Horror Mystery Anthology

From the silly and cute, to the horrific and sad. Each short story was made up on one day in Fountain Park, as the author began wondering who all was passing him by...where were they going and where did they come from? Listen for more.

Cheating is a dangerous game. Ask Tom, a man with a lot to juggle: a frustrated wife, a secret new girlfriend, and the unpleasant task of trying to keep his deteriorating farmhouse from falling down around him. With his wife out of town for the week, Tom is eager to get busy under the covers with his lover; but first there's something he has to finish up...in the crawlspace.

There's a murderer on the loose, and it's up to police detective Vic Halstead and his partner Doug Williams to track the vicious killer down before he strikes again... and again. With nearly a dozen bodies in his wake, though, this is no ordinary killer nor even an ordinary serial killer. How do you find and fight something you can't understand?

Novelist Mandy Freeman thinks her dreams have come true when she becomes owner of Summer Cottage, former home of her idol, author Ellen Grace. With her new life starting and love on the horizon, Mandy's future looks bright. But Mandy begins to learn all is not as it seems. A series of disturbing, sinister events force her to delve into the past of its former owner. Mandy finds herself caught in a nightmare that threatens to destroy her....

From imagination to materialism, the provocative stories in Body Parts cover the bases. Can brains survive without bodies? Will the love modem result in romance or homicide? Should a loose tongue reveal its secrets? Would a guru who brings bliss be killed by the government?

An infamous sanatorium with a bad reputation hidden in the Appalachian mountains. A man who's wrongfully found himself there by the noble actions of his past. As he begins to witness strange events he cannot explain, he soon realizes that the true horrors lie not inside his prison walls, but outside in the woods of the mountain. As time starts running out and danger starts to close in, he will have to fight for his freedom and, ultimately, his survival.

A 7-year old girl saved from drowning with the sinking of the Titanic by...a mermaid? A copy-cat serial killer, separated by four decades and an ocean from the original, only to "rip" through the wrong neighborhood. Everything that could go wrong aboard a prototype airship's maiden flight does go wrong.... Is it true what they say about gremlins? And a group of friends from the city spending a serene summer by the lake in scenic upstate New York.... Do you really want to know what they did?

Cuando un escarabajo que pareciera estar hecho de oro puro aparece llega a las manos de William Legrand, comienza un misterio que cambiará su vida por siempre. El insecto pica con un misterioso veneno, y cuando el Sr. Legrand aparenta haber perdido la razón, un amigo le acompañará a encontrar lo que el distraído señor busca. Este es el misterio de El Escarabajo de Oro.

If you had the power to raise the dead for helping and protecting others, would you use it? Even if that power comes from a macabre and twisted source? John, Andrew, and Kate planned for a relaxing catch-up during a weekend stay in the countryside. However, by chance, they discover a horrifying secret that allows them to raise the dead! If most people knew about this recently discovered ability, they would think it repulsive. But as their power grows, so does the sinister and unwanted attention of others.

Terror never sleeps.... A young girl's emotional abuse transforms her into a horrific spirit. Hellfire and damnation await a woman whose psychiatrist may be more than he seems. And devastating secrets from the past are unleashed when an old man revisits his childhood bedroom.... Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three terrifying tales for your listening pleasure. Each story will keep you up long past the midnight hour, eager to turn the next chapter.

Explore the dark world that exists just outside what you can see and thrives on the most terrible things you can imagine. Explore the unfathomable depths of darkness with four distinctly horrifying stories that delve the depths of madness and fear. Nighttime is when the darkness that is within each and every one of us escapes and envelops us in the perilous and inscrutable blackness.

Days have passed since Carol Long met her end at the Verde Valley Weight Loss Clinic. Now as her sister Tammy fights for her life, a new series of wicked events torture her soul as perfection continues to slip from her reach.

Why do you suppose some combat veterans give up the sport of hunting? Is it because they gain empathy with the hunted, or hunting a prey less cunning than they has lost its allure. Richard Connell, in this short story “The Most Dangerous Game” takes us where the hunter becomes the hunted. This hunter is not being hunted by a beast less cunning or calculating than he is, like a lion or a tiger. No, this hunter is a master at his craft, crueler and only slightly better armed than he is.

David Bain presents six tales of small town supernatural horror.

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. One of its most notable inclusions is "The Death of Halpin Frayser" a gothic tale of the murder of the fated hero by the reanimated corpse of his beloved mother.

After years of open-water diving, Aaron and Margot have upped the ante. Not content to simply swim with pretty fish, the couple have taken up cave diving - climbing into the Earth in search of flooded caverns filled with adventure. Surrounded by icy waters and claustrophobic rock, where most people would only fear drowning, the newly engaged lovers find thrilling fun.

The Black Spot is a short horror story that fits into the vein of classic 1980s supernatural/horror stories. A quick five-minute listen, this short scare plays on an unusual phenomenon and sleep paralysis/parasomnia.

Gumdrop City is a fictionalized true crime story discovered in a university class on abnormal psychology and the original short story to the award-winning film prequel, Gumdrop, a short horror piece. This story is included in my first collection of short horror and sci-fi stories, Anthology of Evil.

It is the tale of a DC cop's on and off-duty ghostly encounters with a childhood friend who died in his youth. Hauntings can be murder.

Alle had no idea a date with her hot coworker, James, was going to go so terribly wrong. She should have refused to go as soon as he told her they were going ghost-hunting in an old abandoned mental hospital. It didn't take long to discover that they are the ones who are being hunted