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At Blackstock Estate, we believe in providing a fun and friendly environment for people of all ages to explore not only a location rich in history, but the answer to perhaps the only question that matters in life—what comes after? Built in 1842 by eccentric rail tycoon, Jacob Blackstock, Blackstock Manor is proud home to two of the only spirits in captivity in the world. Discover hidden secrets while walking the many paths through the Black Forest, get your pictures taken with some of the many fully posable mannequins, or simply kick back and enjoy the tearoom and the gift shop.

Growing up is never easy, especially when the person you love is turning into a giant f-----g mantis. Jacoboby Bentley and his friends know little of life outside the Super Mantis Killas (SMK). Their day to day lives consist of drinking cheap booze, good drugs, video games, and the occasional mantis-beatdown.

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe. 

A cab ride to an infamous cemetery takes a sinister turn when the passengers discover they may be the graveyard’s next residents. Fun and games unleash evil beyond imagination when a young couple rolls the dice of a board game from hell. And a treasure hunt turns deadly when a pair of explorers discover what’s really hiding deep in the woods....

Blood is bright crimson. Your lips have turned blue. Best keep both eyes open. Because we are coming for you. - Valentine's Day isn’t all love, fun, and games. Flash horror Valentine's stories from a ton of talented authors. From dark and disturbing, morbid humor, or guts and gore; these stories have it all. How will you celebrate the holidays?

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That noise in the dead of night. The shadow that slips by almost unnoticed. The fear that pulverizes your sense of reasoning and pushes you deep down under seven layers of covers. There is no escaping it, and when the dark forces of the universe come after you, the world will know exactly what you are made of. Will you run? Will you fight? Maybe you’ll join forces with the darkness that rips through your quiet little life. Everyone’s dying to find out.

The Best of Bizarro Fiction: Vol. 2 features 11 carefully crafted surreal tales of the absurd, the hilarious, and the outright horrific. Edited by Matthew A. Clarke.

This podcast series is an audio recording of the book “Disrupting Mercy”, read by Matthew Clarke.

Scotty is no stranger to being bullied, but after a chance encounter in an online chatroom, finds hope in Rebecca. Scotty is about to find out that people on the internet can be worse than people in real life. Facebook. Twitter. These are the places the modern troll thrives. How far would you be willing to go to bring a troll to justice?

Rogues in the House Podcast has gathered the best tales of sword and sorcery from across the community. Here, brave adventurers will find stories lovingly crafted from heroic fantasy greats such as Howard Andrew Jones, John R. Fultz, and John C. Hocking. At their side are up and coming genre authors Chuck Clark, T.A. Markitan, Cora Buhlert, and many more.

Thirty-nine terrifying stories that will keep you up all night and make you want to call in sick to work. Enjoy stories of karma, fear, supernatural horror, deadly women, and retribution.The Better Off Dead Series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

In the year 2030, a dying scientist released a volatile pathogen into the atmosphere. It granted the elderly a plethora of augmented abilities, near-immortality, and an insatiable bloodlust for the generations that have wronged them.

Henk has been living a relatively carefree life in the city since fleeing the horrors of the town of Sorrow with his brother, Dave. Never would he have dreamt of returning. Not even for her. Time and banality have a funny way of eroding the memory of even the worst experiences, bringing only the better times to the forefront of recall, so when he receives a wedding invitation from the third part of their old monster-fighting trio, he finds himself unable to turn it down.

Silver City is not the kind of place you'd want to be with no recollection of who or what you are. Especially if you happen to find yourself naked in a pig barn, with a fresh bullet hole in your forehead. Suffocated with overwhelming anger and seemingly superhuman strength, the dead man sets out to discover who is responsible, why he was targeted, and what the speckled gunk sealing his wounds is. Gangsters, police, and freakish creatures that dwell in the depths of the silver mines, the entire city is working to bring him down.

Ebola Saves the Planet! and Other Wholesome Tales is a collection of 11 wild tales from the mind of Matthew A. Clarke.