Jean Marie Bauhaus – författare

"e;There's a witch buried in the cellar."e;When a young boy and his family move onto a remote plot of land in rural Oklahoma, they aren't looking for ghosts. Their goal is simple: live in a double-wide trailer while they build their dream home from the ground up.But the land has a memory. The only thing left of the house that once stood there is a lone, crumbling storm cellar. Local legend says a curse haunts the property, and everyone who has tried to build there since has met a dark, unexplained fate.As strange, inexplicable events begin to plague the family, the line between childhood pranks and ancient evil starts to blur. Is the neighbor boy just trying to scare them off with tall tales? Or is something sinister—and very much alive—waiting beneath the red dirt?A chilling tale of rural folk horror and urban legends that will make you think twice before stepping into the dark.Previously published as Weather Witch

Satisfaction is a cold dish.From Jean Marie Bauhaus, the author of Dominion of the Damned and Restless Spirits, comes Midnight Snacks—a collection of four bite-sized tales of terror that prove the scariest things happen after dark.Step into a mesmerizing world where:Monsters scavenge through the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York City.The vending machine down the hall develops a sinister appetite.Cold-blooded vengeance finds an unlikely companion in compassion.The Main Course: Eucha Falls Also included is the haunting novelette, Eucha Falls. One year after her brother Scottie vanished at an abandoned theme park, Melanie Fisher returns to the scene of his disappearance. What she finds on a discarded video camera isn't just evidence of Scottie's descent into madness—it's a spellbinding descent into Lovecraftian horror that suggests something far older, and far more hungry, is waiting in the shadows.Hungry for a scare? Grab a snack.

Curiosity might have changed her forever, but it's sacrifice that will define her.Meg the pixie has always found humans drab and predictable—until she spies the impossible: skin of gleaming brass hidden beneath the sleeve of reclusive inventor Phineas Farnsworth. Intrigued by the man who is more machine than flesh, she follows him into a world of clockwork wonders and hidden dangers.When a disastrous encounter with Phineas's cat leaves Meg irrevocably changed, she finds herself caught in the gears of a life she never imagined. What begins as a pixie's inquisitive whim quickly transforms into a profound journey of selflessness and loyalty.The Pixie and the Professor is a charming gearpunk fairytale that explores the thin line between man and machine, and the enduring power of a love that transcends species and steel.

Michael Latimer has the perfect life. Until the night he can't move.As the head of a prestigious English department with a beautiful wife and a stellar career, Michael is a man of logic and science. But when he finds himself pinned to his bed, immobile and tormented by ghastly visions, his rational world begins to fracture.He clings to the medical diagnosis of sleep paralysis—a safe, clinical explanation for the darkness pressing down on his chest. But as the terrifying night visits intensify, Michael's research leads him away from science and down a paranormal rabbit hole. He begins to question the nature of evil, the reality of the world, and the true identity of his wife, Kathy.Hoping to save their crumbling marriage, Kathy takes Michael to her parents' remote cabin in the Ozarks for rest. But the isolation only feeds his hostility. Convinced he's having an affair, Kathy checks his phone—only to find a horror far more disturbing than infidelity.In the deep woods of the Ozarks, the "e;Old Hag"e; isn't just a medical phenomenon. She's a nightmare that's finally come home.

Reagan Dunn's life has gone to the dogs—literally.Still recovering from a marriage that left her world upside down, Reagan has traded a permanent address for the life of a traveling pet sitter. When she arrives in the small town of Redbud, Oklahoma, she's only looking for a hot shower and a temporary home. She didn't count on meeting Josh Baker.Josh is everything Reagan's ex-husband wasn't: kind, hardworking, and fiercely loyal. There's just one problem—he's already engaged to the woman of his dreams. Or at least, the woman he thinks is right for him. As Josh's fiancée gets colder feet, Reagan finds herself drawn into his life and his family in ways she never expected.But as Reagan witnesses the manipulative behavior of Josh's fiancée, she recognizes the same patterns of emotional abuse that destroyed her own past. Standing up for the truth could mean saving Josh from a life of misery—or it could mean losing her chance at a new beginning in Redbud forever.A heartwarming sweet romance about second chances, finding where you belong, and the courage to choose love over comfort.

Some foundations are built on stone. Others are built on bones and blood.South Carolina, 1792. Archibald Craig is a man of singular ambition. A junior partner to the famed architect of the President's House, Archie is tasked with conquering the Yadkin River by building a bridge to the Southwest Territory. But the river is unyielding, and the land itself seems to rebel against the intrusion of "e;progress."e;As freak storms and mysterious tremors topple the masonry, the project spirals into a nightmare. Archie's workmen—Scottish Highlanders steeped in the "e;old ways"e;—whisper of threshold covenants and the ancient blood-prices required to appease the spirits of the earth."e;Let it be finished, and I will pay whatever you ask."e;In a moment of feverish desperation, Archie utters a prayer that should never have been spoken. The bridge finally stands firm, but an unrelenting shadow of tragedy has fallen over the Craig household. The horrific truth remains just out of reach, buried beneath the weight of the stone.Told through a haunting collection of diaries and letters, Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a slow-burn epistolary journey into the heart of folk horror, where the price of success is higher than any man can afford to pay.

Mae Bishop took a hammer to her marriage and became a national headline. Now, she's a fugitive on a highway through the dark heart of the Midwest, guided by the one person she never wanted to see again: the ghost of the man she killed. Wade isn't just haunting her for revenge—he's a supernatural navigator leading her straight into the path of predators far more depraved than he ever was.  But the law isn't the only force tracking her. A "e;neutral celestial faction"e; is looking for a contractor—someone with a history of violence and nothing left to lose. They offer Mae a "e;clean slate"e; in exchange for a baptism by blood, but the real hook is the one thing that could make her stop running: a chance to be reunited with the soul of the daughter Wade took from her with a single, brutal fist.  The rage inside Mae is a cold, living thing, fueled by years of abuse and the memory of a child she never got to hold. She's ready to be a blade for the divine, but in a world where angels act like CIA handlers and the dead give the orders, the price of redemption might be her own humanity.  Mae has already killed for her freedom. Now she has to decide: how much blood is her daughter's soul worth?