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Calla Larkenwood wants nothing more than to be a guardian, but her overprotective mother has never allowed it. Battling fae creatures is too dangerous a job for a young girl, and there's that pesky magical ability she needs to keep hidden from the Guild. How can she do that if she's working right under their noses? When circumstances change and Calla finally gets to follow her dream, she discovers that guardian-trainee life isn't all she hoped it would be.

Emerson Clarke thought magic might solve all her problems. Turns out, magic only made her life more complicated. Her sick mother is in a worse position than before, and Em just made a risky deal with an Unseelie prince: he will heal her mother if Em agrees to the ultimate alliance - marriage. With the possibility of finally getting the one thing she's always wanted, Em enters the dangerous world of the Unseelie Court. She'll learn whatever she has to about magic and etiquette in order to fake her way through palace life until Prince Roarke fulfills his side of the bargain.

Can you handle this chilling feast of fear...? A romantic getaway turns to a horrific ordeal when evil falls from the stars. A terrified young woman is stalked by a grim specter in the form of man’s best friend. A beleaguered wage slave discovers that playing with toys at work can have deadly consequences.... Scare Street’s team of horror authors brings you 12 delightedly macabre morsels of terror in this new, spine-tingling collection. Indulge yourself in a delicious feast of chilling nightmares and dark fantasies.

On the run from the Guild of Guardians, Calla Larkenwood and her team of fellow outlaws plan a daring rescue operation into the Seelie Court itself. As if that isn't enough to keep them busy, the power-hungry Princess Angelica has begun preparations for a horrifying prophesied spell that will forever change both the magic and non-magic realms.

A looming threat. An unexpected ally. An inevitable showdown. Daniel Wester’s father has been rescued, but the ordeal has left him a shadow of his former self. Wounded and weakened from his time in demonic captivity, his health is rapidly deteriorating, thrusting new responsibilities onto Daniel’s shoulders—just as the darkness they thought they had escaped begins to claw its way back into their lives. Lena has been Daniel’s anchor through every battle, but now she’s fighting a war within her own mind. The evil entity they thought they had eluded has found a way into her dreams—...

Haunted by his mother's brutal murder, Detective Inspector Jake Sawyer returns to his rural hometown to investigate a series of gruesome killings. As the body count rises and the killer's twisted methods come to light, Sawyer must confront his own demons while racing against time to unravel the shocking truth behind the murders.

Join your guide Travis Brown, one of Reddit’s most-upvoted NoSleep horror authors, for a tour of his most chilling tales. Visit different locations in 22 terrifying short stories. When you go looking for monsters, don’t be surprised when they look back.

Douglas Island sits off the coast of New York State, its imposing cliffs warning away visitors. Still, Finn Douglas has big plans for his inheritance and the rambling manor house that dominates the landscape. He has a vision to turn the island into a resort getaway for overworked city dwellers. But when the broken body of his business partner is found at the base of the rocky escarpment, he fears it wasn’t an accident.

Echoes You Can’t Ignore is a chilling collection of unforgettable encounters, each tale unraveling the thin boundary between the known and the unknowable. From haunted signals and whispered names to photographs that rewrite memory, this anthology drags the eerie into your everyday—and dares you to keep reading. Told in gripping first-person accounts, these modern horror stories are not about monsters under the bed. They’re about the ones that sit beside you. They’re the dreams you didn’t have. The voice in the vent. The shadow in the last frame. And once you meet them, they never ...

Four years after the events of The Worm and His Kings, Donna Ashton ekes out a life far removed from her troubled past, only to be abducted one December night by a monster in man's skin. Held prisoner by operatives of a clandestine research facility and drugged into a sickened state, each day brings questioning and punishment. Escape should be possible when Donna faces only mortal hands this time, but the more she sees, the worse her mind splinters with horrific understanding.

Brace yourself for the ULTIMATE MIND-BENDING NIGHTMARE! "The Night Shift" isn't just a story – it's a reality-shattering experience that'll electrify your soul! Step into Sally's shoes as her ordinary night at a gas station explodes into a heart-stopping battle against unspeakable horrors. Feel your pulse thunder as the veil between worlds tears, unleashing mind-warping entities into our reality!

Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home after church. And above all—never, ever, go into Red Wood. These are the rules Latavia's aunt gives her when Latavia arrives in Sanctum, Alabama for the summer. Though, weird as they are, living in Sanctum does have its pros. Mainly, the cute girl who works at the local ice cream shop. But Sanctum is turning out to be as strange as the rules—and the longer Latavia’s in town, the more suspicious she is that the people there are hiding something. And the more clear it is that she’s an outsider.

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 (...

Something Watched the Baby Monitor by G.J. Fene When Marlene Grace moved into her quiet suburban home with her newborn daughter, she thought the scariest thing she’d face would be sleepless nights and teething pain. But then the baby monitor began whispering. At first, it was just faint static. A rhythm. A hum. Then words—spoken in no language Marlene knew. Then Leah, her six-month-old daughter, began humming it back. As strange lights flicker outside the nursery window and scorched circles appear in the lawn, Marlene begins to realize: the monitor isn’t picking up interference. ...

Lily Horne is a drama queen. It's helped her rise to stardom in the school play, but it's also landed her in trouble. Her parents warn her that Florida has to be different. It's a fresh start. No theatrics. But this time, the drama is coming for her. The Hornes' new house is awful. The pool is full of slime; the dock is rotten; and the swamp creeps closer every day. But worst of all, the house isn't empty...it's packed full of trash, memories, and, Lily begins to fear, the ghost of the girl who lived there before her. And whatever is waiting in the shadows wants to come out to play.

1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But Viv feels that something is wrong, something disturbing and haunting. And then she vanishes. 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv. She decides to move to Fell and take a job at the hotel - as a night clerk - to try to get to the bottom of the mystery. But Carly soon discovers that, before she vanished, Viv believed she was on the trail of something truly sinister.

Gather 'round for ominous tales of the paranormal that’ll have you looking over your shoulder to make sure you’re actually alone. The World’s Favorite Ghost Stories is a carefully curated collection of hair-raising ghost stories from around the world meant to thrill and ensnare you. Listen to this audiobook for unsettling ghost stories that’ll get under your skin. These peculiar tales from different corners of the world (including the United Kingdom, India, and the United States) are so vivid that they almost feel real. But they couldn’t be - could they?

Pierce the curtain of reality into a world of the bizarre and the macabre: a midnight realm of the creaking footsteps on the stairs, of the pale visage in the dark, and of the tingling shivers down your spine.

An anthology of chilling, classic horror stories, including "The Tale-Tell Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; "The Hand", "Was it a Dream?", and "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Red Room" by H.G. Wells; "Moon-Face" by Jack London; "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Essie O’Neill is afraid of everything. She’s afraid of cats and electric lights. She’s afraid of the silver sick bell, a family heirloom that brings up frightening memories. Most of all, she’s afraid of the red door in her nightmares.