Ghost Horror

Shadows Among Us. Three stories. One chilling thread. A horror that feels too close to home. This is not the kind of horror that screams—it whispers. The fear in these pages doesn’t leap out; it sits with you long after you've turned the last page. If you’ve ever felt something watching you from the corner of your eye, or sensed a shift in the air at night, you’ll feel right at home in these stories. Each one is deeply grounded, terrifying not because of what jumps out, but because of how familiar it all feels. The kind of unease that’s quiet, personal, and deeply Indian in spirit...

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.

Unlock the gates to a world of fear with Short Horror Stories Vol. 1-27. Perfect for both horror aficionados and newcomers to the genre, this collection of over 80 meticulously crafted short stories promises an intense experience of pure, unrelenting fear. Each story is a journey that will take you to a maelstrom of dread and suspense. From sinister urban legends and eerie encounters to unsettling tales of psychological horror, this anthology delivers an array of nightmares that will grip your imagination and refuse to let go.

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, ...

At first glance, Father Michael McGhee appears to be a churchman on the rise, a brilliant Jesuit theologian working in the top doctrinal office of the Vatican and a world-renowned scholar. Beneath the glossy surface lies the broken heart and the shattered soul of a man who long ago stopped believing in the God he claims to serve. Sent to a quiet, unassuming coastal village for a solitary retreat, Father Michael is asked to informally investigate a purported miracle and comes face-to-face with the cosmic collision of grace and evil. In a single week leading up to Easter, Father Michael seeks...

Unlock the door to a world where myths breathe, mysteries fester, and fiction blends with reality. The Horror Files brings together an enthralling collection of short stories that merge the eerie beauty of legends with gripping mysteries, unsettling horrors, paranormal activity and mystery. From cursed relics, ghostly enigmas, modern day vampires, and real life fight for survival stories, these tales transport readers into dark corners where the boundaries of imagination dissolve. For fans of spellbinding horror and stories that linger in your mind long after the last page, The Horror Files...

On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother.

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...

A Husband's Secrets, A Ghost's Whispers. A Treacherous Moor. Madeline Ignored the Chilling Signs. She shouldn't have done that. In a desperate bid to escape the chaos of New York City and save a crumbling marriage, famed novelist Madeline and her actor husband, Jason, retreat to the alluring but isolated landscapes of the English moors. But as Madeline seeks inspiration for her writing, she finds herself ensnared in the haunting legends and hidden perils of the house on the moor. From the mysterious gardener Emil, to the enigmatic local, Liam, who seems almost spectral in his comings and ...

Horror writer Michael Richards is disturbed from his daily grind by blood dripping from the ceiling, which steadily worsens. Soon, the blood becomes Michael's personal metaphor in a battle of denial. When a compulsive gambler is forced to seek out a loan shark rooted in myth, he discovers the dark saviour teaches more to his pupils than deliverance from debt. Trapped within a room of sinister dolls, an average man is forced to confront his very worst fears ... and quickly learns staring into the abyss does not grant you a reprieve from them. Interweaving horror into socially relevant ...

Some mirrors reflect your face. Others reflect your fate. When down-on-her-luck mortuary cosmetologist Lena Holloway inherits a decrepit flat on London’s forgotten Pearl Street, she thinks she’s found the perfect escape from a past full of ghosts. But beneath her floorboards is something older. Hungrier. Waiting. A hidden barbershop sealed since the 1800s. A string of pearls that whisper secrets. And a cursed razor known as the Crooked Blade—carved to cut not just flesh, but souls. As the boundary between mirrors and reality cracks, Lena is pulled into a supernatural spiral of ghostly...

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 ...

The end of the world is always a nightmare. But when it comes with the System, then it's not a nightmare for everyone. Not everybody is ready to fall into despair and come to terms with their fate as zombie food. Some people are ready to keep fighting however they can. Take Kasp as an example of one of those people. The end of the world was no nightmare for him. In fact, when the zombies and the System showed up, it brought new meaning to his life along with exciting new adventures!

Billy's client has a couple of problems. She's dead, for starters. She smells bad. And her laundry equipment is trying to kill her all over again. Saving the (undead) girl shouldn't be this hard..

In a haunting tale of suspense and secrets, an elderly woman's serene life is upended when a malevolent figure from her past reemerges in her stately, enigmatic home by Snake River. As family bonds and dark legacies intertwine, this gripping narrative delves into a world where every corner of the house whispers of hidden truths and unresolved mysteries. The story escalates to a heart-stopping conclusion, leaving readers captivated by the chilling revelation of what truly lurks within its walls.

One man stands against the forces of darkness! After his fiancée is slain by a murderous cult, Delta Force Operator Mark Talon dedicates himself to a new mission - hunting down twisted occultists around the globe and stopping them before they can unleash the forces of darkness upon an unsuspecting world. The Occult Assassin saga continues with a series of thrilling and terrifying new dark missions. This second boxset collects the next three books in the Occult Assassin supernatural action thriller series and includes a bonus short story. Titles included in the set: Spirit Breaker, Soul ...

A strange evil lurks within the rambling building; to some it appears as an innocent child but Queenie and Sybil see the truth, that it is pure evil. They soon realise that it has a sinister motive in befriending a little girl, to steal her soul. Using their knowledge of the occult and with the help of the child's aunt they begin to uncover the truth surrounding the old Victorian building and the significance of a murder that happened 150 years previously. The Haunting of Stoke Water is the third in The Psychic Sisters series. #1 The Lavender Witch #2 The Cunning Man #4 The Doll #5 From The...

Layne's brother, Brian, was once a happy, vibrant man—full of life and laughter. But that was before the darkness took hold. After his sudden, inexplicable death, Layne inherits his house—an ominous shell of secrets and shadows. Hoping to unravel the truth behind his descent into madness, she moves in with her young son, Cade.

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.

For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past - and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic best seller is a work of "superb horror" ( Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time - and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.