Detective Horror

A Haunted Village, Rattling Chains and Ominous Moans Eden Patterson and her ghost team are called to investigate disturbances in a small town filled with craft shops, antiques, and a rich history. Rattling chains, yelling and moaning are causing the town's shopkeepers nightmares as tourists and customers turn tail and run. But are these disturbances evil, angry or sad? Find out as Eden faces a spirit unlike any she has before.

When Nick O'Reilly is invited to Sherlock Lake by his friend Danny, he is more than apprehensive. Nick is familiar with the ghost story that surrounds that place, and he is not one to meddle with situations like that. However, after Danny pushes him into it, criticizing his confidence, Nick feels like he has no choice. The two wander down to the lake to explore the legend that surrounds it, and when they do, they get more than they bargained for. The Mystery at Sherlock Lake is a short story that will thrill you with its mysterious twists and turns and leave you wondering what will happen ...

Katherine Mansfield is a no-nonsense private detective in Mishawaka, Indiana. Adopted at an early age, by a police officer, Detective Mansfield was taught early to never take shit from anyone. Tough as nails, she has been the go to investigator for the strange and macabre cases that lurk in the shadows in her small hometown. When Detective Mansfield is called to the scene of an attempted rape, her callous approach begins a journey into a world that she had no idea existed.

It was just another call at 3:15am for DC Roger Dickson. Plagued by pills, memories, and loss, we go back to the start of the puzzle - the murder of the angel and Father Millar as DC Dickson tries to piece things together. We then get brought up to date: A visit to the Refuge Asylum to dig a little deeper into Refuge's mysteries.

Auguste Dupin erfährt von einem mysteriösen Mord an einer Frau und ihrer Tochter in der Rue Morgue. Die Frauen sind bestialisch zugerichtet worden, und die Polizei kann sich keinen Reim auf den Hergang der Tat machen, da Türen und Fenster des Zimmers von innen verschlossen waren. Doch dann berichten Zeugen von einem Streit zweier Fremder unmittelbar vor der Tat -- und alle widersprechen einander.

Where does fiction begin and reality end? Is there ever such thing as real fiction? Alex is a failing writer who decides his lack of success is due to lack of honesty and relatability. How far will he go to gain his experience to create his masterpiece? Especially when the story he is writing involves murder....

La joven Marie Rogêt una mañana sale de casa diciéndole a su madre que va a casa de su tía y que no volverá hasta el anochecer, y que la irá a recoger su novio. Éste, cuando va a la residencia de la tía de Marie, se entera de que su novia no estuvo allí y que no volvió a casa. Aun así nadie se alarmó porque tres años antes también se había escapado, y volvió.

For Vanessa, Pairs is a nightmare come true.But she tries her best to keep the creepy and downright terrifying down by being a fixer. So when she gets a job by the famous Madame VanGelder to retrieve stolen property its just another chance at two hundred francs a day and a pint of O negative every fourth day. Wrong. Buy Your Copy Today

Dan, Abby, and Jordan were traumatised by the summer they shared at New Hampshire College, the former site of the Brookline asylum. They want to move on, but someone is determined to keep the terror alive by sending them anonymous photos of an old-time carnival. Forsaking plans to never to go back, the teens return during a weekend for prospective students, and realise that the carnival from the photos is not only real, it's here on campus.…

El Vicent és un adolescent de classe alta molt acostumat a fer el que vol. El seu pare sent que ha perdut tot control sobre ell i pren una mesura radical: enviar-lo a uns campaments exclusius, famosos entre l'elit pel seu èxit en reeducació de joves conflictius. En Vicent comprova ben aviat els seus mètodes, quan el fan passar hores tancat en un quartet on a penes hi cap i no pot ni moure's

You are what you eat. Unless your food eats you back. Detective Sergeants Jessica Holden and Mark Curren face the sting of consequences as their actions from previous cases come back to haunt them. Along with their colleagues in the secretive Special Investigations unit, they battle against the sins of their past. Across the country people sit down at their dinner tables, unaware of the taint awaiting within their microwaved meals. An eldritch horror lurks within, eager to add people to its malignant mass. To consume them. To reshape their flesh like clay.

When 10-year-old Lara Demming discovers her next-door neighbor is a witch, she is initially horrified by the discovery. And then, she becomes curious what she can learn from Old Widow Holcomb.

Veteran police officers Sally Edwards and her partner Layton Roland were crossing town at high speed responding to a report of a shooting when their cruiser was rammed from the side by an armed robber fleeing the scene of a crime. Roland was concussed but Edwards suffered a partially severed spinal cord in her neck.

I racconti qui presentati, "Tè verde", "Il giudice Harbottle" e "Carmilla", appartengono alla raccolta "In a Glass Darkly". Composti in momenti differenti e pubblicati su varie riviste e poi riuniti nel 1872, i singoli racconti, benché diversissime siano le storie ivi riportate, possono essere considerati parti di un'unica narrazione, fatta di oscure risonanze e di sinistri riflessi. Elemento esterno unificante è la figura-cornice del Dottor Hesselius, medico, psicologo, mistico e metafisico tedesco, primo "detective dell'occulto" della letteratura europea.

Ok, so you have won a few Sherlock Holmes quiz prizes, but what if your life depended on your knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes stories? That's the shocking fate facing a woman who is tied to a chair - if she can't answer, she dies.

Come ci insegna "La Lettera Trafugata", il racconto scritto da Poe nel 1842, per potere ingannare il proprio avversario bisogna sapere immedesimarsi in esso, e non sempre il migliore nascodiglio è quello più scontato.

There is a harvest moon over Toulouse, but it’s going to be a very dark night. Eleven-year-old Micah Stevens intends to free the dogs from a puppy mill in the woods outside of town. Teenager Jenny Allard and her boyfriend Michael Kennedy have come up with a plan to get even with two of the school’s most notorious thugs. Gloria Downing is coming home after a decade running from her past. On this Indian summer evening in October of 1981, the little town is about to add several chapters to its long and bizarre history. Come along as award winning novelist, Chris Morrow, gives you the grand...

David Bain releases nine new tales of crime and horror from his haunted gothic settings of Green River and Gray Lake, including an all-new Will Castleton paranormal investigator story! (There's also a bonus short from the "It's Over" post-apocalypse universe created by C. Dennis Moore and Caleb Straus!)

A serial killer sends Detective Driver a note with a challenge: solve the clue before another woman is murdered.

An FBI homicide detective with psychic abilities has been able to crack every cold case he has worked on. His last cold case and a recent string disappearance of three tourists have left him on edge, unable to solve it. He must connect the dots before it's too late and more bodies are discovered on the bayou.