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Between Dark and Light: Books 1–5 (Standalone Horror Stories for Kids) Step into the shadowy world of Between Dark and Light, a chilling collection of five standalone middle-grade horror novels where eerie secrets, supernatural forces, and brave young heroes collide. From cursed houses that age children overnight to hidden labs beneath haunted canyons, each tale delivers hair-raising suspense, mystery, and just enough magic to keep readers flipping pages deep into the night. Inside this bundle, you’ll discover: The Old Person Curse – When twelve-year-old Azie starts aging overnight, ...

Twelve-year-old Amanda Anderson is tired of living in the most boring town in America. Every house on every street in New Pines looks exactly the same. Nothing exciting ever happens here—except for the mysterious illness sweeping through the schools, a strange bacterium doctors call the purple circle. When Amanda convinces her best friend Sam to sneak past the fence that guards the woods outside town, they discover something shocking: an enormous, glowing alien sphere hidden in the clearing. Suddenly, Amanda’s overactive imagination doesn’t seem so crazy. Why are the town leaders ...

All his life, twelve-year-old Ben Grishop has been practically nonexistent. Hardly anyone knows who he is, he’s not good at anything no matter how hard he tries, and he blends into all chairs and benches. But when he and his friends Joe and Dana are abducted by aliens one fateful summer night, they have the chance to become famous for saving the universe. That is, if they can survive a planet full of giant, man-eating, French-speaking crabs, a pair of tuxedoed, gibberish-spouting men with handlebar mustaches, and the mysterious “immensely powerful, evil force from The Realm Beyond." ...

What if you never lived past seventeen? What if nobody did? In the future, no adults exist. Ever since the plague swept the world 100 years ago, no one has lived past seventeen. Sixteen-year-old Gorin, a collector of curious artifacts left over from the pre-plague civilization, is on the verge of perishing from that deadly epidemic. And his last wish is to find a way to visit the rulers’ reputedly magnificent, off-limits mansion. Up against the clock, he and his friend Stausha steal into the mansion and discover a secret more horrifying than they ever could’ve imagined—a secret that ...

Some canyons hold deep, dark secrets… others should never be found. Thirteen-year-old Sandy is just trying to enjoy a family vacation at Grover Canyon State Park with her younger brother, Pete. But when the two of them stumble across a hidden underground laboratory deep beneath the canyon floor, everything changes. Inside, they find a corpse — waxy, lifeless, and slouched at a reception desk like it’s been waiting for something. Terrified, they run. But the horror they’ve uncovered is only beginning. Something has been awakened beneath Grover Canyon. And before the day is over, ...

They touch your skin. You get powers. Then your head explodes. Like everyone else on Earth, twelve-year-old Drake Hamilton is just trying to survive a terrifying alien invasion. Pale, human-like creatures are appearing out of nowhere — reaching out with cold hands and vanishing in a flash. The people they touch? They get superpowers. Flight. Invisibility. Mind control. But the price is deadly: within days, their heads explode. Now, gloves and long sleeves are law. Physical contact is forbidden. And trust? That’s long gone. Drake and his family are playing by the rules… until something...

He woke up with no memory—and everything around him is weird...really weird. A twelve-year-old boy recovers from a fall at school only to discover he’s forgotten who he is. Not only that, there’s something fishy about the class he’s in, the school, and even the planet he’s on! The school offers him amnesia juice, claiming it’s just regular procedure, but he’s starting to think it’s going to take a lot more than amnesia juice to bring him home. This Between Dark and Light story is a fast-paced novella (about 60 pages / 14,000 words) — perfect for a single-sitting read. ...

Don’t go to sleep… As usual, twelve-year-old Jason is staying with his Uncle Jed in small-town Minnesota for a few days during the summer while his parents are away on business. But this time something’s horribly off. Ever since Uncle Jed’s wife died a few weeks ago, he’s been acting like a totally different person. He doesn’t eat the same food, have the same interests, or even use the same turns of phrases. Grief can do strange things to a person, but Jason’s about to find out it’s far more than grief that’s plaguing his uncle. It’s something deeper. Something darker. ...

RULES FOR SURVIVAL: 1. ALWAYS STAY WITHIN SETTLEMENT BORDERS. 2. AFTER DUSK, MAKE SURE ALL SHADES ARE DRAWN, AND ONLY LIGHT YOUR ROOMS WITH CANDLELIGHT. 3. IF YOU SENSE AN INTENSE VIBRATION ALONG THE GROUND, IMMEDIATELY TAKE SHELTER IN A SECURE LOCATION UNTIL IT SUBSIDES. Seventeen-year-old Jayniss has lived by these rules all her life, in the last remaining human settlement on Earth, far in the future. The settlement’s confined to a pocket of wilderness that used to be rural Pennsylvania, since the terrosaur—a species similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex, though much larger, fiercer, and ...

What if everything you knew about your life was a carefully constructed lie? Thirteen-year-old Billy and his younger sister Megan have never seen the sun. Raised by their AI mother Darla two hundred feet underground, they’ve lived their entire lives in a two-room den—safe, comfortable, and completely isolated from the outside world. That is, until the power cuts out. Armed with laser guns, protective gear, and a cryptic mission, Billy and Megan are forced to evacuate to the surface… and step straight into a waking nightmare. The island above is cloaked in heavy, black mist. Withering ...

She was born to destroy a dark lord. But she’s only eleven—and trapped in a magical prison. Mara has spent her entire life in the “cabin realm,” a tiny magical world created by her late father to protect her and her mother. Outside its boundaries lies Ellendra — a once-beautiful land now ruled by the cruel sorcerer Lord Sycorath. Sycorath wants Mara dead. Because when she turns eighteen, her magic will awaken — and she’ll have the power to defeat him. But Mara’s starting to sense that something’s not right. Her mother is hiding things. The cabin realm may not be as safe as...

It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s a truly sublime, incredibly heroic, inconceivably sexy, out-of-this-world superhumanly muscular ass!Norm “Run-of-the-Mill” Stevens has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, Tom, publicly known as Heroic Man, The Intrepid Heroic Man, The Gallant Heroic Man, among other names. The crime-fighting superhero possesses the full spectrum of superhuman powers—super strength, speed, flight, and, of course, that truly sublime, superhumanly muscular ass of his, which has become an icon of an adoring city.Meanwhile, Norm’s genius goes entirely ...

Twelve years old one day… eighty the next. When Azie and her family move into a creepy old Victorian house in a quiet New York town, she’s just hoping to survive another boring summer. But the house has a horrifying secret — and a curse that’s been claiming kids for generations. The locals call it Old Person Disease. The symptoms? Rapid aging, gray hair, wrinkled skin… and death within days. Now Azie’s showing signs of the same terrifying illness — and if she can’t uncover the truth behind the curse, she won’t be the last. Can Azie and her new friends break the cycle ...