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From the author of SIX DAYS and FORGOTTEN, comes a haunting story of life, death, and the struggle connecting them. -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- Lily May Holloway can hear the thoughts of the living, and speak to the dead. She's done so since she was little, and been shunned for it. As a new student at McMillan Hall, a private school with other teens who possess a variety of psychic gifts, she finds she isn't necessarily unique. Or safe. Acceptance is no longer her only concern. Staying alive is. -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- Book 2 in the Wilted Lily series, PASSAGES continues where WILTED LILIES left off...

The town of Mackinaw is all but abandoned at the end of tourist season. Now, with an approaching blizzard, a strange transport ship has crashed along the frozen shoreline--its escaped cargo genetically engineered for only one purpose... Death. Howling winds hide the screams of townsfolk, as retired biology teacher Ken Jardine leads a small group to first understand and then destroy what they're dealing with, before the storm gives the upper hand to the Live Specimens...

Nick and the boys return from the summer's last hunting trip to find the streets empty, the beachfront and park abandoned, and the windows of their own homes boarded shut. The hunters have become the hunted, in an apocalyptic plague that pits man against beast-very tiny beasts. And Nick is determined to keep his strength, courage and family alive during what could very well be the last winter of their lives.Note: This is book one in a 2-part standalone series, the follow-up is THE HATCH.

Detective Mark Baker is an honest cop and an all-around good guy. After a chaotic night, Mark starts to reexamine his role in the system he no longer believes in.That's when an ominous letter arrives from his estranged sister. She sounds distraught, suicidal. Her words send him on a mission to a small Midwestern town, uncertain if he'll find her dead or alive.Valley Mill is a quiet little utopia. Everyone gets along. There's zero crime. On the outside, it's exactly what Mark thinks society should be. But what Mark discovers behind the pristine fences and closed doors is far worse than anything he could have imagined.And he learns very quickly to be careful what you wish for...

Horror is pessimism at its bleakest. Worst-case scenario. The darker side of reality. The glass half-empty. The situation unfathomable.In Black Bubbles, Kelli Owen presents classic genre tropes-ghosts, murderers, zombies, what you'd expect-but it is the characters, rather than the tropes, who experience the story, speak of the horrors, and sometimes survive the inevitable.Sometimes.A decades-old crime shocks a family as evidence points to one of their own. An ancient evil hitchhikes its way to freedom. A child has an unusual fascination with decay. A woman excuses premeditation. Death takes a holiday. Science and good intentions make horrific bedfellows. A man hides from nightmares that invade his waking world.Kelli Owen's first collection gathers over 60,000 words, including a handful of out-of-print, difficult-to-find previously published work, a plethora of new pieces, story notes, and drawings inspired by the title story.

Local legend says it was a church. Campfire whispers claim devil worship and unconsecrated land. Old timers explain the lone grave as remnants of evil.Having watched far too many horror movies, a group of teens wander into the woods with a Ouija board, planning to play with the dead and scaring each other in the process. But the group quickly learns ghosts of the past are not the only dangers, as the present can be much more haunting.

Nick Kontis and his remaining family members have survived winter-have outlived the threat of deadly infected flies-and are heading toward presumed safety. They quickly find all exit points blocked, the perimeter burned, and learn the flies were only the beginning, as Mother Nature has stepped in to correct mankind's mistakes. Her weapon of choice: spiders.With thick webs covering the spring landscape, and lack of any communication leaving them on their own to guess whether or not the spiders are as lethal as the flies they're eating, they make a new plan. Fleeing in a new direction they run into another party of survivors. And what was once a breakdown of society becomes an exercise in rebuilding.They'll need to find common ground and bond with the others, before winter arrives again. Before the spiders declare victory...

From the author of SIX DAYS and FORGOTTEN, comes a haunting story of life, death, and the struggle connecting them. -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- WILTED LILIES It's not that Lily May Holloway is a broken, battered teenager recently escaped from her kidnapper. It's not that she may or may not have killed him to escape. The question on Detective Travis Butler's mind is -- what exactly does the death of little Tommy Jenkins have to do with her kidnapper? And why does the man behind the one-way glass want the detective to entertain Lily's tales of speaking to the dead... and being able to hear the thoughts of the living?-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- The story continues in Book Two of the Wilted Lily series, PASSAGES...

Detective Carly Greene was only eleven when she learned Lake Superior was a brutal beast, capable of bringing up long forgotten memories of pain and death, by occasionally releasing the bodies of those trapped beneath her waves. As an adult, Carly still despises the bodies occasionally coughed up, and the high water eroding the edge of the graveyard this year gave "floaters" a new meaning. But she could never have prepared for what else broke free to swim with those long dead. Part myth. Part monster. Older than time.

Jenny Schultz wakes trapped in a pitch-black basement with no recollection of how she got there. With no outside stimuli, Jenny naturally turns inward and revisits her guilt-ridden past, desperate to figure out which wronged person would be angry enough, evil enough, to do this to her.She must survive her own demons, and then time itself when she finds remnants of previous captives-a plate, a tooth, a bone. Scratched hashmarks in the stone walls around her, leave her to wonder what happens next.What happens after six days?Kelli Owen is a member of both the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers, and has spoken at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA regarding both her writing and the field in general. The author of over a dozen books, including THE HEADLESS BOY, TEETH, and the Wilted Lily YA series, her short fiction has appeared in Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies alongside Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Robert McCammon, F. Paul Wilson, and Josh Malerman, among others. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she now lives in the dark woods of Pennsylvania. For more information or social media links, please visit her website at kelliowen.com"Kelli Owen has pulled off a kind of dark magic with this book... She's made us care deeply about a flawed character completely alone in the dark, a scary one-character play peopled with everyone she's close to...which is no mean feat for any magician. And the ending packs a hell of a wallop." Jack Ketchum, author "This is one HELL of macabre, psychological mystery. One of the most suspenseful books I've read in long time, and a stellar debut." Edward Lee, author

"If you're one of the legions of horror fans who have in recent years grown tired of our fanged friends then Kelli Owen's Teeth puts some serious bite back into an anemic genre." Ink Heist - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - TEETH All myths have a kernel of truth. The truth is: vampires are real. They've always been here, but only came out of hiding in the last century. They are not what Hollywood would have you believe. They are not what is written in lore or whispered by the superstitious. They look and act like humans. They live and love and die like humans. Puberty is just a bit more stressful for those with the recessive gene. And while some teenagers worry about high school, others dread their next set of teeth. Vampires are real, but in a social climate still struggling to accept that truth, do teeth alone make them monsters?

Reeling from the loss of a child, Maggie finds her job at the local daycare unbearable and errands around town impossible. She knows every child, every single parent, and they're all reminders of what she's lost. Unable to heal, she sinks further into the grip of grief and depression. Jake is a good guy, a great husband, and wants only the best for his broken wife. Therapy and medications aren't helping, and a change of scenery makes perfect sense. A new home. A fresh start. He is nothing but patient, giving Maggie the space and emotional support needed to move on. But once they've settled in, Maggie offers him an alternative. And though Jake doesn't believe in ghosts, he plays along with the charade in the name of helping his wife. Until he discovers it's not a game. They are not alone.As the subtle activity grows violent, Jakes realizes the thing in their house has chosen Maggie as a surrogate mother, and it does not want a father figure. Jake and Maggie's fresh start has become a battlefield, and he's no longer sure which side his wife is on.Does Jake have the strength to save them both?Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths