Horror Legends

The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people in America today relegate monsters to just that - our imaginations - we continue to be fascinated by the unknown. Linda Godfrey is one of the country's leading authorities on modern-day monsters and has interviewed countless eyewitnesses to strange phenomena.

I Shouldn’t Have Survived A Modern Horror Anthology They knocked. I answered. They watched. I waved. They waited… and I stayed. Ten chilling survivor stories. Ten doors you should never open. In this razor-sharp anthology of modern horror, victims recount the unexplainable—and barely escape. Each story is told in haunting first-person detail, plunging you into a world where terror hides in the ordinary: an unlocked apartment, a mirror that fogs from the wrong side, a knock that keeps perfect time, or a window that shouldn’t be there. From forgotten rooms to cursed signals, parasitic...

Silas Dusker. Most think he’s just a legend parents use to scare their kids into behaving. But sometimes legends are true. A group of teens on a retreat to a motel in the remote Georgia mountains will find out just how real the legend is when they experience a weekend of true terror. An homage to the slasher films of the 1980s, The Legend of Silas Dusker is a relentless tale of horror that never lets up. Experience it for yourself...if you dare.

Hollywood Haunted was the definitive book on Hollywood ghosts and an instant hit when it was published in 1994; and its popularity has never waned. Recently Author Laurie Jacobson discovered chapters meant for the original book but cut for length. She has restored these chapters in this volume as well as additional information in original chapters to create the most complete version of the book – the way she and Marc Wanamaker originally envisioned it…Hollywood Haunted – Authors' Cut. HH Authors' Cut covers 100 years of ghostly goings-on in Tinseltown. Fascinating new stories enhance ...

Unravel the Mystery of the Blackwood Curse! Step into the spine-chilling world of The Blackwood Curse, a gripping tale that blends folklore, suspense, and the haunting whispers of a village on the brink of terror. In the idyllic English village of Warblington, tradition collides with the uncanny when the peaceful life is shattered by the inexplicable death of a beloved librarian, Miss Eleanor Ainsworth. With no clear cause of death and peculiar marks on her neck, the local police find themselves at a loss. Enter Professor Karl Murphy, a retired folklore expert, whose knowledge of myth and ...

"Witch Child", the enthralling finale to the River Run series, revisits the enigmatic and haunted River Run estate, where the echoes of a dark past linger ominously. This last installment follows the journey of the Lee family, who, unaware of the estate's chilling history, move into the infamous property, setting the stage for a new chapter of supernatural occurrences and gripping terror. As the Lees begin to settle into their new home, they are quickly confronted with a series of unexplainable and unsettling events. These disturbances eerily mirror the haunting legacy of River Run, ...

Dive into the eerie and captivating world of C.W. Blackwood's "Whispers from the Beyond: An Anthology of Ghostly Encounters and Supernatural Mysteries." This spine-tingling collection of short stories will lead you on a journey through the darkest corners of the human spirit and awaken your deepest fears. Unravel the secrets of forgotten villages, explore the haunted halls of abandoned manors, and confront the restless spirits that linger in the shadows. Each tale is masterfully crafted, weaving together elements of suspense, horror, and the supernatural, leaving you with a sense of unease ...

A Game That Never Ends. A House That Never Forgets. Four friends return to the house that stole their innocence five years ago, determined to confront the horrors they left behind. But some games never truly end. The moment they step through the door, the game resumes, and this time, the rules have changed. Forced into a deadly version of Truth or Dare, they must navigate a labyrinth of psychological torment, twisted dares, and truths that should have stayed buried. As the house warps around them, feeding on their fears, their only ally is Detective Elias Kennedy—a man who played the game...

Who will pay the price for waking sleeping giants? When Gabe’s cousin, John, is kidnapped by Russians, he and his friends jump into action. Volkov is back and behind the kidnapping. He has his men looking into a massive burial mound on John’s property and is willing to do anything to learn about it—including torturing John to near death. In over their heads, Gabe and April go to their friend Heather, head of security of Parcelsus, for help. It seems Volkov has his eyes on the prize and won’t stop until he claims it. Soon, the trio finds themselves traversing the world while John ...

Life in “Dullsville” has become far from dull for goth-girl Raven. After meeting Alexander Sterling—a night-thriving, shadowy dream guy—her dark world suddenly has a bright glow. But as in her favorite movie, Kissing Coffins, Raven knows that love always has its complications. And Alexander has a secret—a secret she must quietly guard. When he mysteriously disappears, Raven finds herself on a dangerous chase to find him.

Every click could be your last. From shadowy message boards to cursed videos, Cursed Clicks dives into the dark web of digital folklore where modern myths are born. Riley Knox brings you a collection of disturbing tales inspired by the internet's most chilling corners. Whether it's the whisper of a forgotten username or a livestream gone wrong, these stories will make you think twice before scrolling again. Are you brave enough to click?

Don’t Share This Link: Creepypastas You’ll Wish You Never Read You clicked. You shouldn’t have. From haunted apps and cursed livestreams to group chats that resurrect the dead, this collection of digital-age horror stories will make you double-check every notification—and regret every click. Inside these thirteen terrifying tales, you’ll meet: A gamer whose face begins showing up in other people’s videos—smiling in places he’s never been. A girl who dreams of her favorite sleep streamer’s bedroom—until he starts dreaming of her too. A friend group haunted by an AI ...

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?

In these wonderful short stories, Washington Irving created two of the earliest, most endearing and enduring characters in all of American literature. Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane (not to mention the Headless Horseman) will keep you smiling as they wrestle with the strange and fantastic forces, characters and events that baffle and terrify.

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.

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...

The series "Restless Souls & Haunted Places" takes you to mystical locations where spirits are said to be roaming buildings and battlefields of days long gone. The novel "Unforgiving Residents" chronicles the mysterious murder of beautiful Margarita during the height of the silver boom. When the German tourist Billy books a trip to the Southwest over a hundred and forty years later, he has no idea that this vacation will lead him into a life-threatening adventure. Is Billy really connected to a cruel crime that took place in the once famous theatre in 1882? Tombstone and the still lingering...

The Starlight Voyager had sailed for many weeks, its course set for the distant and mysterious continent of Valoria, a land shrouded in myth and legend. The heroes had faced calm seas, raging storms, and even a brief encounter with a kraken, which they had managed to drive off with their combined might. As they ventured further into uncharted waters, the map provided by Queen Amara revealed more clues to their destination—cryptic symbols that hinted at ancient civilizations, forgotten gods, and relics of unimaginable power. But as they sailed deeper into the unknown, a strange feeling of ...

Although long dead, the spectre of ‘The Cunning Man’ still hangs over the village of Bindon; a place well known for its involvement in smuggling over the centuries. But what is the connection between this enigmatic figure and the freshly carved witch marks ? Marks which Queenie and Sybil see on every door lintel in the village. Their curiosity is further piqued when they encounter the ghost of a child in the churchyard and so they decide to dig a little deeper into the mysterious affairs of the locals.

Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat - a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual. The corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film.