — Michael, who had been dead for sixteen years. Who was this mysterious caller? Could it really be Michael? And if so, what did he want?
Fiends
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 119,940. Language: English. Published: August 10, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
In the frozen pit of blackest hell, Death sleeps. Ravishing beyond words, evil beyond our darkest dreams of Satan, Her eyelids flutter. Rising from Her pit, She wakes her vampire brood -- and frees them from their ancient graves. No, no one is safe, no one -- from the unwashed Children of Eve.
Catacombs
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 144,800. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Deep within the volcanic rock of Mt. Kilamanjaro lie the Catacombs, the enormous hidden burial caves of a vanished African society more sophisticated and technologically advanced than ours. A civilization that has left the formula for present-day domination by a world power etched into blood-red diamonds--the rarest gemstones known.
Phantom Nights
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 86,980. Language: English. Published: July 3, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Horror » Occult
The year is 1952. Fourteen-year-old Alex Gambier is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute from a bout with diphtheria at an early age, Alex expresses himself by writing imaginative stories and by conceiving daredevil stunts that test all of his physical resources while putting his life in extreme danger.
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 111,230. Language: English. Published: June 11, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
First in his class at Blue Ridge Military Academy, graduate with all honors, "Clipper" Bradwin is now entering into holy matrimony and then into wartime service of his country. What will begin, however, with the solemnity of his marriage vows will end in the echoing screams of the damned-an ungodly spectacle of spilled blood and sobbing, throat-aching terror.
Unearthly
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 70,390. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Previously published as "The Uninvited" Her love is a hunger, an obsession... Beautiful eighteen-year-old Barry Brennan couldn't forget. A year ago, Ned Kramer, her fiance, had died in a hunting accident. Her grief threatened to overwhelm her - until the night her car careened off an icy country road to strike a handsome stranger. Naked, helpless, he seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

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