Haunted House Stories

Elmer's life is pretty good, but his house is infested with mysterious creatures! Nothing too scary here, just a sweet, loving tale that’s set in the Halloween season, with a gentle hint of mystery and a satisfying, uplifting conclusion. At just about 3,000 words, it’s ideal for reading aloud. Adults will enjoy it as much as children. Appropriate for all ages.

Live the Magic Love the Adventure This summer Emma joined the swim team. She is excited to go to an out-of-town swim meet with her friends, Jordan and Kathy, but a few wrong turns on the way home, and the group is in trouble. They end up lost in a forested area, with only one lonely castle in the distance. When Jordan's mother disappears inside the castle, it's up to Emma, Jordan, and Kathy to find out what happened. Will Emma survive her night in Castle Boo? Find out in this next installment of the Dusky Hollows Series. Book 1: Fierce Winds & Fiery Dragons Book 2: Curse of the Invisibles ...

When Hillarie Higgins and her husband unknowingly find their first home is haunted, it sets off a chain of life-altering and tragic events that can only be managed using perspective, resilience, and a deliciously dark sense of humor. The Bank Doesn't Care If Your House Is Haunted is a spooky, irreverent, and touching storybook that demonstrates how it doesn't matter what personal devastation or paranormal activity you're actively trying to survive in your life as, at the end of the month, you're still expected to pay your mortgage.

Halloween night and the gauntlet was thrown. The moon cast its eerie glow on the night of All Hallows' Eve as a tale of courage unfolds. Its shrouded history and veiled secrets, beckons the brave to uncover its mysteries. Four intrepid souls, lured by legend and whispers of the past, step into the realm of the unknown. The unwelcoming, weather-beaten, Murder House warned anyone who approached to stay away. The doors and windows were tightly closed and covered, and the old cemetery left unattended. Embrace the thrill, seize your copy, and delve into the night where legends come alive!

"Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories" (1913) is a collection of short horror stories by Ambrose Bierce. This edition includes 19 stories in three categories: "The Ways of Ghosts", "Soldier Folk", and "Some Haunted Houses". Suggestion for listening to this recording: sit alone in the semidarkness of your room, late at night. Do you hear the wind blowing, dogs barking, and the creepy scratching somewhere close? Do you like that inner chill which goes up and down your spine?

Rick Hayes is a Psychic Medium / Life Consultant and a media favorite appearing on television, film, radio, and print media including appearances on The Travel Channel, SYFY Network, Chiller Channel, Fox Television, CBS Radio, and Sirius Satellite Radio. In this short book, Rick Hayes, explains the foundations for many hauntings by the spirit world. Are spirits really trapped in locations? What is the importance of a location to a ghost? What are the foundations for a haunted location?

Esta colección de relatos cortos escrita por Ambrose Bierce transcurre en una atmósfera sombría y escalofriante entorno a misteriosas casas que, al ser testigos de hechos macabros en el pasado, presentan fama de estar habitadas por sucesos extraños. Una extraña sensación de desasosiego se adentra en tu imaginación a medida que la prosa de Bierce detalla con calma lo que parecen ser los embrujos de algunas casas encantadas. Fantasmas, cabezas rodantes, habitaciones ocultas y embrujadas, tumbas espantosas y horripilantes con lapsus en el tiempo.

When sixteen-year-old Paige Preston and her mother relocated to Dead Lake, Michigan, they were unaware that a seventeen-year-old previous resident of their house had killed himself by jumping off a cliff into the lake six months earlier. But was it really suicide? Noah Snyder is a ghost. At least he thinks so. Only he's not sure how he died. He recruits the cute Paige to help him get to the bottom of the mystery so he can move on.

In this third Suddenly Supernatural book, spirit-seeing Kat has pretty much overcome her fear of communicating with ghosts. But when she and best friend Jac visit the Whispering Pines Mountain House and Kat is challenged to help a deceased medium make her way back into the light, things get a little darker.

Commercial burglar Stan Winkelman encounters the ghost of a Jane Manchester, wrongly confined for life in a 1940s insane asylum by a powerful family. She wants to know what happened to Harmon, the baby boy that was stolen from her. Aided by Jeannie, his ghost-obsessed autistic daughter, Stan and Jane begin a quest to find Harmon, or his descendants. But their search will run them afoul of Andrew Bigelow, reclusive heir to the fortune Jane was robbed of. And Bigelow is in cahoots with a murderous crew who deal in guns and blood diamonds and will stop at nothing to keep their crimes hidden. ...

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....

After she died that time, she was frozen, waiting for the answer to crash in on her... Lilli Ashler was an actor of limited ability who found fame in a play called A Lunatic’s Laugh. Her mediocre talent led gossips to say she must have sold her soul for success. Then she disappeared from public view. When Lilli dies, her granddaughter, Dominique, inherits her Gothic Irish mansion. Opposite the mansion stands a notorious asylum where the writer of A Lunatic’s Laugh spent time as an inmate before he dashed his head against the wall, his blood and brains seeping into the stone. The ...

When a malicious chair's only desire is to prosper from negative thoughts, will Clarisse be willing to trade her mind for a premonition? They don't have the safety of distance to rely upon--only five days to decide if they are made for each other before Harry leaves back home. Or will the mysterious scarlet chair determine their fate? She was unlucky in love, recently separated, and desperately searching for the man of her dreams. For Harry, recently divorced-- it carried risk and uncertainty? In this heart-rending search for passion, he travels to the city of our affection to meet Clarisse...

A Journey of Discovery from Lake Erie to the Florida Swamps. In Erie Swamps: Road Trip to Eden, author and researcher, Connor Flynn will take you on a voyage through time and space. His primary mission will hopefully lead him and his cohort to the Garden of Eden. He explores campfire stories, behemoth cryptids and urban legends that blanket the Lake Erie boulevard down to the Florida Swamps. On his quest for consciousness and hidden knowledge, he uncovers secrets of the modern world which bridge mankind to ancient times. So, light your lanterns and keep your head on a swivel as things are ...

Malyn Reed has always been able to see spirits but never thought she'd fall in love with one…until she met Beau Brogan. Even among the spirit world, Beau Brogan is different. Having the ability to interact with the living world in ways that are uncommon for most ghosts, he draws the unwanted attention of Takers, the inhabitants of the Darkness. When Beau realizes the secrets that are held within the Darkness, he will have to face one of the toughest decisions he’s ever made, dead or alive. Malyn Reed is not only fervently haunted by Beau, but she’s also haunted by the decision he ...

"With your hand on my lower back, we deviate from the prepared route, leave the group and navigate through the crashed shelves. Here in the darkness you stop, just as we get out of the flickering light from the lamps hanging off the roof at odd angles. I stop next to you. I don't know what to expect might happen next." In line for the haunted house, Stella sees her. She is the only one person not in costume, in a button shirt, vest and deep red lips. And a tie. Stella feels drawn to her, the things she might do with that tie...

The paranormal fascinates Shannon…until she comes face to face with it. Dragged to Pirate Cove, Texas by a mom frantic to escape a failed marriage, Shannon is trying to forget her own cheating boyfriend. The seventeen-year-old throws herself into investigating an old Victorian house that has a reputation for being haunted. Cool...right up her alley. She wants to see a ghost. Of course, she meets a cute guy right off the bat. Jake is distracting enough to challenge her vow to put love on the backburner. Then the old house starts to prove it deserves its reputation--but not in the cool ways...

Fear: noun - an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. Fear is a very interesting emotion. It’s what controls people, communities, entire populations, and countries. It evokes a primal sense of self preservation. The stories here will evoke all sorts of emotions – fear, anger, dread, sadness, relief. But through these words, I hope to take you on a journey into the deepest, darkest crevices of your mind, exposing you to the horrors that exist both in the world around us and in that of your imagination.

Jilly Henderson was looking forward to a week of bliss at the beach: alone, no work and no one to bother her. The last thing she expected was to find her hunky boss holidaying in the beach shack next door.He looked mighty different to the uptight executive she was used to. He'd shed the suit and turned into a surf god. Dominic is horrified that Jilly is living in the old shack. Rumour has it that it's haunted. He wants her to move but she digs in. Can she ignore his charms...and who is the secret visitor who won't leave her in peace?

Nothing can harm them - or can it? There's a house on a hill at the very edge of the small town of Warren's End, a house that no one had any business in building up there. It's been said many times before now, but there's nothing quite like hindsight to bring everything into focus. Morris Stumper never was too good at taking advice, even when that advice could save a person a bushel load of heartache. Unfortunately, this hill was once the site of a cemetery with a ghastly history. Morris, anxious to pay as little money as possible for a home with a view, heedlessly sat his house on the ...