Church Horror

Ever since our ancestors first discovered fire, we have used it to sit around and scare one another silly with creepy tales of ghosts, ghouls, bloodthirsty creatures, maniac killers, and everything in between. But, what if those stories, related in the dark of night with trembling voices, flashlight held resolutely beneath the chin, are more than just horrifying tales meant to send shivers down the spine and cause a few sleepless nights?

“A writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly A New York Times Book Review Summer Read and Edgar Award nominee! Don’t miss this unputdownable psychological thriller! Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware! When you really start to look beyond the airy open floor plans and marble counters...

In 1983, experimental artist Tony Mathias began work on a new installation—it was to be a collage of visuals and sounds collected at an abandoned RAF base called Warden Fell. Decades later, Cally Darker gets the chance to investigate the terrible story and perhaps even solve the mystery—a fantastic exclusive story for her true-crime podcast.

Sent to live with new foster parents in Briarwych, Kerry and Mark soon set about exploring the village. When they're warned to stay away from the church, they naturally decide to go and take a closer look. And when the long-sealed door mysteriously swings open, they're drawn inside to meet a terrible fate. After 70 years, a policy of containment is no longer enough. A priest is sent to Briarwych, with the sole task of defeating the evil once and for all. 

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend, and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers.

In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Stranger still, an odd mark has been drawn onto a stone beside his body.

For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won't stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past the red church every day, where the Bell Monster hides with its wings and claws and livers for eyes. But the biggest problem is that Archer McFall is the new preacher at the church, and Mom wants Ronnie to attend midnight services with her.

The latest release in the Christian Epic series is an exciting novel that takes place shortly after Christ's death and resurrection. Basil is called to design the case which will hold the silver cup that Christ and His disciples drank from at the Last Supper, and plans to sculpt their likenesses...

Jenna's life has always been a fight. From the traumatic and mysterious loss of her mother on a dark woodland road when she was 15, to the abusive and controlling boyfriend she's recently escaped, she has learned that trust hurts you in the end. Now Jenna's found what she hopes is happiness with her new girlfriend, Holly. But the world is full of darkness - some of it ancient, some of it closer to home. . . Evil, and those who serve it, will not let Jenna go.

Ethan Dove’s family has moved to a new home in a safe community, and it’s exactly the fresh start they need. Not only is his marriage to Emma hanging by a thread, but his son, Dylan, and twelve-year-old daughter, Rose, deserve to have a happy childhood. After Rose is bullied by the boys across the road, Ethan is relieved when the woman who lives next door steps in. Fiona Smith has come into their lives at just the right moment, and when she offers to look after Rose during the school holidays, Ethan and Emma can’t believe their luck.

An animatronic clown is more than what it seems, a terrible bedbug infestation, a film project between brothers gone wrong and beloved pet turtle taken. These are a few of the spooky creepypasta stories you'll find here. Inside this debut collection you'll find over 20 concise and creepy horror stories straight from the famous Nosleep forum on Reddit. Some you may have read before...some you haven't. Turn the lights down, immerse yourself, and enjoy!

“Irresistible.” —Stephen King Private Investigator Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller as he seeks revenge against the darkest forces in the world, from “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and the...

*The Fire That Wouldn’t Burn* *A Psychological Horror of Faith, Guilt, and Divine Silence* **by Mara Blackthorne** A priest has lost his faith. Not quietly… but violently. After the sudden death of his sister, Father Elias Varn is left with one burning question: **Why did God stay silent?** Consumed by grief and anger, Elias returns to his church in the dead of night with a single purpose— **To burn it to the ground.** But when the fire refuses to spread… when the doors seal shut… and when something inside the church begins to answer him— Elias realizes he is no longer alone. ...

The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage. Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible...

EDITORIAL REVIEW Unclean is a chilling, restraint-driven work of documented horror that transforms a real exorcism case into something far more disturbing than possession — a story about correction, community, and the quiet violence of imposed order. Ted Lazaris crafts terror not through spectacle but through irreversible human cost, delivering a psychologically devastating narrative where faith, love, and resistance are methodically realigned. The result is intelligent, body-level horror that lingers long after the final cold memorandum declares the town “settled.” UNCLEAN Inspired ...

Brian Roy is a ghost-hunter extraordinaire. His latest adventure involves headless Japanese soldiers wreaking havoc in a New Hampshire church. The stats are grisly. Two boys blinded. Another boy shot. Cops killed. The bodies keep piling up, and the ghosts’ thirst for vengeance is as insatiable as their thirst for sake!

Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror, in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the windswept shores of Wales to help her childhood friend fight the mysterious illness that plagues her. When the lines between reality and delusion begin to...

This Church Will Drive You to Your Knees. Pray for Deliverance. Ben has a dream and a plan. He’s just bought an old, disused church and will turn it into a thriving coffee bar. There’s just one problem: these grounds aren’t so holy. Strange and sinister whispers drift from dark corners. Accidents befall the work crew. There’s the hideous, massive spider lurking in the dark bell tower. And what’s up with that locked door in the basement that no one, not even the former pastor, knows anything about?

Some rules are meant to save you. Others are built to trap you.Father Thomas Davies hides behind the rigid protocols of his collar. Exiled to a failing parish in the remote mountains of Tolland’s Gap, Colorado, he expects a quiet, bureaucratic end to his career. Instead, he finds an impossible, terrifying order.Inside the cavernous sanctuary of St. Jude’s, the children's play area is rearranging itself. Heavy theology texts and brightly painted wooden toys are stacking themselves into flawless, gravity-defying towers.It isn't a demon. It’s an echo. It is the ghost of an eight-year-old...

She is young, incredibly desirable - the virgin bride. He is young, incredibly brilliant - the devil's groom. They are genetically perfect, programmed to plant a seed of flesh, destined to breed a mutant life of overwhelming beauty and overwhelming evil. Evil which will emerge as the anti-human, evil which will use cold, sinister technology to wipe out the world - our world. Now, it is a matter of life and death. For them. For us. For humankind.