Ghost Horror

Midnight. Some call it the witching hour. Others call it the devil’s hour. Here in the graveyard, midnight is a very special time. It is a time when ghostly spirits are at their strongest, when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. Legend has it, that while most of the world is asleep, the lack of prayers allow the spirits to communicate under the cover of darkness, among the headstones, their whispers rustling in the leaves of the old oak trees. But if you’re here in the graveyard, you can tell yourself it’s just the wind....

“I couldn’t put this down; as evidence, it is 3:20 AM, and I just finished.” “... pulls you in from the beginning and keeps you pulled in.”—Hidden Gems True crime writer Kendall Casey has always been drawn to dark stories, but her latest project leads her to a neighborhood shrouded in secrets. Located in the North Carolina mountains, The Cove is a community in which the neighbors are far from harmonious. The Guffs are openly despised, while the charming entertainers, the Robinettes, are adored by all. When Kendall’s wayward sister arrives unexpectedly and vows that she’s ...

Horror Road Book 2 - A Supernatural Thriller is a story of ancient spirits, ghosts, psychics, and killers, by Robert Boren, author of the Bug Out! Series. In Horror Road Book 1, the action was spread out in three locations - the Kansas RV Park, Portuguese Bend in Southern California, and Klamath in Northern California. In Horror Road Book 2, the psychics are attacked by the spirit they call the other. This powerful spirit takes possession of four new people, adding them to the minions it already had under it's power. Jake and Frankie are on the verge of fleeing Kansas when the psychics from...

For the first time, the complete works of M. R. James are available to download in one collection. This unabridged collection of all M.R. James' ghost stories includes tales from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It is expertly read by award-winning narrator Jonathan Keeble.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King& Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE THE GATED TRILOGY - Winner of multiple achievements including - a UK & US Horror Chart Top 10 best seller, 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & the 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the year. It was the chance of a lifetime for Avery Grant, the opportunity to run an election campaign for a candidate that seemed like the real deal. Christian Tolanson has risen through the ranks of British politics. A man with a unique ability to inspire those around ...

Amber ignored the tales of Gull's Nest, the sea-cliff house shrouded in dark history. When she realizes the legends are terrifyingly real, it's already too late. Amber's world spiraled into the unknown when her brother, Jeremy, ignored all cautions and bought Gull's Nest, an eerie house perched on a sea cliff, notorious for its dark past. Jeremy's disturbing visions were hardly a shock, given his penchant for delving into the mystical, beyond mere earthly indulgences. Amber's visit to Gull's Nest took a chilling turn when she was greeted not by her brother, but by the police, demanding she ...

When serial killer Derek Kelly met his end in the basement of number 45 Becton Road North London, the population breathed a huge sigh of relief. His brutal crimes had both shocked and horrified the population of the capital. Few cared about the strange events surrounding his death, they were only glad that he was gone. His victims were finally laid to rest, and the local community tried to move on from his evil deeds. But some things are easier said than done, for it seems at the now infamous murder house the dead are most certainly not at peace. Something is stirring within the basement of...

Beneath the serene façade 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...

Horror Stories Nightmare Collector is a collection of 10 horror stories which to delve into the fears of the protagonists, after all, who does not suffer from nightmares? Fear of death, of the loss of a loved one, of what is not understood? Dare to delve into each of the different nightmares. It contains the following stories: The morgue. Hunger. Surgery. At 3:30 a.m. The eyes of death. It all happened so fast. The sound of death. The school. The circus arrives. The campsite.

This new selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre. From Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story' through to Edith Wharton's 'Afterword', this collection covers all of the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction and helpful notes, Newton places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns 12, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined.

After his parents' sudden death in a freak car accident, eleven-year-old Stephen O'Neil reluctantly leaves behind his hometown and his best friend Reed Price. Now, thirteen years later, he solemnly returns to Dodsville to attend Reed's funeral. He drowned, Stephen soon learns, under suspicious circumstances. With shadowy memories haunting him, Stephen investigates the mystery behind Reed's death. Quickly becoming more anxious about what actually had happened, he joins forces with Reed's sisters, Julie and Tabitha, along with Julie's boyfriend Sly and Reed's ex-girlfriend Melissa. Enter an ...

A father and daughter try to survive the steady decline of all they know in this haunting thriller from award-winning author Ronald Malfi. First the birds disappeared. Then the insects took over. Then the madness began. They call it Wanderer's Folly - a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out the human race.

The woods looked dark and ominous. Between the trees, where the darkness was blacker than black, dozens of slanted yellow eyes flicked open and stared back towards the house. They weren't the eyes of anything human. When Paul and Christy purchase Croft House, they are both looking forward to a new start. Christy's abusive father is dying and she is ready to put the past well and truly behind her. But the house has other ideas. They soon realise there is something in the house, something that's trying to communicate with them. In their fear, they ask a local psychic to remove this entity. ...

Scare Street is proud to present a collection of best-selling horror author Ron Ripley’s most blood-curdling ghost stories. Four delightfully diabolical tales have been summoned from beyond the grave, and are certain to make your skin crawl. Haunted houses, vengeful spirits, ancient curses - everything you crave in a classic ghost story lurks within this ghastly collection. And as you devour one terrifying story after another, pay no attention to the chill in the air.

This omnibus brings together seven of H.E. Bulstrode’s ghost stories originally published between 2016 and 2018. These are: The Ghost of Scarside Beck A newly-wed Cumbrian vicar and his wife experience a night like none they could ever have foreseen. He may have answered his calling, but who, or what, is calling her? Old Crotchet The year is 1920, and it's Twelfth Night by the old reckoning. Festivities are about to commence at Hinton St Cuthbert Manor when something sinister stirs from its protracted dormancy, awakened, it would seem, by the arrival of two young guests. The old ways, ...

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is... When Lucy and Jack purchase a run-down terraced house, they're thrilled at the prospect of turning it into a fast profit. Leaving his wife and daughter living in their nearby flat, Jack moves in to begin work. But excitement soon turns to horror when he makes a chilling discovery beneath the floorboards. Strange occurrences plague every renovation step, from mysterious whispers to inexplicable shadows lurking in the empty house. Even with the discovery of something horrific, Jack moves his family in and rents their flat as soon as ...

Trying to exist undetected in a human world, with a human family is hard enough when you are a Vampire - but finding out your son is also the fabled Chosen One, makes things even more difficult. Will Alexi's love be enough to protect his precious child from the powers that be and prevent fate from dealing him yet another cruel blow? Or is he condemned to live out eternity alone......

In the wake of tragedy, Cumberland Springs once again finds itself thrust into a battle between good and evil. Just one day after a madman’s deadly rampage during the town’s annual Mile Long Yard Sale, the community is left reeling from the shocking violence that claimed a mother's life and left the police chief's wife in a struggle for survival. As the town works to recover, the sinister force that had possessed the man responsible for the previous events resurfaces, inhabiting a new host, again with the voracious ambition to continue its campaign of terror on the unsuspecting ...

Who knows what nightmares lurk beneath the dark recesses of the earth? Such places are better left undisturbed. But in 1906, in an unexplored section of a Pennsylvania coal mine, a young immigrant named Sean Collins unearthed what no man was ever intended to discover. What Sean didn’t know was that his curiosity and ambition would release a diabolical force into the world bent on the absolute suffering and destruction of all mankind. The struggle for the soul of humanity unknowingly begins here at the bottom of a dark mine shaft, by the unsuspecting hands of an innocent kid whose ...