Halloween Horror

It can’t happen to me, it can’t! A moment that paralyzes the body, freezes the soul, and curdles the blood; a few seconds of the depth of horror known only in nightmares can appear and scowl into your face. The horror stories in this anthology can create that effect on you; but nightmares are transient since they come, they go and the friendly light switch, the first rays of dawn, the sound of the milk deliverer; in short, a reunion with the mundane and the familiar brings us back to sanity. This collection of stories is not about dreams, horrifying though they might be, it is about ...

In this fourth book of the Theron ghost series, a witch that was burned at the stake in colonial days comes back to fulfill the curse she put on the village. Theron must pit his paranormal powers against those of this demon from hell. An old friend arrives to amuse and annoy him as he works to save his hometown. Here’s his Halloween tribute to the occasion. This gets gritty. Once again, Theron starts a new journal to continue to relate his afterlife activities. This time, he writes about an ancient curse that forces him to investigate a suspicious death in his village. Could a witch have ...

17 SHORT TALES FEATURING SHERLOCK HOLMES, HARRY HOUDINI, DOCTOR WATSON, PROFESSOR CHALLENGER, DRACULA AND OTHER FRIENDS OF HOLMES TALES OF HORROR. TALES OF TERROR. TALES OF HUMOR. TALES OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE GREAT READS WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF TIME, BUT STILL IS A COMPLETE STORY.

Book one of the fantasy horror trilogy, with lashings of British humour. Philip awakes, naked and chained to the floor by wrist and ankle, in the ramshackle dwelling of a family of murderous inbreds. His only hope of rescue lies with Matilda, their hideously deformed and needy daughter, who lurks in the shadows in her bloodied wedding dress. But what will she require of him in return? Matilda has lived in the darkness all her life. Finally, an Outsider has appeared, a man who - with a little good-natured prodding - can save her from her brutal father and show her what life is like outside ...

After being widowed in the second world war, Young School teacher Judith moves to start a new life in a remote Norfolk village. Finding herself alone in her remote cottage for long evenings she often finds herself talking to an old photograph of a young girl which came with the house. When the girl begins to haunt her dreams Judith becomes involved in a terrifying and jumpy ghost story.

Two men trek through a snowstorm along the frozen Black River, seeking safety from the undead that pursue them.

Three weeks have passed since Lucy’s terrifying visit to North London, and now it’s looking as if Hell has followed her…… It’s the early hours of Halloween morning, and two police officers have been dispatched to investigate a disturbance at a notoriously bad Council Estate in North London. Expecting to encounter nothing more complicated than a domestic disturbance, they are completely unprepared for the nightmare that they are about to walk in to. For the Shepherd stalks the night, and its appearance has terrifying implications for both the living, and the dead. Welcome to the ...

Something sinister lurks within the old mill town of Ashton Falls, Maine. For Chris Murphy and his daughter the New England village offers the promise of a new beginning, new hope, and a new romance. When strange accidents begin to befall the citizens of the town, an evil force threatens the safety of those closest to Chris. A dark mystery lies deep in the town’s shadows and a web of intrigue reaches from the Dark Ages to Nazi Europe and finally to Ashton Falls itself. Will Chris have the strength and courage to defeat this evil force? Will he stop it before it destroys the people he ...

For ages, people have been interested in the supernatural. Investigators and science researchers have written many books on the subject. The reality of the supernatural explains phenomena in a new light. Ghost sightings, poltergeists, angels, demons, the old hag syndrome and life after death are just some of the true personal accounts in these pages. Scientific research along with two thousand year old bible references mentioned to support some of these occurrences. For believers and skeptics!

SOMETHING IS EATING THE CHILDREN OF FORRESTAL When high school student Calvin Pressley interrupts two grown ups in strange robes dragging a screaming young girl out into the woods, his life turns upside down and inside out. He'd just assumed all those stupid stories about 'the Pumpkin Patch Man' were pure b.s. -- the assholes hazing the new kid in town. But there's sure as shit something going on in Forrestal... something pretty horrible, from what he's just gotten involved in. But what can a high school kid possibly do about a secret -- or not so secret -- jack o'lantern headed monster ...

Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan?' Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us.' The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in the attic. In the child's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. At first, easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes begin to appear in eleven-year-old Regan. Medical tests fail to shed any light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded her body.

Ah, Autumn! Crisp weather, colorful leaves, cozy fires, and Halloween, with candy, costumes and … corpses? Newly-widowed Bunny Elder draws solace from the fall season as she recovers from the shock of her pastor husband’s accidental death. With a new home, new job and renewed relationships, she is groping her way to stability, only to be jerked off the healing path by the dead bodies and body parts thrust in her way by a serial killer who uses the small mountain community’s Halloween decorations to display his victims. Will Bunny be able to cope, when this madman sets his sights on ...

For goth-girl Raven, dating her dream boyfriend is complicated, especially because Alexander’s secret means that they can see each other only at night. And now the pair must be extra wary in the dark with Alexander’s archrival, Jagger, appearing around town. As if Jagger isn’t enough cause for worry, Luna, his strikingly pale sister, has also surfaced and seems to have her sights set on Raven’s longtime nemesis, Trevor.

In the Willows: Volume II is the second collection of short stories and novellas by Billie Dean Shoemate III. He has selected stories from 2017 to 2020, including one out of his personal vault. Ranging from horror, thriller, to science fiction, these seven stories were chosen by the author, who sees them as his personal best at this stage in his writing career. From a haunted lost symphony, a mysterious library where people arrive with no memory of who they are, to the crew of a doomed ghost ship, In the Willows: Volume II was compiled in order to mystify, as well as terrify.

When a group of six strangers who have only ever spoken on a creepy Deddit thread decide to meet IRL, they have one plan in mind: they are going to play The Midnight Game and summon the Midnight Man. Rules of the game are simple: Do not turn on the lights. Do not go to sleep. Do not leave the building. And once you start the game, you must finish it—there's no other way out.

Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who lives with a spinster maid in the eerie Castle Carver. Sophronia must be a witch, and she almost certainly killed her husband.

There’s a new vampire in town. His name is Valentine Maxwell. Goth-girl Raven knows this latest intruder can only mean trouble—he’s the younger sibling of two vampires she fought to drive out of Dullsville. But when her brother, Billy, befriends this dangerous tween night prowler, the stakes are suddenly higher. Though torn by the excitement of every teen girl’s fantasy—attending the prom with her boyfriend—Raven must do everything she can to protect Billy.

Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath the surface, the waters are deep and vicious. It’s said that no one who has fallen in has ever survived. Eden White knows that isn’t true. Six years ago, she saw Delphine Fournier fall into the Narrow—and live.

When Evelyn Eldritch is struck by lightning, she gains more than just a shock to the system - she discovers she's a witch! And so begin the adventures of a novice witch in one quirky village - with a maddeningly handsome policeman and a whole lotta murder, mystery, and magic! Dive into this enchanting four-book boxset, containing over 800 pages of paranormal cozy fun today!

All Goff wanted was for his essay on witchcraft to be good enough to win a scholarship to a private academy far away from Spraksville, the miserable, spooky little town he is stuck in. But, if he'd known that Spraksville's history of witchcraft was more than just folklore, he never would have experimented with casting a spell in the cemetery at midnight as research to make the essay great.