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What would you do if they were your daughters?

As a zombie virus sweeps across the world in a matter of days, eighteen-year-old Siamese twins attached at their brain are attacked by a zombie in Los Angeles. Only one of the twins, Krissy, gets bitten and infected with the virus that turns her into a flesh-eating ghoul. Sami isn’t bitten and for...

Secretary of State Dean Uriah has declared himself president after President Mims’s assassination at Mount Weather. Uriah arrests CIA black ops agent Halverson and Marta Costello for the assassination even though they claim they are innocent. They break out of the brig and head for the Raven Rock nuclear bunker in Pennsylvania to find out if the...

A harrowing descent into the mind of a thirty-three-year-old woman who fears she is losing her grip on sanity. Or is she being possessed?

Managing a crematorium, where she also lives as a virtual recluse harboring a dark secret and taking refuge from the world, Libby Genet fears she is going mad when she feels an uncontrollable urge to kill. When...

How much would you sacrifice to become wealthy and successful?

The hit man Gordon Carney, his wife Karen, who is a frustrated writer trying to break into print, and their son Brady move into a Spanish-style bungalow in the Hollywood Hills where they experience inexplicable and chilling events. Becoming paranoid Karen suspects the other family...

Phoebe is running for her life after discovering a dark secret about the police. She saw them murder individuals suspected of being infected with the lethal Novamors virus. Not only are the cops after her, but a sociopathic hit man hired by her vindictive wealthy father-in-law is hot on her trail. Meanwhile, infected maniacs are overrunning the...

FINALIST, BestThrillers Book Awards in Horror 2023

Phoebe is running for her life after discovering a dark secret about the police.

She saw them murder individuals suspected of being infected with the lethal Novamors virus, including her father, who wasn’t infected. Not only are the cops after her, but a sociopathic hit man hired by her...

MEGA 7-BOOK OMNIBUS BOX SET

Thrill to the nonstop zombie action and nerve-shredding suspense!

For the first time ever, the uncut editions of the seven books of Zombie Apocalypse: The Chad Halverson Series are together, including Horde, the winner of both the Independent Press Award for Best Horror Novel 2022 and the American Fiction Award for...

Phoebe follows her husband the mayor one night to see if he is cheating on her and steps into an apocalyptic nightmare.

The nightmare of the quarantine of a virus that triggers cannibalistic madness in its victims begins without fanfare in the small Southern California town of Costaguana.

Phoebe suspects her husband Jason of cheating on her with a...

A motley team of warriors on a secret mission organized by the president of the United States take on infected flesh eaters in a nuclear wasteland, risking their lives in a convoy of three specially armored black Chevy Suburbans to obtain a vaccine against the apocalyptic zombie plague that is wiping out the human race. In exchange for...

Ivy Kingston is about to go down the rabbit hole to meet the ultimate horror.

Ivy, a Los Angeles real estate agent plagued with self-doubts thanks to an overbearing mogul father, is assaulted by two avatars in a metaverse called Rabbit World owned by her husband Orion. Traumatized, she refuses to sell property in Rabbit World, believing the...

A fashion icon murdered in Beverly Hills has skeletons in his closet and a long list of enemies.

After the crass, but outrageously successful, fashion designer Max Reed, who exploits violence in his ads by shooting them at actual murder scenes, is blown up in his penthouse office, police watch a CCTV video of the person who delivered the bomb to...

A serial killer recalling the likes of Charles Manson stalks LA.

In this terrifying psychological thriller with occult overtones, Scott Brody, a Los Angeles PI, is hired by Evelyn Martin to find her missing brother Tyler Keogh, a well-to-do aeronautical engineer and a member of the local Mensa board of directors. As Brody conducts his search, he...

Finding plague victims inside their camp, survivors of the zombie apocalypse suspect that the zombie plague has mutated and is being spread by spores emitted by infected flesh-eating ghouls. People infected by the spores could be asymptomatic carriers. Not only do the survivors have to worry about being bitten by rampaging flesh-eating ghouls...

A woman wakes up in a pitch-black coffin hearing rats scampering on the lid. When she tries to scream, she realizes she is paralyzed and suffocating in “Scream, Cecelia, Scream.”

A Hollywood hooker is assaulted by a corrupt cop. Who can she turn to for help when even the police don’t want to investigate her accusation in “The Strip”?

An architect’...

Praise for Bryan Cassiday’s Thrillers

“From the very start, Bryan Cassiday spins what appears to be a typical Southern Californian private investigation novel, in Bolt, but quickly takes off in a direction that speaks to our current troubled times, well plotted and crisply written with great characterization, this is one to look for.”--Brendan...

Is her husband playing the field or is he trying to drive her mad with self-doubt and paranoia? Or worse--is he trying to kill her?

Power-broker Hollywood talent manager Lyndon Fox’s wife Deirdre hires epileptic LA private detective Scott Brody after a previous private detective she assigned to keep tabs on her husband’s suspected infidelity is...

A serial killer seeking revenge against his former partner.

A young woman having a nervous breakdown.

A cop under pressure to make a bust.

The Me Too movement up in arms.

A city on the verge of a riot.

All of them swept up in a Riptide of Fear.

A distressed young woman falls under the spell of a homicidal maniac and becomes his partner in murder in this disturbing psychological thriller.


Pondering suicide sitting on a Malibu dock one night after running away from home, doe-eyed young Mina Deerling meets smooth-talking Gage Catton, who is trying to load his wife’s body wrapped in a...

“A potent shot of contemporary LA Noir that will have readers hooked from page one. Fans of Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy will love Force of Impact.”--BestThrillers.com

A horror author’s life plunges into a nightmare worse than he could ever imagine.

Struggling horror novelist Bart Dillinger doesn’t accept the official police report that says his...

Nagged by guilt for shooting an innocent boy with a ricocheting bullet when he used to work as an LAPD cop, PI Ethan Carr is hired by a distraught amnesiac who wants to find out who he is.

An assailant firebombs Carr’s Mini Cooper, and in the trunk cops find a corpse--which is a dead ringer for the amnesiac.Several hours later the amnesiac is...

Did the S&M just go too far or was it murder?

Guilt-ridden PI Ethan Carr is hired by Constance Barnes, a troubled history professor at USC who claims she is being stalked by someone who is sending her cut-up photos of herself.

When fellow professor Melanie Kowalski, who also received cut-up photos of herself, is murdered in brutal fashion...

Zombie apocalypse.What does the government know? What aren’t they telling the people?CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson knows how to play dirty. He knows how to win.He also knows some of the government’s darkest secrets, and the government is out to get him.Halverson struggles to survive during a zombie apocalypse and find out what precipitated...

Haunted by self-loathing, Ethan Carr leaves the Los Angeles Police Department after he accidentally shoots to death an innocent boy on one of his assignments. Years later, he sets up shop as a private investigator and is hired by Richard Herbert to protect him from being assassinated for twenty-four hours until he meets his son. Herbert is on...

Police investigate the murders of thirteen-year-old Lucinda Pugh’s parents who died in their beds after somebody soaked them in gasoline and set their house on fire in their hometown of Santa Loma, California. All evidence points to Lucinda as the emotionally ill culprit, despite lack of motivation on her part.

When an exorcist attempts to...

“Right up there with the best of the zombie stories.”--Readers’ Favorite on Bryan Cassiday’s “Sanctuary in Steel”

“Zombie Boxed Set #2” contains the complete and unabridged novels “Sanctuary in Steel” and “Kill Ratio,” books 3 and 4, respectively, in Bryan Cassiday’s Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse series.

In “Sanctuary in Steel” Chad...

“Comes a Chopper” is a collection of Bryan Cassiday’s new spine-tingling tales from the dark side. A gambler who can’t sleep finds he has bloodcurdling supernatural powers . . . A woman is kidnaped. As if that’s not enough, now the kidnapers want her sister . . . A mortician can’t forget the horrifying mistake he once made . . . An actor who...

The end of America is near.

A plague that kills its victims and resurrects them as flesh-eating ghouls has decimated the American population, forcing what’s left of the government to take shelter underground in the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia.

On the West Coast, CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson and a ragtag band of...

For the first time anywhere, Bryan Cassiday’s complete unabridged editions of “Zombie Maelstrom” and “Zombie Necropolis, ” books 1 and 2, respectively, in the Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse series, are together under one cover. Two complete books at one low price.

In “Zombie Maelstrom” National Clandestine Service black ops agent Chad...

Virulent pockets of plague, first reported in China, break out worldwide and spread with mind-boggling speed. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson flies to Los Angeles to visit his brother after receiving a call that his brother has been hospitalized after a car accident. Halverson’s Boeing 737 crash-lands in an eerie Los Angeles shrouded with an...

The world has turned.

Plague-infected, flesh-eating zombies now infest the earth. Black ops agent Chad Halverson of the CIA’s top secret National Clandestine Service and a motley band of survivors must do everything they can to survive one more day, even as they try to find out what caused the pandemic.

Fending off zombies at every turn,...

Black ops agent Chad Halverson of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service escapes plague- and zombie-ravaged Santa Monica with dress designer Victoria Brady and sets sail up the smoldering California coast.

Along the way, Halverson and Brady rescue the idealistic Dr. Parnell, the UCSB coed Brittany Pine who is in a state of shock induced by the...

America has been devastated by both plague and the nuclear weapons used to kill off the infected flesh-eating creatures that roamed across the land preying on human beings.

National Clandestine Service black ops agent Chad Halverson and dress designer Victoria Brady take refuge in a blast shelter in the Nevada desert when an A-bomb is dropped...

Here are the first eight chapters of “Kill Ratio.”

The end of America is near.

A plague that kills its victims and resurrects them as flesh-eating ghouls has decimated the American population, forcing what’s left of the government to take shelter underground in the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia.

On the West Coast, CIA...

Evildoers run riot across the sun-drenched Southern California landscape in “Helter Skelter.” Zombies, vampires, and other wicked creatures wreak mayhem and carnage in these shocking horror short stories by Bryan Cassiday. Not all of these tales feature supernatural creatures. Some of the evil creatures are human--perhaps the most terrifying...

United States Senator John Stockwall of Texas is kidnaped on the doorstep of his house in McLean,Virginia. That’s just the beginning of a conspiracy hatched to shake America to its very foundations. The trail of the kidnapers leads Nick McQueen, who is a CIA hit man and a fugitive from the authorities, to a brutal murder on the casino-lined,...

In the explosive international thriller “The Kill Option,” the feuding McQueen brothers must band together to prevent the apocalypse of World War III. One brother, Nick, is a down-at-the-heels journalist in Los Angeles who seeks the truth. The other, Barry, is a CIA hit man who leads a double life. The two brothers must come to terms long enough...

“Blood Moon” by Bryan Cassiday is a collection of his short stories from the dark side; including, thriller, horror, suspense, mystery, and noir tales. “Blood Moon” features the vampire thriller “I Kill for Your Blood,” in which the CIA suspect one of their agents is a vampire. Other stories involve a CIA hit man who believes he’s being stalked...