The world of Skinford returns darker and sharper in Skinford Chapter 2: The Curse, directed and written by Nik Kacevski. This new installment takes the cult action-thriller series into bold territory, blending violent grit with emotional depth.
Joshua Brennan steps back into the role of Jimmy Skinford, a crook caught in a storm that keeps dragging him deeper into violence. At his side is Charlotte Best as Zophia, the immortal woman whose curse has made her both unstoppable and hunted. Together, they face a journey into Zophia’s past, chasing a cure that could free her from eternity—but at the cost of her life.
The cast expands with Jess Bush as Helen. Known to audiences as Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Bush’s presence adds crossover appeal for both sci-fi and thriller fans. Her performance cuts through the chaos, giving the film a wider edge.
Visually sleek and unapologetically raw, Skinford Chapter 2: The Curse doesn’t rest on its cult following—it pushes the mythology forward. Kacevski keeps the action tight, the atmosphere chilling, and the story grounded in survival and sacrifice.
Watch Skinford Chapter 2: The Curse now on Tubi or grab your copy on Amazon.
What makes Dani Brown’s Ghetto Super Skank so compelling isn’t just its filth, but its voice. The prose drags you through Jo-Jo’s broken-down block with a rhythm that feels alive — frantic, bitter, and dripping with contempt. Brown captures the psychology of exploitation: Jo-Jo is both predator and victim, manipulating men for survival while ignoring the sickness crying in the next room.
Readers who admire the dark satire of Bret Easton Ellis or the confessional edge of Kathy Acker will recognize Brown’s daring here. It’s literature disguised as trash, trash disguised as horror — and that’s exactly the point. If you’re curious, you can read a sample in the official excerpt, or dive deeper into Brown’s world through the landing page.
You can tell when music was made by someone who’s lived through something. Brandon Alvis’s Inherit the Ashes isn’t a film score, but it could be. It’s the kind of music that understands restraint, memory, and silence better than most licensed tracks you’ll find online.
The EP is instrumental. No lyrics, no narration. It’s just sound, clean, deliberate, and emotionally weighted. It’s available now on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. And it deserves a spot on your next pre-production playlist.
Alvis is better known in the paranormal doc world, currently co-hosting Haunted Discoveries: Family Spirits. But this project stands apart. According to the release, it was created as a personal reckoning. And it shows. You don’t get bombast or horror tropes. You get emotional gravity. You get unresolved tension.
The track titles alone are powerful: A Ghost Story, Baptized in Blood. These aren’t genre gimmicks. They feel earned. And for filmmakers working with psychological drama, family trauma, or spiritual silence, they might be the reference tone you didn’t know you needed.
This isn’t about using the music directly, although you might. It’s about understanding what it sounds like to mean something with every note.
Let’s be honest, the paranormal genre is full of filler. Screams, shaky cams, overused night vision. That’s why Family Spirits feels like a breath of fresh air.
Each episode focuses on people dealing with real loss. Real love. Real family stories. Yes, there’s the ghost stuff, but it’s treated with care, not as a gimmick.
Take Episode 110, A Violent Haunting. Two sisters revisit a childhood marked by terror and tragedy. What starts as a haunting becomes a reckoning. Or Episode 101, where a man believes his late grandfather, a decorated Air Force pilot, still guides his life path.
This show is personal. And that’s its power.
Family Spirits is now airing on HauntTV (available via Tubi, Roku, Sling TV FreeStream, Amazon Live) and streaming free on YouTube. You’ll come for the paranormal, but stay for the healing.
In Hammer and Blood, Viktor Bloodstone delivers a high-stakes narrative where every character is fighting to survive in a world that offers no mercy. This is a story about relentless pursuit, betrayal, and the harsh realities of violence.
Ptolemy Lindquist, one of the deadliest assassins, is ready to walk away from the life of killing to focus on his daughter Calista. His last mission to eliminate a small drug dealer turns into a battle against multiple armed adversaries who want him dead.
Zebadiah Seeley returns home after serving only five years in prison for horrific crimes. His property has been taken over by drug runners and he is determined to take it back at any cost.
Calista seeks a peaceful vacation with her friends at a lake house. Instead, she finds herself caught in a web of secrets and danger. The absence of the house owner and the suspicious behavior of her boyfriend only heighten the tension.
These three narratives intersect at a remote location where an unstoppable psychopath wearing a bear’s head waits. The fight to survive is brutal and unforgiving. In Hammer and Blood, no one escapes unscathed.
There’s a method to the madness in The Killer of Devils. As the clowns pile up and the bodies fall, it becomes clear that the face paint is more than a disguise — it’s a symptom. Of something older. Something spreading. Bloodstone weaves a layered mythology beneath the horror, hinting at cosmic dread and mental unraveling that goes far beyond the surface violence. The result is a book that’s as psychologically unnerving as it is action-packed — a rare balance, pulled off with expert control.
Synopsis
Calista “Cali” Lindquist is a final girl. She had to fight and destroy an unkillable beast. Now, she and her mother hunt monsters.
On a crusade to ensure no one else experiences such horror and loss, Cali and her mother travel to Philadelphia to track a depraved soul who uses face paints and magic tricks to prey on the innocent. While hunting that monster, they cross paths with Collin, a faithful and treacherous follower of the enigmatic figure, Master Poppie. Building an army using an insanity inducing powder that turns regular people into murderous lunatics with painted faces, Collin and Master Poppie have their sights set on a dangerous prize.
As the number of villainous clowns increases, as well as the number of brutal deaths by their hands, Cali puts herself directly in their path. Speeding on a collision course of terror and carnage, she is ready to pay any price to keep the streets from running red with the blood of unsuspecting victims. However, beyond the horde of bloodthirsty clowns, there is one factor that could derail Cali’s mission she never took into consideration – her past.
It’s monster hunter versus murder clowns in an all-out battle of madness and mayhem!
“The Killer of Devils features mobs of psychotic clowns, a kick-clown-ass heroine, and enough bloody mayhem and dark humor to fill a shopping mall. I loved every crazy, twisted, f***ed-up word of it!” SAWNEY HATTON, author of Everyone is a Moon
Albion Byrd strips things down to the bone in Skandinavien, delivering a story that’s as stark as the landscape it inhabits. The writing is raw and unforgiving, dragging you into a world where survival comes at a cost—and nothing is ever as it seems.
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
Conrad lives a solitary existence in an ancient windmill in a remote part of Scandinavia. He has no memory of being a functional part of society. All he has is his work; the bodies he disposes of. When prominent Politician Albert Finzt ends up on Conrad’s autopsy slab, he begins to unravel the horrific circumstances behind his forced labour.
I didn’t realize how much I needed a book about a haunted windmill until I picked up Draakensky. It’s moody, magical, and has just the right amount of eerie romance to keep you hooked.
Ghostly and Gothic, Draakensky Windmill Estate is haunted. Sketch artist, Charlotte Knight, arrives to illustrate poetry for the ‘lady of the land’ Jaa Morland, a spinster known for her wind sorcery. From the first night, Charlotte must unravel the mysteries of murder and magick when she meets the beguiling Marc Sexton. Their romance leads her into a piercing journey through dark magick. Charlotte must navigate the seductive nature of Draakensky, resist the treacherous entities of the Otherworld, or succumb to the dark forces that seek her.
A murder. A wind sorcerer. A dark spirit. In the shrouded realm of Draakensky Windmill Estate, magick dictates destiny.
Fans of Gothic thrillers like Susan Hill’s Woman in Black, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, or Deborah Harkness’ The Discovery of Witches will find Draakensky goes a step deeper into the powerful Otherworld, magickal realms, and folklore.
“Cappa is a skilled craftsman. This is a sturdy, old-fashioned Gothic thriller, thoroughly charming in its atmosphere and invention and anchored by a fully dimensional heroine in the vein of Mrs. de Winter or Jane Eyre.”—US Review of Books. “Spine-tingling, atmospheric mystery.
Recommended.”—San Diego Book Review. “Draakensky is a gorgeous, gothic novel that has all the potential to become a modern classic. Dripping with dark, delicious prose and packed with sinful secrets and intricate lore, the pages crackle with magick and chemistry. Danger, passion, and intrigue. Cappa delivers on every front.”—Stephen Black, author of The Famine Witch.
Criminal noir and cosmic horror by the author of “The Place of Stars & Bones”
There is dust on the horizon and dust in the fields. The sky is a burned out shade of white and cicadas haunt the trees and rooftops. It is late September, and Lucy Ashwood has just finished the last unremarkable day of her life.
By morning, Lucy finds herself lying in a puddle of gore. The dead number three: two men from the MontVida Corporation and one sheriff’s deputy. They came to serve notice of genetic patent violations, and to evict the Ashwoods. When the Ashwods push back, the end result is an accidental bloodbath. Lucy’s contribution involves feeding the dead to her pig, Wilbur. The contribution of her cousin, Arthur, involves his connection to a criminal collective known as the Aggregate. They say they will help the Ashwoods…for a price.
Subject to waking nightmares and crippling guilt, Lucy goes on the run. As her visions grow ever more vivid, Lucy begins to suspect there is more to what happened at her home than simply murder. Meanwhile, the Aggregate has decided to call in its favor for assisting the Ashwoods, thrusting Arthur into a world of violent revolution. Neither Lucy, nor Arthur, nor the Aggregate realize there is something else at work, something malevolent that has sprung from the very soil beneath their feet. It speaks through Wilbur, through the drone of the cicadas, through the hot dry wind. When it finally gains a foothold it will force its way through the veil between worlds, Lucy and the rest of humanity be damned.
In a riveting fusion of futuristic intrigue and adrenaline-pumping action, Joseph Cautilli, Marisha Cautilli, and Peter Kim unveil their latest literary endeavor, “Vigilante War: Case 001: A Fortuitous Payment.” Set against the backdrop of a cyberpunk dystopia, this inaugural installment propels listeners into a dark world where justice is redefined and the consequences are dire.
Vigilante War is a collection of action-packed cyberpunk short stories. Each volume is short, violent, and ends with a bang. With a daring approach to storytelling, the series will take listeners on a journey through the dark side of technology.
Created by Joseph & Marisha Cautilli, and Peter Kim 2021, the series brings on comic book illustrator Dave Law to create original cover art that brings the characters and world to life.
Case 001: A Fortuitous Payment is the first story in the series. After an unethical science experiment leads to vigilantes killing drug dealers, a bounty hunter seeks to bring the biggest local dealer to justice. But will the price of her soul be too high?
“Vigilante War” is an electrifying anthology of cyberpunk short stories, promising an immersive experience marked by relentless suspense and explosive conclusions.
Crafted with audacious narrative flair, each volume plunges readers into the depths of technological malfeasance and moral ambiguity.
In “Case 001: A Fortuitous Payment,” the series’ inaugural tale, the repercussions of an ethically dubious scientific experiment reverberate through the underworld. As vigilantes wage a brutal crusade against drug peddlers, a tenacious bounty hunter embarks on a perilous quest to apprehend the city’s most notorious kingpin. Yet, amidst the chaos and carnage, she grapples with the haunting question: at what cost does justice truly prevail?
Key Features
A gripping blend of sci-fi and horror elements, guaranteed to captivate enthusiasts of both genres.
Collaborative genius from acclaimed authors Joseph and Marisha Cautilli, alongside visionary creator Peter Kim.
Accompanied by original cover art by the illustrious Dave Law, enriching the narrative with vivid imagery and dynamic characters.
“Vigilante War” beckons to aficionados of gritty cyberpunk narratives and spine-tingling horror. Ideal for those who relish tales of moral complexity and adrenaline-fueled escapades, this series promises an exhilarating odyssey through the shadows of a dystopian future.
Whether you’re a fervent admirer of speculative fiction or a newcomer seeking an enthralling read, “Vigilante War: Case 001: A Fortuitous Payment” is a must-have addition to your literary arsenal.
About the Authors
Joseph and Marisha Cautilli are celebrated storytellers renowned for their deft command of suspense and intrigue. With “Vigilante War,” they delve into the realm of cyberpunk with unparalleled gusto, accompanied by the creative ingenuity of Peter Kim. Together, they craft a narrative tapestry that ensnares the imagination and refuses to release its grip.
“Vigilante War: Case 001: A Fortuitous Payment” is available now in ebook and audiobook format, promising an immersive auditory experience that transports listeners to the heart of the action.
