Ghost Horror

A town with a horrible secret. A doctor who prescribes medicine with side effects more terrifying than the illness they aim to cure. An ancient creature stalking a young girl driving through the mountains late at night. All of these stories and more await you in Part II. Curl up by the fire and prepare for a journey through ten more tales of terror, suspense, and dread in the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning "Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween." "CABIN CREEK" In the prequel to the eponymous short story Walking After Midnight from Part 1 of the series, we find out more...

Jonathan Martin Delaware Deseronto is a six-foot-five serial killer with a problem. He's stuck out on I-476 in a heavy November rainstorm with two flat tires and the dead bodies of a cop and a coed named Marissa Madison in his trunk. Desperate to get off the highway, he drives his car on its back rims towards exit six. The car stalls on the ramp, and Deseronto uses the last of its momentum to plunge over the crest of a steep slope and crash into a length of concrete pipe below.

Two sisters, haunted by more than their past... Just weeks after discovering each other’s existence, Jess and Hannah Ballard arrive at Fairhaven Hall, where they will learn the clandestine ways of the Durupinen, an ancient sect of women who control the Gateways between the worlds of the living and the dead. Though they are considered outcasts by most of their classmates, Jess and Hannah are determined to learn what they can to fulfill their responsibility to the many ghosts that haunt them. But danger, it seems, has followed them as closely as a shadow to their new home.

A young woman’s night-time escapade goes eerily wrong. A man is forced to relive the horrible accident that tore his family apart over and over again. An underground thrill through ancient catacombs proves disastrously horrific. A young boy is haunted by the scarecrow in the fields behind his home. And a woman is revisited by the ghost of a psychotic killer in the most dreadful of ways. Scare Street brings you some of the best short horror stories by authors Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Eric Whittle, Sara Clancy, and A. I. Nasser, all in one book.

FOR REASONS UNKNOWN AND UNKNOWABLE Authorities are calling it the American Dyatlov Pass incident. Four campers on an overnight hike fail to return. Only three bodies are found. Authorities piece together what happened using the latest in cell phone video enhancement and GPS tracking technology, but disturbing questions remain. A literary take on the "found footage" horror film genre! LUNATICS AND MARTYRS A cynical photographer is hired for a photo shoot of a famous wealthy family on their remote island. He arrives with an open agenda and a hidden one. The ancient secrets he uncovers are far...

When burned-out archivist Colin Drake accepts a quiet assignment cataloging inmate letters at the abandoned Willowmere Prison, he thinks he’s found a reprieve from the chaos of the world outside. But buried beneath the dust and decay lies something waiting to be remembered—and something that remembers him. Inside a rusted tin box, Colin finds a collection of inmate letters—desperate, angry, unfinished. As he transcribes the names onto clean paper, he thinks he’s simply preserving history. Until those names start to die. One by one, the people Colin writes down suffer horrific ends...

In the shadows of Victorian England, the ghosts are gathering. Prepare to have your blood chilled by six tales of fear and phantasmagoria… The Silent Bell: A doctor’s invention to prevent people being accidentally buried alive backfires on him with horrific results. The Stonegate Manor Collection: Lord Feltham’s paintings are worth a fortune, but also conceal a gruesome tragedy that has yet more lives to claim. The Haunting of Reverend Carson: The charlatan Musgrave makes a living pretending to talk to the dead, until he discovers his new client’s demons are more than merely ...

When a string of peaceful deaths begins targeting survivors of domestic violence, prosecutor Elena Marquez is drawn into a case that doesn’t look like murder—until she realizes the killer believes he's saving them. Now, Elena must confront a twisted new gospel of silence, before another woman disappears into its promise of mercy. Silent Ghost is the gripping second book in The Prosecutor’s Journals, a dark and suspenseful new psychological thriller series by bestselling author Blake Pierce. Following the haunting events of Silent Pattern (Book #1), Elena Marquez returns in a chilling ...

Separated by distance and choices, Archibald "Arch" Stan and Lafayette Hendricks find themselves far apart when the message comes through: the world is ending in three days, and Hell is coming. The apocalypse will begin in Midian, Tennessee, a small town where once upon a time, nothing happened. Now...everything is happening. The fate of the world will turn on whether Midian survives the next three days. It will all come down to Arch, the Watch, and, perhaps, Hendricks... ...If he can find his way back in time.

From bestselling author Ethan Hayes comes Halloween Haunts, a chilling collection of spine-tingling tales perfect for the most haunted time of the year or any other if you're into being scared. Known for his knack for capturing the eerie and the inexplicable, Hayes takes readers on a journey into the unknown with stories he’s gathered over the years—true accounts of encounters that defy logic and explanations that remain just out of reach. This anthology is a tapestry of terror, weaving together ghostly apparitions, sinister urban legends, and unexplained phenomena that have lingered in...

Five terrifying stories. Five echoes of fear that never died. From the misty jungles to haunted villages, these stories dig deep into Vietnam’s darkest corners, where war met the supernatural, and something far more disturbing was left behind. In this chilling collection, you’ll discover: Real legends, wartime horrors, psychological fear, ghostly apparitions, and unexplained mysteries—all inspired by actual accounts and folklore. Included Stories: Batutut: Vietnam's Bigfoot A creature of the forest, tall and silent, spotted by locals and soldiers alike—was it myth, or something ...

Fire, water, earth and air are the four elements essential to life, but where there is life there is also death. Peter Buckley unleashes the darker side of these elements within the first four books of his Supernatural Tales series. Each story builds with its cinematic style, building anticipation, teasing and probing your fears and nightmares. Peter leaves you fearful of the fate that awaits the characters and you, the reader, in the darkness of the night and your nightmares. The stories will take you on a journey from the Wild West of the USA to a cold winter on the moorlands of England. ...

During a weekend trip to an isolated cabin, Jenna encounters something strange… After a midnight tryst with an invisible specter, she wakes up, skin tingling and desiring more. When she confides in her best friend Kassi about the otherworldly visitor, Kassi’s eyes burn with curiosity. Surrounded by candles, the planchette moves under their fingers, and they begin to realize they might have contacted something that will leave them changed forever, and it will show them that some desires transcend the boundaries between worlds.

Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their senior year. In love since they were 14, they dance their nights away and sleepwalk their way through school. Their fellow students long to be drawn into their cool, self-contained world. But when Riley fears he’s losing Amelia to the past and asks his peers for help, things take an ominous turn.

After thirty-four years in the same weatherworn farmhouse on Dagger Lane, Tommy Hearst thought he knew every creak and whisper the old place could conjure. But when he uncovers a rotting corpse sealed behind wallpaper and hears his dead mother's voice carved into mirrors, he realizes the house isn't haunted—it's alive. As the walls breathe and whisper secrets long buried, Tommy is pulled into a horrifying family legacy—one bound in blood, sealed with silence, and broken by his very birth. Something ancient stirs beneath the floorboards. Something that has been waiting. Watching. ...

A gloomy, gloomy tale, based on one of the classic versions of the legend will hurl you—in an instant—onto this haunted vessel par excellence in the mind of its lugubrious Captain. Happy reading—to you who accept the challenge! The original edition of this Italian short story was chosen by: “Extravergine d’Autore – Self Publishing of Premium Quality”

Something Goes Bump In the Night… Short-short spooky stories about different encounters with apparitions in different situations and settings. Some are based on true accounts; others may be embellished by the tellers–But all are unsettling if not outright scary! 25 First Person Ghost Story Shorts, Quick Reads That Offer a Little Spooky Chill… Thank you to everyone who agreed to allow me to include their story.

An unsolved case in a small town that has gone too far. Ophelia Miller returns to her hometown to work at the historic Belle Caverns, unaware of the dark secrets lurking beneath its surface. When the beloved owner, Ben, mysteriously passes away, Ophelia inherits the caverns, igniting the wrath of his estranged children. As she uncovers the eerie past of the caverns, she must navigate the tangled web of small-town secrets and malevolent forces that threaten her newfound legacy."

Former teachers Richard and Judy Dockrey Young bring their frightening performances alive on tape with 14 ghost stories from the American Southeast.

Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the third volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It includes Wellman's "Judge Pursivant" and "Sergeant Jaeger" stories, as well as a lost classic from Strange Stories (1939).