Grace Otherwise

Step into a world where the strange and the familiar collide—an anthology series of dark fiction in the chilling tradition of The Twilight Zone, Tales from the Darkside, and Black Mirror. Here, bonds of love, blood, and friendship unravel in the grip of sinister mysteries, supernatural forces, and fate’s cruelest turns. Ghosts, witches, bizarre creatures, fallen gods, thoroughly twisted humans and more populate tales that explore the shadowed edges of human connection. Bleak, weird, and sometimes strangely tender, these stories will haunt you long after the last page. 

Blind Dates

Weird Stories
From the series: Grace Otherwise

The heart beats loudest in the dark, where the hidden listen, take pleasure, and respond.

Come closer. Meet them. The desperate, the longing, the lost. Men and women aching for love, for belonging, for something to quiet the hollow ache within. Watch as they slip beyond the fragile borders of the ordinary, into places where reality bends, desire...

Colder Than Ice

A gripping and chilling psychological horror story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

From the author of Blind Dates: Weird Stories comes a haunting and captivating tale of a woman who feels like she's been uninvited to her own life.

A mess of relationships has left Meredith feeling like a stranger in her own skin. Her husband doesn't want her, her son takes after his father, and her secret lover is a mystery she can't unravel....

Beholder

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

Wayne is a silver-tongued master of the dating game, one who knows how to deliver just the right words in just the right way in order to transform any woman he wants into candy in his hands, to be devoured, savored, and forgotten at his pleasure. But when he goes out on a blind date with the mysterious Nayantara, he will learn there are no such...

Love Among the Ultramoderns

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

An accountant by day, Mr. Rodgers spends his nights and weekends indulging in a unique passion. Traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood as an unknown entity, he uses unconventional methods to help long-suffering wives rediscover the love they once had for themselves and their husbands. Some might consider him a selfless hero, ahead of his...

The Lure

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

Unsightly and awkward, Aoife Finnegan has never been successful in love, only in attracting the indifference or hostility of every man she’s ever met. After partaking in an experiment, she finds her luck has drastically changed—but while on an exotic cruise for singles, she may find her stark reversal in fortune is actually the rudest curse of...

Last Contact

A Short Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

As a single adult living in his country of birth but still feeling perpetually out of place, Faraji dreams about nothing else but establishing a true connection with just the right woman, someone who understands him deeply, to the core. Shortly after creating an account on an unusual dating site, he begins communicating with a woman who claims...

Unfair Play

A Horror Story
From the series: Grace Otherwise

Tommy Turtello served ten years for a bloody crime he doesn’t regret. He, in fact, used his time behind bars to hone his skills, learning new methods for making himself a more effective “maintenance man,” one self-appointed to rid the world of those he deems as soulless. He has spent his first year of freedom putting his new talents to use,...