Resultados para "Clay" en Terror

Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in. But when his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trance-like state in front of the TV. 

Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and that’s it. No friends, no family. When he’s done with work, he returns home—a remote, single room apartment located above a garage—and that is where his true work begins.

When an adventurer does not return home, those left behind have only grief and ghosts left for solace. For Rachel, Roger, and Miranda, that is not enough. But their search for resolution will pit them against more than historic winter storms. On the high mountain peaks of Washington State, something older than the Glaciers lies in wait, ever-searching for its next victims.

Ms. Warner could not help thinking of the burnt streaks that ran down the sides of the tiny carcass she had disposed of that day. The scalded paths that seemed to have seared through the fur and flesh of the poor animal. She had almost gagged at the unpalatable similarity between that vision and this highly detailed effigy. The story was fantastical. One that I knew would be embellished and exaggerated and probably be recycled with alternative names as a spook story to scare children for years to come.

After defeating the mercenary army that threatened his home, Jakar sets out with Efadora—the only person left with the power to bind him—across the Rift. He hunts the cultists who enslaved him, intent on ending their trade in elemental children, but he remembers little beyond that his search begins in the legendary city of Sulian Daw. Back in Mira, the Foundry's rhidium—the rare mineral that grants them extraordinary power—has gone missing and is feared stolen by the rebellious faction that seeks to bring down the Sovereign. 

A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one. From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns; from the claustrophobia of the Covid-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own.

Ever since their on-again, off-again college romance, Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with charismatic but reckless Silas, who has been chasing the next big high since graduation. When he texts her to spring him out of rehab, she knows enough is enough. She is ready to start a career, make new friends, and meet a great guy—even if that means cutting Silas off. But when Silas turns up dead from an overdose, Erin’s world falls apart.

Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son, Elijah, and a quiet but pleasant life as an art teacher at Elijah’s elementary school in Danvers, Virginia. Then the body of a rabbit, ritualistically murdered, appears on the school grounds with a birthday card for Richard tucked beneath it. Richard doesn’t have a birthday - but Sean does.... Sean is a five-year-old boy who has just moved to Greenfield, Virginia, with his mother.

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market. It’s there that she connects with old high school flame Henry McCabe, now a reclusive local fisherman whose infant son, Skyler, went missing five years ago. Everyone in town is sure Skyler is dead, but when Madi reads Henry’s palm, she’s haunted by strange and disturbing visions that suggest otherwise.

A sleazy entrepreneur tries to make love and money out of the back of his van in downtown LA.

Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid created the acclaimed "Tales from Beyond the Pale," audio theater inspired by the vintage radio shows. In “Like Father, Like Son” by Clay McLeod Chapman, a scientist loses his five year old son in a car accident after losing control of the wheel. Wracked with grief, he refuses to let his boy go-choosing to bury himself in his work instead: Reanimating human tissue. On the brink of a major breakthrough, he’s determined to have a family reunion, no matter how many body parts it takes.

Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot's Creek, Virginia, for nearly a decade. Publicly, she and her daughter Jessica are shunned by their upper-crust family and the Pilot's Creek residents. Privately, desperate townspeople visit her apothecary for a cure to what ails them - until Ella Louise is blamed for the death of a prominent customer. Accused of witchcraft, both mother and daughter are burned at the stake in the middle of the night.

An author visiting The Stanley Hotel writes a tale of two families in duress speeding toward a tumultuous encounter on a winding wintry road.

A writer reveals his dark past to an unfortunate stranger on a long walk up a snowy mountain at dawn.

A trio of paranormal adventurers revisit the scene of a séance gone horribly wrong a century before and suffer a similar fate.

From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race. Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters through an alternate America marked by volatile...

The Civil War is over, but the killing never stopped. In Where Shadows Are the Darkest, the US festers beneath the weight of defeat and fanaticism. Zealots, bounty men, vigilantes, and sorcerers hunt power across a land where blood is the only currency that matters. Money promised order. Faith promised salvation. Both delivered chaos. And something ancient is feeding on it.

A thrilling horror short collection by Washington-based, emerging author Clay Vermulm. This collection of supernatural, paranormal, and cryptid tales will intrude upon your waking thoughts and disturb your sleep.

The Smoky Mountains have always been a land of stories—but some were never meant for daylight. In this dark collection, the author returns to the ridges and hollers of his childhood to uncover the shadowed roots of Appalachian folklore, where Jack Tales live on as restless, shifting shadows shaped by the land itself.