Coming September 2026!
"Bad Apps" is a collection of techno-horror short stories that encounter mobile device apps that are strange, sinister, and deadly. Many of these stories deal with the weirdly scientific, while others go right to the brink of the supernatural. Some blur the lines between reality and virtual reality, others feature handheld devices that connect to parallel universes and alternate timelines.
A young woman discovers that her computer’s search engine is reading her mind. A teenager downloads to his phone a voodoo doll app and uses it against his enemies. A streaming music video conjures up a demon. These and the many other techno-terror tales in this book show the nightmarish consequences of when technology goes too far on both the programmer's end and the user's.
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A short piece in which astronaut and forensic anthropologist Gav Torres crash-lands on a desert planet where he becomes separated from the rest of his expedition. He soon enough reunites with everybody except one person: his fiancé, Shelley Wu. Gav’s persistence to find Shelley will soon reveal to him the alien terror from beyond death that may be responsible for her disappearance, the previous expeditions’ disappearances and the likely annihilation of himself and the rest of the current expedition.
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A short piece about a young archaeologist obsessed over an ancient goddess statue that holds a beautiful force but a terrifying fate.
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Here is a collection of dark fantastic events and terrifying scientific phenomena. It contains stories of deadly creatures, including vampires and other undead things, and adventures into the unknown and terrible--tales that brew to the bursting point. This book will not fail to fool you with its terrifying visions of events that could be and ones that are impossible to be yet make a reader contemplate, "What if they weren't?"
Loud as a Whisper: An Anthology
Leafkin: Volume II
(Out of print)
Steven Arellano Rose's (writing as Steven Rose) short story, "Spam", appears in this collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by members of the Writers, Independent Self-Publishing, Editorial Resource Guild.
Leafkin: Volume II
(Out of print)
Have you ever wondered if vampires can survive other types of water other than holy water? Well the one in the tale, "Strange Phenomena", can. In fact, it thrives in it . . . at the deepest, darkest depths of the Mediterranean! This science fiction-horror story by Steven Arellano Rose (then writing as Steven Rose) appeared for the first time in print in this 2010 anthology of short stories and poems by members of the Sylvanopolis Writers' Society. Unfortunately, the book is no longer in print. But you can catch the story in Steven's collection, The Fool's Illusion!