Horror, various subgenres
Publication Date: October 30,2024
Publisher:Dragon Soul Press
Ghosts,demons, and more monsters.
In a worldwhere so many dark things go bump in the night, terror awaits around every corner as these authors take horror stories to the next level.Discover ghosts, demons, and your worst nightmares. Read at your ownrisk.
Featuringtwenty-nine stories by Joshua Williams, Stephen A. Roddewig,Joseph Hirsch, Max Blood, Paul Lonardo, Matt Spencer, S.J. Walker, KellyBarker, Gregory Scott Matics, Gaetan Battaglia, Fred Phillips, CassandraJones, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Sean E. Britten, Larry Hodges, DonaleeMoulton, Arlo Z. Graves, C.L. Hart, Robb T. White, Kelly Piner, BenjaminCurt Unsworth, Trixie Nisbet, Jennifer Papillo, Justin Jones, DianaParrilla, Jared Thomason, J.M. Bengtsson, Caleb James K., and J.E.Feldman.
Full ColdMoon
StoryGenre: Shifters, werewolf
Wolf shifterRoza Van Rompaye awakens in a basement filled with Christmasdecorations with a silver manacle around her ankle. Her captor spiked herdrink with silver nitrate, and now he wants her to be his mate and to turnhim. Roza isn’t about to do either. She warns her captor that he willdie if she is still a prisoner when the full cold moon rises.
Excerpt
No matter howI struggled, I couldn’t get free of the chains I wasbound in.
“You’d betterhope they hold when the full moon comes out, yousilly shit,” I snarled.
Thecadaverous young man with the watery green eyes, blemished face, andgreasy disconnected fuchsia pompadour presented me with a rectangular boxwrapped in metallic celadon paper.
“I don’t wantpresents from you,” I snapped, turning away.“If you think holding a woman captive on Christmas Eve is seduction, Iguarantee you’ll die a virgin. Gavril Kuroki, president of GrassHopper GreenConstruction and renowned seducer of both men and women, would be horrifiedto learn his son was holding his favorite architectural consultant prisonerin a dungeon that looks like Santa’s elves got hammered and puked all overthe walls while he tries to win her affections with cheesy lingerie. Whatthe hell is wrong with you, Yair?”
“Roza, please,just look,” Yair insisted. He eagerly unwrappedthe box, revealing a silky puce nightgown. “I’m not trying toturn you into a sexual object, and I’d never force myself on you. Iknow you’re not like those easy women who ride the cock carousel anychance they get. This negligee is elegant and ladylike, likeyou.”
“I’ll never be the fawning captive princess of your pathetic fantasies.”
“My love, itpains me to keep you prisoner, but until you accept meas your alpha, I must.”
“Beingchained to a concrete wall in a windowless basement stuffedwith Christmas decorations like a holiday goose full of apples and breadpains me. This plot to make me fall in love with you by forcing a full-blownEnglish Christmas on me is insane. We’re in Cresval, South Dakota, forKrampus’ sake, not jolly old London town. I’m thethirty-five-year-old spawn of a Dutch-American agnostic farmer, not thedemure daughter of flipping Bob Cratchit.”
About theAuthor
C. L. Hartis an editor who writes or a writer who edits. She primarilywrites Lovecraftian fantasy and horror with the occasional sweet romancethrown in to upset the cosmic apple cart. This is her second yearparticipating in the annual For the Love of Winter anthology from FirstCoast Romance Writers. She is a member of ACES Editing Society, The DenverHorror Collective, First Coast Romance Writers, The H. P. LovecraftHistorical Society, Passionate Ink (writing as Lil DeVille), Regency RomanceWriters, and Rocky Mountain Romance Writers.
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