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Don't look in the shadows. A banshee wails for her victim. A phone app with unusual powers traps an unwary man. A housewife discovers that one can never be too clean. A fair comes to town, bringing death along for a ride. These and other macabre tales await as Anthony M. Strong takes you on a joyride to a dark place where anything is possible, and fear is never far away.

Everybody’s favorite over-the-top circus performers travel to Hemlock Cove, where they meet a group of witches they didn’t see coming, before heading to the Detroit area and visiting Poet Parker’s old stomping grounds. There, they come across a family of snarky reapers who challenge their world view...and a group of at-risk street kids who are in danger of being swallowed whole by a dark enemy. Finally, they stop at Mammoth Caves, where vampires (and something a little more sinister) seem to be taking over a small town and leaving nothing but devastation in their wake.

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

~ Sometimes all it takes is the right person in our…AfterLife. ~ In this romance with comedy, a man purchases an abandoned farmhouse in a tax sale unaware it’s haunted by the woman…ahhhhh…ghost that will become the love of his life and he the love of her AfterLife and together bring the man who murdered her to justice as only a Trans Spectral, TSP, couple can.

A mother and her daughter come to the remote Orkneys to grieve and find themselves instead dealing with a ghostly Viking legend. A Dark Ages king doesn’t realise his wife carries another man’s child and she is desperate for him not to find out. A young woman, who has spent her whole life hiding her supernatural strength, discovers on the eve of her wedding that she is Odin’s daughter. Sir Percival’s sister finds herself trapped in a castle of bloodletting sorcerers with only her sexuality as a weapon.

The lights are out, the jack-o-lantern is lit and the O’Reilly clan is enjoying their family tradition of sharing ghost stories on Halloween night. Set ten years before Mary moves to Freeport, this novelette offers five unique ghost stories that will leave you checking over your shoulder just to make sure no one “uninvited” is in the room with you. Happy Halloween!

Featuring work by M. R. James, Edith Nesbit, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Atherton and many more, this enhanced audio collection of eight enduring stories - some well-known, others less familiar - transport you to a candlelit fireside to hear tales of lonely coastlines, deadly rivers, dark, creaking corridors, horrific, everlasting love and unknown entities lurking in black velvet shadows.

In the shadows of Victorian England, the ghosts are gathering. Prepare to have your blood chilled by six tales of fear and phantasmagoria… The Silent Bell: A doctor’s invention to prevent people being accidentally buried alive backfires on him with horrific results. The Stonegate Manor Collection: Lord Feltham’s paintings are worth a fortune, but also conceal a gruesome tragedy that has yet more lives to claim. The Haunting of Reverend Carson: The charlatan Musgrave makes a living pretending to talk to the dead, until he discovers his new client’s demons are more than merely ...

Ten stories. One thin line between what happened—and what followed you home. Near Enough to Kill Me is a chilling collection of first-person supernatural encounters that feel too real to dismiss—but just strange enough to doubt. Told with confessional honesty and raw psychological detail, each tale slips quietly from reality into something far darker. From haunted motel rooms and vanishing children to phone calls from the dead and the thing that waits beneath your bed, these “true-ish” stories draw from urban legends, addiction recovery, liminal horror, and the quiet dread of being ...

Ten short stories, different tastes, various shades are what make Ghost Runner & Others. Ghosts, lesbians, rapists, optimists, myths, achievers, mothers, lovers all are part of the short stories in Ghost Runner & Others. It travels through serene forests and mountains, obscure towns and burgeoning cities, even through imaginary landscape, imaginary time frames, yet it remains rooted in reality. It speaks of humans thriving through odds of politics, corruption and natural disasters. It connects history and mythology to the present and the future. In nutshell, Ghost Runner & Others narrates ...

Praise for Alice Crowley's writing: "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~Multiple Fans In this searing, savory short erotic romance title, two lost souls are united as one by the powers of nature's magnificent magic. Janie just lost her husband Tim, who was an avid surfer, to a shark attack. Now her husband's bad boy surfer twin has moved into the house with her, because he can't afford his own place. Soon Janie learns that the universe is conspiring for a round two, and that the two brothers who shared a womb are one in the same in every way -- ...

Sinister creatures ruin the holiday cheer at a snow-swept Christmas tree farm. A confrontation with a childhood bully kicks off a bloody killing spree. And a fire-crazed arsonist sets his sights on a local house, only to discover that its strange inhabitants have dark appetites of their own. Scare Street is proud to present 13 tales of supernatural horror in one volume, the perfect treat for all insatiable horror fans. From invisible killers to spectral children, a cornucopia of bone-chilling delights lurks in the darkness just waiting to be unleashed.

In this collection of spooky ghost stories, you'll get a glimpse into the world of the supernatural. A mysterious cowboy who appears out of nowhere in a moonlit New Mexico road. The woman in blue who unnerves a young couple waiting for a train. The strange voices a grandfather and his grandson hear out at sea. Listen to the characters in these short stories describe their phantasmal encounters, including the dark form floating in the forest, the man in the mirror, and the little ghost girl who flickers lights and moves the cookie jar. Autumn Chills weaves fictitious accounts based on real ...

Nolan Lerner is guilty. His past is a thing choked with secrets, blood � and sunflowers. Only Nolan knows what really happened that summer in 1977, when his younger brother, an idiot savant named Morris, built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors inside, doors leading into other worlds.

Prepare yourself for a spine-tingling experience as you enter the lair of Bernie Brown’s The Holy Ghost and Other Spooky Stories. This collection features 27 captivating tales including, “The Estate Sale,” “Hopscotch,” “The Ghost in Produce,” “Whispering Pines,” and many more.

Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton, F.G. Loring and Florence Marryat, this second volume of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transport you to a cosy fireside to hear tales of disembodied voices, haunted objects and unknown entities lurking in the shadows cast by candlelight.

Horror writer Michael Richards is disturbed from his daily grind by blood dripping from the ceiling, which steadily worsens. Soon, the blood becomes Michael's personal metaphor in a battle of denial. When a compulsive gambler is forced to seek out a loan shark rooted in myth, he discovers the dark saviour teaches more to his pupils than deliverance from debt. Trapped within a room of sinister dolls, an average man is forced to confront his very worst fears ... and quickly learns staring into the abyss does not grant you a reprieve from them. Interweaving horror into socially relevant ...

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long. A lookalike doll makes itself right at home. A school talent-show act leaves the audience aghast. And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains.

The Craft meets Practical Magic - Episodic fiction in an ongoing series. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria Harvey-Santorini has returned home to claim her birthright, Witchwood Estate. But her journey has only just begun, and Alexandria soon realizes there is far more going on in Ferntree Falls than she remembers. With the constant threat of black magic and an evil clan intent on stealing her power, Alexandria must remain vigilant, even when it comes to falling in love. Suspense, love, mystery and mayhem are only a hint of the magic you'll find in "Timeless", the 4th book in the Witchwood ...

A feisty 60-something woman and a beautiful spirit—or ghost or apparition, whatever you want to call Irma—solve kooky mysteries. Mabel Gold had a perfect life as a Long Island wife and mother. Until her doctor husband dumped her for a scheming bimbo. After eating a few gallons of ice cream and feeling sorry for herself, she did what any gal from Brooklyn would do—she picked herself up and decided not to become a big, fat blob. She’d show the jerk. A fresh start in Florida was like a glass of orange juice in the morning. Just what she needed. Of course, there were things that seemed ...