Untreed Reads's Blog Posts Tagged 'horror' (28)

Rebellious teen Robin "Robbie" Willette thinks her life sucks.



Her grades aren't the greatest. Her dad hates her "older" boyfriend. And her mom keeps Robbie on a short leash after her straight A, perfect, older sister gets pregnant and has a baby. As the tension builds in her family,…

About The Third Man:

When two young men get lost in Alaska’s mountainous wilderness, they slowly begin to die of exposure. As their senses become numb, they become aware of a third man traveling with them at times, and are too disoriented to make contact. When the two young men collapse in exhaustion and…

About The Clearing of Travis Coble:

Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now, Professor Dick Myers…

About The Needles Highway:

The Mojave Desert. The heat of the noonday sun.

A lonely stretch of highway.

A screenwriter enjoys a nostalgic visit to his childhood home of Needles, California.

But now it’s time for him to leave that simple life in the desert and drive back home to L.A.…

About Slay Bells:

T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, dark creatures came lurking, to tear, rend and gouge!

‘Tis the season once again, and the jolly fat man, Saint Nicholas himself, must figure out how he will contend with the dark denizens of Amelia City and deliver presents for…

About Year’s End:

The countdown has begun, but the only thing striking at midnight will be terror…

New Year’s Eve isn’t all champagne and confetti. For some, it’s filled with regrets, the changing of the day dragging them kicking and screaming into a year for which they aren’t prepared. This…

About Orlin Wood:

One place. One family. One mystery. Orlin Wood.

In 1788, Zechariah Orlin stumbled out of the forest and collapsed in front of a hunting party. That moment marked the beginning of a cursed family, and the legend of Orlin Wood. From phantom voices and mysterious apparitions,…

About Lady in Flames:

Every town has dirty secrets. And some say the sun doesn’t shine on Halgraeve. All I know is there’s one secret that’s about to be let out, and when it is, this town’s going to burn like the sun.

Low-lit haunts…salt-stained roads…a cursed little town. The murdered soul…

About Miss Locks:

Miss Virginia Locks has a date tonight, but something is wrong. She finds herself standing outside her home without any knowledge of how she got there. But what waits for her once she is back inside, a crawling, gasping thing, is even more unsettling. A short…

About Strange People, Scary People:

Strange People, Scary People, is a collection of fourteen tales of terror and horror: the two aspects for which strange and scary people are famous. In its bowels, you will read of a strange, witch-like woman who likes to relate strange tales to young…

About Man’s Best Friend:

I wanted out. I thought leaving would change things. After all, I had nothing to live for. So I figured, “What the hell?”

And I left. My trusted dog, George—my only real friend—came with me.

It should’ve been a nice break. It should’ve…

About The Knackerman:

Benny the knackerman collects dead animals from farms and delivers them to be processed. He’s old and feels useless, but carries on with his unusual job because he knows more…

About The Gift of the Snow:

When Andi moves into her new house, she knows from the outset that it’s different. One autumn night, she discovers how different it is when she wakes to find that her past, and the woman she left behind so long ago, aren’t quite so far away after all. Will she succumb to her own…

About Dante’s Awakening:

Dante Sonnier is a successful Hollywood agent. She is also a friend to the secret community of vampires living in Los Angeles, and occasionally she assists them when they have a problem that requires a human to handle it. The vampires are led by Voshki Kevorkian, a gorgeous, sexy…

About Times Change:

A creature of myth, a myth of horrific legend, a legend of violation.

Throughout history, women have been enthralled, unable to resist their desire upon laying eyes upon this perfect example of man. Caitlyn is one such woman. She’s always been looking for the perfect man, and when…

About Goodbye Lucifer:

Hell closes down when Lucifer falls in love, quits his job as the Prince of Darkness, and becomes a bartender in Ft. Lauderdale.

Deep in the rugged mountains of southern West Virginia, nestled in the cradle of an idyllic little valley, the tiny town of Brandell, and…

About The Creeper:

A cheerleader is pestered by an amorous vampire who claims that he is Alexei Nikolaevich, the rightful tsar of Russia, and that she is his long lost love, reincarnated.

He’s gorgeous, he’s royalty, he’s a vampire and he has an exotic European accent. She’s a lesbian,…

About Killer Flies:

The Army plans to use a new breed of flies to protect combat soldiers. But Dr. John Pankow, their creator, is worried that his killer flies are uncontrollable. Will Mother Nature’s most genetically-altered weapon be the ultimate armor, or the potential ravager of the entire world?  A work of short horror…

About The Winter of Her Discontent:

Denise struggles through the challenges of a bad boss, a thankless job, a major winter ice storm, and squirrels invading her house. Three of her problems are solved by the unexpected intervention of the fourth. Upon reading this story, you might just think twice when opening a can…

Everyone loves to discover a new series. You read that first book and fall in love with the characters and settings, and then you wait breathless with anticipation for the next one to come out.

Here at Untreed Reads, we understand that passion, and during the month of February we aim to do something about it. All month long we’re offering 30% off the first book in each of our…