Start here · A reader’s guide
Choose the kind of story you want to spend the night with. These eight published books offer different ways into Brandon Burnside’s world.
01 / 1980s slasher horror
Start here if you love the atmosphere of an old slasher film: a relentless killer, a city on edge, and people fighting to survive the night.
Tampa Bay becomes the hunting ground for a merciless killer in a nightmare inspired by the raw terror of 1980s slasher films.
Published · Slasher horror
02 / Ghosts and haunted places
Choose this for a haunting built around an abandoned sanitarium, buried history, and a mysterious woman whose story reaches beyond death.
A ghost hunter enters an abandoned sanitarium and meets a mysterious woman in white whose story reaches beyond death.
Published · Supernatural horror
03 / Crime, loyalty, and betrayal
Begin here if criminal underworlds draw you in. Family ties, Italian roots, and a dangerous personal code shape this crime thriller.
A man with two gold pistols enters a world of Italian blood, criminal loyalty, and betrayals that demand a price.
Published · Italian crime thriller
04 / Survival after the collapse
Choose this if you want to follow survivors across a devastated America, where trusting another person can be as dangerous as the plague itself.
A devastating plague tears civilization apart, forcing a group of survivors across a violent new America where humanity may be the first casualty.
Published · Post-apocalyptic horror
05 / Curses and sinister objects
Start here for an old book, a ventriloquist dummy, and a bargain with a past that refuses to stay buried. This is the occult corner of the collection.
An old book, a sinister ventriloquist dummy, and a curse waiting since 1959 pull Eddie Fiorentini into a murderous bargain.
Published · Occult horror
06 / Nightmares that follow you home
Choose this when you want familiar places to become unsettling and the boundary between waking life, memory, and nightmare to begin slipping away.
Sharon Mars is haunted by nightmares that follow her into reality as the boundary between memory and waking life collapses.
Published · Psychological horror
07 / Summer-camp slasher and possession
Start here for an isolated summer camp, a spirit board tied to a 1967 massacre, and an evil that can move from one person to another.
Eight young adults awaken a role-playing evil tied to a summer camp’s 1967 massacre.
Published · Supernatural slasher horror
08 / Family secrets and Italian folk horror
Choose this for an ancestry search that takes a Tampa woman to Canepina, where her long-awaited family reunion hides a terrifying purpose.
A free ancestry test leads Natalie Harrow to her family in Canepina, where a loving reunion hides a trap built around blood and belonging.
Published · Folk horror · Dark suspense