Horror Thriller Anthology

Since the dawn of time, across almost every culture, there have been legends of shape-shifters. Men who turn into beasts and prey upon anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. Of the shape-shifter tales, none invokes as much terror as the legend of the werewolf. The stories of men who become wolves persisted through the centuries from campfire folk tales to the modern age, where we are still thrilled and horrified by tales of bloodthirsty predators in our midst.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: FANGS: Harry wakes up one morning and bites his lip because of the fangs that grew in his mouth during the night. CATHEAD CREEK: Fred inherits property in Cathead Creek, NC and discovers all three of his brothers were the victims of a legendary monster. FRESH: Sam's TV died, and a fellow worker offers him a side job robbing graves for a doctor who pays obscenely well for fresh corpses. THE TOWER: Ever since the anesthesiologist administered the drug ketamine for my ...

Evenson's first collection of 25 short stories and one novella, Altmann's Tongue (1994), garnered comparisons to Paul Bowles, Poe, and Kafka and is considered by many an existential masterpiece.

Katie Berry, award-winning author of CLAW: A Canadian Thriller would like you to meet Kitty Welch, a working girl who never thought her day would end this way: On the run, and on the dinner menu. When an appointment with a client goes awry, working girl Kitty finds her day becoming much, much more than she ever bargained for, leading her on a wild adventure of greed, obsession, and a date with destiny. Now, all she has to do is survive....

Welcome to the masquerade. Two thousand twenty was a reality horror show. And like most obnoxious entertainment reality shows, this one had its own idiosyncratic rules and penalties. Call it The Big Lockdown. We were forced to go to ground, to hide in our holes. Some went underground and never came back. Uncertainty ruled because the rules kept changing. We couldn’t say for sure, so we ventured out for food, booze and sundries like scavengers in a slow-motion apocalypse, keeping our distance from fellow human beings because you never knew who might be carrying that heavy viral load.

The terror at Hotel Caligula continues, as ghost-hunting enthusiasts explore its sinister corners. Ancient forces of nature turn the table on a lonely old man. And bullied teenagers discover that supernatural vengeance comes with a deadly price....

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. These are my latest stories The creepers include: THE JACK THE RIPPER WALKING TOUR: Dana is on assignment in London while a copycat killer is emulating the brutal murders of Jack the Ripper to the letter. THE BELL: A lonely teenager is captivated by a picture of a newly buried young man with a bell affixed to his headstone that's ringing. A BETTER MOUSETRAP: The house Brad has purchased to renovate for profit was too good to be true until he heard the incessant rustling in the walls. ...

An ancient South American cathedral extracts a heavy price from a visiting photojournalist. Ghost hunters stumble across a cursed field from which there is no escape. And a friendly neighbor discovers the new girl in town is more than she appears. Peer into the depths of Scare Street’s latest collection, a fun house mirror full of terror and nightmares.

Listeners know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here. All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong - horribly, shockingly wrong.

An Ancient Book Harboring Monstrous Secrets. A Deadly Guardian Ravenous for Blood. Rick can’t let go of what he’s seen and done. Participating in the slaughter of a werewolf will do that to a guy. But now unsettling questions linger. If that’s out there, what else lurks in the depths of the night? Now Rick has followed hints and rumors of a tome that will provide answers. But there’s a snag: it’s spent centuries secreted away in a castle dungeon in the Austrian countryside. Now he travels alone, risking his life on a perilous journey into the heart of darkness.

A young girl’s dollhouse comes alive at night, and its tiny residents possess a terrifying power. Fate stalks a young cult survivor as she struggles to escape a premonition of her own death. And a beautiful antique jewelry box reveals a dark hunger that threatens to consume its new owner....

Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to listeners of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it.

As a child, Henry Cadmus lived on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams are ones he associates with his childhood... and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping blood; strange occult rituals... and worse. If it was up to Henry, he would avoid the island entirely.

There are no zombies here! But lurking within the pages of this creepy anthology is every other type of ghoulish creature a horror enthusiast could want. Do you love monsters? We have plenty. Are demons your thing? You have your choice of the amusing type or the kind that will make you go insane. Men in Black? Check. Cannibals? Yep. Serial killers? We got ‘em. There’s even a witch thrown in for good measure. The settings in this collection range from a decaying urban city to a sinister lighthouse island...from an isolated forest to a decrepit gas station in the Arizona desert…from a ...

The Dualitists recounts the tale of the Bubb family, childless for very long but finally blessed with twins. Two friends lived in the houses surrounding the Bubbs, Harry and Tommy, but they were forbidden to see each other because of the trouble they caused. Harry and Tommy began to secretly meet in the Bubb's garden, bringing with them their knives and items to destroy with the knives. Soon, items are not enough for the boys and they begin dueling, then killing animals. But their thirst could not be quenched.

Are we alone in the universe? To date, all indications tell us we are the only intelligent form of life currently inhabiting our Milky Way Galaxy. Aliens may survive in government laboratories, but they are naturally difficult to record with any convincing fidelity. Yet yesterday’s far-out conspiracies too often become today’s startling headlines given a bit of unwanted exposure. Pause one moment now to take note of a shadow-bound summons, but beware. Your paranoid shade whispers. Of bright lights on calm nights; of tasks at hand delivered with a foreign understanding and unspeakable ...

This collection includes eight additional stories about a haunted hiking trail, a haunted road, a weakling developing his powers, a mysterious lake hiding secrets, a hoarder’s worst fear, the perfect day becoming a nightmare, a paranoid agoraphobe, and the unauthorized conclusion to [REDACTED].

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. These are my latest stories The creepers include: SCARY NIGHTS: A serial killer goes to an amusement park and kills people for the fun of it. WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY GRAVE: A son visiting gravesites purchased years ago for his father, mother, and himself discovers a stranger buried in his plot. BOGEYMAN: Ben's elation from moving to a new state is shortlived when he discovers the bogeyman has followed him and is still sleeping under his bed. KILL THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET: Charles puts a ...

These are stories that explore the scarred outposts of desperation and desire, sickness and death, sex and decay. Within this audiobook, you will also find the acclaimed novella Nearly People (nominated for awards by the International Horror Guild and the British Fantasy Society), in which a woman's search for food in a nightmarish city brings her attention from an enigmatic man known as The Dancer, and a host of terrible epiphanies.

She has marked you for death. Pari Tibba, the land of fairies is home to an ancient legend. Deep in the belly of its oak and pine forest lurks an evil, waiting to be unleashed. Andrew Garrison is desperate. Driven with sorrow, he sets out to Pari Tibba to seek the very evil whose name must not be spoken of. Disclaimer: This revenge horror story is marked explicit for its violent and gruesome nature. The story contains mentions of rape and non-consensual sexual acts, strong mature language and graphic violence.