Scary For Adults

Scare Factory is a collection of 20 stories for readers who love horror and appreciate a good scare. If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare. The nightmares include: DESECRATIONS: An after-hours intruder pulverizes the heads of two corpses with a sledgehammer at a local funeral parlor. THE METEOR A meteor crashes into Newt's home carrying a tiny alien who loves to sing and dance. ...

Tommy Edwards loves comic books. It’s all he thinks about. All he dreams about. Good versus evil, saving the world, humans versus monsters, that sort of thing. Every free second of his day is spent reading from his giant comic book collection. Not only does he read them, but he also loves to create his own. One day Tommy accidentally discovers a new comic book store in town. It just appeared out of nowhere, and he has to check it out. Some of the selection he already knows, but most he has never seen before. He even finds a special set of colored pencils that the store owner insists will ...

Little Susie Adams loves dolls. She has over two hundred in her collection. Anytime a new one comes out, she has to be the first to have it. She even has all the accessories to go with them. Clothes, shoes, houses, you name it. Her room has an entire town set up for them. Susie’s mom has just returned home from another country. As expected, she brought her back a new doll. Susie is so happy about it, but the excitement doesn’t last long. Strange things are starting to happen around the house. Things that can’t be explained. Things that Susie didn’t do. Nobody believes Susie when she...

When John brings his new college girlfriend, Emmy, home to meet his reclusive and isolated sister, Leah, (both having lost their parents and guardian grandmother), he finds her jealous, disrespectful, and dangerously possessive of him. Despite his and Emmy’s efforts to win her approval, Leah, with the aid of the dark spirits that dwell in the forest surrounding their remote cabin, will try anything within her (and their) power to sever the relationship. When people start to go missing, it becomes disturbingly clear to John that his sister is more than just a lonely country girl that ...

Eight tales of terror and a novella to thrill you and chill you with surprises you may not see coming. Table of Contents: LORD OF DARKNESS Fred finds a large box on his doorstep with a horrific looking ebony statue inside that terrifies him. He abhors scary things and takes it to the city dump for disposal. JACK IN THE BOX Harold fixes up old houses and sells them for a nice profit. That is, until he bought the dreaded house on Elm Street. FORTUNE COOKIES Mr. Ryder receives two fortune cookies with his Chinese food this time. One says he'll be rich; the other says he'll be dead by midnight....

With its mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire's deadliest enemy, Morganville isn't just in danger - it's dying... Ever since the draug - mysterious creatures that prey on vampires - took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil.

NOT ANOTHER SICK DAY. Caitlyn thought it would be just another day at the office, until casual Friday turns into a quarantine that leaves her trapped in the office with her professional nemesis and two colleagues. Intense questioning from the health department turns up more questions than answers, and they are discouraged to speculate. With nothing to do but work, Caitlyn digs in her paperwork, and finds herself caught in the mystery of tangled paperwork that points to mishandling of funds and sneaky activity at their highest ranks. The suspense runs through the office as they dig up hints ...

Marcus was convinced that vampires didn’t exist. He was very wrong... On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett is faced with a bombshell. His parents are half-vampire. And, although he hates the thought of it, he is about to become one too. But, as he secretly blogs about the horrors of his new fangs, bad breath and cravings for blood, Marcus is unaware that his life is in serious danger...

5 Stars: I adored reading this book. The characters aren't wafer thin, they have depth and history. The Darkling Wind was a wonderful read, with wonderfully written scenes which pulled you in and made you believe it was truly happening... A great love vs evil story... I'd recommend this book to anyone, young or old. It's a feel good story you won't be able to put down. -Smashwords Review 4 Stars: This is a very well-written, good-versus-evil story that will capture a young reader's imagination. The main character has to deal with both emotional and physical challenges that I expect will ...

Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedom, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again. Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve's castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst.

Tommy Edwards is a complete comic book nerd. His entire room is filled with comics, and they are his entire life. He knows all the stories by heart, and also likes to draw his own. He even has some special colored pencils that he recently bought that are able to bring his stories to life. He didn’t believe it at first either, but as he makes his way around town, he quickly discovers that his stories are more than real. Not only does Tommy find that his stories are real, he comes to learn that his superheroes exist as well. Even their superpowers. But that’s not the scary part. His super...

Greg Matthews is terrified of clowns. He has been afraid of them for as long as he can remember. He can’t even handle the thought of them. Lucky for him, his little brother Timmy loves clowns. He thinks they are hilarious. That’s why their house is full of clown costumes, rubber chickens, and squirting flowers. That’s also why their parents are taking them to the carnival for Timmy’s birthday. Timmy is the youngest, and the baby in the family. Anything Timmy wants, Timmy gets, and Timmy wants to see clowns. What should be a fun night at the carnival, however, quickly turns deadly. ...

It sucks being the new kid. Peter Gallagher and his family are always having to move around the country for work. This means a new house, new school, and new friends. It’s hard enough for Peter to fit in as it is. This small town is different than the others. There aren’t many kids around. But Peter quickly makes some friends, and they invite him to join them at a campfire near the cemetery at night. The goal is to see who can tell the scariest story. The only problem is that strange things start to happen around town. The kind of things that aren’t normal. Things that just happened ...

This place is awesome! Or at least that’s what Billy Turner and his little brother think when they first step foot in their new house. The place is huge. It has three floors inside, and about ten acres of land surrounding the house. Sure it’s two hundred years old, but they got a great deal on it. They especially can’t wait to see their new rooms. Billy spends his free time every day during the summer exploring the place. This is definitely the house for hide and seek. He’s excited for his new friends to come over and play too. Though Billy tries not to think about it, something ...

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, ...

It's on the prowl... When an inquisitive paperboy notices something strange along his route, he immediately investigates. But what begins as an innocent inquiry will soon become something hauntingly sinister. And as the truth is unleashed, the neighborhood discovers... THE ATTACK IS JUST BEGINNING Now, hampered by a record storm and left to fend for themselves, three high schoolers must do the impossible. Their neighborhood is under attack--the infection spreading. And with a deadly creature and its undead minions on the loose, what these teenagers think they know, could never be more wrong...

He saved her from the hunters, but the nightmare isn’t over…Jacob rescued his fated mate and tore the vampire hunters to pieces. All he wants to do is bury himself in her. He’s dying to hold her, to possess her completely, but he can’t. She’s terrified of him. To prove he’s the protector she needs, Jacob must brutally leash his desire, but every moment they spend together burns though his self-control. His mask is going to break. It’s only a matter of time. Sparrow doesn’t know why the silent, hulking warrior makes her feel so safe. She saw him kill a room full of hunters. ...

Something drastic happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away. The town looks cleaner and happier than they've ever seen it before, but when their incoming group is arrested and separated - vampires from humans - they realise that the changes definitely aren't for the better. It seems that an organisation called the Daylight Foundation has offered the population of Morganville something they've never had: hope of a vampire-free future.

Martha, the youngest daughter of fanatically religious parents, is all too aware that her family is unusual. Taunted and bullied at school, and lonely at home with only postcards from her elder sister to keep her sane, Martha knows there has to be some other way of living. But it is only when she is befriended by the new boy, Scott, that she decides to reveal the terrible secret that has so far kept her in emotional chains.

Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighborhood it appears to be; strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator.