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The Redlands [FEATURED] by Sam_Castle
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In the Redlands, a field sown in demon blood, John Fontayne faces his own demons. A Faustian pact may lead him to the other side, but it will not protect him from the monsters that hunger for him. A gothic horror story set in the Australian outback. If you like this story, check out its companion, Releasing Sin. Complete!
The Queen of Cats by maybeiwas2shy
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Dark things swarm around the city. Newspaper-boys are lured into houses, strange mansions whisper into musicians' ears, old men tell tales of vampires, drums boom in the Savannah, children worship false gods and priests begin to question the very foundations of the universe. And all this has something to do with a girl who has no name and a cat whose name nobody knows. A dark, surreal adventure, this book is my flawed tribute to weird-fiction and the writers who made me. A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY 2nD PLACE WINNER FOR THE HAND PICKED AWARDS 2017 - PARANORMAL CATEGORY RUNNER UP FOR THE ANTI-WATTYS 2015 Cover designed by @sublime- Trailer by @Welc0meT0MyW0rld
The Aliveagainers by paulalexgray
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# 👻 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION **70,000+ READS • #3 IN HORROR** The dead don't always stay dead. When the world collapses beneath an unexplained catastrophe, Kayla runs. A thief, an outsider, and someone who has spent most of her life trying to outrun her own past, she knows better than to trust anyone. Then she finds a boy. Seven-year-old Késhaun knows things he shouldn't. He knows the dead aren't really dead. He knows what they want. And he calls them **Aliveagainers**. Together with a damaged young woman named Priya, Kayla sets out through a dying countryside, searching for somewhere safe. But the living may be more dangerous than the dead. Desperate survivors are turning on one another, the military is still fighting a war no one understands, and Priya is beginning to change. Not just physically. Something has gotten inside her. Something that remembers another life. And wherever Kayla goes, she hears the whispers. Cold voices in the dark. Angry voices calling her name. As civilization disappears and the boundary between life and death begins to break down, Kayla must protect the boy who may be the only person who understands what is happening - while confronting the ghosts of a past she thought she'd left behind. **The Aliveagainers** is a dark, atmospheric novella of horror, survival, tragedy, paranormal mystery, and an unexpected love story. *For readers who love The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, supernatural horror, haunted worlds, and stories where the monsters aren't always the things you should fear.* --- ### 👻 10 YEARS OF THE ALIVEAGAINERS **70,000+ reads and counting.** 🏆 **#3 - Horror on Wattpad** Featured in Wattpad's **Stranger Things**, **Incarnate**, **Exorcist**, and **Wattpad Fright: I See Dead People** reading lists. Thank you for 70,000 reads. ❤️ If you enjoy the story, please share it with your friends and use **#Aliveagainers**. And please - tell me what you think.
Rust: One by ruzkin
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She died in New York. She woke in Rustwood. After being pushed in front of the subway C-Line, Kimberly Archer finds herself in an impossible town with a husband she's never seen before and a life she can't remember. The rain never stops, the phones don't work and the doctors think she's delusional. Kimberly only wants to get back to her fiance in New York. But for that, she needs the help of Fitch, a madman who believes something dark lives at the heart of Rustwood. He'll help her, so long as she joins him on his mission to burn the town to the ground. Kimberly might be crazy. Then again, she might be the only sane person left. People are disappearing from the streets, and something black and foul is stalking her in the night. Rustwood has plans for Kimberly, and if she doesn't find a way out soon she'll be lucky to survive... RUST is a serial small-town horror story in the style of Cronenberg, Lynch and King.
Unfinished Symphony#Wattys2015 by RayAtkinson
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"Your song, that's right. Such a clever little girl, now mind your manners and don't interrupt. As I was saying, no two songs are ever the same, the experiences we go through moulding the medley that becomes our own and my brother, well, he likes to collect these songs." Each and every one of us is born with our own unique song. Music that twists and twirls around our destiny. Polly wakes one morning to find her song has become particularly attractive to an ancient evil. Join Polly as she is thrust into a world of magic and song and embark on an adventure of self-discovery, courage and friendship. A journey that sees her flee from an ancient evil that threatens to steal her very soul.
ACROSS THE BLACK PLAINS by michaelboatman1
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An alien invasion in the Old Midwest forces a retired 'spellslinger' to pick up his guns and fight to save his family.
Renewal; A Tale of Katrina's Kitchen by ReneeMcKinley
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Renewal, Nebraska, a little town off the beaten track. Katrina's Kitchen, a diner on Main Street. A place that draws those with unusual problems. Owner Katrina Crowe, known as Katie, counsels the people afflicted with those unusual problems.
King of the Woods, or Trivial Pursuit by ziggylong
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Florida Forest Service duty officer Ray Lumley is in love with a white fringetree. Not an I-read-Walden-in-high-school love; a sweaty, sappy, I-want-to-rub-against-you-'til-I-get-splinters love. It's awkward. So, he's relieved to learn that he's really hot for Trivia, the dreadlocked, radical environmentalist nymph who lives inside the tree. Better yet, she wants to share an eternity of Arcadian delights with him. But first she has to kill the man she holds responsible for a spate of forest fires--Ray's boss, a mid-level bureaucrat (and soccer dad) who she insists is the King of the Woods. -- King of the Woods, or Trivial Pursuit retells the myth of rex Nemorensis as an urban fantasy. Updates every Tuesday.
MY NAME IS HATE by okaydavek
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A bleak, steampunky western in which a pregnant woman hunts down her runaway husband, with a mysterious black dog hot on her heels.