Scary For Adults

From the moment Audre arrives in rural Pennsylvania, it’s clear she won’t fit in. After all, her nose ring, her horror movie obsession, and her family’s Ouija board collection aren’t likely to endear her to a town convinced there’s a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the nearby woods. When the preacher’s daughter and Audre’s crush, Elle, goes missing on Halloween weekend, the town is quick to point fingers in Audre’s direction.

Filled with action, romance, and humor, Pure of Heart is a fantasy thrill ride into a land filled with wonder and excitement. Orphaned and alone, rogue-teen Dean Walker has learned how to take care of himself on the rough city streets. Unjustly wanted by the police, he takes refuge within the shadows of the city. When Dean stumbles upon an old man being mugged, he tries to help—only to discover that the victim is anything but helpless and far more than he appears. The old man claims to be from Kish another world that’s being destroyed. He’s traveled through a portal called the middle ...

Tony Stevens has to be the laziest kid in town. No, he’s definitely the laziest. He spends every second of his free time sitting in front of the TV, and he enjoys every second of it. As long as the snacks and drinks keep coming, he would be satisfied to spend his whole life watching TV. He doesn’t even care what’s on, as long as he can see it. One day, a mysterious package arrives in the mail for Tony. He doesn’t remember ordering anything, and his parents claim to know nothing about it. He decides to keep it anyway, and opens it up to find a fancy new remote control. It has so many...

The All-Time Classic, Remastered by the Author for 2024! Whitechapel: The Final Cut is the ultimate edition of Bernard Schaffer's celebrated depiction of the real life events surrounding Jack the Ripper's killing spree, using the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. When Sherlock Holmes cannot summon the strength to take on his greatest foe, the task of hunting The Ripper falls to Dr. Watson and Irene Adler. Filled with appearances by many beloved characters and noted historical figures, Whitechapel: The Final Cut is a masterpiece of both serial killer and historical crime fiction.

The Spook himself was once an apprentice. How did he begin his training? And what of Alice, the young witch who is Tom's closest ally? How did she overcome her dark past? What did the witch assassin Grimalkin do to become the most deadly and feared witch in the county? And, collected in a gallery of horrors, discover the rest of the county's menacing villains and relive the vicious battles waged against them. Enter a land where creatures of the dark creep out of the shadows. Do you dare?

The Gravediggers made short work of the goblins, but something else is coming up from below to give them hell. Hell’s bells indeed! It’s getting awfully hot in New Orleans, and not only from the weather. Those infernal forces of evil just won’t let up, and it’s really burning through the gang’s patience. When an ancient Middle Eastern demon shows up ready for trouble, the band of misfits must find salvation, and fast. A weird cult preacher arrives on the scene, and the Gravediggers end up in India. Paul’s whisky is not the only fiery thing in his life, and when the human ...

Megan Fuller has the coolest dad in the world. He works at the local museum as an overnight security guard. What’s even better is that he sometimes lets her come to work with him. She gets the whole museum to herself, and she can do anything she wants. Megan really likes to see the paintings, and there are a ton of them there. One day, Megan’s dad tells her that the museum just received a new shipment of paintings from Japan. They are all very old, and very delicate. As soon as the museum is able to set them up, Megan heads over to see them. These paintings are not like the others, ...

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

“It’s 4am. I stayed up way too late reading this.” – Jason, Amazon reader The last mystery. An epic conclusion. A return to Duminborne and a dead king. Inside the castle, soldiers are going missing. Their beds are found slept in but empty save for scatterings of dust. Signs of the Horseman’s presence linger, but another killer does his work. Serileen has coerced the last suspects in her mother’s murder into joining her at the castle, and as her patience unravels, Calec attempts to aid her and the new king. Serileen’s last gambit is to pit the necromancer, a witch of the woods,...

Amid the chaos of war, the Shadowhunters must decide to fight with the vampires, werewolves, and other Downworlders – or against them. Meanwhile, Jace and Clary have their own decision to make: should they pursue the love they know is forbidden?

Nikki Ramirez is excited to finally go to her first real summer camp with her little sister, Tasha. They were not looking forward to another boring summer at home, and this is the perfect solution. There will be real cabins, campfires, canoeing, hiking, and even archery. Not to mention a ton of cute guys. Sure it will be a long bus ride through the woods to get there, but that just makes it even more fun. Nikki makes sure to pack all the essentials. Bug spray, flashlight, bathing suit, even some extra toilet paper. None of those things seem to help her though when the bus breaks down on the...

Sisters Moria and Ashyn are the Keeper and Seeker of Edgewood. Or at least they were. Their village is gone. Their friends have betrayed them. And now the emperor has sent them on a mission to rescue the captured children of Edgewood - accompanied by Prince Tyrus and a small band of imperial warriors. But the journey proves more perilous than any of them could have imagined. And with treachery and unrest mounting in the empire, the girls are running out of places to turn.

Clean slate. That's what Hendricks Becker-O'Malley's parents said when they moved their family to the tiny town of Drearfield, New York. Hendricks wants to lay low and forget her dark, traumatic past. Forget him. But things don't go as planned. Hendricks learns from new friends at school that Steele House--the fixer upper her parents are so excited about--is notorious in town. Local legend says it's haunted. But Hendricks isn't sure if it's the demons of her past haunting her ...or of the present. Voices whisper in her ear as she lays in bed.

"A MUST READ FOR FANS OF MYSTERIES AND FOLK HORROR." - NP CUNNIFFE, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "THE WEEJEE MAN". "...IT'S A WELL WRITTEN HORROR STORY WITH FANTASTIC CHARACTERS, BLOODY KILLS, AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT" - HORROR READS, 5 STAR AMAZON/GOODREADS REVIEW. "IT'S LIKE STEPHEN KINGS VERSION OF GREMLINS" - THE DANSE MACABRE Detectives Ryan and O'Connell turn their investigative eyes toward the local garda of Enniskregg township. Tasked to protect and serve the township and its people, as the first to discover the brutalized bodies of the ill fated research team at the druid henge in the ...

ENTER IF YOU DARE. So reads the sign at the entrance of a carnival that suddenly appears in the sleepy town of Millbrook, Massachusetts. Despite the ominous warning, Addison and her friends can’t wait to go. It isn’t long, however, before Addison realizes the warning isn’t just a publicity stunt. When she and her friends experience terrifying nightmares after visiting the carnival, she knows something is terribly wrong. What is real? What isn’t? What is frightening them all? And who is the strange man stalking her among the rides and arcades? Things take a dark turn when Levi’s ...

Nicholas “Clutzy” Smith is terrible at everything. Sports, games, or even just walking down the hallway at school. He is just bound to trip over something, causing the whole school to break out in laughter. It’s so bad that even the teachers call him “Clutzy.” All that is about to change when he runs into a mysterious old woman in town. She offers to give him a small bluish stone as a reward for helping her out. She claims that rubbing it will grant him three wishes, but he doesn’t believe her. Until the day he makes the first one by mistake, and his whole life changes. Will ...

The story begins: Young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box. At 17 years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own.

A deadly virus spreads across the world, changing the way humankind behaves. Jackie Mendoza quarantines herself in her home for weeks, fearful of catching the disease. But is it the virus or something more she should fear? Bestselling author Scott W. Kimak takes you into the deepest depths of the human psyche and unlocks its inner demons in this scary page-turner.

Ice cream has never tasted so evil... For Lacey Stamford, life is life. Mom to two, wife to none. Until one hot spring afternoon, when a simple, harmless decision changes it all. Now, thrust suddenly into a world she's never known, this lost soul must face the impossible: a force so evil, so unpredictable, it could destroy millions. That is, if she refuses its ultimatum. Aided by her 'gifted' son and the incomparable neuroscientist Sebastian Cannery, Lacey must plunge headfirst into the unspeakable. A dark underworld of deceivers, corrupters, and cold-blooded conglomerates. The choice is ...

Oliver was always a jerk. Now that he’s dead, he’s downright terrifying. Augie Doyle eats, sleeps, and breathes horror. Vampires? Real. Werewolves? Absolutely. Zombies? Don’t get him started. His best friend, Ethan, thinks it’s all nonsense—until Oliver Hackl shows up to school. Five days ago, Oliver fell off the Old Mill Bridge and broke his neck. The paramedics pronounced him dead. Now he’s back. Pale. Slow. Wrong. Augie’s convinced it’s the zombie apocalypse. Ethan’s sure there’s a logical explanation. Then Oliver’s friends start dropping like flies. One vanishes, ...