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Don’t Look Back by S. Winterbourne A man wakes in an endless hallway with one rule for survival: never look back—no matter what begs him to. James expected to wake with a hangover in his Vancouver flat—not on the cold floor of an endless concrete corridor. Brick walls vanish into shadow. The ceiling is swallowed by darkness. A single wooden sign promises freedom at the far end… with one condition. Don’t look back. At first, James walks in silence. Then the noises start. Crashing shelves. Footsteps behind him. Voices he knows far too well. Friends calling his name. A mother who should be dead. A child crying in the dark. The hallway never changes—yet proof that others have passed this way appears beneath his feet. Scratches in the stone. Stains on the floor. Signs of desperate attempts to escape. As the whispers grow closer and the temptations more unbearable, James realises the corridor is not testing his strength—it is testing his guilt, his fear, and his need to know what waits just out of sight. Because in this place, curiosity isn’t human. It’s fatal. Don’t Look Back is a relentless psychological horror tale about trust, endurance, and the terrifying cost of breaking a single rule.

Don’t Look Back by S. Winterbourne A man wakes in an endless hallway with one rule for survival: never look back—no matter what begs him to. James expected to wake with a hangover in his Vancouver flat—not on the cold floor of an endless concrete corridor. Brick walls vanish into shadow. The ceiling is swallowed by darkness. A single wooden sign promises freedom at the far end… with one condition. Don’t look back. At first, James walks in silence. Then the noises start. Crashing shelves. Footsteps behind him. Voices he knows far too well. Friends calling his name. A mother who should be dead. A child crying in the dark. The hallway never changes—yet proof that others have passed this way appears beneath his feet. Scratches in the stone. Stains on the floor. Signs of desperate attempts to escape. As the whispers grow closer and the temptations more unbearable, James realises the corridor is not testing his strength—it is testing his guilt, his fear, and his need to know what waits just out of sight. Because in this place, curiosity isn’t human. It’s fatal. Don’t Look Back is a relentless psychological horror tale about trust, endurance, and the terrifying cost of breaking a single rule.

Max Demons Slayed LLC by Mike Rusetsky They thought the demon was the problem—until the client turned out to be worse. After the Global Apocalypse Event tore holes in the sky and dumped demons into rural America, some teenagers were left with something worse than trauma: powers. Max Buckholtz turned hers into a business. Running Max Demons Slayed, LLC, Max exterminates supernatural infestations with military efficiency, psychic precision, and a worrying amount of explosives. Her reluctant assistant is her younger brother Eldon—still in high school, still figuring out his underwhelming gift, and still wondering how his summer job became “possible dismemberment”. Their latest contract seems simple: an elderly widow claims she’s trapped a demon inside her cattle barn. Easy money. In and out. No surprises. Instead, Max and Eldon find a dead cow, a parasitic creature looking for a new host, and a client whose grief has curdled into something far more dangerous. As the barn fills with slime, gunfire, and very bad decisions, the siblings are forced to confront not just demonic threats—but the human kind lurking beneath them. Bloody, fast-paced, and darkly funny, Max Demons Slayed, LLC blends monster-of-the-week action with sibling banter, rural horror, and the realisation that sometimes the scariest thing on the job isn’t the demon at all. #HORROR #DARKCOMEDY #PARANORMAL #ACTIONADVENTURE #URBANFANTASY #demons #psychic #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile #blackharepress

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Nocturnal Limbs by Jacob Ransom Two patients. One ward after dark. And something waiting. Brian expects a dull, painful night after his cycling accident—bad wrists, a shattered ankle, and too much time to think. What he doesn’t expect is his teenage roommate, Tanner, insisting that his amputated arm comes back while he sleeps. At first, Brian chalks it up to trauma and medication. Hospitals do strange things to people. But when the lights dim and unfamiliar sounds skitter across the floor, doubt creeps in. Tanner’s wounds won’t stop bleeding. The nurses are too attentive. And one of them seems especially interested in what Tanner is missing. As the hours drag on, Brian realises the hospital ward isn’t the safe place he assumed. Something is moving through the shadows—quiet, patient, hungry—and it’s using the staff to get close to the people who can’t run. Trapped in bed and running out of options, Brian is forced to decide whether to save himself… or stay and protect a boy who no one else seems willing to help. Nocturnal Limbs is a claustrophobic plunge into medical terror, where sterile corridors hide unspeakable appetites and surviving the night may be impossible. #HORROR #BODYHORROR #PSYCHOLOGICAL #CREATUREHORROR #MEDICALHORROR #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile #blackharepress

Don’t Look Back by S. Winterbourne A man wakes in an endless hallway with one rule for survival: never look back—no matter what begs him to. James expected to wake with a hangover in his Vancouver flat—not on the cold floor of an endless concrete corridor. Brick walls vanish into shadow. The ceiling is swallowed by darkness. A single wooden sign promises freedom at the far end… with one condition. Don’t look back. At first, James walks in silence. Then the noises start. Crashing shelves. Footsteps behind him. Voices he knows far too well. Friends calling his name. A mother who should be dead. A child crying in the dark. The hallway never changes—yet proof that others have passed this way appears beneath his feet. Scratches in the stone. Stains on the floor. Signs of desperate attempts to escape. As the whispers grow closer and the temptations more unbearable, James realises the corridor is not testing his strength—it is testing his guilt, his fear, and his need to know what waits just out of sight. Because in this place, curiosity isn’t human. It’s fatal. Don’t Look Back is a relentless psychological horror tale about trust, endurance, and the terrifying cost of breaking a single rule.

Don’t Look Back by S. Winterbourne A man wakes in an endless hallway with one rule for survival: never look back—no matter what begs him to. James expected to wake with a hangover in his Vancouver flat—not on the cold floor of an endless concrete corridor. Brick walls vanish into shadow. The ceiling is swallowed by darkness. A single wooden sign promises freedom at the far end… with one condition. Don’t look back. At first, James walks in silence. Then the noises start. Crashing shelves. Footsteps behind him. Voices he knows far too well. Friends calling his name. A mother who should be dead. A child crying in the dark. The hallway never changes—yet proof that others have passed this way appears beneath his feet. Scratches in the stone. Stains on the floor. Signs of desperate attempts to escape. As the whispers grow closer and the temptations more unbearable, James realises the corridor is not testing his strength—it is testing his guilt, his fear, and his need to know what waits just out of sight. Because in this place, curiosity isn’t human. It’s fatal. Don’t Look Back is a relentless psychological horror tale about trust, endurance, and the terrifying cost of breaking a single rule.

Mandatory Counselling by H. Peter Steeves When a demon in mandatory therapy starts questioning Hell’s management system, the apocalypse begins to look like a bureaucratic audit gone wrong. Mahazael, an ancient demon on forced leave after a “philosophical incident,” is ordered to attend mandatory counselling before he can return to tormenting humanity. His therapist insists on written self-reflection—an assignment that quickly spirals into confessions, grievances, and increasingly heretical doubts about Hell’s hierarchy. Through sardonic reports that blur bureaucracy, theology, and existential dread, Mahazael recounts his missions with fellow demons—each one a grotesque parody of modern corporate culture. But as his team’s botched operations pile up, his introspection begins to reveal cracks in the infernal system itself. Are they really spreading evil, or just enforcing someone else’s lies? Darkly hilarious and disturbingly thoughtful, Mandatory Counseling skewers everything from workplace ethics to divine justice, blending horror, satire, and philosophy in equal measure. Fans of Good Omens, Lucifer, and The Office filtered through Dante’s Inferno will find themselves laughing, wincing, and questioning their own moral compass. #DARK SATIRE #DARKCOMEDY #SUPERNATRURAL #PSYCHOLOGICAL #DARKFANTASY #demons #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile #blackharepress

A PATREON story. Enjoy! BEASTS OF THE DESERT by S.B. WATSON /posts/156421455 #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #bookblogger #bookpromo #amreading #tbrpile #patreon #drabble #shortstory

Don’t Look Back by S. Winterbourne A man wakes in an endless hallway with one rule for survival: never look back—no matter what begs him to. James expected to wake with a hangover in his Vancouver flat—not on the cold floor of an endless concrete corridor. Brick walls vanish into shadow. The ceiling is swallowed by darkness. A single wooden sign promises freedom at the far end… with one condition. Don’t look back. At first, James walks in silence. Then the noises start. Crashing shelves. Footsteps behind him. Voices he knows far too well. Friends calling his name. A mother who should be dead. A child crying in the dark. The hallway never changes—yet proof that others have passed this way appears beneath his feet. Scratches in the stone. Stains on the floor. Signs of desperate attempts to escape. As the whispers grow closer and the temptations more unbearable, James realises the corridor is not testing his strength—it is testing his guilt, his fear, and his need to know what waits just out of sight. Because in this place, curiosity isn’t human. It’s fatal. Don’t Look Back is a relentless psychological horror tale about trust, endurance, and the terrifying cost of breaking a single rule.

A MOTHER’S LOVE by J.J. SEGWIS When the sky over Florida erupts in fire, Marissa’s last argument with her husband becomes the least of her regrets. A military experiment has broken containment, mutating animals into ravenous, nightmarish predators. Chaos consumes the coastline. In the desperate evacuation from a cruise ship, Marissa watches her husband die saving a stranger—and is left alone in a city tearing itself apart. Haunted by guilt, grief, and an unbearable truth she has never spoken aloud, Marissa sets out through blood-soaked streets and ruined neighbourhoods to find her young son. Along the way, she forms a fragile bond with another survivor, forcing her to confront the kind of woman—and mother—she has been running from for years. As civilisation collapses and monsters swarm closer, Marissa is pushed toward a reckoning far more terrifying than the creatures hunting her. Survival is no longer the only thing at stake. A Mother’s Love is a brutal, emotionally charged apocalyptic horror novella about regret, sacrifice, and the terrifying realisation that redemption may come too late. #HORROR #POSTAPOCALYPSE #SURVIVALIST #PSYCHOLOGICAL #SCIFI #drama #monsters #WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #booksky🌎📚💙 #bookbloggers #bookblast #bookpromo #bookworm #tbrpile #blackharepress