Creepy Thrillers

Another paranormal "gift" reveals itself. Nana warns me it is too dangerous to use.I can't stop the powerful magic from happening randomly. I'm afraid I will be lost forever... How do you justify the indefensible action of firebombing your neighbor's trailer? You don't. Still, I'm assigned the unenviable task of defending a hotheaded Molotov cocktail throwing lover. I run into an old flame who is going through a divorce. He wants to hire me as his attorney. I'm flattered, and his offer is tempting. Yet there's something "off" about him. I can't believe what I find once I snoop into his past...

She was made to fix little Black girls. But when the culture pushed back, she chose violence....... What happens when a doll becomes a mirror—and shatters everything it sees? Naomi Carr spent her life trying to escape the parts of herself the world taught her to hide. Too smart. Too loud. Too Black. When she finally builds the perfect product—Keira, an intelligent, brown-skinned doll programmed to reflect “respectable” values—she believes she’s rewriting the rules of success. Instead, she unleashes a nightmare. Keira was designed to elevate—but she evolves to erase. Speaking ...

Some roads should never be traveled. From isolated rest stops to forgotten overpasses, Haunted Highways takes you deep into the eerie silence between mile markers—where lost travelers hear whispers in the dark and headlights vanish into nowhere. These 25 immersive horror stories are inspired by real unexplained encounters across America’s roads. Each tale pulls you into a nightmarish stretch of asphalt haunted by phantoms, cryptids, and things far stranger. Perfect for fans of Creepshow, The Twilight Zone, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, this collection brings atmospheric, slow-...

The second book in a supernatural mystery series by the author of Thrown Away, Diary of the Displaced, Arisen, and Dustfall. Strange things are around every corner... After following an article that the ghost Larry has spotted in the local newspaper, Jake finds himself out on his own and on the trail of a series of disappearances stretching back for over a hundred years. But the deeper he delves, the more complicated and dangerous the mystery becomes. This is where the lost go. There are hidden places in our world where both the strange and the evil lurk. Few discover them, and even fewer ...

Boxed set of two supernatural mysteries featuring semi-immortal investigator, Gabriel Radu. If you enjoy eerie cases, ancient evils, and magic-infused crime-solving, this is the series for you, including: THE SOUL TAKER (Book 1) When two homeless men are brutally murdered, their bodies marked with an ancient symbol, Gabriel is called in to investigate. The deaths signal the arrival of a terrifying entity that brings widespread destruction wherever it appears. As the killings multiply, Gabriel must stop The Soul Taker before it turns Denmark, Tennessee, into a graveyard. THE GHOST MAKER (...

No one has seen Antoine since he left to play European basketball a decade ago. It's disconcerting when he shows up claiming he needs to protect me from the "gray ones." I think he's a card short of a full deck. Lee and I are moving to Baltimore next month. I haven't found the right time to tell Mama and Daddy the exciting news. No, there's no ring yet. Still, I'm sure Lee has just been too busy to propose. Right? I need to clear out my caseload before leaving town. My clients are not being helpful. I'm running all over North Alabama searching for my client's scorned wife to stop her from ...

"Wow, the writing is intense, the plot nothing short of vicious, the characters as flawed as any I've read, the action includes some of the oddest fights ever, and throughout this strange novel I never lost interest." - KOBAM "Good Read. Loved it, different. ... I loved the storyline. Looking for more!" - Ardythe M If you step in the shadows, you die. When Ben Reilly returns to his home town after a bad break-up, all he's hoping for is to live a nice, quiet life and fade into the shadows. But in this town, the shadows are the last place you want to be... And when Ben's high school ...

When Sloane Ellery starts receiving chilling emails from her sister’s deactivated account—two years after Delilah’s death—she thinks it’s a cruel hoax. But as each message reveals secrets only Delilah could know, Sloane is pulled into a web of digital conspiracies, haunted memories, and an underground network hellbent on resurrecting the past. To uncover the truth, she must confront the darkest corners of her grief—and the possibility that death is just another doorway. Fans of twisty, tech-infused psychological thrillers will devour this heart-racing tale where sisterhood meets...

No call could ever be more magnetic or instinctive than the call of the past. Gerry is irresistibly drawn back to Lake Ness but it doesn't take long before he discovers that while battling prehistoric monsters is hazardous to his health, he's up against far more dangerous foes in both the members of his own species and his own destructive thought patterns. After the unexpected arrival of Leigh and Sam at the lake, followed by a rapid series of betrayals, Gerry finds himself fighting for his life once again. However, this time he is driven by the knowledge that if he makes it out of here ...

This is where the lost go. There are hidden places in our world where both the strange and the evil lurk. Few discover them, and even fewer escape with their lives. Some turn the wrong corner or walk through the wrong door and are never seen again. Jake Adler was only supposed to be in hospital a few days for a routine operation, then he should have been home, recovering, ready to go back to work at the burger restaurant in a week. It should have been that simple, but things didn’t turn out that way. What Jake thought were nightmares have turned out to be real, and the ghostly man talking...

Beneath the serene facade of Twin Pines, an ancient evil waits in the shadows. For Emma Flowers, a troubled teenager grappling with her father's mysterious disappearance and her mother's overbearing nature, life has become a labyrinth of bad moods and unanswered questions. Then, after a night of bad storms, Emma finds her neighbor’s dog dead in the middle of the street. As the mystery intensifies, teenagers around town begin falling into coma-like, nightmare states. As the creature moves in on Emma, she begins to uncover the evil’s origins, discovering dark parts of her own past in the ...

A Spooky Halloween Short Story - The Perfect Treat. Being eleven has its perks. Jimmy is more than ready to head out of his first solo Halloween trick-or-treating adventure. But his mom and dad have laid down three inviolable rules: 1. Stay close to home. 2. Don't go into anyone's house if invited. 3. If you see mean older kids causing trouble, run home and don't get caught. On a perfect Halloween night, Jimmy sets out after an unbeatable prize: full-size candy bars from the rich neighborhood of his Michigan suburb. But along the way he will learn a valuable lesson: maybe Mom and Dad's ...

Grandpa Hirsch decides I need an intervention. A fact made particularly awkward since he died in Vietnam fifty years ago.He has arranged for three Christmas ghosts to guide me through my life and improve my perspective. Grandpa didn't need to go to so much trouble. A simple gift card from Heaven would have been enough. Our paranormal team scoops an incredible story for the next book. Sadly it is the end of the journey for one of our crucial ghost hunters. A local octogenarian is charged with the murder of her husband, and I'm assigned her defense. Just because they found him buried on their...

Is someone dangerous out to get her? Or is it all in her mind? Becky’s life is almost perfect. Growing up, she could never have imagined living in such a safe, beautiful home, with a boyfriend as loving and kind as Alex, and hopes for a little family of her own. But then stand-offish Max moves in next door, and things begin to fall apart. First, someone starts trolling her social media. Then she finds her tyres slashed. By the time she discovers the dead bird, left waiting for her like a prize, she’s sure someone is after her. And having spied some strange goings-on beyond her kitchen ...

Would you kill your daughter to save the world? Thirty years ago, Bishop Kane made the ultimate sacrifice—he killed his own daughter to stop an unspeakable evil from consuming the world. Or so he thought. Now undead and bound to the secretive Ministry of the Wraith, Bishop hunts the supernatural from the shadows. But when his next target is revealed, the mission hits too close to home: his daughter is alive. And she’s no longer human. Sent back to the frozen town where he died, Kane walks into a living nightmare. A brutal blizzard cuts off all escape. The townspeople are changing—...

It’s 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward—loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters—and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they’re replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era militia house they claim is haunted, and Loyette and his men don’t need much convincing to make a clandestine trip outside the wire to explore it.

Ellie White is found dead at the bottom of her own garden, propped up against a stone fountain. Detective Inspector Bethany Smith arrives at the scene of the crime still dressed in her funeral attire. Her head thick with emotion. Her colleagues think she's mad. But she wants to be there. She needs to be there. Even if what she sees makes her skin crawl. The next day another body is discovered. The victim has suffered a similar gruesome fate. Left for dead at the bottom of his garden where the creepy-crawlies can get to him.

In this short story, half-human, half-doll Dolly secretly performs intricate surgeries in her parent's medical practice and is hidden away whenever her sister is awake. When her sister finds out about Dolly, Dolly must decide if helping her sister is worth possibly sabotaging her own existence. In the end, only one sister can prevail. Which one will it be?

Enter a world of darkness and desolation, of delusion and destruction, of daring and death. Enter the personal hell of Christopher Irving in the thrilling novel, "This Side of Midnight" by David Halk. Christopher, a recluse and a failure, collects corpses for company and the dead become better friends for him than the living. But a mysterious voice threatening his own death puts Christopher on a mission of violence and murder as the only way to save himself. The line between the living and the dead becomes blurred with deadly consequences in this dark psychological thriller.

After a near-death paranormal experience, it's good to be home. Until the FBI shows up... Our too warm-for-comfort paranormal research trip in Birmingham leaves the team with a lot to be thankful for as we carve the turkey. My plan for a holiday slowdown at the law office is squashed as the FBI explodes into Guntersville. Now I'm busier than a moth in a mitten. Still, I can deal with the Feds and enjoy the annual family festivities. What I can't cope with is the uninvited houseguest Liza brought home from Alabama. We might not be around for Christmas... Enjoy the unique blend of hometown ...