Neon Twilight & Branded Demons
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Zachary O’Shea is a horror author and tabletop RPG designer.
Psychopomps, Book 2 of the Crimson Threads series is out now!
Zachary O’Shea lives sometimes in the Land of Neon Sunrises and other times in the Great White North
There’s something about the stark differences between the American Southwest and Northern Ontario that he can’t resist. Spoiler; it’s his wife. He has spent his life telling stories from absurd coloring book creations as a child, to a lifelong passion for game-mastering role-playing games, and occasionally dipping a toe into horror fiction.
When he’s not writing, which is honestly rare, Zachary is spending time with his family, running a role-playing game session, or blowing off some steam in an MMO. Though, he’s usually writing something in stolen moments even in between all of this.
Bone Orchard
Illusion. Intuition. Mystery. Once a dreamer, now a soiled dove, she wonders if her life ended long before today.
To Whistler, Nevada, Luna Walsh is nothing more than a weary madam with a hidden smile. She tells herself the same most nights. But when a string of gruesome tragedies tears open the town’s polite veneer, Luna finds herself pulled into a mystery steeped in blood and secrets best left buried.
Dr. Wallace Creed, a Civil War veteran, has made peace with grief by tending to saints and sinners alike. Drawn into Luna’s desperate search for truth, he becomes her ally in uncovering what festers beneath Whistler’s soil. Together they unearth horrors neither expected… and a fragile, dangerous spark Luna fears is mere wishful thinking.
Love may offer Luna a way forward or bind her to the graves of the Bone Orchard.
What has been woven cannot be undone.
Book 3 in the Crimson Threads series.
The tapestry of fate is a frayed and fragile thing...
Grease Paint
Beginnings. Recklessness. Spontaneity. Without purpose, she drifts through life like an autumn leaf on the wind.
Harper Parson stumbles through her 20-somethings, distracted by one unfinished dream after another. To avoid her foolish nature catching up with her for a few days longer, Harper embarks on an ill-fated backpacking trip with her brother and childhood friends into the Thornwoods.
Dark folklore drips from the forest's barbed boughs. While the bloody tales give Harper second thoughts, a chance to make a play on her crush, Conrad, just can't be passed up.
All too soon, the Thornwoods' sinister nature proves true. A killer stalks the foggy woods.
His face is smeared white. His attire better suits a carnival. His axe is sharp and eager. Yet. not all is what it seems under the misty canopy.
Harper will need all her passion and wits to see herself and her friends through this trial alive.
What is woven cannot be undone.
Best Served Cold
You died too young. You died a terrible death. You died with unfinished business. You died with hate in your heart.
You didn’t lay quiet.
The psychopomps dredged you from your grave, repaired your mortal coil, and now protect you from damage that would slay the living. Not that you are alive anymore. Oh no, you are a walking, talking corpse fueled by retribution. You will have your bloody revenge and woe to those who stand in your way. The psychopomps, in the form of a collection of animals, keep watch over you. Kill an innocent, sink into ennui, or abandon your vengeance and they may just cut your springs. You don’t want to return to the worms without making those bastards pay, do you?
Of course not.
Horror Prose & Poetry
Anthology Contributions
Crimson Threads Series
Anthology Contributions
Kindle Vella
