The Pond Eats Those Who Dig

Death doesn’t stay buried at Brantley College. When a campus koi pond turns into a gruesome crime scene, a lowly security guard stumbles onto a chilling secret: every dead fish is stuffed with human flesh. The authorities scramble for answers, but the trail leads not to a missing person, but a student no one dares to mourn. Lucas Frost—rich, untouchable, and rumored to have destroyed a girl who wouldn’t give in—vanishes without a trace. As rumors twist and justice is denied, suspicion falls on the one woman with nothing left to lose: the murdered girl’s mother. But when airtight alibis and campus silence block every lead, the investigation spirals into a web of power, revenge, and betrayal. Who really fed Lucas to the fish—and what will the truth cost those left behind? At Brantley, even justice has a price. Will anyone pay it?

A viral food blogger’s quest for America’s most legendary potstickers spirals into a nightmarish investigation, as a rural diner’s dark secrets threaten to consume everyone who enters.

In Maple Heights, nothing is more coveted—or more cursed—than a taste of 'unborn lamb.' For years, the narrator has lived in the shadow of this secret dish, whispered about with pride but never questioned—until a violent night tears their family apart. When a charismatic outsider's arrival triggers scandal, betrayal, and a brutal beating, the narrator's mother is left battered and alone on the infamous Ironwood Ridge. As the town closes in with its own demands, a chilling request for 'unborn lamb' exposes old wounds, forbidden truths, and a horrifying connection between family loyalty and sacrifice. Why does the town crave this dish? What price will the narrator pay to protect their mother—and themselves? When love, hunger, and cruelty mix, who survives the feast?

When Grandpa butchers the family's beloved goat to feed a mysterious, starving visitor, our mountain home turns into a nightmare. Grandma begs me not to eat a single bite, warning that something evil is coming—and when a feral woman with goat eyes arrives, Grandpa forces me into a deadly bargain. If I speak a word or break the rules, the demon in the guest room will devour me before dawn.

Monsters don’t always hide under the bed—sometimes they pass the potatoes. Eden’s family secret was simple: never reveal what you are, not even when they chain you in a cage and slaughter your parents for sport. Trapped in a Southern mansion ruled by a sadistic witch and her monstrous father, Eden becomes a living experiment, a vessel for bloodthirsty bugs and human cruelty. But monsters aren’t always born—they’re made, and vengeance is just another family tradition. As Eden’s body is shattered and remade, she plots the ultimate reversal: a swap that will turn predator into prey. In a world where the dead refuse to rest, and the living feed on each other’s fear, who will claim the next body—and who will burn for the sins of the past? When monsters wear human faces, can you trust your own reflection?

With only months left to live, a cancer-stricken man leaps to his death—only to wake up in a world of monsters hungry for his flesh. To survive, he must outwit demons who believe eating a 'preacher' brings immortality, using nothing but his chemistry smarts and a desperate will to live. Every lie, every scheme, is a gamble: if he fails, he'll end up roasted on their spit.

‘People make the best bait.’ That’s what the killer said, and now Marty—the last victim to make it out alive—can’t shake those words. In a small Midwestern town where fishing is life, a string of disappearances has shattered the peace, turning anglers into prey and friends into suspects. As fear infects every riverbank and diner booth, Marty finds himself caught between suspicion and survival, desperate for answers while old bonds are tested and secrets surface. When even the sheriff is out of leads, and the group chat whispers, ‘What if the killer is one of us?’, Marty must risk everything to uncover the truth before someone else vanishes. But with every line cast and every trust betrayed, the real question is—will he catch the killer, or become the bait once again? Who’s really hiding behind the next big catch—and what happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?

One bite changed everything. When a haunted detective is forced back to work in famine-ravaged 1946 Chicago, he finds a gruesome crime scene—two powerful men butchered and a cryptic message scrawled in blood. As whispers of missing children and forbidden feasts swirl, Detective Price chases a killer known only as the Weed Puller—a legend who punishes monsters the law can’t touch. But the deeper he digs, the more Price realizes the city’s elite are hiding unspeakable sins, and the only clues lie in a meal he can never forget. Trapped between loyalty, guilt, and vengeance, Price faces a choice: uphold a broken law, or become a monster to stop even greater evil. When friend turns to foe and every ally might be a traitor, can Price escape his own darkness—or is he destined to finish the work of a killer who shares his face?

When Derek’s father is mauled by a wild hog, their claim to the best farmland in rural Indiana is at risk—unless Derek can prove his dad is still alive. But as the suspicious town demands proof and old legends of the undead resurface, Derek’s desperate secret threatens to unleash something monstrous. In a place where the dead don’t always stay buried, one boy’s lie could doom them all.

A wild raccoon and a black snake crash dinner, and by morning, Great-Uncle Ray is dead—buried headfirst in a pit he dug himself. As the family reels from shock, old superstitions surface: omens, curses, and warnings that this death is only the beginning. When a mysterious expert arrives, secrets unravel—rituals are performed, hair is cut, and Mason finds himself caught between folklore and fear. But when he's sent on a simple errand, the world turns strange: time freezes, fog swallows the roads, and the village seems abandoned. Is something hunting the family, or is Mason already lost to the curse? What debt is the snake here to collect—and can anyone escape before the darkness claims another life?

When a Harvard professor returns from the abyss, raving about a living mountain beneath the Atlantic, no one believes his warnings—until he vanishes from a locked hospital room. His diary reveals a secret that unravels the very fabric of reality: the mountain is alive, made of human flesh, and the story of John Gable is a lie. If the truth surfaces, no one is safe from what waits in the dark.

Death was supposed to bring peace—but for Maddie’s family, Grandpa’s hunger only began in the grave. On the sweltering third night after his passing, Maddie hears her grandfather’s voice—starved and desperate—echoing from his coffin, demanding barbecue. When Grandma burns herself alive in the old stove, the family dismisses Maddie’s warnings as childish nightmares, even as the body count rises and the caskets multiply under the funeral tent. Each night, the voice grows hungrier, craving flesh and turning kin against kin. As ancient vigil rituals fail and whispered secrets unravel, Maddie must face a monstrous truth: some hungers never die, and some family curses demand a final, terrible sacrifice. Who will be devoured next—and can Maddie break the cycle before the skinwalker claims them all?