The most wholesome families have the darkest secrets. Most little girls don’t dream of growing up and spending their days surrounded by human blood. My sister was not most little girls. 
Inside you'll experience intimate first hand accounts of modern day murders, kidnappings, and violent revenge. Other stories are heartwarming with whimsical mysteries, gothic fairy tales, and supernatural monstrosities. 
Praise for From Twisted Roots: "SO SCARY!! This fine collection, varied but always with impact, will likely keep you awake at night, and will definitely burrow into your memories to recur when you least expect (such as middle of the night or in dreams)." ★★★★★ Haunted Reading Room Reviews "She has a way of telling a concise and vivid tale that leaves you satisfied yet somehow still wanting more. She's a jewel of the horror genre." ★★★★★ Roxie Reviews "Each story is delightfully creepy and chilling and there's a definite spark of humanity in her writing that leaves me breathless each time." ★★★★★ Priscilla J. Tilton 
Read these thrilling tales to uncover the truth for yourself.

From Twisted Roots: Thriller, Horror, and Mystery Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Cooper, S.H.

Genre Fiction

Independently published

A collection of fourteen short horror stories that chronicle obsession, loss, and why you should be afraid of things that go bump in the night. From a young boy with with an unhealthy fixation on what could go wrong to a man who can't accept that his wife wants to leave him, traipsing through The Corpse Garden certainly isn't for the faint of heart. Author S.H. Cooper presents a combination of works popularized on Reddit's NoSleep and four, previously unreleased stories for brand new thrills and chills that are best read with the lights on.

The Corpse Garden: A Collection Of Short Horror Stories

A monster lurking in the mountain. A mysterious cult seeking a doorway. An otherworldly evil waiting to be unleashed. Faith York was a young girl when she saw her father dragged into the ground by a spider-armed woman, never to be seen again. Twenty years later, the events of that day continue to haunt her, and her need for answers has only grown stronger with time. After her estranged mother's death forces her to return home, old wounds are reopened and Faith finally decides to face her demons. What started as a search for closure soon pits her against a shadowy cult known as The Gathered and the eldritch beings they worship. With reality becoming more blurred by the day and the thousand eyes of an alien deity fixed on her, Faith must decide if the dark secrets of White Crow Mountain are really worth losing herself over.

The Festering Ones

We are Wolves: A Horror Anthology

Read, Sarah

Taylor, Sonora

Piper, Hailey

Tantlinger, Sara

Amor, Gemma

Harms, Eve

Dorn, J. Danielle

Burial Day Books

Bottling His Ghosts (Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena)

Raw Dog Screaming Press

Short story collection with award-winning authors. Thriller, horror, and romantic suspense stories. Ever start a relationship with a guy and think he's a little too perfect?That's probably because he's a shape-changing serial killer. Or how about when you got stood up on that tinder date and go home disappointed,only to realize it was all a trick so he'd know where you live? Then there's those letters your dead wife keeps writing you... There can be no light without darkness, pleasure without pain, or love without loss. 17 authors have teamed up to collect all our favorite supernatural and psychological horror stories&amp;nbspabout love. Jealous murders, monstrous doppelgangers, heart-rending romances, devils and angels, cannibals and virtual worlds — over 350 pages of your most desperate longings and worst nightmares all rolled into one. Shocking twists and absolute mind-fuckery will thrill and terrify you to the last page! Great way to discover more authors in the horror genre. 
Excerpt: (An account of Hell) 
There are two kinds of pain which I had come to expect from the world of the living: the physical, and the emotional. Never had I experienced a physical pain so excruciating as the boils which began to swell across my body, nor a mental burden as debilitating as the taunting echoes which sneered at me from the living tissue beneath my feet. Every good memory of my life was poisoned against me, and each shame and guilt was magnified a thousand times over by the leering specters which narrated my ordeals with intimate knowledge and exaggerated effect.
Worse than either was the spiritual pain I endured however, the gnawing hopeless depression which robbed even my sense of self. I was not a person in Hell; I was Hell. I did not feel pain; I was pain—inseparable and indistinguishable. It was then, in the lowest reduction of my humanity as I crawled across the putrid ground in a trail of my own ruptured boils, that she took pity on me.
Gentle hands shed my skin from me; not as a torment, but a release. My disfigured limbs were cut away by her flashing knife, each slice bringing a pain so pure and clean that I welcomed it without question. Layer by layer she flayed me until at last there was nothing left to cut but my soul. Again it is difficult to describe her without the reliance of my mortal senses now stripped from me, but if you understood me when I told you that I was pain, you will understand again when I tell you she was beauty.
-I'm in Love with the Devil's Wife

Love, Death, and other Inconveniences: Horror Stories of Love and Loss (Haunted Library)

Devlin, Tara A.

Hinton, Grant

Daniels, Blair

Wade, Tobias

Maloney, David

Alexander, Kyle

Bak, Hayong

Clark, Jesse

Oxford, P.

All That's Fair

Threads of Ash: South (The Frayed Kingdom)

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