Haunted House Stories

From Dust Bowl freakshows to modern day existential horror, Deathtripping collects thirty-five short stories written over a twenty-year period. Disturbing, provoking, surreal, absurd, and bitingly morbid, these stories are invitations to a world that wants to swallow the reader whole. Contains the following stories: ROOM 19 • MARKET ADJUSTMENT • THE DUST SEASON • THE MAN WITH THE FACE LIKE A BRUISE • THE PHOTOGRAPHER • THE FUNERALGOER • THE NIGHT THE MOON MADE A SOUND • THE JACKTHIEF • THE SCREAMING ORCHARD • GLOWERS POINT • CRUEL WOMEN WITH WHIPLIKE SMILES • THE SMOKE...

Karma is a beast—It will hunt you down… I am thrilled to put together this collection of creepy short stories set in different parts of the world!! From the bustling streets of Bangalore to the rugged plains of the Himalayas, from the sandy beaches of Phuket to the Savanna grasslands of Kenya— the locations are as beautiful as the horrifying events which unravel in them! All the short stories have a common thread— Revenge. This volume contains 5 horror stories that will have you feverishly turning pages, wanting more—Whether it is elderly spinster sisters who don’t want to sell ...

Cold Hill House has been demolished to make way for a new housing estate. Luxury living at its best with high specification gadgets all thrown in - part exchange available for the right buyers. The first two families move in, and as soon as they do, the unearthly residents of Cold Hill begin to make themselves known. Nobody who moves into Cold Hill reaches their 40th birthday, and the old couple that have just arrived...let’s just say their days are numbered.

Wronged by his wife. Humiliated. Devastated. A man's thoughts turn to revenge and he seeks out justice in a most unlikely way. Sometimes justice comes with a price. Be careful what you wish for. Bonus Story: A Haunted House Tale Five college students on Halloween night set out to discover the secrets of the town’s most infamous haunted house. Will these students live to see the morning or will this house claim five more victims? Bonus Story: SHe A monster stalks the city of Tampa Bay. This monster is slaughtering women and taking only the one thing it needs. Tim Roberts, a detective, is ...

After a dangerous and horrifying confrontation with an evil, life-stealing spirit, Cassie Valentine is more than ready to leave behind all things paranormal. She swears off the Poet’s Corner ghost story nights and tells bewildered boyfriend Michael Penfield that she wants nothing more to do with their “dead drama.” But a chance encounter with Mark Hemmler and his friend Trudy Herrera, plus a new series of messages asking her for help, won’t allow Cassie to leave her supernatural abilities behind. Why does Trudy hear a woman weeping in her apartment? Why is she being followed by the ...

Sugar Hill Isn’t Through With Avery Yet An Explosion of Paranormal Chaos Unleashes the Spirits of the Past Avery and Summer Dufresne thought they had finally laid the ghosts of Sugar Hill to rest. But the mansion’s restless spirits have other plans. After Avery and Reed tie the knot, a shocking explosion of paranormal energy disrupts the Starlight Ball, and Jessica Chesterfield from My Haunted Plantation is hurled back in time. Now, with Jessica trapped in the past and Sugar Hill teetering on the edge of supernatural upheaval, Avery must lead her family and Jessica’s friends in a ...

Alice Foley, a university graduate, about to take her initial steps into the workforce, is in search of accommodation that meets her budget. However, the rental market is difficult, and after a weekend of failed searching, despondent, she stumbles upon an enticing newspaper ad. She meets with a Mr .McArdle, the owner of a fabulous Georgian townhouse in Dublin, who tells her he is seeking a lodger to keep him company. Everything about the deal appeals to Alice. The following week, along with her mother. she turns up at McArdle's, where he entertains them to afternoon tea, and later on, an ...

Hotels are a place that some people frequent. Business trips, conferences, getaways, and vacations. But these people have stories to share from their experiences at hotels that weren't quite what they expected.... As one patron has advised after a terrifying experience, if you are going to an unfamiliar area, ask about the history of the place before you stay there. You'll hear about a business trip with an unexpected ghostly twist and many others. Some hotel employees as well as patrons recount numerous terrifying paranormal experiences in haunted hotels.

Bizarre murders and disturbing disappearances that remain unsolved till this day! Best-selling author Hannah J. Tidy will introduce you to some of the most fascinating cases that remain unsolved and continue to perplex us to this day.

Some of the greatest ghost stories of all time, here to send chills down your spine.

They thought it was just a party. But when darkness falls, history awakens—and it demands a reckoning. Cami and her friends stumble upon the perfect venue for their Halloween party—an abandoned train station, buried in the shadows of wartime secrets. But their night of fun twists into something sinister when an uninvited guest arrives—one who can't be found on any guest list. What starts as a joke takes a chilling turn as a Ouija board spells out a cryptic warning, hinting at a horror that waits just out of sight. Now, trapped in a place where time bleeds into the present, Cami ...

A terrifying true story of a seemingly ordinary house in a small mid-western town. 220 Fifth Street rivals the all-time great novels of its genre; however, this story is entirely true and will have you on the edge of your seat rethinking what you thought you knew about the spiritual realm and paranormal activity. In this second edition the continuing haunting is reinvestigated as the curse of 220 Fifth Street leaves a morbid trail of death, destruction, and horrific reoccurring events in its wake

A thousand years ago, something evil made a bold attempt to cross into this world. Now it's ready to try again. She's eternally young, lovely, and lethal. Her cry for help is heard by a teenage boy in Bermuda. A confused orphan in Montreal. A political prisoner in Poland. A raging paraplegic on the Pacific coast. And a bloodthirsty psychopath in New York City. Each of them is lost, confused, alone. Too weak to resist her siren call. They come cutting a path of carnage across the globe. And at last they meet. In a lonely mountain mansion. A place of unutterable evil

Shannon O’Reilly is a teenager with a problem - she can see her ancestors’ ghosts, and they want her to solve their 100-year old murder mystery. Annabelle and Lily Edmonson have been waiting a long time for someone to see them so that they can tell their story of betrayal, and finally reveal their true killer. When Shannon begins researching the murders at the local library, someone takes notice. She begins receiving threatening notes and photographs taken of her without her knowledge. An explosion at her home takes away what she holds most dear - her parents. A secret society steps in ...

Finn hates Halloween. Yet this year he let his best friend, Ryan, peer pressure him into going through a haunted house. When Ryan comforts Finn during the frightening experience, though, Finn realizes there are some perks to being spooked. This sweet and steamy MM short story features first time, friends to lovers, and a haunted frat house.

What if Leslie Wilder had never come into the Poet’s Corner Bookstore? And what if Michael Penfield hadn’t been the one standing at the sales counter that day? Michael wondered idly if that would have changed what happened, but he didn’t have time to wonder for long. Leslie Wilder’s appearance seemed to trigger a cascade of worrisome supernatural occurrences in his and girlfriend Cassie Valentine’s lives. First Cassie hears someone—or something—knocking at the bottom of her staircase. And then she experiences a trance-out that she can’t remember. Michael dreams about Cassie ...

Cassie Valentine was happy with her life. Boyfriend Michael Penfield has agreed to help her explore some of the places listed in the notebooks of Gus Valentine, Cassie’s father and a gifted psychic. Additionally, her mother has asked for assistance in planning her upcoming wedding. Life could not be better. But then Cassie befriends a vulnerable young girl who seems desperately in need of that friendship. And Steve Crawford, boss and owner of The Poet’s Corner Bookstore, seeks help trying to solve the mystery of the cold spots that now plague his store. In short order, Cassie and ...

A Knock in the Attic: True Ghost Stories & Other Spine-chilling Paranormal Adventures by John Russell is an engrossing, at times, disturbing nonfiction book in which the author narrates his supernatural experiences. At the tender age of five, John had his first encounter with a black ghost. The image of the old black man's face peering around one of the doorways from down the hall will always stay with him, and he refers to it as “the harbinger of the beginning” of his psychic, mediumistic, paranormal life, a life lived at the edge of the Veil which separates the seen and unseen worlds....

A Most Haunted House is the worldwide best seller based on a true and terrifying account of an aggressive haunting in a small Welsh town.

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century. Her stories often seem to take the form of a stream of consciousness. 'A Haunted House' tells the story of a ghostly couple flitting from one room to the next in search of their hidden treasure...but what is it?