Ghost Horror

At over one hundred years old, Grandma Moses is one of America's last true, living witches. Sold into apprenticeship as a young girl and extensively schooled in the black arts, she can solve most human problems with a potion and a spell. Though she never accepts money for her services, nothing is free, and the cost rises with the value of the result. Approach her with caution and be prepared to pay! Grandma Moses lives alone near the swamp, her only company all the slimy, crawling things that flop, splash and slither there. Her reputation is as black as her soul, and her powers are prodigious.

When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered, and they've been waiting for their chance to step into the author’s shoes for some time. Instead, they arrive at his grand manor and are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don’t, the manor will take one of them for itself.

After recent events, a little fun in the sun is just what Doc and the gang need. Unfortunately, it may take a bit more than beach time to make things right because something is very, very wrong with Doc Holliday....

In 1968 four women were found slain in the back of buses in the small town of Haunting Pines. No witnesses, no suspects, no evidence. Five years later, Skye Guthrie is sent to report on the recent 1973 murders that mirror the last spate of gruesome killings. After befriending an enigmatic writer with a secretive past, she tries to penetrate the wall of silence and get the locals to speak with her. Confronted with unrelenting rain and fog, she is swept up by an old haunting while facing the immediate danger of an elusive killer. Worse, she bears the burden of an old tragedy, returning to the...

Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's only son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances. After an ominous visit to the opulent Lim mansion, Li Lan finds herself haunted not only by her ghostly would-be suitor, but also by her desire for the Lims' handsome new heir, Tian Bai. Li Lan must uncover the Lim family's darkest secrets before she is trapped in this ghostly world forever.

Few cared about the dilapidated house they called Dunfallow. Fewer still cared about it’s future or it’s past. The surveyor would knock it down, the architect, resurrect it, but neither would have gone near it, should they have known about the demonic power that lurked within. With the arrival of Sarah, a young woman escaping from her dead beat, drunken husband, the house stirs, sensing another victim to add to its tally. Sarah, however, proves stronger than the house’s incumbents’ could have imagined and a deadly battle of wills ensues.

In present-day England, Monica and David believe they’ve won the dream home of a lifetime: Penebrook House, a sprawling, Gothic estate hidden deep in the countryside. But the house’s beauty masks a terrifying history, and soon after moving in, the couple begins to experience chilling encounters with the past. In 1875, Penebrook House was the site of betrayal and murder. Margaret Penebrook, the lady of the house, was brutally slain by her husband, Arthur, and his lover, Rose, who conspired to kill her in cold blood. But their crime didn’t go unnoticed. William, the sly and sinister ...

A strange evil lurks within the rambling building; to some it appears as an innocent child but Queenie and Sybil see the truth, that it is pure evil. They soon realise that it has a sinister motive in befriending a little girl, to steal her soul. Using their knowledge of the occult and with the help of the child's aunt they begin to uncover the truth surrounding the old Victorian building and the significance of a murder that happened 150 years previously. The Haunting of Stoke Water is the third in The Psychic Sisters series. #1 The Lavender Witch #2 The Cunning Man #4 The Doll #5 From The...

Restless Spirits: An Hourlings Anthology Maybe there will be blood, or children's games, or a perfect house, a curse, a fortune teller, or a knife... But no rest.

Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive bars. She spends most of her time at her favorite spot in Denver, the White Horse. When her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother’s ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable. Haunted by visions of her mother and hunted by this mysterious creature, Kari must search for what happened to her mother all those years ago.

Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there. When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony that may have occurred at the Old Ursuline Convent, he soon learns that more is involved than Satan, The platform where the ceremony allegedly occurred is possibly a satanic altar placed in the convent by a secret society for the specific purpose of devil worship. The Order of the Blood, an offshoot of Freemasonry, has a centuries-old secret guarded by ...

In Victorian London, Genevieve Timmons poses as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy mourners—until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord he serves, Mr. Pemberton, has been inconsolable since the tragic death of his beautiful bride-to-be. If Genevieve can perform a séance persuasive enough to bring the young lord peace, she will win her freedom.

Giant arachnids, killer snowmen, ravenous sharks, ghostly motorcades, and the mother of all lobsters—it’s all in here, including a new Samantha Moon story! Included in this collection: "Vampire Widow" - Tammy Moon hears a distant, telepathic cry for help... and convinces her mother, Samantha Moon, to go on a road trip deep into the heart of the Mojave desert to help something ancient... and massive. "Little Snowmen Everywhere" - They are new to town, trying to fit in. All is going well until the first snowfall. That's when their neighbors frantically start building little snowmen. Now, ...

A simple road trip turned into a ghostly adventure for author, Victoria Mundae. When driving through Texas, she found herself in a small town, located in the upper corner of northeast Texas. She was far away from the life she knew and about to experience something which would change her life forever. Following her intuition, Victoria decided to spend the night in the Jefferson Hotel, a historic and renowned haunted location. When checked in, she was listed as the only guest, but it wouldn’t take long for her to discover, she was the only living guest.

In the New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences, real-life serial killer David Parker Ray was a man with a Satanic mission – to ritually sacrifice sixty-six women in the name of his Lord and Master. In 1999, some sixty killings later, one of his intended victims managed to escape and he was apprehended and sentenced to 224 years in prison. His 'toy box,' where he had tortured and murdered the women, became a by-word for evil incarnate. In 2002, David Parker Ray died, six deaths short of his quota. Not long afterwards, in Cuchillo, a town fifteen miles outside Truth or Consequences, ...

The Possession Of Jessica Kind, Teen Cheerleader (A novella. approx 20,000 words). Tagline: LOVING hard on Jessica will KILL YOU.... Part 1 Sixteen year old Great Lake State High Cheer Captain Jessica Kind has just awakened from a coma, which was the unfortunate outcome of a snowstorm car crash one week earlier. The girl who awoke in the hospital isn’t quite the same girl she was before the accident, not even close. This is her actual eerie account of her near death experience. 10,600 words approx. Part 2 After Justine takes ‘possession’ of Jessica, those around her have been put in ...

Seven years ago Professor Gabriel Kennedy's investigation into paranormal activity at Summer Place ended in tragedy and destroyed his career. Now Kelly Delaphoy, the ambitious producer of a top-rated ghost-hunting television series, is determined to make Summer Place the centerpiece of an epic live broadcast on Halloween night. To ensure success she needs help from the one man who has come face-to-face with the evil that dwells in Summer Place, a man still haunted by the ghosts of his own failure.

Horror Stories Nightmare Collector is a collection of 10 horror stories which to delve into the fears of the protagonists, after all, who does not suffer from nightmares? Fear of death, of the loss of a loved one, of what is not understood? Dare to delve into each of the different nightmares. It contains the following stories: The morgue. Hunger. Surgery. At 3:30 a.m. The eyes of death. It all happened so fast. The sound of death. The school. The circus arrives. The campsite.

Under emerald canopies in the summer, and dazzling explosions of color in the fall lay the tranquil Appalachian Mountains. Rumor, tall tales, and superstition play on the imagination of those that make their home in the majestic serenity. These stories linger through the generations as lessons, but most often become warnings to those that trespass into the darker recesses of the Nightmare of an Appalachian Hillbilly.

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 ...