In The Open Book, award-winning screenwriter and novelist L. Marie Wood told the world about a ravenous magical book. The Tales of Time looks perfectly innocent, maybe a little old-fashioned, nothing to be afraid of. But anyone who opens its cover finds a bespoke tale of unspeakable horror created just for them. A tale that will devour them alive, body, mind and soul.Don't you want to peek inside? There are so many lovely stories here about so many lovely people-lovers, parents, monsters, crooks, each with their own terrifying tale to share. Who knows? You might even find a story written just for you.

Tales of Time

Literature & Fiction

Wood, L. Marie

Genre Fiction

Falstaff Books, LLC

The Open Book

Mars, The Band Man, and Sara Sue is a quirky look-back novel about a married, forty-something woman who finds herself in a mid-life crisis who can' t stop thinking about the long-ago glory days. Sara Sue realizes her reality one day in her ordinary, mundane life, and it hits her like a ton of bricks. The humdrum is killing her, and Sara Sue wouldn' t be at all surprised if her heart stopped from boredom one day. Just looking at her husband is more than she can bear most of the time. But she copes. Sara Sue has her own personal theme music that keeps her sane and a friend that lets her vent.Oh yes.She witnesses a murder somewhere along the way.

Mars, The Band Man, and Sara Sue

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Cedar Grove Publishing

Accursed, the final book in The Realm series, puts Patrick, his son Doug, and his granddaughter Gabby together in a fight against an evil that is hungry for the souls of all the people he loves--of every soul who would descend from his line. Surrounded by seen and unseen foes, Patrick and his family must try to save the only two people left who could turn the tide: Gabby's children. But Chris... He's falling from the sky before their very eyes...

Accursed: Book Three (The Realm)

Working from home has its perks, being able to attend meetings in your pajamas chief among them. But when the house you occupy all day is empty - when the only voice you hear after work comes through television speakers, it can get a little old.\nUnless you like it that way. 
And Chris did like it that way 
… until the whispering started. 
Telecommuting is a modern psychological horror story set in what could be your town, your street, your house. The lyrical slow burn is subtle; the terror in this tale sneaks up on you before you know it.

Telecommuting

United States

Mocha Memoirs Press

A group of friends head out to enjoy a much-deserved night out and paintballing is on the menu. But the team they are playing against has something entirely different in mind.\nThe friends find themselves in a battle for their lives in unfamiliar terrain against well-equipped opponents whose motivations are both irrational and lethal. Considered, “… a true trip into the darkest depths of what mankind is capable of at its worst,” by Midwest Book Review, this story is a classic tale of prey combined with slasher film “edge-of-your seat” vibes with a little modern-day relevance to keep you unsettled. 
Told two ways in this ground-breaking screenplay/novella combo, The Black Hole will keep you guessing, engaged, and very, very scared.

The Black Hole

Writer and professor, Lisa Wood, offers a comprehensive deep dive into the study of horror fiction. With importance placed on knowing the history of the genre and how integral to storytelling research is, this textbook will serve as a referenceable guide for anyone interested in writing in the horror genre. This work, which is accessible and detailed at the same time, offers practical scenarios and industry secrets alongside subgenre review and creative writing instruction. This textbook gives you the tools you need to craft horror fiction that will challenge the reader as well as frighten them.

About Horror - the Study and Craft

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

A man, haunted by a family curse, is taken beyond his sanity limits to a realm where he has no control over his actions or fear. James Adams lived a run-of-the-mill everyday life in a New York suburb before the demons dwelling within him awoke from their slumber to reveal unspeakable horror and prophesize his future destiny. Crescendo is a novel about fate and the lengths we will travel to avoid the inevitable. Set in tranquil Rockland County, New York, this tale of suspense and horror will take its reader on an emotional roller coaster of anger, anxiety, compassion, and indelible fear.

Crescendo

Cedar Grove Books

L. Marie Wood is the recipient of the following awards: Winner, Golden Stake Award for The Promise Keeper, International Vampire Film and Arts Festival 2019. A young girl, on the cusp of sexual maturity, in what is now known as Benin, West Africa, is seduced by a beautiful stranger, a man the likes of which she has never seen before. Their encounter changes her forever. She becomes an asiman, a vampire: one of the undead. The Promise Keeper comes to her, willing her to do his bidding--to keep an unspoken promise. He probes her mind and plants suggestions so she will follow his plan, until she fights back. She runs, her travels taking her to Europe and the Caribbean over centuries to escape him. She finally settles in New York City, convinced that she has eluded him... until she falls in love. The Promise Keeper is a story of love, despair, murder, and deceit.

The Promise Keeper

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Tales of Time

The Open Book

The Open Book

Mars, The Band Man, and Sara Sue

Accursed: Book Three (The Realm)

Telecommuting

The Black Hole

About Horror - the Study and Craft

Crescendo

The Promise Keeper