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Poisoned Folk Tales
When once upon a time becomes a nightmare …
From forgotten forests and haunted halls, to modern streets where old superstitions refuse to die. Poisoned Folk Tales gathers 23 chilling stories; some inspired by folklore from around the world, others spawned from the imaginations of some of horror’s finest. Each tale bends familiar pathways, leading us towards something darker and stranger, spanning centuries and continents, because monsters evolve, curses endure, and every story has another twisted ending, waiting to be told.
Includes a foreword by Dan Franklin, author of Steel Machines.
Contributing Authors:
Chad Olson
Evan Noren
J.T. Bundy
Rebecca Cuthbert
Viggy Parr Hampton
Hannah Baxter
Rex Burrows
Rachel Henderson
Bret Chandler
E.S. Corble
David I. Hughes
Leanna Renee Hieber
Don Raymond
Jason Garman
Alexander Kaurin
Bryan Holm
Micah Castle
Jack Finn
Dustin Smith
Nick Badot
Alex Tucker
Fynn Moran
A.C. Hessenauer
Poisoned Folk Tales
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Going to the Six
On Lake Superior, some wrecks never rest.
When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four–person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka—a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior—he believes he’s chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger.
Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen’s own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two timelines; the ill-fated expedition and the haunted present. As the record fractures, so too does Owen’s grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel.
Locals whisper of an old superstition—six signs that come before a person loses their mind. Did the crew uncover a secret buried with the Keuka? Or are Owen’s memories a labyrinth of guilt, grief, and madness?
A story of truth versus memory, the collapse of time, and the thin seam between reality and delusion, Going to the Six drags the reader down into the depths—where silence presses in, light cannot reach, and dread waits patiently in the dark.
Going to the Six is available via Cemetery Dance Publications
Difficult Woman
When Elizabeth O’Roarke agrees to spend a week on her husband’s family’s private island in northern Minnesota, she tells herself it’s only a wellness retreat—seven days of yoga, meditation, and bonding with women she barely knows.
But the island has its own pulse, its own humidity, its own secrets. And the O’Roarke women—led by her enigmatic mother-in-law, Margaret—seem less interested in wellness than in awakening something restless inside her.
As the days pass, the sessions grow stranger. The women’s confessions feel raw, yet oddly too rehearsed. The forest hums with whispers that cling to her skin, and Elizabeth begins to see her marriage—and her entire life—through new, unsettling eyes. She has spent years molding herself into the wife, the woman, she was supposed to be. Here, the island urges her to shed all of it.
But freedom has teeth. Beneath the rituals and candlelit circles lies a darker truth, and by the time Elizabeth uncovers it, the island has already begun remaking her. The question is no longer whether she will leave—but whether she still wants to.
Difficult Woman is a hypnotic descent into feminine power, ecological decay, and the terrifying beauty of shedding the life you were told to want for the one that wants you back.
Release date TBD
THREE GIRLS AND A LIE
France, 1944. In a requisitioned manor house turned convalescent hospital, the war presses in at the windows—distant artillery, the low churn of transport trucks, the steady arrival of broken men. Inside, beneath whitewashed ceilings, three nurses tend to the wounded. They are diligent, devoted, and inseparable. Late one night, they make a wager.
What begins as bravado—wine shared in chipped enamel cups, laughter too loud for a house of the maimed—curdles into something darker.
Procedures performed after midnight, limbs removed and reattached with impossible precision. Parts exchanged as though flesh were only fabric to be mended.
Soon the wards grow restless. Men wake disoriented, claiming their bodies feel wrong, whispering of unspeakable horrors stalking the corridors at night. One account goes further still, hinting at something taken from the nearby woods and sewn into human skin.
As rumors swirl and paranoia grows amongst the convalescing soldiers and staff, the new chief psychologist intervenes, determined to uncover the truth.
What follows is a careful unraveling. Interviews, case notes, transcripts, fragments of testimony that refuse to align. Each girl tells her version. Each insists on the truth of it. And somewhere between their stories is a single devastating lie.
Told in "found footage style" through recovered documents and wire-recording transcripts, Three Girls and a Lie is a haunting meditation on memory, fear, and the fragile architecture of identity, set against a war that has already made monsters of men.
Release date TBD.
Three Girls is Currently on submission.
