Horror/Thriller/Crime Fiction
NEW HORROR STORY COMING FROM DARK MATTER INK NEXT YEAR
NEW HORROR STORY COMING FROM DARK MATTER INK NEXT YEAR
My horror story “simple loyalty” will be feaured in the little red flags Anthology edited by Noelle ihli and steph nelson due out next year from dark MATTER ink. Stay Tuned for Updates!
black echoes by
j.b. mcLaurin
Thirty years ago, Everett Grant took his infant son Hank and fled rural Alabama to forge a better life, leaving behind a long trail of drug abuse and crime.
All is well with their new lives in West Palm until Hank gets badly injured in a car accident. To deal with the pain, he abuses opiates, sliding into full-blown addiction. Hank starts robbing dope houses to feed his habit, putting him in the cross-hairs of a sadistic enforcer.
The enforcer’s methods are the stuff of lore. Rumors about his appearance ring of myth: he has night-black eyes under tangles of scars on his head. He takes people out to the Everglades, maims them, remakes them into taxidermied trophies.
The common thread: once he takes you out there, no one sees you again.
Pulled back into the underworld, Everett is on a collision course with this deranged man. Worse, his past is there waiting for him.
New Twlight Zone inspired story "Passenger" out now from Undertaker Books
New Twlight Zone inspired story "Passenger" out now from Undertaker Books
“Passenger” follows George Chapman who is back in his hometown caring for his sick father. George wanders into the local cemetery one night and an entity gives him an offer he can’t refuse.
Some proceeds go to support Witness to Innocence, an organization that helps exonerated death-row inmates get back on their feet.
Covenant, A new Horror Short Story, Out Now. Link in image.
A new take on haunted houses and objects. Covenant explores deals that are just too good to be true.
Kurt works a humdrum job as a cybersecurity analyst at his successful startup. Everyday he drives by Woodrow Manor and daydreams of living there one day.
Then, unexpectedly, that day comes. Woodrow Manor is for sale. For a song. He can’t believe it. This place could be his. A home where he can finally start a life with his longtime girlfriend.
But there’s a catch: the estate comes with a covenant that requires the owner to put out certain Halloween decorations each year. No exceptions. The goblins, gargoyles, werewolves, and plague doctors must go out by the road for the spooky season.
Kurt thinks the covenant is weird. Who wouldn’t? But he’s not going to let that keep him from the deal of a lifetime.
About J.B.
J.B. loves all things Stephen King and John Carpenter. He plays drums alt-metal band Impossible Machine. He continues to write and plans to publish several more horror, thriller, and crime fiction novels in the coming years.
