Horror Anthology

More chills await as Frank Benedict goes deeper into the unknown… Frank Benedict has devoted his life to mediating between the living and the dead. With his deep sense of compassion, he helps spirits find peace and provide closure for those they leave behind. Follow Frank as he goes undercover in a nursing home, investigates the haunting of a modern office building, and meets unlikely allies in an idyllic coastal village. These stories explore the challenges of confronting the unknown and the resolve it takes to bring peace to the restless. Haunted Secrets: Tales of Frank Benedict Vol.

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of twenty-first century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.

In the haunted halls of the Anderson House, Eloise remains a girl untouched by time. Her past has been shrouded in mystery, until now… Witness Eloise’s touching bond with a woman mourning the loss of her daughter, an unseen companionship with a child in solitude, and her battle with a treacherous spirit dwelling in the shadows. In this collection, you’ll find seven bite-sized tales that will scare and surprise you. Prepare yourself for a window into Eloise’s thrilling world, as she navigates life with childlike wonder and ghostly encounters.

Ghosts, mysteries, and dark truths—it’s all in a day’s work for Leo Moreland. Join Leo as he unravels the eerie power of a cursed cloak, investigates a haunting at a Christmas party, and deciphers a cryptic message in an old book, uncovering secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka, Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: Creepers 2 THE STUFF FILM: A billionaire is worried about his three daughters' disappearance after they left for Hollywood to be movie stars. THE COLLECTION: After twenty years together as soulmates, Jason is suspicious Cindy may be having an affair. THE PRACTICAL JOKER: Tom Tully has been playing repulsive pranks on people all his life but this time he picked the wrong person. FINGERS: A serial killer the media has named "Fingers" who amputates the index finger of ...

The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Probiscus" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: VOODOO DOLLS: A homicide detective finds creepy voodoo dolls in his daughter's closet after she starts dating someone whose major is mortician science. HOODWINK, BAMBOOZLE, & SCREW: A junior administrative new hire is invited to a senior partner's extravagant party that until now has only included members of the partnership group. EXTERMINTORS.COM: A psychiatrist suggests an unexpected remedy for a new patient's deep depression. THE PHANTOM: Two detectives rescue the ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories for readers who would enjoy a stroll through a graveyard after midnight. Hark! Don’t read this book if a deranged maniac has escaped from the local asylum. Otherwise, enjoy the horror! The creepers include:BLOOD AND SNOW: Members of a team sent to the Scandinavian mountains to develop a new ski resort are disappearing one by one. THE LAST WISH: Tom buys a strange blue bottle from a flea market and discovers a genie inside who grants three wishes. DINNER AT LUGOSI: A vicious food critic receives an invitation from a renowned restaurant whose ...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: THE BLIND MAN: Two career criminals see a blind man with a wad of cash at the mall and follow him home. BAD TO THE BONE: Ted sees a gruesome accident, discovers he can't get enough death and dismemberment, and his graphic videos go viral on the net. DEAL OR NO DEAL: An author who lost his wife in a fatal accident meets a weird man at the bar who says he can bring her back for a price. IDENTICAL: A frightened and confused pregnant woman delivers three identical girls ...

The fading memories Jacob has of his deceased mother are buried on a few VHS home movies. Recently haunted by recurring dreams of her, he sets out to pick up a used VCR, and finds one at a local yard sale. However this is no ordinary VCR. According to the owner, this particular model not only plays movies, but it allows one to communicate with the dead. Fueled by curiosity, Jacob takes it home and soon discovers that what he possesses opens a doorway to darkness, death, and lust.

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalized by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's dominance over the natural world. The mountain paradise of "Monte Verità" promises immortality, but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life.

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

Combine horror with pitch dark emotion and human drama. Fiends of the Flesh will fit the needs of the thrill seeker inside us all that is looking for a new ride into the void of frenzied fear. You are officially welcome on a journey through an incredible gathering of fiends telling their tales in this anthology currently residing in your fingers. This veritable smorgasbord of stories will convalesce your hunger for terror; ranging from assassins to aliens, ghosts to gangsters, monsters to maniacs: A compilation of creepy tales to keep your blood and imagination racing till you get to the ...

A collection of Smith's apace adventure stories featuring Captain Volmar, including the never before published novella, "Red World of Polaris."

Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he's no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother, Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie's death exposes secret government projects so deep in the black they cannot be seen - without Vitus, that is. Sprung from jail, the government hires Vitus to clean up Jamie's messes, but tracking down his brother's homemade monsters gone rogue is easier said than done. The first of them is a convicted killer assumed to be safely behind bars.

All the stories in this collection from Stephen King are related to the Vietnam War. King fans will recognize echoes of The Dark Tower series in the collection's first story, "Low Men in Yellow Coats." As the characters develop over the next four stories, King's version of the Vietnam War becomes one of his most frightening tales ever.

Prepare to be terrified with four bone-chilling tales that will keep you up long after the last page is turned. "Echoes of the Unseen" takes you on a journey through haunted spaces where reality bends and nightmares come alive. In this gripping collection, you'll encounter: - A group of friends who awaken a malevolent presence while creating the ultimate haunted house attraction - An architect uncovering cosmic horrors in an abandoned train station - A novelist trapped in a Victorian mansion where the seasons themselves hold captive souls - Three children who discover a treehouse that ...

A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: Of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short-story collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration.

Welcome to Darling Girl's first ever Trilogy of Holiday Horror. In this macabre collection you will enjoy her first three holiday adventures - and nary a serving of pancakes in the bunch! Darling Girl's Halloween Carol tells the tale of Halloween and her fifteenth birthday, when something terrible happens! Something wonderful and awful and terrifying and beautiful and TERRIBLE! Darling Girl's Memorial Day Fireworks sets her in the company of a hippy ghost and a homeless Vietnam veteran, and Darling will play a vital role in the city’s Memorial Day ceremony. The stage is set for sundown at...