Island Horror

Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her 80th birthday. It is Halloween, and Seaglass—the crumbling Cornish house perched upon its own tiny private island—is at one with the granite rocks it sits on. The Darker family haven’t all been in the same place for over a decade, and when the tide comes in, they’ll be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. When the tide goes back out, nothing will ever be the same again, because one of them is a killer.

Guided by satellite photos and modern technology, a ragtag group of survivalists and scientists travel to an uncharted island in the remote South Indian Ocean. Things go to hell in a hurry once the team reaches the island, and the massive megalodon that attacked their boats is only the beginning of their desperate fight for survival.

In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits of her dead husband and daughter had joined the nightmarchers—ghosts of ancient warriors that rise from their burial sites on moonless nights. But was it suicide, or did a strange young missionary girl, Agnes, play a role in Irene's deteriorating state of mind?

The Containment Bureau has housed paranormal objects for hundreds of years. A facility buried beneath the mountains, the Bureau has studied and maintained Relics with great efficiency. But when Deacon receives a late-night phone call from his sister that the Bureau has been breached, he knows he has to investigate. Now, the Relics are out of containment - some are eccentric, most are dangerous. Deacon must navigate a labyrinthine facility, dodging murderous Relics, hoping that he can find his sister, and understand what happened in The Containment Bureau.

Brianna was content. Life was good. Until she caught her husband doing the unthinkable. Now, Brianna's best friend drags her off on a vacation to get away from life and put herself back together. But their beautiful island resort holds something else in store for Brianna. Something more amazing than she ever thought possible, but even more dangerous. And when someone begins to attack women at the resort, Brianna finds herself at the top of their list. Brianna's life is in jeopardy, and she needs help. Help only the island can provide. The island has a secret.

Sofia Bauman is living a normal life – or as close to one as she can manage. After escaping the cult surrounding the charismatic but cruel Franz Oswald fifteen years earlier, she’s found peace with her husband and their young daughter. But when a hurricane sweeps through Sweden, it leaves a path of destruction in Sofia Bauman’s small community. The bridges are closed, trees felled, and her refuge for cult escapees is flattened.

On a small, sparsely populated island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, a group of archeology students are opening what seems to be an early Neolithic burial mound. Marine biologist Duncan McKenzie is also working on the island, staying with the lighthouse caretakers, Dick and Tom, while he completes his studies of the local water supply. One afternoon the three men are disturbed in their work by the appearance of a dazed female student from the excavation, who is badly traumatized.

The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things have picked up recently. Something's wrong. It's been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016? Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they're particularly common around Coldbay Island, which isn't even abroad, it's only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks' 'quick call out' to the island picks loose a thread that begins to unravel the whole place, and the world beyond. Is this the apocalypse? This might be the apocalypse. Who knew it would kick off in an off-season seaside resort off the Lincolnshire coast?

When Alex Preston is invited to spend a short holiday on a private island owned by a friend, he looks forward to a restful break. But the only break on offer is his breaking point, stranded with ghosts, killers, and a series of horrific secrets buried on the cursed island that threaten to stop him ever leaving alive.

Sunny beaches...deadly secrets. St. Celine boasts secluded pink-sand beaches and sparkling turquoise waters just an hour's ferry ride from Nassau. In the wake of a personal tragedy, Sarah and Amy arrive for a week of sun and margaritas and maybe some romance with the locals. But Sarah's obsession with a pair of honeymooners who disappeared from this paradise leads to the discovery of a bizarre video posted online by the couple just hours before they vanished - images of a purported vodou zombie ritual somewhere on the island.

My name is Michael Henson, and this is my story. Am I a brilliant scientist, an evolution revolutionary, or simply a fool? I will let you decide. Join me in my adventure ... if you dare ... of an experiment gone wrong, where my goal of becoming a creature of myth resulted in my turning into a creature of nightmares. This is only the beginning of my story - a story of survival, regret, discovery, and hope. Renewed is Metamorphosis meets The Island of Dr. Moreau — a disturbing tale of a man who played at being god and had to live with the consequences. Content warning: Mention of self-harm,...

WELCOME TO SCALASAY For mystery writer Sam Thorne, moving to the island was supposed to be a fresh start—an idyllic refuge for his young family, and an escape from his past indiscretions. Things he wanted dead and buried. But on Scalasay, the past has a way of catching up with you . . . The horror which tore the island apart ten years earlier is returning. Ben Garrett, the convicted rapist and murderer, is coming back to the island to visit his dying mother. But no one could have foreseen the shocking turn of events which are about to unfold. A storm is coming . . . And on this terrifying...

A little boy and girl disappear at Bible camp in the Big Thicket. An amateur sleuth discovers the true meaning of the phrase “dead end” in his pursuit of a Lovecraftian imp. A kitchen appliance becomes a portal to another dimension. A Nacogdoches jogger tries a hellish cure for his nicotine addiction. And, an aging, iconic monster confronts an existential quandary in West Texas.... These horrors - and more - await you in this, the fifth volume of Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers.

I sometimes it was just a horrible dream, but it was more than that. Awake, I still shake when I think of that place, and how much fun for us to go there and explore the mansion. But the more I am haunted and even scared. Those memories are horrifying even now. Maybe it just a ghost story, just another one of those fiction things, which are actually fun.

The story begins with a protagonist named Edward Prendick who finds himself shipwrecked in an ocean. A passing ship rescues him, and a doctor named Montgomery revives him. He explains to Prendick that they are bound for an unnamed island where he works, together with the animals aboard the ship. When they arrive on the island, however, both the captain of the ship and Doctor Montgomery refuse to take Prendick with either of them, stranding him between the ship and the island.

The Island of Doctor Moreau is part science-fiction and part horror. However, it is much more than that. The novel also raises questions about the ethical limits of scientific experiments, playing God, and the distinction between humans and animals. Shipwreck survivor, Edward Prendick is rescued and dropped off at a remote Pacific Island, where a disgraced British biologist has fled to continue his experimental work on human-animal hybrids.

Abandoned at a boarding school on a wild and remote island, Faye Fitzgerald discovers that she and the other pupils have been sent there for doing something wicked. But what is it that Faye has done? She might be bold enough to tackle the sinister mysteries of the island, but has she the courage to face the secrets deep within herself?

Edward Rod, policía en Londres, tras caer en una depresión decide aceptar un puesto de inspector jefe en una isla caribeña. Su esposa, Margaret, está a punto de abandonarle y regresar con su hija a Inglaterra, pero unos crímenes inesperados les obligarán a permanecer en la isla mientras se desata el huracán más virulento de los últimos veinte años. Inesperadamente la hija de Edward es secuestrada por el peligroso asesino en serie que parece estar detrás de los crímenes.

A golden doubloon lands on Ginger's feet while walking up the beach of Virginia's Chincoteague's Island. Ginger and her husband, curious about the medallion, visit a local museum seeking artifacts. A chance encounter with a wharf, a local historian, and a coin collector brings them to uncover the historical significance of the medallion.

There are many mysterious and evil things lurking on Oakwood Island. Things so strange that the locals are left wondering if their small coastal community will ever be the same. The police are concerned when Maggie, the local waitress, shows up at their doorstep cold, weak and frail, after having escaped a kidnapper that she describes as a monster. Her strange symptoms of a mysterious illness that seems to be growing stronger baffles her nurses and doctor. What happened to her?