Scary Stories For Adults

Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he’ll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He’s loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don’t have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he’s desperate for a different ending - and a way out of this twisted place. This modern spin on the Scheherazade story is perfect for fans of Coraline and A Tale Dark and Grimm.

What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming apparent and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried. Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss, John reluctantly teams up with Jessica, Marla, and Carlton to solve the case and find the missing children.

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.

In the quiet, seemingly idyllic neighborhood of Eden Gardens, the ordinary collides with the extraordinary in this thrilling collection of supernatural, fantasy, and horror stories. Suburban Tales: Book One unveils three dark and mysterious tales that haunt the hearts of its residents. In “The Rock Star,” a drum technician’s late-night bike ride takes a terrifying turn as he encounters a ghostly presence that refuses to let him go. “The Piano” tells the story of a recently divorced man who wakes up to find an old street barrel piano on his lawn, but its haunting melodies soon ...

The Gravediggers made short work of the goblins, but something else is coming up from below to give them hell. Hell’s bells indeed! It’s getting awfully hot in New Orleans, and not only from the weather. Those infernal forces of evil just won’t let up, and it’s really burning through the gang’s patience. When an ancient Middle Eastern demon shows up ready for trouble, the band of misfits must find salvation, and fast. A weird cult preacher arrives on the scene, and the Gravediggers end up in India. Paul’s whisky is not the only fiery thing in his life, and when the human ...

Life is chaos. Death is the only cure. You're never so vulnerable as when you surrender your body to a hospital. You trust the doctors to know what is best, but these stories show what happens when they have other plans. What if a maternity doctor pretends your child died during birth just so he can steal it? Or a simple operation is used as an excuse to harvest parts? Discover the truth of the asylum in the woods, take the pills which induce mind-bending phobias, and try to escape when you've been institutionalized against your will. A CURE FOR CHAOS is an anthology of horror ...

The Harrington Opera House stands still, cold and decrepit. Once a vibrant center of Manhattan high society nightlife, the grand old theater has lain in ruin and decay since the fateful day a tragic fire ripped through its insides, taking the lives of many. At the center of this disaster lay a feud between two up and coming actresses. A feud that turned bloody and tragic. Efforts to revitalize the space have all ended in bloody ruin, with tragedies befalling all who try to enter. All until the day psychic medium and exorcist Michael Merlyn came to New York City. Hired by a wealthy ...

“It’s 4am. I stayed up way too late reading this.” – Jason, Amazon reader The last mystery. An epic conclusion. A return to Duminborne and a dead king. Inside the castle, soldiers are going missing. Their beds are found slept in but empty save for scatterings of dust. Signs of the Horseman’s presence linger, but another killer does his work. Serileen has coerced the last suspects in her mother’s murder into joining her at the castle, and as her patience unravels, Calec attempts to aid her and the new king. Serileen’s last gambit is to pit the necromancer, a witch of the woods,...

Senior year is finally over. After all they've been through, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are excited to take one last road trip together, and they're just not going to think about what will happen when the summer ends. But on their way to visit Jordan's uncle in New Orleans, the three friends notice they're being followed...and photographed. Then Dan starts receiving messages from someone he didn't expect to hear from again - someone who died last Halloween.

Beneath heaven is hell. Beneath hell is Furnace. Furnace Penitentiary. The world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. One way in, no way out. Once you're here, you're here until you die, and for most of the inmates that doesn't take long - not with the sadistic guards and the bloodthirsty gangs. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars.

Chloe missed her bus home thanks to the terrible Miss Langley. Thankfully, she's able to catch the back-up bus. Unfortunately for Chloe … there is no back-up bus. As more and more students go missing without explanation and the authorities are stumped, Kaitlin and her friends become entangled in this deeply unsettling mystery that goes far deeper than any of them expected.

Join Cheryl MacMillan with her exploits in Book 1 of the Phantom Lover Series After multiple deaths in her family, Cheryl's world is torn apart, leaving her in a state of solitude and despair. Then a surprising turn of events causes her to be lured to a strange house in an isolated, remote location, to explore it's secrets or to die doing so. She needs to discover quickly, what is causing the mysterious happenings at this house, before she loses her sanity, or her life. In Cheryl's quest for answers, there is one mystery which continually eludes her; who exactly is the phantom lover?

"I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever. Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends: a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch, and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying."

Cory and Christine were a happy, healthy, newly married couple. They bought the house of their dreams and made love all over it – that is, until they found the bodies. After that, nothing was the same. Their house stopped feeling like a home. Day by day, they drifted further from themselves and each other. Smiles dropped from faces as the house itself seemed to drag them down. And now, a year to the day, they’re awoken in the middle of the night by the cellar door banging away in their unfinished basement - the exact spot the bodies were once stored. Is someone trying to get in? Or is ...

Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead…. A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends forever…. These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.

For the first time since moving to New Salem, Cassie Blake feels normal. She's dating her soul mate, Adam, and making new friends in town. But between the secret coven of witches she belongs to and the incredible power she holds within her, Cassie is leading a far from ordinary life. When tragedy strikes the Circle, Cassie realizes being extraordinary can be a curse. The Circle is being hunted by an unknown enemy - and anyone could be the next victim.

Todd had always wanted to write professionally, but despite numerous attempts could never sell any of his stories. Frustrated, on a whim he decides to try using an exotic artifact, a "wish doll", to give him a story that a publisher will accept. What he doesn't realize is what he will have to do in return.....

Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified—terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear.

A deadly virus spreads across the world, changing the way humankind behaves. Jackie Mendoza quarantines herself in her home for weeks, fearful of catching the disease. But is it the virus or something more she should fear? Bestselling author Scott W. Kimak takes you into the deepest depths of the human psyche and unlocks its inner demons in this scary page-turner.

Welcome to the Scary Stories Collection for Children. This audiobook contains seven spooky stories: "The Mysterious Pink Dress", "The Mirror Colabus", "The Skinny Whistler", "The Easter Nightmare", "The Horrid House", "The Science Freakshow", and "Which Witch? A Halloween Story". In addition to these stories, you’ll get the chance to listen to a funny story called "Andare the Court Jester" from another audiobook in this series.