The Shape Of Night

a collection of short horror and thiller stories

When a supernatural killer stalks Seattle, witch and private investigator Lexi Alexandra Thompson must join forces with detective Ethan Stone to unravel the mystery, while navigating their forbidden attraction and the secrets of her own past

Night Breaker is the first entry in the Night Stories Series. The remaining family of four brothers move to their late mother's childhood home following the death of their parents. Looking to discover healing in the family, the four brothers will discover that there lies a curse in this old native American town. A curse filled with pain, grief and the gory stench of vengeance. This family must pull together in order to figure out how to escape the vicious claws of the Night Breaker. Though they will soon learn that fighting this curse isn't the priority. The question they will discover is "if" they can rid themselves of it before death takes them. Read as they traverse through the modern world of the supernatual.

An Imperial Scholar by day. An assassin by night. The World of Cultivation has changed. Elemental Mancers. Flux Mancers. Spirit Mancers. Soul Mancers. Raining down fire and splitting oceans. Destroying mountains with a single stomp and calming skies with a glance. Controlling the tides of Karma, while wielding the souls of others like a puppeteer tugging on the Lines of Fate. The most mysterious of them all were Spirit Mancers, a truth that Theron was more than intimately familiar with. Due to one's Tribulation, his life was turned upside down. His family, his rage, his somber sadness becoming nothing more than Bad Karma's fuel for a madman. He was once a gentle young man, a non-combative Water Mancer who wanted nothing more than to read his novels to the sound of the rain and one day become an Imperial Scholar. But now... Everything had changed. He donned a cloak in the silent night as the clouds above gathered. Pulling its hood over his chilling blue eyes, he stalked off into the darkness. The first droplets fell. He would become the nightmare of his enemies, the blade hidden in the shadows of Heaven's tears. The River of the Night.

The fantasy adventure began from a life of a girl named Eve Ainsley who seemingly had find ordinary no longer in her grasp. After encountering an unusual entity and a world above her knowledge, she might even discover more about herself. But is it really over? Note: This is written First-person View by the main character, so please expect some inconsistent writing may appear from MC POV.

He selflessly protected the Human Realm for hundreds of years. In return, he was betrayed by the very beneficiaries of his sacrifices and forced to his death. An unexpected opportunity awaited him in death. He returned to his youth and composed the first half of a poem. "A saint undone, reborn a devil, A hundred sinners, lifeless under one blade." The top hundred experts of the Human Realm had plotted his death. He vowed to get revenge on every single one of them!

A man gets reincarnated or transmigrated into a world full of steampunking, gods, and weird misconseptions, with only the memories of the body he is in. He fights the cruel world in order to find his lost memories and restore or destroy this body's life. Gifted three cards he must beat the odds that were never in his favor.

In the depths of an ancient world, where time bled between eras, an endless darkness never leaving the sky of this world. The sky, once a silent witness to the world’s fate, now flickered with the pulse of unseen forces a signal of something lost, and yet, something about to awaken. Malik was caught in the chasm between two lives, two worlds. He had once known the comforting hum of cars and bustling cities, the mundane rhythm of existence, but now the air was thick with an oppressive sense of foreboding. This world is a mess filled with steam powered technology, ancient ruins, strange phenomena, lands that have never been explored, truth that have never been told and light that have never been seen felt like a forgotten dream, or perhaps a nightmare with no escape. Follow the journey of Malik through a world filled with endless possibilities and terrors.

On the eve of her wedding, Liora Winterborne escapes the gilded chains of her arranged marriage, only to stumble into the dark embrace of Blackthorn Manor. There, she finds herself bound to Dante Blackwood, a vampire lord whose brooding demeanor hides a tempestuous hunger. As Liora navigates the shadowy halls of the manor, she discovers secrets that whisper of forbidden desires and untamed passions. Dante’s icy facade begins to crack, revealing a dangerous chemistry that burns with both fire and frost. But in the depths of the manor, unseen eyes watch, and echoes of a past both haunting and tragic threaten to shatter the fragile balance. Liora must decide whether to confront the darkness within Dante—or risk being consumed by it herself. In Blackthorn Manor, passion and peril walk hand in hand, and surrendering to temptation may come at a deadly cost. Once the gates of Blackthorn close behind her, there is no turning back.

A man wakes up feeling curiously unfamiliar with his surroundings, having no memory of anything or how he got there. Join our hero as he navigates eerie corridors and fights nightmareishly horrific creatures. How will our hero use his intellect and newly acquired power to guide him? Will he fall like the others or ultimately break away from the dungeon's cruel confines?

The universe has been invaded and dominated by an extremely powerful alien species, corrupting all lifeforms. Now, Venus Hekatonreis, forced to live in another universe after her escape, gathers the means to claim her revenge.

A phoenix's blood is priceless. One taste transforms into a drug, a cure, and, unfortunately, an addiction that can unleash the ferocious and wild sides of even the purest being. The creatures of the night decimated half of the population of the phoenixes until the strongest declared war on them, which eventually led to a compromise and a sacrifice. In a secluded life, Eleanor Dankworth grew up with a rebellious spirit. However, her peaceful existence ended when her entire family was brutally massacred in front of her on her eighteenth birthday. Just as she thought things couldn't get worse, her betrothed, arrived to claim her. Ares Mazitzis. His very presence could lead one to believe he was the devil. And despite his title as the emperor's illegitimate son, deceitful, malicious, and apathetic entities bow to him. Feared by his people and his family because of the darkness within him, Ares main goal is to find and claim his betrothed, as she was nothing more than a sacrificial lamb. What happens he finds warmth and love from the lamb? What happens when all he wants to do is protect her from the looming darkness and himself? A creature of the night and a phoenix of light... It is a love that shocked and perilously struck the world.

Astra has always felt out of place, as an outskirt city rat. Yet his looks, skills and his very soul burned with the flames of ambition, Mana was natural to him, and he had Star Magic. Astra yearns for the stars, yearns for power, and longs for a home, but his whole being, is that of chaos. he soon realizes, that nothing is without a cost, as even heaven demands death

With Jayden Williams out of the country, Emily Styles went for a sleepover and the popular Alexander Blake just had to be there. what will happen if Emily starts getting the attention of her secret crush? will cheating come in,or will her self control remain untouched? If you are looking for a hot, funny and interesting high school romance or teen fiction, you are at the right place.

17 Years ago a virus spread all around the world, infecting 3% of humanity. Those 3% of people got special abilities, similar to super powers. The reserarch centers gave them the name "Cora". Every Cora is trapped in specific laboratories to invest on the virus and the abilities those people got. They divided every Cora in numbers from a scale of 1 - 10, depending of how dangerous they are. 1 is the most dangerous and 10 the least. Jinsei, the protagonist, is a 4 on the scale and has to suffer a lot from the experiments he has to go through, but as the professor offers him a deal that he can’t decline, his whole life turns upside down. This is a story about a big adventure, a tragic story and a strong bond of friendship between the two protagonists.

On the day Zhang Liu was to receive her first Daesang award, she found her sister and her fiance wrapped up in her bed. At the same time, she is caught up in false scandal that ruins her singing career. Abandoned and betrayed by the people she trusted the most, Zhang Liu is thrown into a world of chaos until she meets a mysterious man who she enters a deal with to help her get her revenge on those who wronged her inexchange for her something sweet and precious as her soul.

In the midst of a city that never sleeps, Emily's loneliness echoes through the night. Her life is a facade, hiding the emptiness within. But when a mysterious stranger appears, claiming to know her deepest secrets, Emily's world is turned upside down. As their paths intertwine, Emily must confront the darkness of her past and the true meaning of connection. Will she find solace in this enigmatic figure, or will the shadows of her loneliness consume her?

Luciano Deregardo has lived his whole life thinking he is normal, when after his eighteenth he begins to undergo changes, how will he react to knowing he has always been part of a world he thought was dimensions away? Lunaelliape comes across a werewolf boy who is unaware of what he is. how will she handle things when his true identity is revealed and they are thrown into a whole bunch of chaos? Dexter Vinage, the quiet and talented guy who is the adopted son of the chief of the NonSuPernatural organisation, finds out he is what he has been taught to hate. what will he do to find his actual home? Reena Switch is once more teoubled by her delinquent and mischievous mother. how will she help her friends and herself when faced with a direct verdict from the mother spirit? A bunch of questions about some people that can only be answered through one story, the story of the oçurences after that one Night Of A Full Moon. *currently under editing*

Many years ago, a boy's family was massacred by humans as they suspected his family practiced witchcraft which was not accepted among the people. He was traumatized and lived in fear after all the people he loved died. He feared love. Afraid that if he ends up loving anyone again, they will be taken away from him. So he became rogue, merciless, unable to control and his hate for humans grew day by day. His power made him a King whom no one dared to disobey. He had both power and looks and his looks made him a walking "temptation". He was stoic and had turned off his feelings of love and mercy. Mirabelle, a young madien who was placed on a curse at a young age. The curse was placed on her to pay for her father's sins and she was only meant to be free from the curse after a man falls in love with her. But who can fall in love with a blind girl?

Elara is drawn into a web of intrigue and danger when she begins experiencing strange visions and powers she cannot control. At night, rumors spread of a mysterious woman who stalks the city, and as people begin to die under unusual circumstances, suspicion falls on Elara. She must uncover the truth about her past before her enemies can destroy her—or before she destroys herself.

I'm probably not gonna publish this cause I'm broke, don't have a computer, and I'm not typing this out on my phone.

[MATURE CONTENT] Kyle dissappeared one day without a word living a young Lara broken and angry with the world. The two meet again However Lara hated her so much for she thinks  Kyle was the reason for her ruin but what will she do when someone she despises the most becomes her only muse?. On the other hand Kyle wanted redemption but the little teen and kind Lara was no more, How can she survive the wrath of a beast like her, Especially when she is on hunt for her soul. And all in all why did she leave in a first place?.

mereka melakukan perjalanan yang sangat jauh ke pulau, namun, selama perjalanan ada saja rintangannya yang gaib

"A land of eternal night where the sun sets and never rises again. Daylight has become a mere legend, while cold winds and blizzards ravage the world."

The story explores several themes, including deception, manipulation, family dynamics, love, and redemption.