Scary For Adults

Mark Williams loves snakes. He likes holding them, feeding them, and playing with them. But most of all he enjoys scaring people with them. He has some pet snakes of his own, and he takes them out as much as possible. No store, house, or school is safe as long as Mark is there. Eventually everyone begins to get tired of Mark’s constant pranks. He is always taking out a snake, or leaving it in odd places to scare people. His friends and family have had enough, along with his teachers. One day, he meets an unusual old lady at a birthday party, and she isn’t impressed by his games. She ...

Tommy Edwards loves comic books. It’s all he thinks about. All he dreams about. Good versus evil, saving the world, humans versus monsters, that sort of thing. Every free second of his day is spent reading from his giant comic book collection. Not only does he read them, but he also loves to create his own. One day Tommy accidentally discovers a new comic book store in town. It just appeared out of nowhere, and he has to check it out. Some of the selection he already knows, but most he has never seen before. He even finds a special set of colored pencils that the store owner insists will ...

Eight tales of terror and a novella to thrill you and chill you with surprises you may not see coming. Table of Contents: LORD OF DARKNESS Fred finds a large box on his doorstep with a horrific looking ebony statue inside that terrifies him. He abhors scary things and takes it to the city dump for disposal. JACK IN THE BOX Harold fixes up old houses and sells them for a nice profit. That is, until he bought the dreaded house on Elm Street. FORTUNE COOKIES Mr. Ryder receives two fortune cookies with his Chinese food this time. One says he'll be rich; the other says he'll be dead by midnight....

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 ...

Marcus was convinced that vampires didn’t exist. He was very wrong... On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett is faced with a bombshell. His parents are half-vampire. And, although he hates the thought of it, he is about to become one too. But, as he secretly blogs about the horrors of his new fangs, bad breath and cravings for blood, Marcus is unaware that his life is in serious danger...

UNA NUEVA ESPECIE DE ZOMBI Un niño inocente, herido. Una familia, en peligro. The Fantasy Lines es conocida en todo Estados Unidos como una de las mejores formas de disfrutar de unas vacaciones en familia. ¿Por qué no sería una elección perfecta? Un viaje al mar, paradas en lugares exóticos, degustando gastronomías de todo el mundo... todo mientras navegas en aguas cristalinas y disfrutas de un entretenimiento de primer nivel. Belice, famosa por su impresionante vida marina y exuberantes paisajes, es una selección obvia como parada de Fantasy Lines. Hasta ahora. Un extraño ...

Greg Matthews is terrified of clowns. He has been afraid of them for as long as he can remember. He can’t even handle the thought of them. Lucky for him, his little brother Timmy loves clowns. He thinks they are hilarious. That’s why their house is full of clown costumes, rubber chickens, and squirting flowers. That’s also why their parents are taking them to the carnival for Timmy’s birthday. Timmy is the youngest, and the baby in the family. Anything Timmy wants, Timmy gets, and Timmy wants to see clowns. What should be a fun night at the carnival, however, quickly turns deadly. ...

Say cheese! Samantha Byrd absolutely loves photography. She carries her camera around with her everywhere she goes. She even sleeps with it at night. You know, just to be sure a good photo opportunity doesn’t pass her by. She has thousands of pictures saved on her computer, and will spend hours at a time editing them. You know, so she can get them just right. A new antique store has just opened up in town. Naturally, Sam just has to see if they have any good cameras for sale. She manages to find an old Polaroid just like the one her parents used to have, and uses up all her savings to buy...

It sucks being the new kid. Peter Gallagher and his family are always having to move around the country for work. This means a new house, new school, and new friends. It’s hard enough for Peter to fit in as it is. This small town is different than the others. There aren’t many kids around. But Peter quickly makes some friends, and they invite him to join them at a campfire near the cemetery at night. The goal is to see who can tell the scariest story. The only problem is that strange things start to happen around town. The kind of things that aren’t normal. Things that just happened ...

This place is awesome! Or at least that’s what Billy Turner and his little brother think when they first step foot in their new house. The place is huge. It has three floors inside, and about ten acres of land surrounding the house. Sure it’s two hundred years old, but they got a great deal on it. They especially can’t wait to see their new rooms. Billy spends his free time every day during the summer exploring the place. This is definitely the house for hide and seek. He’s excited for his new friends to come over and play too. Though Billy tries not to think about it, something ...

Megan Fuller has the coolest dad in the world. He works at the local museum as an overnight security guard. What’s even better is that he sometimes lets her come to work with him. She gets the whole museum to herself, and she can do anything she wants. Megan really likes to see the paintings, and there are a ton of them there. One day, Megan’s dad tells her that the museum just received a new shipment of paintings from Japan. They are all very old, and very delicate. As soon as the museum is able to set them up, Megan heads over to see them. These paintings are not like the others, ...

Embark on a hair-raising journey into the mysterious with "Pagan's Scary Stories: Volume I." In this chilling collection, Robert Jerome Pagan crafts tales that blur the line between reality and nightmare—from a clandestine Halloween speak-easy to the enigmatic Flight 237 and the haunting echoes of the past.

Scary Stories for Kids presents two classic chillers certain to spark the imaginations of boys and ghouls everywhere. "Staley Fleming's Hallucination" tells the story of a murderer and the ghostly image of the victim's loyal dog that seeks unspeakable revenge. "The Bottle Imp" recounts the story of Keawe, a young Hawaiian who comes into possession of a bottle that grants his every wish, but at a cost that may be higher than he wants to pay.

Dead men tell no tales. Until now. Haden Church isn’t your typical private investigator—he’s a necro-detective with a terrifying gift. He can speak to the dead. He can even possess their corpses to uncover the secrets they took to the grave. His services are in high demand—by the grieving, the desperate, and the damned. But his latest case is unlike anything he’s faced. A ghost hires him with a chilling plea: find the girl—a child buried alive, running out of air and time. To save her, Haden must push his abilities to the edge—and beyond. There’s only one being powerful ...

It's on the prowl... When an inquisitive paperboy notices something strange along his route, he immediately investigates. But what begins as an innocent inquiry will soon become something hauntingly sinister. And as the truth is unleashed, the neighborhood discovers... THE ATTACK IS JUST BEGINNING Now, hampered by a record storm and left to fend for themselves, three high schoolers must do the impossible. Their neighborhood is under attack--the infection spreading. And with a deadly creature and its undead minions on the loose, what these teenagers think they know, could never be more wrong...

Whisper was living a normal life among humans until a group of witch hunters show up in the city and begin killing off her kind. Now they have their eyes on her, and she finds that magic alone is not enough to keep her alive this time. She needs help, and the only person that can help her survive is a human. Ben Bauer was living a normal human life until Whisper stepped in and turned it upside down. Whisper throws him into a world hidden deep within his own, where the impossible is possible, where nothing is what it seems, and where danger lurks in every shadow. Together they work to stop a...

After everything Leif has been through in Arena 13, it's finally time for him to fulfil his destiny and accompany his father's people beyond the barrier that imprisons all mankind. Meanwhile, Kwin, the girl he loves, is making waves in the arena as the first woman ever to grace its fighting floor. In their own ways, each of them is fighting to bring down the superhuman monsters that threaten the last people on earth. They might have picked fights they can't win. But freedom could be something worth dying for.

Martha, the youngest daughter of fanatically religious parents, is all too aware that her family is unusual. Taunted and bullied at school, and lonely at home with only postcards from her elder sister to keep her sane, Martha knows there has to be some other way of living. But it is only when she is befriended by the new boy, Scott, that she decides to reveal the terrible secret that has so far kept her in emotional chains.

The Nightmare Nook: Six Stories To Give You Nightmares, is a compilation of different Horror short stories. These stories depict nightmarish scenarios all narrated by Zainab Ali.

Finn's not at all sure about the Salt House. Overlooking Westwater Bay, it brings back all her nightmare fears of drowning. Of the ghosts of the dead reaching for her. And Westwater is dangerous. Countless seafarers have drowned here, their ships lost - broken on the vicious Viper Rocks. Lured by the wrecker's false lights, summoned by the dark enchantments of cunning men - masters of storms and tides. Or so the legends say.