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Notoriously cold-hearted horror film critic, Vincent Graves hates everything about mushy Christmas cheer...until one sinister night before Christmas when he's visited by three freakishly festive spirits determined to melt his icy heart - or else!

Frank Foster's life is about as exciting as filling out insurance claim forms – until one fateful camping trip to Happy Rock Park turns his world inside out and upside down. What starts as a simple family getaway with his wife Franchesca and kids Felecia and Felix implodes during a heated s'mores-making competition, sending a frustrated Frank storming into the woods. His destiny? A mysterious mushroom that launches him headfirst into the pulsating heart of consciousness itself.

Step into the fractured mind of horror's newest voice, Joe King, as he delivers seventeen spine-chilling tales that will leave you questioning the very fabric of reality. FRAGMENTS OF FEAR isn't just another collection of horror stories—it's a descent into the darkest corners of human consciousness, where nightmares bleed into the everyday and the ordinary transforms into the unspeakable

Rise of the Magi

Book 2 of the Priests and Magi quadrilogy.

Shadows stir, and old enemies resurface.

Marcus Mullin was part of the military group sent out to look for an enemy of the state. We knew we were looking for a woman, but that was it. Then he saw her, the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Purple eyes shone through the crowd as their eyes locked—my soulmate.

When Kat receives an eerie bouquet with a cryptic message and a butterfly lands on her doorstep, she dismisses it as a strange coincidence. But as nightmares bleed into reality, she realizes that these are not mere coincidences—they are omens of darker things to come.

When Lena vanishes without a trace during a relentless snowstorm, Mira is the only one brave—or desperate—enough to search for her. The cursed woods are no place for the living, but Mira refuses to abandon her best friend to the whispers and shadows that haunt the snow.

A group of workers want to quit their morally terrifying job and escape their scary boss to avoid possibly ruining the few remnants of their normal lives. 

Noemie wants to find a way get her obsessive boss to let her go, along with the other coworkers who want to leave. Unfortunately, that means either, negotiating, or killing the professional killer. 

Andrew Connolly was a student who gets picked on because of his inability to excel in physical fitness and sports. One day as he dropped a fly ball in a softball game, he was taunted so much he ran off the field and out of the school. Naturally the coach chastised the players, but he wasn't able to Andrew to return.  In fact, he didn't even return home. Instead he was walking alone in an empty part of the suburban town he lived in, when suddenly he sees a UFO appear out of nowhere. It would crash not far away from where he was standing. When he looked inside, out came a female alien in a short white dress, identifying herself as Zira. The two of them talked and then suddenly, she receives a call from her home planet, that she can't return because of a war going on there, but if she can help an Earth being improve himself, she can have the choice of returning, or staying with the person she helped. 

In the midst of grappling with her divorce, Francesca realized the importance of focusing on herself and preparing for the arrival of her soon-to-be-born baby. Taking this to heart, she made the decision to relocate to a more compact house together with her daughter, Zoe, from her previous marriage with James. However, the thought of losing Leo remained a constant struggle for her. Would she venture to pursue him once again, or would she choose to let things be?