Scary For Adults

Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighborhood it appears to be; strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator.

NOT ANOTHER SICK DAY. Caitlyn thought it would be just another day at the office, until casual Friday turns into a quarantine that leaves her trapped in the office with her professional nemesis and two colleagues. Intense questioning from the health department turns up more questions than answers, and they are discouraged to speculate. With nothing to do but work, Caitlyn digs in her paperwork, and finds herself caught in the mystery of tangled paperwork that points to mishandling of funds and sneaky activity at their highest ranks. The suspense runs through the office as they dig up hints ...

Darren was just getting settled into life at college when his world was turned upside down. After he and his research partner stumble upon a network of tunnels beneath the campus, his research partner goes missing. Now the faculty are covering it up. After Audrey steps into his life and into the tunnel with him, the pair try to uncover what they soon realize is bigger than anything they ever expected. Something lies in the darkness of the tunnels. Something that is growing. Something that they must stop at all costs.

Let's do a spell. Just for kicks. What could go wrong? Billy Cheston, an outstanding business consultant, has his eye on a golden promotion. With high-achieving friends to look up to and a child on the way, the pressure weighs heavily on his shoulders. He would do anything to live up to his friends' standards and give his family the life they deserve. But when Billy's close friend, Kevin James, brings a spell book to their group weekend retreat, his life turns upside down. What starts as laughs and gags turns to death and terror. A deal was struck with a devil, and the terms are clear: ...

Mike Banner heard the words that no parent wants to hear. His son is dead. Tommy was only six years old when his life ended tragically. Attacked while playing with his friends on the playground at school. His neck torn open and eaten. But Mike didn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. And when he saw his son's body move in the morgue and no one believed him, he had no choice but to get Tommy out of there before he was buried alive. Now, on his own, with the police on his trail, Mike needs to keep Tommy safe while trying to nurse his son back to health. But Tommy isn’t acting like his ...

Dark Space #7 Somewhere between atoms, something is watching her back. Twelve-year-old Lina Chen never meant to unravel the universe. But when she straps on her uncle’s forbidden invention, she shrinks into a glowing, alien world beneath the surface of reality—where atoms orbit like planets and something strange lurks in the silence between. As Lina dives deeper into the layers of scale, she discovers she’s not alone. Something ancient is alive in the Pattern, and it doesn’t want her to leave. With time warping and reality folding around her, Lina must find her way home before she ...

Dark Space #10 No one in Crofton Hollow can die, but someone is trying to delete Rina anyway. When Rina Avery’s missing cat returns with glowing eyes and a strange silence, she follows him into the woods—and discovers a hidden hatch beneath an ancient tree. What she finds underground isn’t just tech. It’s a system. One that’s been rewriting her town, erasing people who don’t “fit,” and replacing them with cleaner, quieter versions. Including her. With the help of her best friend Luis and a glitchy memory tether, Rina must dive deep into a secret archive, confront the eerie ...

When Francis buried a headless corpse in his backyard, it was with the understanding that bodies stay buried. Oops. Awake and angry, Dryden is out for blood, but the wizard has a score to settle with a certain were-raccoon and now Ali is in grave danger. Episodes 1 -3 now available as When, Were, & Howl Bundled.

Bone-Chilling Page-Turner “Chris Coppel’s “Lakebed” is a bone-chilling page-turner that finds the prolific author channeling the best elements of his previous work into what just might be his most gripping novel yet. "Fast paced and well sculpted, this is a horror story that rises to the top of the genre. Chris Coppel is an author with the gift! Recommended.” “Lakebed is a chilly mystery that gives you goosebumps with each page turn THE PROBLEM WITH DREAMS IS THEY CAN SO EASILY TURN INTO UNSPEABABLE NIGHTMARES We've all visited places and dreamt of moving there. Kris and Ryan ...

>The Spook, Tom, and Alice return from Greece to find the County under siege - and the Spook's home burnt to the ground. With his precious library of knowledge destroyed, they seek refuge on the nearby island of Mona. But with Mona in the thrall of a twisted Shaman there is little respite from hostility or denizens of the dark. And as Alice dodges the ever-tightening net of the island's witch hunters, a more deadly enemy emerges. Bony Lizzie, escaped from the Spook's bonds, has grand ambitions of taking the throne.

It all started as stories - playground tales handed down for generations, stories of plague graves, vanished children and hidden steps leading to a festering underworld. A world so real you could almost smell it.... But when another child goes missing, Fraser wonders if there's some truth in the tales.

Step into a world of spine-tingling excitement with the Brave Kids' Book of Scary Urban Legends: Humor & Mystery Unite. This thrilling collection invites brave young listeners to embark on a hair-raising adventure through eerie urban legends, haunted places, unexplained phenomena, supernatural objects, legendary creatures, and pop culture ghostly mischief. Brave kids will giggle and gasp as they face the Chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot with newfound courage.

When John brings his new college girlfriend, Emmy, home to meet his reclusive and isolated sister, Leah, (both having lost their parents and guardian grandmother), he finds her jealous, disrespectful, and dangerously possessive of him. Despite his and Emmy’s efforts to win her approval, Leah, with the aid of the dark spirits that dwell in the forest surrounding their remote cabin, will try anything within her (and their) power to sever the relationship. When people start to go missing, it becomes disturbingly clear to John that his sister is more than just a lonely country girl that ...

If popularity were a score between one and ten, Charlie Drinkwater would be a zero. He's nerdy and unathletic, and to top it all off, he's suddenly morphed into a giant mutant sea creature sometime between first-period science class and third-period English. Now Charlie's two best friends are treating him like a science project, there's a petition to get him kicked out of school, the cool kids are recruiting him for their clique, and for some reason his parents are acting like everything is perfectly normal.

It’s time to break the curse. For centuries, the Black Eyed People have been suffering at the hands of a witch’s curse. Unable to overcome their compulsion to kill, no-one is safe. Sixteen year old Ariel Cole doesn’t know anything about the new guy in school except that she is strangely mesmerized by him. Learning Gabe is one of the Black Eyed People, she knows she must break the curse or risk losing him forever. With her love greater than any murderous compulsion, she delves into a world full of witches, warlocks, and dark magic. Caught in the middle of an urban legend, Ariel and ...

With things still raw and unsettled between Claire and her boyfriend Shane, Claire has been granted the opportunity to move out of Morganville - and she's taking it. Escorted to the town borders by Myrnin, she is given her admission papers to MIT, along with enrollment in an advanced study course with Professor Irene Anderson, a former Morganville native. But it's hard to leave the town, the vamps and her friends behind, and Claire can't help but wonder whether leaving Morganville is actually a mistake.

Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task. Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to send the greatest of his servants against him - Siscoi, a Vampire God more ferocious than anything he has yet faced. Tom must risk his life to prevent the evil beast from entering this world, even as he learns that the final destruction of the Fiend may involve a sacrifice more terrible than he can imagine….

When sixteen-year-old Paige Preston and her mother relocated to Dead Lake, Michigan, they were unaware that a seventeen-year-old previous resident of their house had killed himself by jumping off a cliff into the lake six months earlier. But was it really suicide? Noah Snyder is a ghost. At least he thinks so. Only he's not sure how he died. He recruits the cute Paige to help him get to the bottom of the mystery so he can move on.

With its mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire's deadliest enemy, Morganville isn't just in danger - it's dying... Ever since the draug - mysterious creatures that prey on vampires - took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil.

Slightly Scary Short Stories with humorous, creepy, historical, and thought-provoking tales. An entertaining Halloween book. Featuring new urban legends like "The Coquina Madman", the creepy "Sleepless", and the amusing "What’s in the Attic?".