Kyle Toucher

Welcome to Walpurgis County, where the line between reality and nightmare blurs and every shadow hides a darker truth. Kyle Toucher invites you on a chilling journey through ten stories and two novellas that unveil the grim history and malevolent folklore of America's most cursed terrain. From haunted mountains to deranged cults, from cosmic horrors to ancestral vendettas, each tale plunges you deeper into a realm where monsters roam freely and secrets fester in the blood-soaked soil.In this collection, exorcists battle ancient evils, time bends and distorts reality, and the unsuspecting collide with the macabre. Meet a father consumed by grief and vengeance, a woman trapped in a temporal abyss, and a conspiracy theorist facing an occult agenda that threatens humanity's very existence. Encounter witches burning from within, possessed souls seeking revenge, and hybrids born of unholy alliances.The Medusa Psalms: Welcome to Walpurgis County is a symphony of horror, suspense, and the supernatural, weaving together tales of haunted houses, demonic possessions, and cosmic conspiracies. With echoes of alternative history and the looming specter of a new world order, Toucher's dark imagination transforms everyday landscapes into battlegrounds of madness and despair.Embrace the terror that lurks beneath the surface of Walpurgis County. Dare to cross the county line and immerse yourself in a world where nightmares are reality and survival means confronting the darkest corners of the human soul.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Some horrors were never meant to be unearthed.Evil lurks within the pages of Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror...A video game walkthrough harbors sinister secrets. A grieving sister's letters blur the line between alive and dead (and alive again). A chain of frightening emails is the only evidence that a young woman ever walked the earth. And a series of journals pursue a dwindling wagon train marching into Hell-or someplace worse.Haunting podcast transcripts. Blood-soaked police reports. Bewildering court findings. Brace yourself for an anthology that resurrects the chilling power of epistolary fiction-where ordinary documents transform into vessels of absolute terror.Spanning 21 original tales blending the classic gothic horror of Stoker's Dracula with the contemporary dread of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, Dead Letters contains both short sharp shocks and prolonged sojourns into the macabre-and promises to haunt your sleepless nights.Featuring thrilling contributions from Gemma Files, Ai Jiang, Gordon B. White, J.A.W. McCarthy, and Red Lagoe, and curated with precision by Jacob Steven Mohr (The Unwelcome and Nightfall and Other Dangers) Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror solidifies its place among the pantheon of must-read horror anthologies.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Some horrors were never meant to be unearthed.Evil lurks within the pages of Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror...A video game walkthrough harbors sinister secrets. A grieving sister's letters blur the line between alive and dead (and alive again). A chain of frightening emails is the only evidence that a young woman ever walked the earth. And a series of journals pursue a dwindling wagon train marching into Hell-or someplace worse.Haunting podcast transcripts. Blood-soaked police reports. Bewildering court findings. Brace yourself for an anthology that resurrects the chilling power of epistolary fiction-where ordinary documents transform into vessels of absolute terror.Spanning 21 original tales blending the classic gothic horror of Stoker's Dracula with the contemporary dread of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, Dead Letters contains both short sharp shocks and prolonged sojourns into the macabre-and promises to haunt your sleepless nights.Featuring thrilling contributions from Gemma Files, Ai Jiang, Gordon B. White, J.A.W. McCarthy, and Red Lagoe, and curated with precision by Jacob Steven Mohr (The Unwelcome and Nightfall and Other Dangers) Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror solidifies its place among the pantheon of must-read horror anthologies.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

A storm is coming...In 1993 New Mexico, Black Magic and High Tech find common ground in Medusa Engineering's Project Dragonfire―and for one endless October night, a fissure opens between here and Elsewhere... Live Wire, a horror thriller for science fiction fans, begins with four people sequestered in a desert filling station during a freak thunderstorm. Outside, one-hundred-foot electrical towers―miles and miles of them―uproot and stalk the desert. In tandem arrives The Signal, a dissonant machine language that subverts the human mind...harvesting old guilt, shame, and trauma. Fifty miles down the road at the Very Large Array, the Medusa Engineering Corporation unleashes Project Dragonfire, a bold technological effort that has summoned a ravenous entity from the very fabric of creation-perhaps unwittingly, perhaps not. Our ensemble includes Pale Brody and his son Caleb, en route to Austin to start a new life; Ken Lightfeather, an Apache trucker with a .44 on his hip; Kwik Gas proprietor Otis Thompson, who assumes the freak electrical storm has spawned the wandering giants; and fast-thinking Nikki Barlowe, who suspects a parallel, sinister operation―led by shadowy Medusa Engineering executive Armand Jenks―is in play. High stakes and high octane fuel the incendiary action―mass murder and suicide, AC-130 Spectre gunships engaging the VLA in a brutal firefight, electrical towers pulverizing anything in their path, a massive gridwork of steel and feral energy blocking the only route of escape. Old ghosts and unresolved conflicts plague our characters as the signal interferes with their only task: surviving the onslaught. The night wears on everyone as the electrical towers converge on the Kwik Gas, and only the end of the circuit reveals the nexus of their power. At dawn on Route 60, a final showdown pits human resolve against brute force and inner horror. Will an ancient, shadowless terror find dominion on Earth? Live Wire is a tight, electrifying novel filled with action at a massive scale, terrors at the intimate level, and revelations of the Universal. If you like your fire hot, your blood red, and your metal mean, then this horror/science fiction hybrid is for you. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.