Island Horror

There are many mysterious and evil things lurking on Oakwood Island. Things so strange that the locals are left wondering if their small coastal community will ever be the same. The police are concerned when Maggie, the local waitress, shows up at their doorstep cold, weak and frail, after having escaped a kidnapper that she describes as a monster. Her strange symptoms of a mysterious illness that seems to be growing stronger baffles her nurses and doctor. What happened to her?

The old radio at the station had poured out haunting images of a dying world from the first day. Through it, the tiny group hunkered down at the Village of Portsmouth, bore witness to the death of millions. Where the sickness left off, storms and brutal emotions took over. Some fought. Some starved. Others simply disappeared. Storms ravaged the power grids. Relief efforts died before they ever started. Entire countries collapsed.

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This book is full of adventures with a character who merely craves a little excitement in her life. Weirdly, she finds herself across the seas more than a few times a year. Most times, her little travel jaunts are colorful but uneventful. That is, until she answers an advertisement to take a short-term job in Fiji. Drawn by the thrill and promise of living abroad in a true paradise, she sets off. Not knowing the many dilemmas she will face, she leaps headlong into the offer.

My name is Peter Kargosi, and I write for a newsletter called Sinister Sightings. I always knew my hometown was different from other hometowns, but the stuff happening here lately is crazy! Nobody believes me or my best friend Sweet Tooth that this place is the center of all things paranormal. So if you are in the mood to listen to two bumbling friends getting way over their heads with crazy supernatural stuff, then this book series is for you.

Houston, Texas, 1985: While investigating the affluent and seedy Gasper family, Rachel Hawkins, a junior reporter with the Galveston Daily News, stumbles upon a story that will make her career. Billy Gasper, son to the billionaire tycoon Gasper family, is missing. His yacht found near the Port of Galveston, abandoned all but for a seemingly deranged captain. Where are the crew? And where is Billy?

A small island off the coast of Washington state has legends surrounding it, stories of those who have gone missing. Like many before them, a group of high school students in 1998 take a spring break trip to the island to see if they can find a boy named Lewis, who disappeared there decades ago.

How can you escape a living hell when God is the one who put you there? You don't! Despite his role as Chaplain and Keeper of Hell's Island, Tavin finds his faith lacking as one by on friends and family members have died horrible deaths. Instead of finding solace in his God-given duties, Tavin curses the day he was born a McLellan and yearns for a life far, far away from this living hell. But when a chestnut-haired beauty washes up on shore, he begins questioning everything he's ever known about God's plan.

Aubrey has a fantasy. While working her boring job and spending her nights alone, she dreams of being one of the women she sees on reality shows. Mindless, hot women with perfect bodies and one goal - to be hot and wanted. Some might call these women bimbos. Aubrey calls them perfection. When she finds a resort advertising an island paradise that promises to make her the woman of her dreams, Aubrey is whisked away to a tropical paradise led by the enigmatic Sir Pendo. Soon, she and her new friend Taylor will find themselves changing. It's so nice not to think when your body is being ...

In the year 2212, long after the world has been reshaped by seismic cataclysms and polar shifts, Princess Angelique Bosc recovers from a terrible hovercraft accident, which left her injured and near death. Her friend and physician, Dr. Laurent Stine, used his skills as a robotics engineer to replace her damaged organs with android components.

Day by day The Fever grew stronger, surging across boundaries in its relentless assault on humanity. The news pouring out across the airwaves turned more shocking by the hour. Hospitals had started closing their doors. The dead and dying littered the landscape.The tiny group stranded on Portsmouth Island listened as the horror unfolded. They had nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. The struggle to survive had taken on a new meaning.

Hell Hill Island was founded in 1863 by Marshall Sam Tucker who didn't believe in a fair trial because of his short fuse. If you back talked the Marshall, he would shoot you in both legs, then drag your wounded body with a rope he held as he rode his horse up to the Gallows to be hung high and when the Marshall was through watching the dead body swing back and forth on the Gallows, he would set their body on fire and light his cigar from the flames off their body.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is often credited as being the father of science fiction. 'Aepyornis Island' is the strange tale of a naturalist who finds himself adrift in a canoe in the Indian Ocean, with three mysterious rare giant eggs which he has collected. He knows they are the eggs of the aepyornis - a bird which has been extinct for hundreds of years. He is amazed, when hunger forces him to try one of the eggs, to find that it is fresh.

We all long to find a time when we can escape the daily grind and find a hideaway where we won’t be disturbed. We may have projects to complete or rest to enjoy, but the choice of that location is critical. Algernon Blackwood provides a short story of just such a man who is alone in a cottage on a Canadian island. He should have picked a better location, but then this memorable story wouldn’t exist.

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Stranded on Portsmouth Island, William Hill struggled to survive even as The Fever raced across the world, leaving a scattered wasteland of the dead and dying in its wake. The news brought stories of storms and riots, of people starving while the government promised food.

The fever exploded across the US and the world. Hour by hour, the news grew worse. The virus was spreading at a bewildering pace, killing so fast that estimates had to be constantly revised. Even worse, it appeared to be mutating to an even deadlier form.

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This story revolves around an empty house on an uninhabited island in this work by Algernon Blackwood. The atmosphere is filled with dread, and the flow of the prose is superb.

Intrigued by other sailors’ superstitions of a cursed island, Sam Lenartson rows out to see for himself. Once there, he discovers an abandoned house with a mysterious tenant.