Scary Horror

From the author of Sorcerie and Here Lurk Monsters comes a gothic-horror masterpiece. An unemployed nanny running from her past accepts the position of night sitter for a mysterious little girl who only seems to exist between midnight to dawn. You will find the girl in the attic after midnight. You are to be the night sitter, Miss Emily. . . Emily, a woman with nowhere else in this world to go, arrives at the residence of Ms. Vivian Dancemore for a most unusual job interview. The position of night sitter for a peculiar nine year old child by the name of Madelyn Dancemore who only seems to ...

A quick read for those looking for dark fiction that you can devour in one sitting. These are creepy, crawly, and grotesque stories meant to make your stomach churn and your toes curl. The fierce auction of an abandoned storage unit leads to a mysterious box finding its final resting place. Assigned to a military post, a man watches security cameras capture the end of the world. An unusual illness leaks into society and leaves a man isolated and battling for his life. On a dark fall night, a happy family is tormented by an invisible beast from under the bed. A man with an overbearing mother...

Return to the shadowy world of the unexplained with Stories From The Archives: Volume 2, the next chilling installment by Kody Richardson, the mastermind behind the popular YouTube channel, Mystery Archives. With a fan base of nearly 300,000 subscribers entranced by his haunting tales, Kody continues his exploration of the macabre, bringing fresh, spine-chilling stories to the page. In this second volume, the terror escalates as Kody delves deeper into the unknown, presenting even more unsettling and bizarre cases that teeter on the edge of reality. From ancient curses that refuse to die to...

Give your kids a fright! Haunted houses, prowling monsters, vengeful ghosts, and more are waiting for you. Inside you’ll find 35 original short scary stories for kids, including a room where everything is wrong and you can never leave, a forest guide who leads people on a walk they won’t forget, a monster dining in a graveyard, a ghost ship that hunts down treasure seekers, and a statue that comes to life—for a price. And many more! Just make sure you listen to these stories with the lights on.

When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an abandoned theater, they discover an unpublished opera score entitled "The Day of Doom". Ignoring a strange omen, they show it to their music teacher, who heralds "The Day of Doom" as a masterpiece. Little do they know that the eerie Henry Vanderhelm, the composer's grandson, arrives - with a plan. A plan to awaken the dead and enslave the world!

Peter and his wife Samantha visit one of the picturesque missions of California...but something does not feel right as they tour the ancient adobe church and gardens. Maybe it's the enigmatic and creepy Friar Patrick. Maybe it's the contorted devotional figures writhing in pain. Whatever it is, everything goes from bad to worse when Peter finds Sam floating face down in the lily pond... Please note that this short story is not suggested for children. Readers adverse to gore may be turned off by the...disjointed ending.

The Black Swamp is eternal...or is it? Shade Channing, the Game Warden, is trapped in the Black Swamp, but it’s not the Black Swamp he knows. He learns the hard way that the Black Swamp isn’t limited by space or time, as he finds himself in a dangerous place that is both familiar and foreign. Elsewhere, Shade’s mentor, Waya Firehat, and Waya’s daughter, Willow, attempt to track Shade down to bring him back to his own world. But there’s a new evil standing in their way; a Game Warden that doesn’t want to contain the Black Swamp, but wants to control it. This is Black Swamp ...

The mysterious, the scary, and the unknown. At one time or another we all have experienced an event or moment where we questioned reality. A time when we could feel our skin crawl and our hairs raise. In, What Lurks Beyond, Volume 11, Ethan Hayes, author of the bestselling series, Encounters in the Woods & Into the Darkness, brings us true tales and stories told from the experiencers themselves. These are people that have come face to face with something beyond imagination, something awful, something surreal and even evil. They survived these experiences but they will never be the same. ...

A ruthless nobleman plots to trap the woman of his wanton desires... His ingenious scheme is foolproof, fiendish in its execution... But there's more to this victim than he could ever have imagined No female dares spurn the lecherous advances of Sir Henry Cruttendon, 17th Century England’s most reviled aristocrat. To do so risks a retribution that would terrify the Devil himself. But Elizabeth Fiennes is no ordinary woman, blessed with stunning beauty, intelligence and guile. Coming from an influential family, she believes she is safe. What she doesn’t understand is that the Earl is ...

Do you believe bedtime stories? Do you believe in fairy tales? For Josh, Sarah, and Eric, the childhood fairy tale may prove to be all too real...

When a serial killer hitches a ride one sunny day in a beautiful California valley, he does not suspect that he may have met his match, who is dead set to take another life. The battle of wits begins and only the most devious mind will survive. ----------- Intoxication, a suspense thriller Are you paranoid if you end up dead? Leslie has a suspicion: someone at work is trying to poison her. Can she prove it? No, and she doesn't care that she can't as she takes the law into her hands. How about those who dismiss her fears and believe she is paranoid? Well, they certainly deserve to be ...

Something old lives beneath the mountain. And it remembers everyone who enters. When down-on-his-luck land surveyor Will Farris takes a solo job in a remote Appalachian valley, he thinks it’ll be a quick payday—just map out an abandoned mining claim and be done. But the locals won’t go near the place. They mutter about Hollow Number 6. About claw marks in stone. About voices that call to you in the voice of someone you lost. Will ignores the warnings. Until the mine starts groaning. Until he finds bones in the dark. Until he sees something massive watching from deep in the shaft—...

"Hudgins is a Horror-Meister to reckon with!" VICTOR MILLER - Writer of Friday the 13th You wake up in the middle of nowhere. You have no memory. You don't know why you are overwhelmed with a ravenous craving...to kill. If you like quick reads, this is the author for you! Steve Hudgins uses a screenplay/novel hybrid writing style that keeps the descriptive portions of the story brief, allowing the narrative to push forward at a rapid pace. THE CRAVING Becky is about to be raped and likely murdered, but is rescued by a towering man dressed in black. Unbeknownst to her, the man had been ...

The Last Hunt A group of family hunters set out on a hunting trip during a snowstorm in Arkansas. Shortly after climbing into their tree stands, a creature emerges from the dark forest and frightens Jack half to death. As the family frantically tries to exit the forest, they are tormented by these creatures, but what are they exactly? This story will take you on a wild ride. It has a few twists and turns that will baffle and surprise you. Will the family of hunters get out of the forest alive? ©2023 Zombie Media, LLC

From, Ethan Hayes, bestselling author of FEAR IN THE FOREST, WHAT LURKS BEYOND, and ENCOUNTERS IN THE WOODS, comes a compilation of true stories written by the very people who experienced them. It delves into a world of the unknown, focusing on encounters with Bigfoot, Sasquatch, demons, black-eyed children, and other enigmatic creatures or entities. Within the pages you'll embark on a thrilling journey through raw and genuine firsthand accounts that explore the boundaries of our understanding. These accounts come from individuals who have come face-to-face with the unimaginable, sharing ...

A haunted lighthouse! Derek Autumn is a paranormal investigator. He is asked to investigate a series of mysterious events that seem to have their focus on an ancient light house. And a curse! Can he solve the mystery? Is it really a curse...or something that no one would ever have guessed?

This bundle includes the first four novels in the Strangely Scary Funny Series. It follows the adventures of the librarian of Eden. One of his duties as librarian, in addition to checking out books, is protecting the town and its supernatural population. This includes dealing with a variety of witches, demons, angels, a hellhound, a monster or two, occasional god, and an assortment visitors from the nearby haunted forest. Don’t miss out on the series that readers are calling “hilarious,” “enthralling,” and “a refreshing original story.” Listen Now.

When Amy sees a dog stranded on the side of the highway, she knows what she has to do. She tells her dad to stop the car. She can't understand why anyone would abandon a dog in such a way, tied up and blindfolded. Amy's parents say they'll only keep the dog until they can find it a permanent home. Amy's younger sister names the dog Rover.

Don’t Share This Link: Creepypastas You’ll Wish You Never Read You clicked. You shouldn’t have. From haunted apps and cursed livestreams to group chats that resurrect the dead, this collection of digital-age horror stories will make you double-check every notification—and regret every click. Inside these thirteen terrifying tales, you’ll meet: A gamer whose face begins showing up in other people’s videos—smiling in places he’s never been. A girl who dreams of her favorite sleep streamer’s bedroom—until he starts dreaming of her too. A friend group haunted by an AI ...

SPINE-CHILLING GHOST STORIES TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT It’s been said that there are no haunted places, only haunted people. That’s who you’ll find here, the haunted ones. A maintenance technician in remote Alaska, an English thief, a young couple on a road trip across America, an astronaut on a one-way ride to Jupiter, an Irish gravedigger, and dozens more. All victims of an otherworldly infection, all tormented by a plague of shadows. In this anthology, you will find tales of horror and suspense fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. An eclectic collection of ghost stories ...