Creepy Ghost

Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of So Thirsty and Play Nice. It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan...

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE The dead can't hurt you, at least that's what her mother told her. Lucy Sheppard never wanted to come back to Woodforge Valley. The grey town where nothing happens. The town she spent her whole childhood trying to escape. But now her mother is dead, and Meadow Manor — the crumbling nursing home where Lucy grew up — is hers. Fifteen residents. Sixty-four graves out back. And a lifetime of memories she tried to bury. She tells herself she'll stay one night. Sell the place. ...

The Secret Path Prepare to go down a scary path in this first book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series. Adam has just moved to the small town of Springville. His first day there, he meets Sally, who tells him the town’s real name is Spooksville because...

The air hangs heavy in the Deep South, thick with the perfume of magnolia and the stench of the grave. In the murky waters of the bayou and the decaying halls of forgotten plantations, the past is never truly past. It waits, patient and hungry. This chilling anthology of fifteen unsettling tales will drag you into a world of Southern Gothic dread. Witness a desperate fisherman follow a spectral bride into the heart of the swamp, where the only treasure is a tomb. Listen to a voodoo drumbeat that is not a drum at all, but a parasitic heart that feeds on the unwary. Stand vigil on a haunted ...

“I loved it." —Stephen King From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh...

This multicast recording, lead by acclaimed narrator Wil Wheaton, draws the listener deep into the world of this horrifying RPG... “Mind f*cking melting.” —BENJAMIN PERCY “Cosmically creepy as hell. A nightmarish experience.” —DAN CHAON "Every turn of the page is a creepy as f*ck...

Come on board for a Gothic journey in a funicular railway in Victorian England, a freight train in the Carpathian mountains, a high tech sky train in Bangkok, an underground railway in Tokyo. Visit stations which lure with the promise of safe shelter but harbour unexpected dangers. Meet the people who work on the tracks – stationmasters, porters, signal-men – and those who travel – commuters, tourists, dead bodies, murderers and ghosts. In this volume, editor Rayne Hall has collected twenty of the finest– and creepiest – railway tales. The book features the works of established ...

“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages...

'A ghost story and a police procedural all rolled into one with bags of tension… I couldn't read it in the dark!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A stunning Halloween read' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I finished it in the early hours as I needed to find out what happened!' Reader review...

DROWNED HISTORY. RESTLESS SPIRITS. THE LAKES REMEMBER. Beneath the freezing, fathomless depths of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario lies a dark history that refuses to stay buried. In this chilling collection of 30 short stories, the water itself is a looming, indifferent predator—collecting debts, trapping the unwary, and harboring the restless dead. A grieving father hears his late wife's final words echoing from beneath the ice. A mysterious lighthouse twelve miles inland illuminates the lost. A phantom passenger ferry offers a one-way trip to those whose time has run out, ...

Six Halloween stories. One long walk into the dark. In Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween—Part I, Evan Camby gathers six creepy Halloween stories filled with haunted roads, old cemeteries, night terrors, Ouija boards, autumn rituals, and things best left waiting after midnight. Read them beside a bonfire on a chilly October night, under a blanket by candlelight, or alone in a quiet house after everyone else has gone to sleep. Just don’t look behind you. Inside this Halloween horror short story collection: Hayride A family trip to an apple orchard takes a terrifying turn on a ...

In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it...

What if the scariest stories were the ones kids couldn’t stop asking for? Sleepovers, campfires, and Halloween nights are even better with a just-scary-enough story. Ghost Stories and Horror for Kids Ages 9–12 delivers spooky fun that thrills without going too far. This collection features 20 creepy short stories created especially for kids who love suspense, mystery, and spooky twists—without gore, nightmares, or inappropriate content. Each story pulls readers into haunted bedrooms, shadowy woods, eerie schools, and cursed Halloween nights, all at an age-appropriate scare level. ...

In Red Basin County, every family has a story. A light seen deep in the woods. A voice calling from an empty road. An old warning passed down so many times no one remembers where it began. Detective Rowan Reeves has heard them all. She just doesn't believe them. But when a murder investigation begins to blur the line between evidence and Appalachian folklore, Rowan finds herself chasing answers that don't fit neatly into a case file—and uncovering secrets her hometown has kept buried for generations. Woman in White is a small-town paranormal mystery filled with Appalachian folklore, eerie...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **Now a Netflix film starring Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Robert De Niro** "Listeners looking for creepy will find it in full force in Alex North's dark thriller, narrated by British actor Christopher Eccleston." —AudioFile "Reader Eccleston...adds...

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and...

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space-horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence. An abandoned plant. A hidden past. A deadly danger. Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—the most...

Explore the fascinating and frightening world of serial killers and ghosts! Chilling. Bloody. Insane. Sadistic. This is the nightmarish true-life story of the most infamous serial killers in history. At the same time, it’s an overview of the scariest ghost stories, as well as some not-so-popular, yet frightening tales. Some of the serial killers you’ll read about include: - The Long Island Killer - The Zodiac Killer - The Boston Strangler Each chapter gives a gruesome account of one of the most vicious and insane killers in history Some of the ghost stories you’ll read about include: ...

In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly purchased dream house. "Action-packed horror ... Fans of Stephen King and Paul Tremblay will find this a satisfying escape into the woods." ―Kirkus Reviews “This is classic supernatural horror...

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers...