Scary For Adults

Some legends never dieIn the beginning, before creating Eve, God created Lilith. The night hag herself. Having turned her back on Adam and God, Lilith left Eden, only to disappear from history as time forgot her. Now in the present day, Lilith returns, bursting into Greg’s life and kidnapping his five-year-old son, Zach, only to disappear without a trace. Desperate to get Zach back, Greg embarks on a dangerous journey to retrieve his son with the help of his coworker, Charlie. As he searches for Lilith, Greg uncovers long-buried secrets, which force him to question everything he knows ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedom, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again. Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve's castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst.

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 ...

When Claire is ordered to repair the systems that protect Morganville, it's not just cutting into her study time; it's a life-threatening problem. If there's one thing this vampire-infested town is serious about, it's security. But achieving the impossible only brings a new set of problems, and the upgrades have unexpected consequences: people in the town are slowly beginning to forget who they are, even the vampires. Soon, the town's little memory problem has turned into a full-blown epidemic.

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.

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.

Human resources director, Lucy Matheson, is an expert at terminating staff members. But when she fires the most feared and notorious employee at Edmon Enterprises, a curse is set into motion, turning her nightmares into a reality for all eternity.

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.

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?".

Train Girl On a train ride home to visit her sister, Marley Walker encounters a haunting old man who reveals a dark premonition: her sister’s life is in danger. She would be crazy to believe him, but if she doesn't find the courage to face her darkest fears, her life will be in danger, too. Again Human resources director, Lucy Matheson, is an expert at terminating staff members. But when she fires the most feared and notorious employee at Edmon Enterprises, a curse is set into motion, turning her nightmares into a reality for all eternity. To Preserve, Protect and Defend When Fiona ...

Everyone talks to animals. Some do it every day. But very few stop to listen for a reply. Lizbet Wood does. And this is just one of the things that set her apart. But she really doesn’t understand how different she is until violence shatters her solitary existence. While Lizbet seeks to understand why mother sought refuge on a deserted island in the Pacific Northwest, she comes face to face with the dangers her mother tried, but failed to escape. When her mother is gravely injured, Lizbet is forced from the island and thrust into a world even more complex and threatening than she could ...

Dark Space #6 The pressure suit doesn’t just send him back in time, it pulls him apart. Milo wakes up in a room with no windows, no way out, and no idea who he really is. Each time he’s locked into the mysterious pressure suit, he’s launched into another life—running through ancient forests, sailing pirate ships, even fighting battles that feel too real to forget. But with every jump, he loses a little more of himself. When Milo discovers the lab is part of a looping experiment to harvest memories from kids like him, he knows escaping isn’t enough, he has to break the loop from ...

When seventeen-year-old Femi and his brother accompany their father on a top-secret business trip to a remote and mysterious island, they are looking forward to a summer they'll never forget. Filled with spectacular species of animal and out-of-this-world technology, the island resort welcomes them with open arms, as does its impressive curator Richard Jenkins. But beneath the sparkle and the wonder, the island is hiding a terrible secret - and it's biding its time.

Melissa spots a strange figure from her front yard. She ignores him at first, but later discovers that someone has placed cryptic, eerie signs on the lampposts, which leaves her frightfully baffled. By the time she looks back at the cemetery, the strange figure vanishes. The strange sightings increase all over town, causing the residents to become increasingly alarmed. Many people try to shrug it off as a prank of some sort. But soon afterward, the residents discover something shocking about the strangers, and they soon realize the town is in much more trouble than they could have imagined.

She thinks she can talk to animals. He thinks she's crazy, but he loves her anyway. Lizbet and Declan are on the brink of their lives. After graduation, Declan plans on leaving for college, but his world is turned upside down when his grandfather is attacked by wolves. Lizbet draws upon her ability to communicate with animals to try and find the creatures responsible, but she soon discovers the wolves have terrifying abilities of their own, capable of destroying not only Lizbet and Declan’s plans for their future but also their hearts. This book was originally published as Melange.

In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. As student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against the elements - both natural and unnatural - the unexpected happens: Morganville's vampires begin to vanish one by one. Discovering why leads Claire to one last choice: swear allegiance to Bishop...or die.