Short Stories Occult

Venture forth into the darkness with five short horror stories. Witness the horrors keeping a normal man locked up in an asylum! Look out the peephole into 100% sheer Hell! Meet Satan's favorite son! Find this and more in Trauma!

Having doubted the existence of the others, at the same time, to their shock and terror, a Ghost, a Time Traveler, and an Extraterrestrial appear to a man, who’s not surprised at all.

When a teenager discovers a way he believes will summon the dead, driven by insanity or genius, he forces his friends down a path, he should have never chosen.

Here are 23 terrifying tales, dark reflections of the silver screen from both sides of the camera. James Dean gets a second chance at life and death. The Wicked Witch is out of Oz, and she's made some very unlucky friends. When God decides reality needs an editor, what and who gets cut?

What would you do if you knew that your beloved grandfather was complicit in a hoax? When a grandson sorts through his deceased grandfather’s Gimlin film of Bigfoot, he discovers a long kept secret. This short story chronicles a fictional backstory of the iconic Sasquatch sighting. As the young man reflects on how his grandfather watched every Bigfoot documentary and poured over books on the study of cryptozoology, some disturbing truths are uncovered. The revelations in the red book pose a dilemma for Cole. Should he reveal what he has discovered and risk the wrath of Bigfoot fans or ...

This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the colonial era’s stifling religion, and its dark and threatening woods.

A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead - these are just a few of the characters Kevin Brockmeier presents in this extraordinary compendium of spectral emanations and their wildly various purposes in (after) life.

This audiobook features more than a dozen stories by H. P. Lovecraft.

Leash and Other Short Horror Stories is a horror anthology of 13 short, creepy, scary, and sometimes gruesome monster stories. These hair-raising stories will make your mind tingle and your paranoia kick into overdrive. This chilling set of frighteningly strange and weird stories are tales of the unexpected - of deceit and of unspeakable beings that hide in the recesses of the mind and the shadows of dark forests.

There is evil in the woods and it wants you dead. They warned us not to enter, but we didn't listen. The call too strong to ignore. And now there is no one left to save us. Beware, these things within the forest will rip out your heart and devour your soul. You will tremble as they revel in your madness, taking everything from you and leaving you with nothing. Delve inside this anthology of what truly lurks within the shadows of the trees.

The Headless Fountain Man A simple photo. A quick snap shot. One woman's perfect picture is about to become her scariest nightmare. Devil at the Wheel A Joyride in a Chevy Chevelle. The car was just sitting there for the taking. What could possibly go wrong? Vinnie and Mike are about to find out what can and will go wrong once they turn the key. Evil awaits. Ride shotgun if you dare. Fear of the Scarecrow A desperate and angry man is hungry for revenge. He seeks out justice in a most unlikely way. Sometimes justice comes with a price. The Dragon A simple machine. Able to answer requests. ...

First published in an 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, "Hop-Frog" is a revenge tale akin to "The Cask of Amontillado". Told from the perspective of a crippled jester who was taken from his homeland and has been abused by the king he serves, the story focuses on the revenge Hop-Frog takes after the king strikes his fellow countrywoman and performer, the dancer Trippetta.

"Azathoth" is the beginning of a never-completed novel written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in June 1922 and published as a fragment in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. It is the first piece of fiction to mention the fictional being Azathoth, one of the major entities in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, though the entity only appears in the title.

Beware of the night, for it shows no mercy. Anxieties run rampant as the last sprinklings of light twinkle out on the inky horizon. The shadows dance their choreography in the damp, dusky air. Night is taking over, and it knows how to keep a dark and deadly secret, for it allows no witnesses. And that screaming you hear nearby? Watch out, because you might be next. The Sinister Supernatural Stories series brings you delicious horror that focuses on elements of the supernatural. Pull up a chair and dig in, but never after dark—everyone knows bad things always happen after dark.

Are you ready for a spine-tingling thrill ride? Step into the dark and eerie world of 13 chilling short horror stories from the infamous Nosleep forum on Reddit. From a haunting conversation with the dead, to a seemingly simple heist gone wrong, to a terrifying home invasion, and a father's costly mistake, these tales will keep you on the edge of your seat. But beware, once you start listening, there's no turning back. Don't miss out on this collection of creepypasta that will leave you sleeping with the lights on.

A young man’s attempts at breaking parole end in a night of horror. A child realizes that his Christmas gift might be a lot more sinister than he originally thought. An editor unveils his client’s sinister plan to cleanse the world of all evil. And a woman’s walk home is accompanied by a strange presence that promises a gruesome end. Scare Street’s authors Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Sara Clancy, and A. I. Nasser come together to bring you some of the most horrifying short stories in a single collection.

She only wants me for my body. I just wish she hadn't used it that way. I found where the Devil keeps his pets, and now I have one of my own. Every morning I wake up screaming, knowing I'll be killed each day. The wolves were disappearing from the Alaskan wilderness, and I discovered what they were being turned into. Have you met the only demon in heaven?

~ Sometimes all it takes is the right person in our…AfterLife. ~ In this romance with comedy, a man purchases an abandoned farmhouse in a tax sale unaware it’s haunted by the woman…ahhhhh…ghost that will become the love of his life and he the love of her AfterLife and together bring the man who murdered her to justice as only a Trans Spectral, TSP, couple can.

This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years" - roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.

When Satan pops in to collect a soul, the man and his dog become more than he can handle.