His world ended. Then everyone else’s ended, too.
Meet John Cotard, science teacher and devoted husband. After a car accident turns him onto prescription painkillers, John drugs his life away. First his job, then his marriage crumbles as he does nothing to stop it, lost in a haze of chemicals. Then one night a mysterious fire sweeps through the land, wiping out human-kind and leaving behind zombie-like burn victims. John is left seemingly alone in the world, and he carries on by breaking into houses and stealing what he needs. For him the end of the world actually makes sense- it’s the next step in his self-destruction.
But one-by-one he meets the few remaining survivors, including a woman starving herself thin, a combat-obsessed survivalist and a dangerous face from his past. As they travel across the country they face not only the dangers of the world around them but of each other, discovering the fateful connection they share along the way.
A Chemical Fire is a minimalist, noir vision of the apocalypse, with twists and turns that can’t be missed.
A young man living on the fringe takes a job he never should have touched and ends up in a spiraling world of robots, life-sabotage and scientific intrigue.
Christopher is an odd-job man, making a living by doing the chores no one else wants to. He doesn’t drive and he just may have a crush on the sword-swallower girl who performs down on the boardwalk.
When he agrees to be the test subject for an experimental drug named ReQular, a transdermal patch with unknown effects, things begin to change. Between reporting to the three scientists who lead the research, he becomes wrapped up in the lives of various people- Eddie, a man who lives on the street, Jeanie, a spoiled rich daughter, even the Sword Girl, who regards him as a stalker as she draws him close then pushes him away. Most dangerously, he becomes obsessed with destroying the life of a random man he passes on the street, for reasons even he himself can’t be sure of.
Through stranger and stranger turns, Christopher gets wrapped up in a world of questions: what is ReQular, who are the mysterious Murphy Group, and who can he trust?
The virus wiped out mankind in a matter of days. Now the survivors are being hunted by what it left behind.
An epidemic has killed off most humans, turning the rest into beasts with sharp nails, keen senses and an insatiable hunger. Now, years later, a solitary survivor hides in a trailer above a dead city. This is life with the door and windows taped shut, where survival comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet, and protect the air.
One day, a visitor comes up the mountain. It’s a meeting that leads to a fateful decision, and a sacrifice that will change everything.
Collected here for the first time, The Mountain and The City is a post-apocalyptic serial that has kept its faithful readers on the edge of their seats time and time again.
“Welcome to the Parts Department of the great city of Smoke.”
These words greet Tuxxel on his first day at the warehouse, a building so massive the ceiling can’t be seen, yet what follows is anything but welcoming. An Exterminator in the city of Smoke, he finds himself leading a life of violence and subservience. Picked on and abused by his supervisor, he has little choice but to do the dirty work Smoke demands of him. As the days pass and he learns of his city’s horrific treatment of its citizens, he finds it more and more difficult to listen to the orders given to him. He must do what feels right. But disobedience has its consequences.
De-Partment is a dystopian novella about the struggle to maintain one’s sense of self, set in a world both recognizable and entirely foreign. Included here, “The Capsule”, a never-before published short story that fuses poetry with prose to create a unique literary experience.
It was supposed to be easy money. A temp job as a night guard on some deserted island. But why wouldn’t anyone tell me what I’d be guarding?
Do you know what a body farm is? I didn’t, either. Apparently it’s a research facility where decomposition can be studied in a variety of settings. How, you ask? By letting a bunch of corpses lay out and rot. Yeah. Fun stuff. But that doesn’t explain the voices I’m hearing over the radio. Or the strange lights I’ve been seeing outside. Or why some of the bodies have this funny habit of disappearing when I’m not looking.
And it definitely doesn’t explain what’s happening to my mind…
The Body Farm is a popular creepypasta with more than 200,000 views on Youtube, as well as thousands more readers around the internet.
He drinks too much. He can’t hold a marriage together. And he’s our only hope against the monster that just came to town.
Franklin Butcher is a young cop with a few rough years behind him. Freshly divorced, he decides to make a new start in the small town of Shallow Creek. What better place to coast until retirement than a town where nothing happens?
His plan doesn’t work. Soon people start disappearing, and Butcher is the only one who seems to want to solve the case. He believes a new couple in town are to blame for the vanishings, but the truth is even darker than he thinks.
Before he knows it, Butcher is drawn into an unseen world of supernatural creatures that has existed in secret for centuries. It’s also a world he has more connection to than he ever imagined. Because, like Shallow Creek, Franklin Butcher has a few secrets of his own.
The Unseen is a bold new take on familiar myths, from doppelgangers to vampires, demons, monsters and more. This is a series that can’t be missed. But be careful- once seen, this world can’t be unseen…
New town. Old demons.
Running her small dojo in the corrupt city of Santa Fausta, Karen Kimura has spent her life in the shadows, guarding the secret of her Unseen heritage- but no secret stays hidden forever.
When a young girl with her own dark past comes seeking help, Karen decides to step out into the light. It’s a decision that doesn’t sit well with the girl’s step-father, a corrupt businessman who runs Santa Fausta. With his own plans for the darkness living inside the young girl, he takes the fight to Karen’s doorstep, plunging her back into a world she ran from years ago.
He’s about to discover he messed with the wrong woman. Because Karen Kimura is part ninja, part spider, and all kinds of pissed off.
No one goes to the desert to be found.
Liam Cain is big, he’s mean, and he’s not, strictly speaking, human. He’s also between jobs since fleeing the city of Santa Fausta in a bit of a hurry.
Why all the rush? A hired killer never tells.
Cain heads into the desert, not just to escape all the death and the angry crime bosses, but to find a place where he can hide from the world. When he comes across a town called Dirt, a place so small it doesn’t show up on the map, he thinks he’s found it.
But death has a way of following a man like Liam Cain. After a dead body appears in his trailer, he learns that Dirt is a place where threats come from both above and below. With the bodies piling up, and deadly creatures on all sides, will Cain run once again? Or will he stand his ground and fight?
“Thoroughly impressed. I think fans of WJ Lundy, Shawn Chesser, and Bobby Adair will love this one.” -James Cook, author of the Surviving the Dead series
If it doesn’t kill you, someone infected with it will.
All the news channels can talk about is the Red Flu, a nasty strain that came out of nowhere to wreak havoc on the population. There’s also something the government isn’t telling the public about the Red Flu- both the secret of its true effects, and exactly how it spreads.
Brody Tate doesn’t care. He’s a young smart-ass living in New York City, locked in a dead-end job. His only concern is telling his boss where he can shove it. Besides, the news only exists to scare people, right?
But something is wrong. There’s blood in his boss’s office. A woman is dead on the floor.
His boss is eating the cleaning lady.
He kills the man in self-defense- not that the cops believe him- and gets carted away for murder. As if his day wasn’t bad enough, his boss managed to bite him during the struggle.
With the Red Flu tearing up his insides, Brody finds himself in a self-destructing New York, lost in the horrors of a crumbling city while fighting to stay alive. The question now is, if the Red Flu doesn’t kill him, and someone with it doesn’t, what will be left of him?
What will he become?
Bleeders: A Rising Storm continues the saga of Brody Tate where The Red Death left off. Both he and his trusty companion Jeremiah have survived the Red Flu, yet they aren’t the same people they were before the infection. Their sleep is plagued with nightmares, and their waking hours prone to violent outbursts of almost inhuman levels.
After having their escape from New York City go south, the two men are on their own again, making their way back toward the food bank where they’d once found safe haven. On the way they stop to rescue a few survivors, who decide to join their party- even if not all of them trust two men with red eyes and bad tempers. Together they’ll try once again to flee a city gone to Hell.
But the dangers they find don’t just come from the Bleeders. Between random firefights, the looming plans of the military, and increasing trouble from a new kind of cult, they’ll have to ask themselves what’s worse: the infected, or the survivors?
An emotional, one-of-a-kind horror experience from the mind of Brian Martinez, beautifully visualized with artificial intelligence.
Ever since Victor’s fiancé left him he’s lived in a big, empty, decaying house all by himself. Work, home, work, home. Nothing matters anymore, life has lost all meaning. When he develops an unusual cough, he doesn’t even bother going to the doctor, figuring his suffering might end sooner.
But one day, just when he’s had enough of this life, he coughs something up. Something … alive.
An oddly beautiful story about monsters and the people that care for them, Lungflower is the first graphic novel written and visualized by author Brian Martinez, utilizing for the first time the strange, wonderful technology of MidJourney’s artificial intelligence. You’ve never seen anything like this.
The brand new collection of twenty short horror stories
From the mind behind The Mountain and The City, The Body Farm, Bleeders, and A Chemical Fire comes Brian Martinez’s most daring endeavor yet: a short story collection that promises to plunge readers into the depths of horror like never before.
Thirteen years of cultivating terror have led to this ominous tome, a blood-curdling compendium of nightmare fuel designed to thrill, chill, and downright terrify. In this haunting collection, discover stories that will sear themselves into your memory. Twenty in total, each tale is an exploration of the macabre, a journey into fear.
Prepare yourself for a phantasmal feast of fright, a cascade of chills running down your spine, a symphony of screams echoing in your ears. Brian Martinez’s anthology is not merely a collection—it’s a challenge. Do you dare to step inside and face the unknown?
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Salt in the Dark River: Adapted to audio by The NoSleep Podcast, Manor House, Dark Somnium, Creep E. Pasta, Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, & Spirit Voices
The Body Farm: Adapted to audio by Chilling Tales for Dark Nights, Midnight Pasta, Dark World, & Terror en la Oscuridad (Spanish)
Eater: Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark
The Basement Stares: Featured on Meghan’s House of Books, Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark & Mick Dark
Brokendown Road: Adapted to audio by Chilling Tales for Dark Nights & Stories After Midnight
Transmission: Adapted to audio by Horror Hill
Lungflower: Adapted to audio by Remy Militello
Bad Blood: Adapted to audio by Chilling Tales for Dark Nights
An Echo in the Bone: Adapted to audio by Lighthouse Horror, MrCreepySwede (Swedish), Dreadful Anecdotes
Fwd: fwd: fwd: help: Adapted to audio by Mr. Creeps, Goosebumps Stories (Thai) & Hofman Scary Stories (Russian)
The Smiling: Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Hindsight: Adapted to audio by Dr. Creepen
Treats: Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark
The Dreadwood: Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark
A Very Fine Dollhouse: Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Zoetrope: Adapted to audio by Scary Stories Told in the Dark
Bludgeoner
An homage to eighties teen slashers.
Tracking Blood
An apocalyptic serial in the Bleeders universe.