Matt Dymerski

The Asylum

Explore the true anatomy of horror through these thirteen tales of despair and terror, each written by the author of the original short story "Psychosis."PsychosisThe BonewalkerThe Fire of the Soul"Come Closer"ScribblingsThe LodgeCorrespondenceStrangers in a GraveyardThe Lonely GraveThe BasementErosionStrange ThingsThe Seven Horsemen of the ApocalypseApproximately 32,000 words.

Tales of Horror

Psychosis

T. W. Grim

Nic McCool

Vincent Cava

Nthato Morakabi

Sam Marduk

D. G. Collins

Reader beware! The stories that lurk within the pages of this book will have you cowering under the covers in fear, praying that the shadows shifting underneath your closet door are nothing more than an optical illusion. Delve into the depraved minds of horror's newest authors in this chilling collection of tales.

Dead Connection

Blair Daniels

Tobias Wade

Kyle Harrison

P. F. McGrail

Chris Thompson

E. Z. Morgan

R. C. Bowman

Jacob Mandeville

Why isn't one murder enough? The first day of Christmas was when the town started to fall apart. The second day of Christmas was when people started to die. By the thirteenth day of Christmas, it was too late to go back. Or was it? Twenty-six authors combined their talents to tell the horrifying story of Serenity Falls, Wisconsin. Piece by piece, the unsettling truth is revealed, culminating in a dark secret far bigger than any single writer's imagination. Hope and despair are doled out in unequal measures as the town's citizens struggle to discover the painful truth. One day at a time.

Serenity Falls Forever

Horror Stories to Ruin Christmas

Something strange is going on at this corporation - the organization's network extends much further than it should. Secret encrypted pathways connect to drives that shouldn't exist, to systems that defy location, and even to entire alternate Internets filled with news, information, and conversations that reference historical and cultural events that never happened. The off-hours network manager, a glorified button pusher by his own admission, has nothing to do all night except browse the Internet. His own curiosity and desire to help lead him through a slow process of discovery; not only do these other networks and Internets really exist, they're being used by real people... living and breathing people in desperate need of help. It seems that something is happening on a grand scale out there - something horrible- and a great many scattered individuals have been left to face it alone... ...until now. Can one timid and tucked-away off-hours network manager even manage a sliver of aid against the coming darkness? Or will his efforts to help these lonely guardians only bring him the same doom?

The Desolate Guardians

A MIRACLE BY SOME DEFINITIONSBoth day and night are cast in lurid orange by the light of the molten moon. A cloud of glowing debris and heated gasses bloats the sky. The impact was the most tremendous celestial event of the era, and its aftermath absolutely cannot be missed - so why is nobody talking about it anymore?Alek, a semi-delusional loner, struggles to understand the sudden censure of all media relating to the event. He's never been good at discerning reality from dreams, but this feels like the worst he's ever had it. He avoids looking at the burning moon out of fear while those around him begin acting oddly. Family members tell him that nothing's wrong. Neighbors subtly probe his allegiances. Acquaintances insist that the Moon is not on fire, and won't you just look at it? Look how beautiful it is tonight. LOOK.Poor Alek is a fool that refuses to gaze up at His glory and accept the Change. Word of the coming miracle must be spread. Alek and the Free heretics must be rooted out and obliterated. Above all, the way must be paved for the coming of the Dreamer On High - humanity will dance under the Moon aflame as salvation descends from the sky.

The Moon Aflame

Creepy Tales

Aberrations

From the author of Psychosis, Matt Dymerski, comes a new reality-bending tale of horror and adventure.THE PORTAL IN THE FORESTThis neighborhood has a secret - while the adults work multiple jobs to make ends meet, the children trade around strange trinkets and famous books with odd misprints. It seems that, without supervision, they've gotten into something extremely dangerous: another universe.One adult is not working. One adult notices. One adult discovers their secret - a portal a few miles deep in Virginia woodlands; a portal that goes to a new universe each day. It's a fantastic opportunity to explore, certainly, but there are two problems: the destinations are all dead worlds that have suffered unique and terrible apocalypses... and the portal is getting bigger.

The Portal in the Forest

Containing the six books of the Portal in the Forest series, this compendium follows the complete saga of the Crushing Fist and the struggle of the worlds of man to survive in an uncaring and brutal multiverse. THE PORTAL IN THE FOREST A rural Virginia neighborhood finds a portal to other realities that changes destinations each day. Unfortunately, all the worlds it reaches have suffered unique and terrible dooms. A determined stranger and a suburb of abandoned children might be able to save the world if they can just figure out the common link between the myriad destroyed Earths. THE DESOLATE GUARDIANS Heath, an off-hours network manager, discovers that his computers can connect to other Internets on other Earths. He becomes the only link between the scattered men and women still guarding the worlds of man, but what can a few lonely guardians do against the coming darkness? THE MOON AFLAME Poor Alek is a fool that refuses to gaze up at His glory and accept the Change. Alek and the Free heretics must be rooted out and obliterated. The way must be paved for the coming of the Dreamer On High-humanity will dance under the Moon aflame as salvation descends from the sky. THE EMPTY EARTH With disaster looming, our scattered few must work together. One such guardian is the reluctant author Noah Fulmer. After returning from a mission, he finds that the human race seems to have vanished. Is there something wrong with the world, with his mind-or with reality itself? THE CRUSHING FIST As the worlds of man begin to collapse, displaced billions flee coreward for aid. Conn, an ex-soldier, tries to piece together the link between a slaughter-filled mission five years before and the current doom bearing down on the Earths of the Empire. Between his former military squadmates and his new connections among the elite, he must uncover the truth of the Empire's mortal flaw. OUR FINAL ACTS There's nowhere left to run now. The Crushing Fist is bearing down on the Empire from every direction, cutting off any chance of escape. The First World has failed and been destroyed. The skies are beginning to leak compressed space and the ground is oozing magma from the enormous pressure on reality itself. The next few days hold the final acts of the human race. For whatever it's worth, we intend to make those acts count.

The Portal in the Forest Compendium

From the award-winning author Matt Dymerski comes a connected anthology of thirty stories that delve deep into the existential agony of our technological era. Tales told with a unique blend of science fiction and horror explore what it means to be human and vulnerable in the face of threats larger than we can comprehend. Headlining this anthology is A SHATTERED LIFE, winner of Story of the Month for January 2018, and 7th ranked story of all time on reddit.com/r/nosleep at the time of this publication. A Shattered Life is the story of a man with a very unique affliction: something horrible and unknown has broken his life into pieces around him, and he must find a way to stitch his days back together before time runs out. Following that are twenty-seven tales woven into the fabric of the life of one man as he grows up and struggles to find his purpose while the evil of μ¬ßμ slowly spreads throughout the world. His is a land filled with horrifying creatures rising on one side and society steadily going mad on the other. From the author who brought you the Best Series of 2012 and the Best Story of 2017, A SHATTERED LIFE AND OTHER STORIES will leave your heart pounding and your mind questioning everything you've been told.

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