Scary Horror

A billionaire with dubious intentions. An expedition gone wrong. And a terrifying discovery 100,000 years in the making. Never wake a sleeping giant.

The mysterious, the scary, and the unknown. At one time or another we all have experienced an event or moment where we questioned reality. A time when we could feel our skin crawl and our hairs raise. In, What Lurks Beyond, Volume 3, Ethan Hayes, author of the bestselling series, Encounters in the Woods, brings us true tales and stories told from the experiencers themselves. These are people that have come face to face with something beyond imagination, something awful, something surreal and even evil. They survived these experiences but they will never be the same. From spirits to cryptids...

The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a long time ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and the Black Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swath through the quiet Pennsylvania village. The evil that once coursed through Pine Deep has been replaced by cheerful tourists getting ready to enjoy the country’s largest Halloween celebration in what is now called “The Spookiest Town in America.”

No More Pencils. No More Books. Just Blood and Guts and Teachers Hanging from Hooks. Alphonso High is just like any other Title 1 high school on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Except it isn’t. Strange and disturbing events have become the new normal at Alphonso High. A parent mysteriously collapses during a heated exchange with administrators. Students are attacking teachers without provocation. And the principal’s wife winds up dead in the middle of the night. When detectives are sent to investigate, they end up trapped inside the school while students and faculty are dying in increasingly...

Beware the weeping wails of the headless bride Harry Dwight, a broke tech genius, heard the folklore all his life - the headless bride floating over the swell off Cinder Bay, haunting wayward ships in the wee hours of night. But he knew it for what it was. Just another campfire story meant to scare kids. But when his best friend lands him a late-night pitch opportunity offshore, Harry's beliefs are shaken to the core. Her wails are loud, like the incarnated screams of a thousand tormented souls. Her vacant gaze stares wherever he goes. Her taunt is consistent, at the wake of every bleeding ...

Don’t go to sleep… As usual, twelve-year-old Jason is staying with his Uncle Jed in small-town Minnesota for a few days during the summer while his parents are away on business. But this time something’s horribly off. Ever since Uncle Jed’s wife died a few weeks ago, he’s been acting like a totally different person. He doesn’t eat the same food, have the same interests, or even use the same turns of phrases. Grief can do strange things to a person, but Jason’s about to find out it’s far more than grief that’s plaguing his uncle. It’s something deeper. Something darker. ...

How much fear can one man take? Marcus Holt thought his worst memories were behind him. A veteran of the Vietnam War, the tough old soldier is haunted by nightmares of brutal conflict. But he’s about to discover that his battle for survival has only just begun. Professor Abel Worthe is brilliant, wealthy, and utterly immoral. He is an expert in a very particular field: the study of fear and death. Using his vast resources, Worthe has purchased a collection of haunted houses and paranormal sites, hidden across the world.

Mitch and Jessa, extreme adventure vloggers, seem to have it all. Fame, fortune, and thousands of followers on social media. Behind the scenes, the camera tells a different story. A marriage in shambles. In a last attempt to save their relationship, Mitch takes them on a journey back to the idyllic campground of his childhood for some time away from the spotlight. As they journey into the woods, however, things become anything but relaxing. They find themselves thrown into the most dangerous adventure they have ever faced, with the highest of stakes…their lives. What happens when the ...

Would you kill your daughter to save the world? Thirty years ago, Bishop Kane made the ultimate sacrifice—he killed his own daughter to stop an unspeakable evil from consuming the world. Or so he thought. Now undead and bound to the secretive Ministry of the Wraith, Bishop hunts the supernatural from the shadows. But when his next target is revealed, the mission hits too close to home: his daughter is alive. And she’s no longer human. Sent back to the frozen town where he died, Kane walks into a living nightmare. A brutal blizzard cuts off all escape. The townspeople are changing—...

If you like scary stories, you've come to the right place. Over 15 tales of terror told in a true story style that will curdle your blood and send shivers down your spine!

“I fear not the dark ... but what may lurk within it” From the author of the bestselling series, Encounters in the Woods and What Lurks Beyond, comes a new series focused exclusively on the creepy, scary, and dangerous things that lurk in the deep forests. Ethan Hayes has been collecting firsthand encounters from people all over the world for years and in Fear in the Forest, he has saved some of his best stories for the pages ahead. From terrifying face to face encounters with Bigfoot and Sasquatch, to horrifying instances of being stalked by a Wendigo and Black Eyed Children; Ethan ...

Two friends, a renovation project, and complex layers of history that are destined to repeat. Claire and Roxie team up to purchase an old house in the country in an attempt to leave the trials of their lives behind them. The women are both nursing fresh wounds from recent traumas and an unhurried fix-and-flip project represents an appealing change of direction. Eager to get the renovations underway, they start to peel away decades of wallpaper with the intention of bringing the house back to life. The project has barely begun when Roxie announces that she has invited her new boyfriend to ...

Villagers spoke of ghosts who roamed the forest, souls of those who had perished within its boundaries. At the outskirts of the village, a forest steeped in legend awaits, where the restless dead are rumored to rise on Halloween night. Four spirited eighteen-year-olds—Tom, Lisa, Mark, and Rachel—dismiss the warnings, hungry for adventure. Armed with a map drawing and fueled by curiosity, they plunge into the enigmatic heart of the forest, only to discover that some secrets should never be disturbed. As the four friends delve deeper into the forest, a rhythmic thudding sound begins to ...

3 Demons, 2 Psychics, and a Ghost that Becomes a Monster! GLUTTONY. POWER. FURY. A dark hunger lurks in the fourth book in the suspenseful psychic Deadly Sins series. Demons Rarely Share: Gluttony dishes up a thrilling blend of occult suspense fantasy, featuring fiery demons, angels, and ghost humor that’s sure to satisfy. Welcome to Hershey, Pennsylvania, the day after Halloween, where the streets are littered with candy wrappers and haunted by something far more sinister than trick-or-treaters. Clear your plate for a spooky ghost horror thriller that will completely consume you. Dr. ...

Signed over 200 years ago, the Blood Contract ensured the sanctity of the Blood lands. In return, the Blood family dedicated their lives, and their deaths to the protection of the town of Thorne. For many years, the town of Thorne was nothing more than a picturesque New England village. But in modern day, the town is enjoying a boom in real estate development. To satisfy the developers with enough land, the town has decided to break the Blood Contract...and the people of Thorne are going to learn that there is a price for ignorance.

Evil festers in desolation. Haunted by childhood trauma inflicted by his controlling parents, Ethan seeks solace in the big city life. However, his past catches up to him after a mysterious photo of his recently deceased friend appears on his doorstep. Stricken by grief, he decides to return to the place he tried so hard to escape. Little does he know that something sinister has awakened in his little town and that the journey he decided to take would lead him to his greatest nightmare. This haunting tale is perfect for fans of urban horror, psychological suspense, and supernatural mysteries.

I Shouldn’t Have Survived A Modern Horror Anthology They knocked. I answered. They watched. I waved. They waited… and I stayed. Ten chilling survivor stories. Ten doors you should never open. In this razor-sharp anthology of modern horror, victims recount the unexplainable—and barely escape. Each story is told in haunting first-person detail, plunging you into a world where terror hides in the ordinary: an unlocked apartment, a mirror that fogs from the wrong side, a knock that keeps perfect time, or a window that shouldn’t be there. From forgotten rooms to cursed signals, parasitic...

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out...and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of....

On a cold April in 1786, Joseph kisses his widowed mother goodbye in impoverished St. Giles District of London, England. He is a good hard-working man and loves her, but everything in life has not been fair. Pressed by want and years spent in the run-down and polluted parts of the city, he steps aboard the Fortune, a British whale ship bound for the Pacific Ocean in hopes of a better life. As Fortuna, the goddess of the figurehead would have it, not only the natural perils would enter the square-rigged barque with him on the Greenland Dock that day. One man who escapes the city unpunished ...

In a quiet trailer on a snow-covered hill, an ancient shaman defies the natural order of life and death. With incantations older than recorded history and a dark ritual steeped in forbidden power, he challenges the spirit world itself. But when his defiance ensnares the Guide—an ethereal entity charged with shepherding souls—the world begins to unravel. From a single act of hubris, a catastrophic chain of events is unleashed. Souls scream out in torment, trapped between worlds, as a terrifying new reality emerges. The boundaries between life and death dissolve, birthing relentless, ...