Scary Paranormal

Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her scientist father, timid Elizabeth Murmur has only her fearless friend, Zenobia, for company. And Zenobia's company can be very trying! When Elizabeth's father takes them to live in his family home, Witheringe House, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost in the creepy old mansion and forces Elizabeth to hold séances and wander the rooms at night. With Zenobia's constant pushing, Elizabeth investigates the history of the house and learns that it does hold a terrible secret.

This second novel in the Tales from Lovecraft Middle School series begins right where Professor Gargoyle ended. Seventh-grader Robert Arthur has discovered that two of his classmates are actually sinister snake-women in disguise. Even worse, his new middle school is full of “gates” to a terrifying alternate dimension - a haunted mansion full of strange spirits and monstrous beasts. For Robert to protect his teachers and classmates, he'll need to return to this haunted dimension with his best friends.

This book details true accounts of brushes that everyday people, like you and I, have had with that which cannot be easily explained. Some of the stories relate terrifying experiences with vengeful spirits who will stop at nothing to regain their place among the living. Others involve encounters with creatures whose origins are unknown and, quite possibly, otherworldly in nature. There are also tales of loved ones who have returned to those they left behind leaving little doubt that the ties that bind are not easily broken, even in death. These spine-tingling stories and much, much more are...

Vance Archer and Marybeth Wilkins, a pair of adventurous seventh-graders, have discovered an exciting activity called geocaching - a kind of scavenger hunt using GPS technology - that leads them after hidden treasures in the woods around their community. However, on one of their outings, they encounter a frightening, half-seen creature with glowing red eyes watching them from the shadows. Soon, Vance begins to receive mysterious messages on his phone from a caller named Indrid Cold. He learns this name is associated with the legendary Mothman.

This collection includes the frightening real-life accounts of a family whose chance for a new beginning would pit them against a force not of this world; a creature of unknown origin that terrorized a farming community in the 1950s; an unidentified presence captured on video; a woman who claimed to be the target of a systematic poltergeist attack; a stubborn family pet that refused to accept the finality of death; hotels where guests check-in for eternity; the victim of a horrific crime whose spirit reached out to her loved ones in her final moments; innocent looking objects that were not ...

If it is your first time, you may think it was planned. I bet after listening to this book you will want to go back through it again and keep your third eye open. If you choose to do so, please keep yourself protected from the darker spirits.

The Mummy Meets the Tomb Raider! Hyala was raised and groomed to be the perfect body double for the spoiled princess Rekhetre, daughter of Pharaoh Khafre. Hyala never expected that the world she entered would offer endless and unavoidable dangers. Palace intrigue escalates when Rekhetre is accused of betraying her tempestuous husband Menkaure. After the unfaithful consort pushes her husband too far, he sentences her to death but Rekhetre cleverly seeks to avoid death by offering up Hyala instead. Falsely identified and buried alive, Hyala is forced to endure a cursed death. Priestess Kyete ...

If you love a good scary story, you've come to the right place. Included in this book are real-life accounts of haunted houses, cemeteries where the dead cannot rest, vengeful spirits who are doomed to walk the Earth for eternity, entities that adopt human form even though they are anything but, hotels that cater to an unlikely assortment of spectral guests, a church that may have been more than it seemed and much, much more. Now that you know a bit of what is in store, you need wait no more. Your journey into a world of truly frightening tales is only a page away.

Take a pair of ballet shoes, a faery queen, and a disgruntled mage and what do you get? A grim time in the Kingdom of Sweets. Or so says the owner of the Magical Emporium, Mister Magigi, a monkey wizard long renowned for spinning a good yarn. In Sugar Plum Scary, he recounts the story of a beautiful, intelligent, and benevolent queen, adored by all of her subjects. Except for one. And as Mister Magigi explains, while Queen Sugar Plum imagines she’ll live happily ever after, that one man is determined to make her life a misery.

Billy can’t wait to start frog dissections at school. It’ll be so slimy and gross! But his rowdy behavior earns him a boring alternate lab assignment instead. Now he’s out for revenge against the science teacher, spooky Ms. Wilson, with plans to leave a “witches' stew” of half-dissected amphibians on her desk. But when he sneaks into the classroom at night, something moves. Then it croaks. The frogs have come back to life!

Pauline Ocean is a medium that connects with the spirits to resolve conflicts between the living and the dead. Mack, her live-in ghost, is her right-hand man in all things spooky. However, Pauline’s medium work can result in dangerous liaisons and deadly consequences… When a visiting shaman accidentally releases a malevolent force at a college campus, it’s up to Pauline and Mack must deal with the malevolent force. Once arriving, Pauline quickly discovers a vengeful Native American spirit who accuses Blue of a serious crime against the tribe—a crime that calls for grave punishment. ...

This book is brimming with accounts of brushes with the paranormal and unexplained that are sure to please readers who are looking for stories with a bit of bite. Included in this collection are true tales of ghostly encounters, a haunted hotel, an arachnophobe's worst nightmare that became terrifyingly real, inanimate objects that are rumored to possess the power to come to life at will, a teenage girl's first taste of freedom that went horribly awry, run-ins with creatures of unknown origin, vengeful spirits that torment the living and much more. If it is a scare you seek, you just might ...

Don’t look behind you. Resist with all your power. He’ll go away, perhaps, as long as you don’t look. Arthur Bannister is back for another term at Shiverton Hall, where eerie events are unfolding. First, a burned stranger shows up in the middle of the night uttering dire warnings. Then a young boy disappears, leaving behind only an ancient book as a clue. And then there’s that dreadful feeling Arthur has that he’s being watched . . .

This collection of tales of true hauntings is sure to chill the reader to the bone. Come along on a journey into places inhabited not only by the living, but also by those who once lived but live no more. Included in this book are true accounts of houses besieged by spirits who are unable, or unwilling, to rest. There are also stories of sanatoriums, long ago abandoned, that are alive with the ghosts of those who perished within their walls. Tales of phantom animals, cursed objects, psychic visions of murder, demons, a vengeful witch and much, much more are waiting inside these pages. So, ...

This book features true accounts of an evil presence that wreaked havoc on a single mother and her young family, a teenager whose experiment with the occult took a terrifying turn, a bar and grill so beloved by its former owners that even death couldn't keep them away, flying cryptids, a doll whose spite knew no bounds, a Midwestern town where apparitions lurk around every corner, a haunted high school whose ghostly resident was purportedly caught on tape, fairies with questionable intent, a spectral bride-to-be who remains bound to the last place she knew in life, a college campus that is ...

What if the government said that your missing wife never existed? Intrigue and conspiracy from Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia. "As he sat there, he became one gigantic spasm. His body jerked involuntarily, without interruption, and he began to spin. The world was upside down, sideways—because what couldn't possibly be, inexplicably was. Blobs of perspiration fell onto the book. B.J. slammed it shut. He pushed the terrible pages aside. He was in such a state that the librarian looked up at him from across the room, frowning disapproval his way as sharp as Arabian swords. But ...

In Demon Slayer, listeners follow Max as he discovers demons have kidnapped his mother. What tools can he use to defeat the demons? Why did they take his mother, and where? And if he finds her, can she truly be saved?

In their second adventure, Jack, his best friend Nancy and Stoop (a grumpy, 200-year-old monster hunter) head up to Scotland after reports of some mysterious monsters causing chaos in an ancient abbey. And maybe they’ll even get a glimpse of Nessie! But when they get there they find some obstacles in their path – whether that’s the fog goblins, disgruntled ghosts, some very odd loch monsters and even a rival monster hunting agency.

Stories of ultimate revenge, from freshly sold human meat and uncontrollable robots, to life-sucking MP3 players and reality TV where death is the penalty - all told with dark humour and gruesome relish, and made even more fiendish by retro illustrations, chilling facts and a puckish message from the author. This is Anthony Horowitz at his most wicked.

Something drastic happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away. The town looks cleaner and happier than they've ever seen it before, but when their incoming group is arrested and separated - vampires from humans - they realise that the changes definitely aren't for the better. It seems that an organisation called the Daylight Foundation has offered the population of Morganville something they've never had: hope of a vampire-free future.