Ghost Anthology

Sixteen thrilling and chilling stories by some of the greatest writers of horror and the supernatural, including Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bierce, R.L.Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant and John Polidori, who is held to be the creator of the first vampire tale. An audio treat for Halloween or any other night when the moon is high, these stories are rich in imagination, humor, and characterization.

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.

A Gift of Ghosts: Akira has secrets. But so does the town of Tassamara. A Gift of Thought: Sylvie Blair swore she’d never go back to Tassamara. She was wrong. The Spirits of Christmas: Akira's plans are simple: Write wedding invitations, bake Christmas cookies, and eat red meat. (The last surprises her, too.) But when Rose, the ghost who haunts her house, asks for a favor, Akira can't say no. A Gift of Time: Natalya thought she knew everything. Time is proving her wrong.

Featuring work by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Clara Venn and Hume Nisbet, this collection of nine enduring stories - some well-known, others less familiar - evoke the many spirits of Christmas. Featuring misty journeys to distant loved ones, Christmas Eve manifestations and lonely, frost-filled vigils.

We were cops and detectives together, but we hated one another. When I got transferred to a secret agent division, I thought I saw the last of him. Didn’t expect to see Ewan end up here as well. Here’s the thing. He’s strong. Handsome. A good cop, a fantastic investigator, and a defender of justice. He just hates me. We’ve been told to play nice. Work together, or walk out the door and never return. We’re forced to go on this mission. He’s my bodyguard. I’m not sure if it’ll end up with us strangling one another, or finally healing the strife between us...

E.F. Benson (1867-1940) is probably best known today for his sparkling, comic Lucia novels. In his own day, it was his ghost stories which were his most popular works. This collection of 10 stories exemplifies Benson's fine literary style and his ability to create the most frightening of ghostly and macabre tales.

Tales of Mystery boasts an eclectic menagerie of twisted tales, from classic potboilers to cozy whodunits to alien nightmares that leave you gasping. Vampires seeking a high-tech upgrade. Witches who cook. Toys that hold court. Monsters just looking for a midnight snack. Detectives and scientists who are clearly in over their heads. A mystery lover's veritable buffet. This new anthology includes 12 original stories that are sure to please.

A house full of hot, shifter ex-cons and me. What could go possibly wrong? Of course I’d dealt with difficult parolees before. I’m a professional, a therapist and everyone is entitled treatment. Even dragons…on a reality show…. ones capable of terrible crimes. Throw in a cop hellbent on finding justice for his slain partner, I might be slightly out of my element. But that’s nothing compared to the twist I never saw coming, one that gives me double trouble in an already dangerous game. Now it’s too late to back down and everything is compromised; My ethics, my career, my heart…...

My friend surprised me with a new man. A dragon shifter. She hired him for me as a surprise. A strong, alpha dragon, looking for a mate. How exactly could I say no to such a generous offer? I live in a small town. There’s not much happening here. Kieran’s handsome, nice, and quite a catch. I’m with him, and it’s going great. Right until the point where I get pregnant with his shifter baby. I’ve no idea how to break it to him, but the man has to know he’ll be a father. There’s also the fact his family doesn't want him out here. His brother’s trying to get him to return to ...

When you believe a better life waits for you beyond death, the perfect place to die is a difficult thing to find. Content warning: This story contains self-harm and disordered eating.

M. R. James is one of the finest English language ghostwriters ever published. These short stories are not only classics of their genre, but are outstanding examples of beautifully paced, understated terror and sociological horror, reaching to the dark expanse of the unconscious mind.

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray.

Sinister creatures ruin the holiday cheer at a snow-swept Christmas tree farm. A confrontation with a childhood bully kicks off a bloody killing spree. And a fire-crazed arsonist sets his sights on a local house, only to discover that its strange inhabitants have dark appetites of their own. Scare Street is proud to present 13 tales of supernatural horror in one volume, the perfect treat for all insatiable horror fans. From invisible killers to spectral children, a cornucopia of bone-chilling delights lurks in the darkness just waiting to be unleashed.

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long. A lookalike doll makes itself right at home. A school talent-show act leaves the audience aghast. And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains.

Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) was a prolific author of some 150 books and counted Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, and Graham Greene among her many admirers. Her most enduring work is her tales of the ghostly and supernatural, her favorites of which she collected in 1949 under the title The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories.

Railway tunnels, the lanes and hills of the Peak District, family homes, old stones, shreds fluttering on barbed wire, night drawing in, something that might be an animal shifting on the other side of a hedge: Tom has drawn on his lifelong love of weird fiction, folklore and nature's unregarded corners, to write a collection of stories that will delight fans, old and new, and leave them very uneasy about turning the lamp off.

A dragon has his eyes on princess Marea. And she has no clue just how close he is… Princess Marea is one of many princesses in the Hundred Kingdoms, unmarried at the age of thirty. Dragons have been ransacking nearby villages, trying to steal the women, and a princess from a nearby kingdom was stolen, so her father ups the security around her. It’s annoying, because she can’t do half the things she enjoyed, and she wants to gain some of her freedom back. The guards don’t talk to her, and are under explicit instructions to ignore her. However, one of her guards, not one she remembers...

Scare Street is proud to present 13 tales of supernatural horror in one volume, guaranteed to make your skin crawl. This bone-chilling collection awaits, luring listeners of the macabre deeper into the shadows.

Escaping death twice in sixteen years? Now, that’s real luck. Then again, it means I’m accident-prone. Not exactly the type of gal you’d ask to the Valentine’s Day dance. I just wish my high school crush had asked me… Before we fell through the ice and he disappeared forever. Was I a goner when my plane crashed on Frost Mountain sixteen years later? Nope. Bumping into him was the real shocker. This sizzling dragon shifter can’t possibly be the same guy I lost in high school… Except it is. He’s bigger, hotter, darker. A real survivor. But crashing on Frost Mountain couldn’t...

As a child, Henry Cadmus lived on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams are ones he associates with his childhood... and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping blood; strange occult rituals... and worse. If it was up to Henry, he would avoid the island entirely.