Scary Science Fiction

Jack wakes up in the morning before his 14th birthday to a number of strange things. He's faster, stronger, and Aunt Sophie is crying a lot. On his way to school he runs into a creepy guy with vampire teeth and an ominous message, and before the day is out Mrs. Fitcher, the principal, morphs into a hideous creature with giant bat wings. After a few detours on the way home, Jack arrives to a backyard full of zombies, a houseful of harpies, and oh, by the way, Aunt Sophie has been keeping a few secrets of her own.

As Elio lies stricken under a powerful curse, the only way his friends Thanis, Alish, Kiri and Kaspar can cure him is to venture into the Forest of the Ancients. Rumour tells of a race of healers who dwell there, the mysterious tree-folk known as the Sylvaneth, but are they allies or enemies...?

FIVE TAKES OF HORROR AND TERROR 1.BLOOD MOON HELPLESS CHILDREN ARE BEING EXPERIMENTED UPON. AUGUST AND HIS FATHER MUST STOP IT AT ANY COST…EVEN IF THEY HAVE TO BECOME VAMPIRES TO DO IT! 2. EIGHT RING OF HELL CHASING A DEMON STRAIGHT FROM HELL.\ 3. THE DRACULAS FAMILY HISTORY FOR DRACULA BECOMES A PAINFUL EXPERIENCE FOR PROFESSOR CHALLENGER 4. QUANTUM SHIFT G1 MADE A QUANTUM SHIFT IN ITS RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS. TROUBLE WAS, THE SHIFT ALSO BROUGHT A MONSTER WITH IT! 5. HELLBOUND HIS CASE WAS MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO KILL HIM OR GET HIM POSSESSED.

Halloween is nearing, the one day of the year when the ghostly plane is close enough to the human plane to allow mischief and mayhem. But the ghosts who have their eye on Zack aren't thinking mischief, they are thinking murder.In this fourth volume of Chris Grabenstein's popular Haunted Mysteries series, Zack must once again do battle with malevolent spirits. And with his usual pluck, and the assistance of three dotty aunts, he must save his town from a 200-year-old threat.

With two of the Jerusalem stones in hand, Jack and his friends must race the clock to find the remaining stones as Ren Lucre's Creach forces gather strength. With two of their group now with Creach blood flowing in their veins, the team will be tested as never before. They must unite together if they have any hope of surviving their journey to the underworld and their battle with the vicious lord of the demons. The fate of the entire world hangs in the balance.

Having defeated the Garr, a vicious tree monster who lived within the enchanted woods of Watch Hollow, Lucy and Oliver Tinker now have the home they’ve always dreamed of: Blackford House. Powered by a magical clock and full of curious rooms and improbable knickknacks, Blackford House brims with the promise of new adventures. Yet when a strange governess arrives from England - bringing with her the Kojima twins, Agatha and Algernon - the Tinker children’s once bright future quickly begins to dim. The Kojimas claim to be the rightful heirs to Blackford House.

A mysterious plague is sweeping across the Great Plains, one that grants the ability to shape-shift - but with it comes an insatiable hunger for fresh meat. Sixteen-year-old Mia is Infected, but she’s a special case. Thanks to a strange genetic mutation, she not only has abilities other werewolves don’t possess, her blood might be the key to a vaccine. For Mia and many of the Infected, shape-shifting is a curse. Others, the Bad Dogs, revel in their new powers. For them, humans no longer belong at the top of the food chain.

What better way to feed the neighborhood vampires than to pipe blood from residents’ cuts and nosebleeds straight into kitchen taps? And how better to foil Luke’s mission to free his folks than to cut off this vital (if icky) blood supply to Luke’s best vampire friend? What’s more, the local sewer rats have been accidentally turned into raging vampire rodents. Now Luke and his pals must keep the critters at bay while searching for the second crucial relic - a vial of witch’s blood - while avoiding being turned into vampires themselves.

How serious is stage fright? At the Hanging Hill Playhouse, it can kill you. After narrowly escaping a malevolent spirit in The Crossroads, Zack and Judy are hoping to relax during the rehearsals for a show based on Judy's best-selling children's books. Little do they know that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead, and to accomplish this, he needs a human sacrifice...and Zack fits the bill perfectly.

When Zenith finds a strange, unsettling bag at his front door, he's not sure where it came from or who sent it to him. He knows better than to expect his annoying older sister Apogee to help him figure it out, because ever since she turned thirteen, she's been acting more like a parent to him than a sibling. But he certainly did not expect for a horrifying spiderlike creature to emerge from the bag, kidnap Apogee, and drag her inside to the equally horrifying and unsettling world of GrahBhag.

Simon Frost lives in a curious place, where magic is used by the very best Animists to do wondrous things - like call upon imps, wraiths, and all manner of monsters to right wrongs, deliver justice, and accomplish feats no human could achieve. Simon Frost is not one of those Animists, though he’s been trying to become one for years. When a plea arrives from a distant hamlet, preyed upon by an abominable monster, Simon sees the opportunity to finally prove his worth. But upon arriving in the tiny village, Simon finds not just a monster but a key to his past....

A paranormal ghostly gangbang . . . Good vs. Evil in the Swamps of Louisiana: On a long drive on a dark night, college freshman Liam drives through a swamp in Louisiana and encounters an unusual fog that leads to sexual encounters with ghosts … including one ghostly female who is breathtakingly beautiful … Liam has to face evil spirits in an otherwordly battle and what happens next changes his life forever . . . from a ghostly gangbang to the girl of his dreams. Can he save the woman he wants more than any woman he has ever known? Is she real … or is she a ghost or some other ...

Enter the world of Below London, the magical home of monsters, where causing a ruckus is the best thing you can do. Notorious troublemaker Rayleigh Mann has just discovered he’s the son of the infamous Bogey Mann. There’s just one problem: Bogey is missing and Rayleigh is the only one who can find him. But to do so, Rayleigh must travel to Bogey’s world…Below London, where Rayleigh’s penchant for tricks just might help him survive an adventure straight out of his wildest dreams—or perhaps his most terrifying nightmares.

Welcome to Pearl, a town obsessed with Halloween: the spooky decorations, the costumes, the candy. No one seems to notice that every October 31st, a kid goes missing. Mason Miller does, though. Somehow he’s the only one who has any memory the person existed at all. When Mason’s sister, Meg, vanishes while they’re trick-or-treating, Mason and his friends are pulled into an underworld where monsters roam the streets. They need to fight the evil taking over Pearl, but none of them know the true danger they're facing.

Monster hunting isn’t as easy as it looks. And Jack should know. Because an ogre has just appeared in his garden and tried to eat his aunt. (She was the winner of the World’s Worst Aunt competition, but that’s not the point.) After (sort of accidentally) defeating the ogre, Jack finds himself apprenticed to a grumpy 200-year-old monster hunter called Stoop and heading off to Cornwall, where more ogres are causing havoc.

There is a famous cave located just outside of Spooksville. A lot of stories surround the dark place: scary ones as well as exciting ones. Adam decides to explore the cave with his friends, Watch, Sally, and Cindy. But the moment they go into the cave, the entrance closes behind them. They are trapped. In the dark. They walk deeper into the cave, frantically searching for a way out. The batteries in their flashlights begin to run low. Then they realize something is following them. Something that has been in the cave for a long time. Something big, black…and hungry.

Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her scientist father, timid Elizabeth Murmur has only her fearless friend, Zenobia, for company. And Zenobia's company can be very trying! When Elizabeth's father takes them to live in his family home, Witheringe House, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost in the creepy old mansion and forces Elizabeth to hold séances and wander the rooms at night. With Zenobia's constant pushing, Elizabeth investigates the history of the house and learns that it does hold a terrible secret.

Runt Higgins has a long to-do list. He needs to find out who cursed him, and why; he needs to make up with his best friend, Syke; and he needs to pass the Junior Henchman Training Program. That last one? Not likely. Professor Murphy hates Runt and is actively trying to fail him. The only way for Runt to pass the class and stay at Dr. Critchlore’s School is to locate a rare mineral that Dr. Critchlore needs to make an Undefeatable Minion. To find it, Runt must travel to icy Upper Worb and battle gyrfalcons, yetis...and the loathsome team from Dr. Pravus’s school.

Gaimans moderner Kinderbuch-Klassiker. Eine geheimnisvolle Tür in ihrem neuen Haus führt Coraline in eine spannende Parallelversion ihres bisher eher langweiligen Lebens. Ihre "andere" Mutter verwöhnt Coraline und kümmert sich liebevoll um sie. Aber der schöne Schein trügt: Die "andere" Mutter ist eine gruselige Kinderfängerin! Ihre Haut ist so weiß wie Papier und anstelle ihrer Augen hat sie zwei große, schwarze Knöpfe im Gesicht! Coraline scheint für immer in dieser Welt gefangen und die böse Zauberin hält auch noch Coralines wahre Eltern in ihrer Gewalt.

Are you ready to embark on a journey through the vast expanse of the universe? Look no further than Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 11 by The Shadowplay Collective. This collection of short stories will transport you to distant worlds and introduce you to characters that will leave a lasting impression on your mind. In this volume, The Shadowplay Collective takes readers on a thrilling ride through the depths of space and time. From the far reaches of the galaxy to the depths of the human psyche, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. The settings are vividly described, ...