After spending a decade delving into mortality, the many ways people die and prolonging human life, Professor Kenneth Hensley has finally peaked in his research. He plans to revolt against the concept of death and dabble in the concept of immortality with Project Soul Cage; A construct capable of pr...

The undead don’t think. They are not human. They are monsters. Everyone, even Necromancers, know this to be true. So, why is Jo traveling across the continent an undead in a robe?  Why does her companion respond to her questions in more and more human ways? And why does it stare unseeing at letters ...

The System has arrived and death and destruction have followed, as the people of Earth adapt and fight to survive. Almost everyone that is. Ada hasn't left her apartment for any other important event, so why would the Apocalypse be any different? Roach is one of the many, part of the great Hive, add...

Viktor led a simple life. He tends the graves, helps protect the city against the filthy undead, and takes his duties as a Death Cleric seriously. But one night, everything changes when a mysterious explosion wrecks the fresh grave he made, and there's a young girl inside it. Viktor doesn't know wha...

To the world, Ichiro "Red" Akai is a depressed eighteen-year-old high school dropout. To his victims, he is a monster. To himself, he is the Bringer - the one chosen by HELIX to ascend to godhood. The one who shall be given reign over all reality. The one who shall never have to die. Until one victi...

Nothing lasts forever. Entropy is inevitable. Immortality is a myth. The world ended long ago, now the children of new generations gaze upon the desolate planet. No one remembers any longer what happened or when it happened, but it's called the Old World. Remnants have tasked you with recovering old...

This katana feeds on rotten souls. Rika's fishing village is decimated by the Emperor for treason. Her father is captured, her friends and neighbors cut down, and Rika is left for dead. But after making a pact with a goddess, she awakens in the ruins of her village with only one thing on her mind: v...

Makia Praxis is the most focused, practical artist in Chicago. And she hates herself for it. She longs to have the imagination her friends—and rivals—have…instead, she's only good at painting fields and rivers. Her solo show opening is tonight. So much rides on selling work this time; it’s her last...

In a world besieged by supernatural threats, seven immortal wolves, appointed by an archangel after humanity's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, have silently safeguarded humans for centuries.These wolves, capable of shape-shifting into human form, seamlessly blend into society. Among them is Anton...

The gods are dying. A plague brought in from the world below has spread among them, ailing their bodies and minds. Those that remain are shells of their former selves. As long as they exist, they are a threat to the very world that poisoned them. Someone has to get rid of them. Accompanied by two an...

What is the scariest thing in the world? Nay all of creation? Ghosts? No. Monsters? No. Devils and Demons?No.The Unknown? Perhaps. But when all things material and immaterial are considered and the futility of the mortal coil is presented to all men, the only true answer is Death. Unbounded by the m...

Contractors, entities which deal in mortal souls like commodities. A stock, a bond, a lifetime. And our main character, Albert Carol, is about to lose his. When Death comes knocking, all is not what it seems. Death isn't some omnipotent psychopomp, he's a businessman with a penchant for calling hims...

Short horror stories set throughout history. This anthology story begins with the tale of Runs-With-Spear, a Paleo-Indian hunter from Alaska who learns that mankind might not be the first inhabitants of North America....

Students of Greenview High School return to class just like any other year before, however, after the reinstation of Class 2-A, the 19 students within it begin to disappear or be found dead around the small city of Greenview. Eventually, the class comes to realize that they've been put up against ur...

Ten thousand years have passed since the first-generation demon warrior Saint Rodel led the remaining humans to fight against the demon tribe. Although humans have established a firm foothold with the help of Rodel's defense line in the east of the mainland, the population is only the original One-f...

In the late 18th century, Johnson City, Tennessee, is haunted by a mysterious beast. Konrad Stone and Lars, experienced trackers, investigate the mysterious creature, uncovering strange tracks and makeshift cages. They encounter the Dark Ones, a group of Cherokee warriors, who believe they are respo...

This is the quest of a Trill young Jody.  Eyes bloodshot since the past still hurt him.  New life formed, and it's only something like hell,  Tragic little Jody, it just wasn't in his sight well,  On the night the sky fell, there were rivers of blood.  The chosen one is frozen by the death of his lo...

Michael has no concept of time, besides the hooded man's visits and the time it takes for a log to be reduced to ashes, both of which he’d lost count of long ago. He could have been here two months, two years, two decades, or two centuries; he suspects the latter options. The sand beneath his feet i...

Nathan Williams, a newly hired company employee, begins to notice that sand has been appearing in their office every morning following the mysterious resignation of his peers. Not paying attention to these events, he, along with other colleagues, suddenly gets assigned to a major project to be compl...

From the North and East barbarian kingdoms are moving their armies on an unprecedented scale. Born amidst the fires and blood in an age of war, will the prince survive?...