Horror Town

Why would a biotech company release a dangerous virus? Because they already have the cure... A mysterious, man-made virus outbreak races through the small town of Marshall, Wisconsin. Dogs throughout the town are quickly infected by the plague with disastrous results. The gentle pet of yesterday suddenly snaps at its loving owner. Dogs all over town are turned outdoors when they abruptly become aggressive. Stray dogs, reverting to the behavior of their canine ancestors, begin to form efficient and deadly packs. A hunter in the vast forest outside of town becomes the hunted. A runaway ...

Winter casts a serene spell over the small town of Pine Hollow, covering it in a blanket of snow and holiday cheer. But for ten-year-old Ella and her family, this Christmas season is anything but peaceful. One morning, Ella wakes to find a snowman standing in her front yard. At first glance, it seems like a harmless, playful creation. Its coal-black eyes and crooked grin give it an almost endearing charm. But as the days go by, the snowman begins to move - closer to the house, closer to Ella’s window - without leaving a single footprint behind. Ella’s parents dismiss her fears as ...

Brad's mostly been a loner, content with his job and his tiny apartment. He's never thought much about being part of something. He's never really thought about the bigger picture. Until he meets a beautiful (and possibly psychotic) girl named Dawn. Dawn leads Brad into a vicious world as hedonistically carnal as it is brutal, forcing Brad to decide if he's going to dig deep within himself and continue to resist the community he's remained apart from his entire life or embrace it and accept his new reality.

Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow. If Olivia’s going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she’ll need to dodge residents enslaved by the storm’s otherworldly powers and find Sunflower.

In a small town tucked away in the Midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them. The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer.

The Preacher is ready to start a family, but as an 800-year-old vampire, there’s more to it than simply finding a willing mate, especially with the FBI on his tail. Mountain View, Colorado, seems like the perfect spot to raise a new brood. Once his spies are in place and local law enforcement has been compromised, Preacher is ready to hunt for the perfect disciples. A seer, a seductress, and a coven of young witches offer the best chance of success. He gathers the teens to his lair with promises of power and immortality and teaches his new children the Blood Gospel. When the final lesson ...

In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small Southern town.

None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body?

Eleanor Marsh never asked to be a protector of Brookhaven, a small town steeped in history and haunted by secrets. As a librarian, she’s always believed in the power of stories, but when she uncovered a cursed relic capable of predicting—and causing—deaths, she learned that some stories have the power to destroy. After a harrowing battle to sever the shadow’s influence, Eleanor thought the nightmare was over. But the shadow’s whispers linger, its fragments scattered and stirring in the forgotten corners of Brookhaven. When strange occurrences ripple through the town—a creeping ...

Ava, 14 years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother’s death when she finds herself on a train heading to New Orleans, to stay with Lane, the grandmother she barely remembers. Lane is a well-known artist in the New Orleans art scene. She spends most of her days in a pot-smoke haze, sipping iced coffee, and painting. Her grip on reality is shaky at best, but her work provides a comfort. Ava’s arrival unsettles Lane. The girl bears an uncanny resemblance to her daughter, whom she was estranged from before her death.

An Unforgettable Christmas Horror Story That Will Keep You Up at Night! When Emma Davis buys a Christmas tree from a strange, decrepit shop, she hopes to bring holiday cheer to her young son. But what she brings home is far more sinister than twinkling lights and festive ornaments. Shadows begin to move when no one is watching, reenacting a horrifying tragedy tied to the tree’s cursed past. Whispers echo in the dark, and an otherworldly presence threatens to consume their family. In a race against time, Emma must unravel the mystery of the tree's origins, confront the malevolent forces it...

A Town’s Dark Secret. A List That Spares No One. Welcome to Snowhaven—a charming, snow-covered town where Christmas magic hides a chilling curse. Snowhaven was a picture-perfect town, the kind that belonged on holiday postcards. Quaint cottages lined snowy streets, their rooftops adorned with twinkling lights. A towering Christmas tree stood proudly in the square, its ornaments glittering like tiny stars. But beneath the festive charm, Snowhaven harbored a dark secret. Every December, without fail, a mysterious list appears: a simple sheet of paper pinned to the town bulletin board. Its...

Go Big or Go Dead: A Twisted Psychological Thriller Two girls. One killer. No way out. Bree and her girlfriend want more than love—they want infamy. And they’ve found the perfect monster to help them get it: their former high school biology teacher, now a seasoned serial killer. Oh, their hometown, St. Isidore, will never be the same. With a string of brutal murders, the girls orchestrate a media frenzy and set up the killer to take the fall—literally. He dies in a hail of bullets, and they bask in their moment of twisted glory. But monsters don’t stay dead. The killer’s brother ...

Natalie and Rose are transported in their imaginations to the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, where one of their ancestors survived in a lifeboat for 50 days. Natalie struggles when her daughter, Rose, is diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, but the researching and retelling of Grandad Colin's story provides them both with a way to fight through. Louise Beech has always been haunted by the sea, and regularly writes travel pieces for the Hull Daily Mail, where she was a columnist for ten years.

Nestled in the quiet town of Brookhaven, Eleanor Marsh’s life as a librarian has always been peaceful, predictable, and safe. She finds comfort in the rows of books that surround her, their well-worn pages carrying stories of adventure, mystery, and hope. But when an unmarked book appears in the library’s collection, Eleanor’s ordered world begins to unravel. The book is unlike any other. Its leather cover is cracked with age, its spine unmarked, and its pages disturbingly blank—at first. Then, names begin to appear. Each name belongs to someone in Brookhaven, and beneath each one ...

The night belongs to them, and it will be a night eternal… After the blasts, it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day, the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time. Almost every single man, woman and child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals, they are farmed, harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race.

The foothills of upstate New York are alive with something terrifying. It hunts, it tempts, it traps, and there’s no escape. Thomas R Clark reinvents Irish mythology and takes you on a bloody, emotional, and horrific journey back through time with the tale of the McEntire clan, and the devastating secrets they hold. The author of the Splatterpunk Awards-nominated Bella’s Boys: A Tale of Cosmic Horror has crafted a story that’s part The Wicker Man and part Cycle of the Werewolf, but at the same time like nothing you’ve heard before.

*This booklet is a free gift to folks who are brave enough to book a night to stay in our haunted barn. Many more folks who were interested in the legend but either didn’t have enough time to stay or weren’t brave enough requested information on the legend. Here’s that information, including locations and photos of events in the Pickens County Horror legend made famous by Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy. - Little did we know when we moved here, but this bit of land has a haunted history that we would love to share with you. This area is the home of the Pickens County Horror, a ...

Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son, Jake, move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start. But Featherbank has a dark past. Fifteen years ago a twisted serial killer abducted and murdered five young boys. Until he was finally caught, the killer was known as 'The Whisper Man'. Of course, an old crime need not trouble Tom and Jake as they try to settle in to their new home. Except that now another young boy has gone missing, stirring up rumours that the original killer was always known to have an accomplice.

Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident—there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt. She'll need the help of her crew—inseparable friends, bound by a childhood pact stronger than diamonds, distance or death—to hunt it down. But she's up against a greater force of evil than she ever could have imagined.