A Scorpion's Labyrinth: The Collected Short Horror of Amanda M. Lyons
Visceral, dark, gothic, horrific, surreal, and character-driven horror shorts for all kinds of horror fans. This book collects the short works of Amanda M. Lyons previously published in the collections The Lesser Apocrypha, In Ventre Tuo, Sacrum Umbra, and The Hungry Season and includes other shorts.
Night is Falling
Cover by Susan Simone
Bobby Gene is a man who stands out even among his people. Guided by the knowledge of his heritage as a backwoods shaman and more perceptive than many, he's grown to be a valuable asset to those he knows. While he isn't surprised to be the first to know when the woods around him begin to show clues that something isn't right, he doesn't expect just how much these omens and signs will prove to foretell something far more sinister to come. Soon strange dreams and inexplicable encounters have him questioning everything he knows- and then the people who live in his woodland Appalachian community begin to disappear. It's his job to protect and guide the others, what will he do when he's the only thing between them and the end of life as they know it?
Haint Blue: An Ally Laughtner Tale
Ally Laughtner finds herself alone and on foot a few days after she fled the horror of Jamie's Pumpkin Men. Lost and uncertain of where she might end up, she follows a trail of woodsmoke through the woods and up the mountain to a cabin where an old woman offers her shelter and food. In return Ally offers to help the woman with anything she might need, but she may have more on her hands than she bargained for.
Ally Laughtner and the Pickled Pumpkin Men: An Appalachian Gothic Tale
After five years of carrying on with Jamie's nonsense and his Pickled Pumpkin Men Ally Laughtner had finally had enough, but will she be able to face all of the challenges between her and the door? Worse, does she know what she's getting into?
The Hungry Season: Three Short Stories with Hungry Hearts
These three stories come with a breath of cold and a sort of longing, the sort of thing that consumes someone if they let it. Wendy Won't Go is the story of a family whose loss threatens to consume them all, Love like Blood is a story about the limits one will reach before love is gone, and Cold Comfort is about the bitterness that devours us within before it goes on to consume everything around us.
These three stories come with a breath of cold and a sort of longing, the sort of thing that consumes someone if they let it. Wendy Won't Go is the story of a family whose loss threatens to consume them all, Love like Blood is a story about the limits one will reach before love is gone, and Cold Comfort is about the bitterness that devours us within before it goes on to consume everything around us.
Other Dangers: Slipped Through:
Henry is a man with trouble on his hands. Setting out for this weekend getaway wasn’t even his idea and now he’s woken up from a terrible car crash to find himself in a strange place where nothing is as it seems. Now his whole life has changed and nothing he knew to be true seems to matter, not when the world is filled with horror and still other dangers waiting in the shadows. Worse, his wife is hurt and there’s only one woman who can help them get home, a woman who is more mystery than truth and holds the road map to a world without rules…a map which comes in the form of a book hidden in the depths of the backpack in her possession. A book that calls his name and the woman shows him she would do anything to keep out of anyone else’s hands.
Henry is a man with trouble on his hands. Setting out for this weekend getaway wasn’t even his idea and now he’s woken up from a terrible car crash to find himself in a strange place where nothing is as it seems. Now his whole life has changed and nothing he knew to be true seems to matter, not when the world is filled with horror and still other dangers waiting in the shadows. Worse, his wife is hurt and there’s only one woman who can help them get home, a woman who is more mystery than truth and holds the road map to a world without rules…a map which comes in the form of a book hidden in the depths of the backpack in her possession. A book that calls his name and the woman shows him she would do anything to keep out of anyone else’s hands.
Other Dangers: This is How the World Ends
In a post-apocalyptic world where new dangers appear at every moment, Henry is still learning how to survive, and things only grow more complex as the path to his escape grows ever-winding. Abby has become less of a stranger but no less strange and she holds the book with all the answers shut tight in her pack. Henry is still trapped in her nightmarish world, it only makes sense for him to seek it out no matter how much she swears that it would be his undoing. What will he find inside and what will be the cost for his transgressions? It appears he is about to find out.
Sacrum Umbra: The Gothic Horror of Amanda M. Lyons
In the dark heart of our imagination, and the haunted corners our past there are places we fear to tread. As much as we might try to outrun them, as much as we might try to deny their truths, we are owned by their shape, molded by their claws. The story of our being, they form a Sacrum Umbra, a sacred shadow of improbable origin- our own dark heart.
In Ventre Tuo
In Sacrum Umbra you were treated to tales from the shadows, the literary darkness that lives within all of us. Here you will find tales of another sort, the type you might find in the less wholesome end of the collective unconscious and the very depths of the gut. From stories of childhood gone horribly wrong to sex and madness with an impossible cost, this is where you'll find the more gruesome end of the spectrum.
The Lesser Apocrypha
While Sacrum Umbra showed us the darkness of our own shadow, and In Ventre Tuo the guts of our inner monster, The Lesser Apocrypha is still another beast altogether. Meant to gather together the stranger stories, it contains some of the more surreal and ephemeral stories, the ones that just are without much rhyme or reason. Stories like an odd moment in the park, the strange child who won't stop haunting you, an alien invasion that gets very personal, an AI born of a lolcat, monsters in the woods, and a spell gone terribly wrong.
Wendy Won't Go Collector's Edition and Time of Tides Collector's Edition from J Ellington Ashton Press!
Talented authors, Amanda M. Lyons and Mark Woods, team up for an unprecedented collector’s editions of their debut works, with never before seen bonus stories.
Wendy Won’t Go
Billy and Sara are living a life of fear. Every day and every night since Sara was small they have been haunted by a terrible apparition. She is cold and she is cruel, strange and frightening. Her name is Wendy, and no matter where they go and no matter what they do, Wendy Won't Go.
Time of Tides
What if Global Warming wasn't just down to Climate Change? What if it was down to something else?
As the worst storm of all time hits the entire globe and as all across the world rivers burst their banks and the oceans start to rise, one family take to the Norfolk Broads to try and escape the floods. Little do they know their nightmare is just beginning...because as they are about to find out, nowhere is safe!
Love Like Blood
What would you do to save the life of your child? Anything? This short about a woman’s life turned juxtaposed horror explores just what anything means when your child’s fate is held by an insidious creature. Here we learn that love flows like blood.
Kindle $2.99
Time of Tides Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LWDMSP4
Wendy Won't Go Kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LWDMH28
Paperback $9.99
Wendy Won't Go is my literary horror and a ghost story with so much more. If you'd like to buy a copy or see some reviews just click on the cover to go to Amazon.
Billy and Sara are living a life of fear. Every day and every night since Sara was small they have been haunted by a terrible apparition. She is cold and she is cruel, strange and frightening. Her name is Wendy, and no matter where they go and no matter what they do, Wendy Won't Go.
"This horror story does something that a lot of similar tales in the horror genre fail to do nowadays- it scares the reader. There are moments of actual terror here, and a solid story of love, and loss, and pain."
- Michael Kanuckel Author of Winter's Heart
Talented authors, Amanda M. Lyons and Mark Woods, team up for an unprecedented collector’s editions of their debut works, with never before seen bonus stories.
Wendy Won’t Go
Billy and Sara are living a life of fear. Every day and every night since Sara was small they have been haunted by a terrible apparition. She is cold and she is cruel, strange and frightening. Her name is Wendy, and no matter where they go and no matter what they do, Wendy Won't Go.
Time of Tides
What if Global Warming wasn't just down to Climate Change? What if it was down to something else?
As the worst storm of all time hits the entire globe and as all across the world rivers burst their banks and the oceans start to rise, one family take to the Norfolk Broads to try and escape the floods. Little do they know their nightmare is just beginning...because as they are about to find out, nowhere is safe!
Love Like Blood
What would you do to save the life of your child? Anything? This short about a woman’s life turned juxtaposed horror explores just what anything means when your child’s fate is held by an insidious creature. Here we learn that love flows like blood.
Kindle $2.99
Time of Tides Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LWDMSP4
Wendy Won't Go Kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LWDMH28
Paperback $9.99
Wendy Won't Go is my literary horror and a ghost story with so much more. If you'd like to buy a copy or see some reviews just click on the cover to go to Amazon.
Billy and Sara are living a life of fear. Every day and every night since Sara was small they have been haunted by a terrible apparition. She is cold and she is cruel, strange and frightening. Her name is Wendy, and no matter where they go and no matter what they do, Wendy Won't Go.
"This horror story does something that a lot of similar tales in the horror genre fail to do nowadays- it scares the reader. There are moments of actual terror here, and a solid story of love, and loss, and pain."
- Michael Kanuckel Author of Winter's Heart
Star-Fox: Adventures of Zorro Across Time and Dimension
Justice comes in many forms. Adventure knows no bounds. From across the spectrum of fiction, from bizarro to horror to the traditional, the authors assembled here have taken up the mantle of Zorro and made it their own. En garde!
Feral Hearts
Six young people from different walks of life embark on a singles’ tour in Derosso, Italy, only to encounter a strip club in town that preys upon the men. Warned to stay away by their guide, two of the tourists give in to their curiosity and
encounter the undead exotic dancers within. Lured by promises of untold carnal pleasures, these lonely hearts invite disaster on their group and the rest of the town. Wild and erotic,
manipulative and vicious, these feral vampires are not at all romantic…they’re predators.
Six different characters and six different endings, this tale is not for the faint of heart.
It is only for Feral Hearts.
Kindle $3.99
Paperback $ 15.94
