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Offworld Authors have been through trials and torment and seem to effortlessly translate their experiences onto the page.

Here are some of the most spooky, chilling, depraved and confusing scripts you will ever read.

An Unfortunate Dimension by Dominic Schunker

An Unfortunate Dimension is a psychological thriller with Salvador battling his own ghosts and also battling a sort of dimensional schizophrenia, jumping into bizarre scenes past, present and future. He's thrown into a battle of intense laser fire. He doesn’t know how he got there or why. Is the universe messing with him, interfering with his only goal, to bring his wife Jemma out of her coma?Meanwhile, a little girl has gone missing and a man has been shot. It turns out nothing is as it seems

The Humans by Matt Haig

When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry home to his own utopian planet, where everyone is omniscient and immortal.

He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, and is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this strange species than he had thought. Disguised as Martin, he drinks wine, reads poetry, develops an ear for rock music, and a taste for peanut butter. Slowly, unexpectedly, he forges bonds with Martin’s family. He begins to see hope and beauty in the humans’ imperfection, and begins to question the very mission that brought him there.

HUSH by M.D. Selig

A White House investigation catapults young physicist Vyla Kells into a hidden world of alien technology and deep-state deception in M.D. Selig’s international bestseller HUSH.

Unemployed and skeptical, Vyla is stunned when she’s asked to analyze paranormal activity threatening a U.S. aircraft carrier. What she discovers isn’t a glitch in physics—it’s proof of an alien technology bound to humanity through decades-old secret agreements.

Pulled into a deadly underworld where truth-seekers don’t live long, Vyla finds an unlikely ally in a homeless vagrant—who turns out to be an alien defector—one who reveals to her a terrifying alliance between a malevolent extraterrestrial faction and a ruthless human cabal.

Machine Sense by Dominic Schunker

Zak sees things change that no-one else does. His best buddy suddenly became someone he’d never met, president Garfield is now president Valdez. Something is messing up the timeline. To everybody else though its always been as it is. There follows a tale of Nazis, reverse engineered alien spacecraft, Auschwitz experiments and alien-human hybrids with eyes that change from green to blue for no apparent reason, like Zak’s daughter, Izzi. They discover this is not a random universal glitch. Someone is changing the timeline to benefit themselves and what’s worse, they’re targeting people whose eyes change like Izzi. Things just got very real for Zak

Extinction Dream by Andrew Najberg

Deployed in orbit to what he first believed to be a simple research station, a soldier named Markus is a member of a squad defending Earth on the front line of a secret war against an alien enemy that attacks telepathically, using our nightmares as weapons. They don’t know what the enemy looks like or even why they are attacking. What they do know is that Earth is losing. As they sink further into their deepest terrors, they believe they may finally have the chance to take the fight to their enemy – if the hell they’re living in doesn’t cause them to tear each other apart first.

Letters from Angels by Dominic Schunker

There’s something very wrong with the world. A strange mist settles everywhere. It seems to be causing more than the usual horrors humans like to inflict on themselves, like an organising of those horrors into a plan to end them. A Preacher with a past challenging his faith and a renowned Ufologist learn something evil is controlling it. They’re being shown signs to discover who it is but what is it? Is it an alien hybrid, installed for a long-overdue alien takeover and terraforming of Planet Earth? Or is it the Biblical antichrist, fulfilling its apocryphal destiny?

The One by John Marrs

A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you’ll be matched with your perfect partner—the one you’re genetically made for. That’s the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results have led to the breakup of countless relationships and upended the traditional ideas of dating, romance and love. Now five very different people have received the notification that they’ve been “Matched.” They’re each about to meet their one true love. But “happily ever after” isn’t guaranteed for everyone. Because even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking than others.

Amy's Square by Dominic Schunker

The world continues to let children die every day from thirst and starvation, poisoned water and disease, and the world continues to let the Earth die. A man, destroyed by the desertion of his wife, comes out the other side and finds a mission. It’s bold. It’s crazy. He’s not totally sure what’s at the end of it but he has to follow it. It’s a terrifying leap away from his world but it ends up being a mission to rescue the very substance of life. From the ancient Aztecs to the Moroccan desert, Spanish highways to the remote fields of Russia, clues appear, people die and someone gets ever closer to him. The children, the generation who must eventually find the answer, silently guide him to the truth. And it’s a truth that will change everything.

The Signal Below by Kael Dusk 

They went to the Moon to find answers. They found something that should never wake up. A hidden signal deep beneath the surface. A structure that thinks in dreams. A presence that isn’t alive—but isn’t dead either. As reality unravels, the crew loses time, identity, and control. The Moon isn’t a rock. It’s a lock. And we just turned the key. The Signal Below is sci-fi horror at its most disturbing—perfect for fans of Annihilation, Dead Space, and cosmic terror that stays in your head long after the last page.

The Silent Orbit by Sera Wren Blackwood 

They trained for every danger in space. They weren’t ready for this. When Commander Mara Ellison completes her final mission prep on Earth, she believes she’s ready for the long journey into the silent orbit of a distant alien structure. The mission is clear: explore, study, and return. But the closer her crew gets to the artifact, the more reality begins to twist. Something is waiting in the dark—something ancient, patient, and far from human. Cut off from home, stalked by unseen presences, Mara must navigate a deadly maze of shadows, fractured corridors, and whispers in the void. Every step deeper takes them further from safety, and closer to a truth humanity may not survive knowing. Perfect for fans of The Martian’s grit, Annihilation’s strange beauty, and Event Horizon’s dread, The Silent Orbit is a tense, atmospheric, and unshakable sci-fi thriller that will keep you reading late into the night.

Under the Limbo Tree by Dominic Schunker

Cornwall, England, 2020 - A man is shown the irony of a perfect love and the perfect reason why that love can never happen, and a young woman embarks on her own quest, which could save them both. Cornwall, England, 1873 - A young woman returns home, damaged by the isolation of a broken marriage and embarks on a journey to find trust. Then it all starts to unravel. Tennessee, 1968 - From the deep south in times of vicious racial division, a persecuted young African-American woman wakes up to find she’s swapped bodies with a white supremacist but sees an opportunity to change the course of history. And all the while, a ghost from the future jumps across time and space, appearing randomly to all of them, inadvertently linking elements to ensure a great wrong is put right and earning his own salvation.