Short Horror

Just After Sunset - call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.

Step beyond the biohazard tape and into the chilling silence of places where healing meets horror. Have you ever felt an inexplicable chill in a sterile corridor, or heard a whisper from an empty hospital room? Ghost Stories: Haunted Hospitals cracks open the locked doors to fifteen terrifying tales, each one breathing life into the unsettling atmosphere of abandoned asylums, forgotten wards, and modern medical facilities with dark secrets. This gripping horror anthology invites you to explore: The sealed ward where a "Charred Lady" weeps for a past tragedy... and a new victim. An ...

What would you call people who steal the newly buried dead and sell their bodies for medical dissection? In Stevenson's day, they were sometimes called "resurrectionists" - but he calls them "Body-Snatchers" and tells a grisly, memorable story about them. A master of terror and suspense, Stevenson lets his imagination explore the depths of human superstitions. Also included on this recording are the stories "Isle of Voices" and "The Waif Woman."

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real...tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows.

A Werewolf novella. The beast of Witcher Wood has returned and is leaving carnage in it's wake. Sheriff Dans knows what he's dealing with, but can he kill the beast, and finally rid the town of a curse that has been haunting the surrounding woods for far too long....

Fear, terror, and frightening horrors are a bound within this book of haunting short stories. Immerse yourself in a world where a corpse rages with revenge. A simple junior high dare ends with ghastly results. A mysterious package holds within it, life or death consequences and more.

Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother. But Uwe’s fortune changes when Hans Sauer, the village bully, recruits him to join a guerilla resistance unit preparing for the arrival of Allied soldiers. At first, Uwe is wary. The war is lost, and rumor has it that Hans is a deserter. But Hans entices him with talk of power, brutality, and their village’s ancestral lore: werewolves.

Tales from the Library of a Twisted Mind is a collection of dark short stories, having a common theme of being a bit warped. Perhaps not the best bedtime reading. Tales to thrill, shock and tantalise. With fore and after words on each story by the author.

Where the Light Won’t Go Five Horrifying Short Stories In the forgotten corners of dusty towns, behind windows that never open, and beneath soil too stubborn to grow anything but silence—darkness waits. Where the Light Won’t Go is a chilling collection of five terrifying short stories that explore what festers in places too long overlooked. From rural roads that twist the mind to houses that breathe when no one’s watching, each tale drips with dread, decay, and devastating revelations.

Terrifying Tales: Omnibus By Samuel Brower Darkness creeps through the cracks of forgotten places. Whispers linger in the night, and horrors beyond comprehension wait just beyond the veil. Welcome to Terrifying Tales: Omnibus—a chilling collection of all 21 spine-tingling stories from the first three volumes of Terrifying Tales. From cursed towns to haunted railways, eldritch horrors to vengeful spirits, each story plunges readers into a nightmarish world where the unknown is deadly and the shadows are alive. Follow paranormal investigator H.H. Horowitz as he braves the abandoned and the ...

A dozen volumes in and the tales are more twisted than ever Terror in the Arctic. Creepy vans with tinted windows. Alien visitations. A fourth adventure for the Vampire Zombie Ghost Club. Horror and suspense just the way you like it!

A demented killer believes he’s doing God’s work — and a teenage boy with dreams of getting his license becomes his next target. Elliot Cross doesn't just hate ambitious dreaming — he sees it as sin. In his twisted mind, anyone reaching for more is disobeying the First Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. When he volunteers to give Timmy, his daughter’s fatherless classmate, a driving lesson, it’s not a gift — it’s a trap. And the road ahead leads nowhere safe. The Driving Lesson is a short story of religious delusion, power, and cruelty — a standalone ...

Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the sea. Something from the sea is creating monsters on land.

After his son gives him a pair of "X-ray" glasses as a gift, Martin Blackstone tries them on just for the hell of it - and all they do is give him a headache...until he sees things he can’t possibly be seeing. Glimpses of things on the other side of a wall or beneath someone’s clothing. He wants to believe it’s just his overactive imagination, but the “X-ray” specs actually work.

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Nine stories that will redefine your fears from the fairy tales and nursery rhymes of your childhood. A small town hires a unique exterminator to clear their fields of pests, but when they refuse to pay he uses his skill for revenge. The U.S. military embarks on an experiment unlike any other and offers soldiers the chance to reach new heights and shorter contracts. An anesthesiologist discovers his skills go beyond simply guiding people to sleep and that they have lasting consequences. A brother and sister get lost in the woods and discover a beautiful woman with a house luring teenagers ...

Deep in the sewers of New York City, the rat population is growing. Dr. Randolph Finch is determined to break the cycle. His new rodenticide, Degenesis, doesn’t kill rats. It sterilizes them from reproducing. But nothing adapts faster than a New York rat.... City exterminators and soon-to-be divorced Chris and Benita Jackson think they know how these rats think. They know how rats breed. And they fear that Degenesis has only made these rats stronger. More aggressive. More intelligent. And more ravenous than ever...

If you were blind would you know the concept of sight? Do ghosts fall in love with the living? Would an immortal being really want to live forever? What if Cinderella took revenge on her father's murderer? Find out in this explosive new collection of Young Adult short stories!

"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922", the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

Dive into Thrill and Horror With 10 Terrifying Stories That Take Place in Our World (With a Small Twist). What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in a world filled with violent, cannibalistic people who are immune to pain? If it happened right now, as you are reading this, would you hide, or would you try to fight and survive? Deadly scenario Imagine a scenario where the government accidentally unleashes a deadly disease across the country. A disease that turns people into violent creatures that will sniff you out and kill you on sight. Real-life setting Ten Terrifying Tales are ...