A short horror story anthology series exploring dark and sometimes twisted tales. Each standalone story offers a glimpse into a life where reality begins to fracture, spilling into the realms of the bizarre, disturbing, and terrifying.
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This book combines the four stories below, 2:05 AM, Isolation Space, The Other Side, and Reaping Hour, into one collection. It also includes a small trivia page and a bonus short story called The Reporter (a chapter from a currently unreleased novel). This book is available in both eBook and physical editions.
Singular editions and descriptions for each story are available below.
Some mistakes can never be set right. Some choices echo into eternity.
Sandra had achieved what she most wanted in life. To be a loving, caring mother to her children and a devoted wife to Dave, the man she had been with since high school. Life had other plans. Their relationship had always been filled with turmoil, another accusation, always followed by an argument. Stops and starts. After one altercation turned physical, he agreed to therapy. Things seemed better for a time.
One night, as a storm raged, flashes of lightning revealed a terror Sandra could never have imagined. What unfolded would forever shatter her reality as the clock rewound in torment, leaving her to face the weight of regret for not acting sooner.
Love, rage, and despair in a vicious cycle, with no way out.
Some voyages should never begin. Some mysteries should remain unknown.
Cassie Krasken boarded the Dormitician to escape the scars of her past. Awakening from cryosleep, the ship is eerily silent. Her crewmates are missing, and unsettling traces of blood suggest something has gone terribly wrong. As she searches for answers, Cassie discovers that something alien may have been brought aboard—something intelligent and restless.
As something watches and waits out of view, Cassie feels the walls of the ship closing in around her. The silence is deafening, but the ghosts of her trauma aren’t, and each step carries her through a fragmented truth.
Survival doesn’t always mean escape.
Some doors should never be opened. Some paths should never be taken. Some things are never how they seem.
Robert Marshal is the kindest man you’ll ever meet: selfless, patient, always ready to help. But since his mother’s death, something in him has come unmoored: blackouts, lost hours, conversations he can’t remember, and waking in places he doesn’t recall going.
When the relentless noises from the apartment above shatter his routine, Robert decides to investigate and opens a door he can’t close. Inside is a nightmare that ties directly to the gaps in his memory, forcing him to confront a truth that’s been clawing its way to the surface.
Some truths we bury, even from ourselves. And when they rise, they demand a price.
Some sins cannot be forgiven. Some judgements cannot be escaped. Some verdicts are eternal.
When Emma wakes in the early hours of the morning, she expects a quiet start to her day. Instead, she finds herself face-to-face with Lucy, a mysterious woman, sitting uninvited in her kitchen, who seems to know everything about her. Her past. Her secrets. The regrets she harbored. And what still awaits her.
Drawn into a harrowing journey through her own memories, Emma is forced to confront the choices that shaped her life and the shame she could never let go of. As dawn nears, one truth becomes clear… the time for judgment is at hand.
In the end, the reaping hour comes for all.
OTHER STORIES
There is but one sacred rule at Christmas: All children must be asleep on Christmas Eve.
No peeks.
Or pretending to sleep.
For he will know.
Bean was just eight years old when she decided to break that rule. And for her, Christmas would then take on a whole new meaning. A game would be played. Find the four candy canes, and her wish would come true.
What was her wish?
To meet Santa Claus, of course.
But sometimes, a wish should stay just that—a wish.
Because some things should never come true.
Easter has come to the town of Burksville—a place where missing children have become just another ordinary occurrence. And Bobby has given in to his younger brother Sean’s pleas to visit an abandoned house long surrounded by unsettling rumors. Stories tell of a witch who takes the young when they wander too close, and of the strange number she imparts to the few who somehow return.
Inside the house, rooms stretch and time twists.
Decades later, Bobby is still haunted by what happened that day.
Some curses don’t end. They wait.