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Three encounters. One terrifying presence. Are you ready to face the unknown? The Rake is a modern internet legend a mysterious, humanoid creature often described as pale, thin, and eerily silent. Known for haunting the shadows and creeping silently near its victims, The Rake has become a symbol of unexplained fear and supernatural dread in contemporary horror folklore. This book invites you into the shadows where fear breathes, silence speaks, and something waits in the dark. Inspired by chilling internet lore, these three true-style horror stories revolve around The Rake, a mysterious and...

Railway tunnels, the lanes and hills of the Peak District, family homes, old stones, shreds fluttering on barbed wire, night drawing in, something that might be an animal shifting on the other side of a hedge: Tom has drawn on his lifelong love of weird fiction, folklore and nature's unregarded corners, to write a collection of stories that will delight fans, old and new, and leave them very uneasy about turning the lamp off.

A Gift of Ghosts: Akira has secrets. But so does the town of Tassamara. A Gift of Thought: Sylvie Blair swore she’d never go back to Tassamara. She was wrong. The Spirits of Christmas: Akira's plans are simple: Write wedding invitations, bake Christmas cookies, and eat red meat. (The last surprises her, too.) But when Rose, the ghost who haunts her house, asks for a favor, Akira can't say no. A Gift of Time: Natalya thought she knew everything. Time is proving her wrong.

The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' best-selling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. In bringing these masterful tales back from the dead, Ghost Stories will enlighten and frighten both longtime fans as well as new listeners of the genre.

Based on traditional Vietnamese folk tales told to Violet Kupersmith by her grandmother, these fantastical, chilling, and thoroughly contemporary stories are a boldly original exploration of Vietnamese culture, addressing both the immigrant experience and the lives of those who remained behind. Lurking in the background of them all is a larger ghost—that of the Vietnam War, whose legacy continues to haunt us.

One Voice Recordings presents its premiere recording of William Hope Hogdson's ghost story, "Carnacki The Ghost Finder: Gateway of the Monster"Carnacki's profession and delight is the eerie art and science of tracking down and dealing with the supernatural, and then relating his latest experience to an attentive group of friends...gathered together for just this purpose.

Emma Whitecastle and the ghost of Granny Apples are back in this new short fiction! Emma and her husband Phil Bowers are hosting P.I. and medium Jeremiah Jones and his friend Rose for Thanksgiving. Plans for a relaxing holiday go awry when Granny pops in with a request for help from fellow ghost Albert Robinson. One of the ghosts that haunts Julian’s Pioneer Cemetery has been babbling something lately that has Albert concerned. When Emma and Jeremiah investigate, they uncover a sinister plot involving murder.

Stranded in the center of Grand Central Station, a pretentious nightmare of a woman who makes everyone else's life hell finds she has a first class compartment on a very special train....

Though they are fated to be together, Tori and Reese are fools to think that life is just going to let them nestle down and make cubs. It's just never that easy. When a voice from Reese's past arrives to stir up trouble, Reese has to slip away to take care of it. But Tori is left confused and hurting - how can her mate just abandon her when she needs him? Sparks fly when Tori and Reese's love is put to the test in this action-packed standalone novelette. **Intended for mature audiences. Standalone, no cheating, HEA**

This collection of eerie stories explores the darkest regions of the mind. Included in the selections are Bierce's most famous tale, "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge", "A Watcher By the Dead", "The Death of Halpin Frayser", "A Cold Greeting", "A Wireless Message", "An Arrest", "The Isle of Pines", "A Fruitless Assignment", "At Old Man Eckert's", "The Spook House", "The Other Lodgers", "The Thing At Nolan", "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field", "An Unfinished Race", "Charles Ashmore's Trail", "Science to the Front", "The Famous Gilson Bequest", and more.

YA horror short stories. If you like Creepypasta stories, you'll love these. Silver Medal for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction, IPPY Awards, 2023 Distinguished Favorite for Short Stories, NYC Book Awards, October, 2022 Winner of Young Adult Fiction, New England Book Festival, December, 2022 Solo Finalist for Short Stories, Book Excellence Awards, March, 2023 Bronze Medal for YA Horror, Readers Favorite, September, 2023- A peculiar cast of thrill-seekers undergo an unforeseen fight for survival after the cameras begin streaming a live reality show on Halloween. - Four children must cope ...

Author Elford Alley invites you to pull up a chair, sit down by the fire, and spend one last night listening to chilling tales. Three generations are drawn to a haunted farmhouse with a terrifying secret. A grieving couple's chance at rebuilding their family comes with an unexpected price. A paranormal team investigates a haunting that isn't what it seems.

On the surface, Maureen’s life appears no different from any other stereotypical 54-year-old housewife's: a suburban home in a small Pennsylvania town, two loving kids, grandchildren, and a husband to dote on at the end of the day with a home-cooked meal and a crisp martini. But fat bitch, dumb bunny, slut, tramp: these are just a few of the cruel words that echo in Maureen’s ears every day and define the harsh reality she actually lives in.

Las ficciones tragicómicas reunidas en este libro tienen un común denominador: la irrupción de una voluntad avasalladora en las vidas de hombres y mujeres vulnerables que renacen o se desmoronan bajo el influjo de sus fantasmas. ¿En qué se transforman los seres proclives a dejarse invadir, ya sea en la entrega amorosa, en la idolatría, o en la sumisión a un artífice traicionero? Siete cuentos de humor negro relatan ese apocalipsis íntimo desde el ojo de la tormenta.

A trip to a historic cemetery reveals that a young man’s girlfriend may be more than what she seems. The dead hold a burial ceremony of their own, after a violent criminal incites their wrath. And a night watchman’s obsession with old bones leads him to dig up the wrong grave. Scare Street is proud to present the best in bone-chilling supernatural horror. This volume contains three spine-tingling tales for your listening pleasure. And each story carries a chill from beyond the grave, guaranteed to make your skin crawl.

Step right up and come aboard the Mary Celeste, the most famous ghost ship in history, during our famous voyage across the Atlantic. When the captain appears to be losing his mind, First Mate Richardson must risk insubordination to safely deliver the ship to the distant port of Genoa. However, his problems don’t end there because he must also overcome storms, disease, a dangerous cargo and a mutinous crew who’re disappearing one by one.

Take a supernatural tour with this collection of contemporary fantasy stories. Read with an open mind and you just might begin to wonder if all things could be possible. Are spirits hovering around us? Do ghosts watch over us? Are your pets communicating telepathically? Can card readers predict the future? Is it possible to see the little people? Do artifacts or fetishes have power? In this collection, the answer to all those questions is yes. But the real question is whether the stories are pure fiction or based on fact. The Legacy: Lydia is a psychic. When her grandson becomes the ...

Jackie Baumgardner leads the effort to save the Lion's Head lighthouse, a treasured historical site in Lion's Head, New Hampshire, from being torn down. Jackie made his most earnest plea to not displace their local ghost by tearing down the lighthouse. The ghost of Captain John McLain, a Scottish seaman, was so grateful, he wanted to return the kindness. This is the story of Jackie Baumgardner's relationship with the ghost of Captain John McLain.

Imogene is young and beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now.

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others.