Short Ghost

They were young and they were dumb. Strangers brought to the same place by the same call. Helpless victims plagued by a demonic summoning... And now they're back. Years have passed but the Act remains. The curtain opens on a world the same, and now it demands their presence... But how will strangers once united determine their fate? The time has finally come, for the world to open. The monster of Willow Park is back... and this time, it's got something in store...

A businessman discovers he has a ghostly twin whose presence may be far more ominous than he had thought.... Mischievous children learn that supernatural forces are nothing to toy with, after a Halloween prank goes wrong. And holiday festivities set the backdrop to a terrified teen’s worst fears, when his grandmother’s corpse comes looking for revenge....

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "A School Story". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Terrance Brushwood is a troubled teenage old boy. He has seen things his whole life but until recently he was unaware that other people didn't see the disturbing things he sees. For some reason Terrance is seeing the ghosts and ghouls more often lately. To make matters worse, the specters are becoming more violent as well. Unable to understand her son’s episodes and at her wit’s end on what to do about them, his mother takes him to a Psychologist who suggests the troubled youth keep a journal. Terrance obliges and begins to document the world he sees around him. It is an angry world, ...

“An amazing collection of page-gripping short stories” -Amazon reviewer. “A beautifully crafted, highly entertaining horror collection.” -Amazon reviewer Are you ready to enter a world of darkness and fear? A world where the unknown lurks around every corner and terror is waiting just for you? Then welcome to a collection of horror stories from the renowned indie author, Samuel Small, that will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you questioning the boundaries of the unknown. From a middle schooler receiving texts from the dead, to a group of teens clowning around an ...

SPECIAL PRICE: Just $1.99!!! "Let me show you what I see . . . I see the dead." I'm just an ordinary person . . . except that I can see the dead. They almost always communicate with me. I'm a Spiritualist . . . not by choice . . . but because of circumstances. I have seen the afterlife. And it does exist. It is real. And we don't die: We live forever. Questions Include: Do ghosts only haunt old houses? Do spirits smell like old socks or rotten eggs? Do people really get slimed like in horror movies? Can ghosts see us having sex? Answers to these and other questions include details of "...

On their way home from the local corner market, two best friends take the usual shortcut through the woods... and come across something glowing in the near distance. Curious, the boys investigate... and soon discover a campfire in an unlikely location. Strangely, there are other people here, too—all seemingly drawn to the same mysterious flame. The mysterious and hungry flame... What Readers are saying: ★★★★★ “It was a great read from beginning to end. I believe the story was aimed more for young adults, but this 55 year old enjoyed it too. Anne Rice, J.R. Rain, and Stephenie ...

Dread—Thousands of people have gone missing out in the wild and here is a collection of tales that offer up some horrifying reasons why. Listen and indulge in the dark side of nature—haunted forests, tree demons, monstrous snakes, and a search-and-rescue team terrorized by the ghosts of those they couldn’t save.

Bill of Frights is a horror anthology with 14 authors and 14 stories, all set in and around Washington, D.C..When darkness slowly descends on the Nation’s Capital, and a full moon balances among ancient oaks, a mist begins to form in the deepening gloom. And from this mist, ghostly apparitions, eaters of souls, diabolical demons, and other mortal fears emerge to take up the power struggle. Join in for the first anthology by The League of Eclectic Authors with variegated horror tales and vicarious pleasures.

There is a haunted house up there that squats like a huge wooden toad behind a thick grove of pine trees on the end of a dead end road. Maybe once it was painted, but now it has a gray cadaver-like complexion, and its siding is sagged and splintered as if the devil had been poking at it with his pitchfork. Its windows are streaked and stained, and trying to see through them from the outside is like trying to look a skull in the eye.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and is acknowledged as an influential writer in the genre of gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Many of his short stories were originally published in various magazines. Here are six of them: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, “The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts”, “The Vision of Tom Chuff”, and “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”.

A stolen secret, a strangled judge, and a flowering feud. When Lena Larsen agrees to host the New Oslo Tulip Festival at her grandmother's Victorian home, she expects prickly personalities and competitive gardeners. What she doesn't expect is murder. As tulip enthusiasts and judges gather to showcase their prized blooms, tensions quickly rise to the surface. Head judge Eleanor Summers seems to delight in antagonizing everyone with veiled threats about "revelations" she plans to share. But before she can expose anyone's secrets, Eleanor is found dead among the prize tulip beds. With a house ...

Trapped in the clutches of a Zombie apocalypse, the City of Chicago, the murder capital of the U.S., unleashes the ultimate weapon, capitalism, by paying $1,000 for every Re-Killed Zombie brought to city hall, ushering in "The Great Zombie Gold Rush". Zombies never have a chance in a world where people realize 75 Zombies pays off their student loans, 40 Zombies buys them a Tesla, 5 Zombies wipes out their Visa debt...

Do you like addictively creepy thrillers that will keep you biting your nails until you've finished the final page? The Listeners short story collection is for you! “Gripping, thought-provoking, and unbearably tense.” ~Bestselling Author Wendy Heard HOME IS NO LONGER SAFE. From the bestselling author of The Jilted comes a twisted and terrifically macabre collection of short stories guaranteed to make you cringe, laugh, cry…and start sleeping with the lights on. From an eerie voyeur, to an appliance that doesn’t behave the way it should, to a poignant and twisted expression of ...

I knew I shouldn’t have agreed to take that sabbatical. At least, I wouldn’t have been on that flight when it crashed. But this is my reality now. I’m just a fae nurse with a fanny pack, Freezing my butt off on a magical mountain I can’t escape. This is going to be one hell of a Christmas. Getting buried alive in an avalanche was NOT on my bucket list. Neither was the sizzling-hot fisherman who pulled me out of the snow. He doesn’t like me, that’s for sure, and I think I know exactly why… It doesn’t help that he’s my only hope. Oh, and did I mention I’ve got a stalker? ...

Modern-day Scrooge Deanna Dawn has no time for love. Onward and upward is this lady's trajectory and nothing, not even the jolly holidays, will stand in her way. Until three pesky (but studly) ghosts come a-knockin' just as Deanna is about to tune out the Christmas cheer with slumber. One shows her the past, the next shows her what she could have if she's willing to open her heart once more, and the last shows her the desolate, dreary path of a long, lonely shuffle to death's door where joy no longer exists. Will Deanna squash the bloom in her heart and choose the path of success at the ...

A group of men fight dangerous conditions in a logging operation in the Malaysian Rainforest. They face even more risk as 'the company,' which controls nearly everything in sight, plans to clear cut new sections of ancient trees. And they begin to wonder about one of their crew. Does he bear a dark secret?

Most people have midlife crises. It’s hard to have one of those when you’re plummeting toward a mountain. If that dragon didn’t pluck me out of the sky, I’d be dead. But maybe that wouldn’t have been so terrible. Because now I’m trapped on Frost Mountain, And the dragon shifter who rescued me isn’t going to let me out of his sight. His village is on the brink of war… And he’s trying to get justice for his father. I’m not sure how I got caught up in all of this, But there’s no getting out now. Because this sizzling dragon shifter wants me to be his wife. And as much as ...

Meng Jin’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Little Gods, was praised as “spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad, BookPage), “powerful” (Washington Post), and “meticulously observed, daringly imagined” (Claire Messud). Now Jin turns her considerable talents to short fiction, in ten thematically linked stories.

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others.