Insecure misfit Ioni Davis never thinks she’ll find love in her sleepy West Virginia hometown. Then the tall, fascinating stranger Raber Belliveau transfers to her school. Their attraction is instant and red-hot. And a shared fascination with witchcraft bonds the young lovers even closer. But while Ioni is responsibly studying her newfound religion of Wicca, Raber has chosen an altogether…different path. Soon, Raber’s behavior becomes manipulative. Even abusive. And their love story for the ages is turning into a macabre farce. All Ioni wants to do is get out. But Raber has discovered a dreadful way to control their relationship. A ritual which hasn’t been attempted in over a century. A spell to unleash a bloodthirsty terror which can never be satisfied. Ioni finds herself trapped in a struggle for her life and even her free will against a once-trusted lover who has assured her… YOU’RE MINE

Still hurting from her divorce, Melissa Caan makes a drastic life change for herself and her two young children by moving them out to a rural home. But the country life came with some extras that she wasn't counting on. Doors are slamming, she and her children are violently attacked by unseen hands, and her elderly neighbor doesn't like to talk about the murders that happened in the strangely named hollow all those years ago. Ghost hunters, witches, and a sassy cancer survivor come together to help Melissa fight for the safety of her children and herself. All she wanted was a fresh start, will she get it?

One last taste of perfection… Sasha and Brynn descend upon the showplace home of their girlhood friend, Vicki, planning to celebrate her surviving cancer to reach her fortieth birthday. As they gather around Vicki’s perfectly set dinner table, though, her husband shares devastating news. The cancer is back, and she doesn’t have long to live. Her life is cut even shorter than Sasha and Brynn expect—the next morning, their friend is found dead, her flawless skin slit at the wrists. But a tub full of blood is only the beginning. Before the weekend is through, they are forced to question how far they’re willing to go to fulfill Vicki’s last wish. A very specific, very detailed recipe that only the truest of friends could stomach…

Dawna Temple let herself be moved from the familiarity of Pittsburgh to the wilds of West Virginia, all so her mentally exhausted husband, John, could heal from a breakdown. Struggling with the abrupt change of location, Dawna finds a friend in her neighbor, Suzanne Miller, known to the locals as The Hag Witch of Tripp Creek. Dismissing it as hillbilly superstition, Dawna can't believe the things she hears about her funny and empathetic friend. Suzanne has secrets -- dark secrets -- and eventually she reveals the truth behind the rumors that earned her the wicked nickname decades earlier.

The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 4 Troubled by her dreams, Lana turns to therapy, hoping to understand the grisly, vivid., horrifying nature of her recent nightmares...that's assuming they're only nightmares. The Midnight Exhibit returns with it's fourth trip into terror, featuring short stories from Somer Canon (author of You're Mine), AM Sutter, and Eddie Generous (author of Hetty and Behemoth Risen), tied neatly together with a wraparound story. Parables of the Pumpkin Patch Jody Smith returns, this time with a wrapped collection of suspenseful, horrific, and downright strange stories: cheating has a cost, as does revenge; sometimes the universe conspires against you, and the only chance at happiness is running; what is hidden in a bed of stone, is often better left where it is discovered; and not all medical facilities are created equal, and some are downright unfathomably horrible. Parables of the Pumpkin Patch: four shorts and a wraparound to tie it together along the vein of horror classics like Creepshow, Trick 'r Treat, and Tales from the Darkside. Take a trip to the pumpkin patch...if you dare.

A NEW HOME Dawna Temple let herself be moved from the familiarity of Pittsburgh to the wilds of West Virginia, all so her mentally exhausted husband, John, could heal from a breakdown. Struggling with the abrupt change of location, Dawna finds a friend in her neighbor, Suzanne Miller, known to the locals as The Hag Witch of Tripp Creek. A NEW FRIEND Dismissing it as hillbilly superstition, Dawna can't believe the things she hears about her funny and empathetic friend. Suzanne has secrets-dark secrets-and eventually she reveals the truth behind the rumors that earned her the wicked nickname decades earlier. OLD WOUNDS Now in possession of the truth, Dawna has conflicting emotions about Suzanne's past deeds, but when her husband's well-being takes a downturn, she finds there is no one else to turn to. Will she shun her friend as others have done before? ...or can she accept that an act of evil is sometimes necessary for the greater good?

After waking up in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the waist down, Charlie Snyder had no idea where life would take her. Dejected, broken, and permanently bound to a wheelchair, she believed her life was truly over. That is...until gravity no longer applied. It started out slow. Floating from room to room. Menial tasks without assistance. When she decided to venture outside and take some real risks with her newfound ability, she rose above her own constraints to reveal a whole new world, and found other damaged individuals just like her to confide in. But there are others things out there, waiting in the dark. Repulsive, secretive creatures that don't want Charlie to touch the sky. And they'll stop at nothing to keep her on the ground.

Issue #4 of Unnerving Magazine is the biggest yet, loaded with monsters, devils, ghosts, the undead, rotten sons 'o... and so much more. Gwendolyn Kiste offers up literary Halloween costume ideas while Stephen Graham Jones and Mark Allan Gunnells chat life's most important holiday.

She is an ancient primal force of nature, exalted by some and feared by others. Those who heed her capricious whims are rewarded. Those who displease her, however, are slaughtered like the animals she considers them to be. Christina Cunningham runs the website Killer Chronicles, a popular online database of the worst crimes of humanity. Lured to the town of Micksburg, West Virginia by a series of bizarrely gruesome deaths, she hopes that it will be the story that launches her site to the next level.