Disturbing Horror

This book collects the most frightening Japanese urban legends, taking the reader on a disturbing journey through Japanese folklore. From the best known to the darkest, these urban legends from Japan will give you the creeps!

THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATION Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about...

Some truths hide in plain sight. Others whisper from locked doors, static-filled frequencies, and pages that were never printed. Things I Wasn’t Supposed to Know is a haunting anthology of modern supernatural horror, each story a first-person account of knowledge that should’ve stayed buried. From cursed livestreams to echoing tunnels, from unlisted hospital wings to languages that think back, this collection explores what happens when the veil of reality wears thin… and you peer through. They warned you not to look. You did anyway. And now it knows your name.

Five-year-old Mikey has a history of multiple personality disorders, they run in his family. When he is pushed to his limit Michael comes out to play. You have never met a child so dark and sadistic. Follow Michael through child and adulthood as he wreaks havoc on everything in his path!

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of…

Sometimes our closest friends are the ones we can't see. Dr. Maxine Decasta is retiring after a long and decorated career helping disturbed children. But before she can attend her celebratory dinner – before she can give a speech and pop a bottle of champagne – She is suddenly face to face with a patient she hasn't seen in twenty-five years. It's been so long, but yes, Maxine remembers Ariel. When she last saw her, Ariel was only nine years old. She was the loneliest girl in school. She was so lonely, she made up her own friends. There was one in particular that got Ariel in all sorts ...

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

Ruby is the most violently disturbed patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of northern England. With no improvement after two years, Dr. Jack McGowan finally decides to take a risk and hypnotizes her. With terrifying consequences.

Ruby is the most violently disturbed patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of northern England. With no improvement after two years, Dr. Jack McGowan finally decides to take a risk and hypnotizes her - with terrifying consequences. A horrific dark force is now unleashed on the entire medical team, as each in turn attempts to unlock Ruby's shocking and sinister past. Who is this girl? And how did she manage to survive such unimaginable evil?

All I needed was for him to turn around... Annabel has an appointment with her doctor and he will be arriving at her house at 6pm. Only... She isn't who she says she is. And he isn't who he says he is. The appointment is for one hour. But if Annabel has her way, the doctor won't be leaving any time soon. No One Disappears is a short story full of psychological suspense, and grisly surprises.

For Melissa Weller, stepping into Branford Manor was supposed to be the ultimate fresh start. Still devastated by a crushing defeat in a prestigious martial arts tournament, all she wanted was time to train, regroup, and regain her focus. But Melissa isn’t alone. On her very first day, a malevolent force ambushes her, binding her to a sinister curse that leaves her with exactly ten days of agonizing hauntings. As phantom shadows close in and her sanity begins to fray, Melissa uncovers a pattern of local youths vanishing into thin air. Hidden logs reveal the entity's horrific history of ...

I wasn't hired for my résumé. I was hired for my bones. Three hundred forty-two thousand dollars in debt. Forty-eight hours before the collectors took everything — including my sister's house. Then the contract slid across the mahogany desk. Vaughn Mercer didn't want a wife. He wanted a user interface. A woman who could wear his missing wife's clothes, sign her name, and stand in the floor-to-ceiling windows of his forty-story penthouse so the world would believe Daphne Mercer hadn't vanished. Six months. Total debt elimination. A two-hundred-thousand-dollar bonus. All I had to do was ...

For one retiree, the past can never be packed away. "Joren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire S2: Originals is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-first horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short...

Full of creeping dread and suffocating unease, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an atmospheric and chilling novel from Something in the Walls author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out. Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in...

“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.” —Stephen King Lord of the Flies meets 28 Days Later in this “grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting” (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) following...

A gothic mystery book set in Ireland during the early 19th century. In the midst of poverty-stricken Ireland, in fall of 1816, Michael Smith abandons his studies at Trinity College to attend to a familial duty. His journey takes him to the isolated and eerie County Wicklow to care for his wealthy and reclusive uncle who lies on his deathbed, guarded within their dilapidated ancestral estate. Disturbing Revelations As he steps into his uncle’s haunting estate, Michael stumbles upon chilling secrets of his uncle's past. He encounters disconcerting memories and discovers the mysterious room ...

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two...

Creepypasta - Omnibus One gathers all 150 terrifying stories from Creepypasta: Volume One, Volume Two, and Volume Three into a single, definitive omnibus, a dark archive of internet horror born in inboxes, comment threads, sleepless nights, and flickering screens. Pulled from the viral Fiction by Mark Watson Substack, these stories aren’t polished campfire tales. They’re warnings. Whispers passed along too quickly. Fragments of nightmares that feel uncomfortably familiar. Together, they chart the evolution of modern horror as it spread through forums, emails, corrupted files, and half-...

Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies” - young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

INTO SATAN’S DEN Some doors are locked for a reason. When Cassie Reynolds discovers a strange connection to an abandoned estate buried beneath decades of disappearances and impossible stories, she expects answers. Instead, she finds a place that shouldn’t exist. Hidden beneath the estate is a chamber older than memory—a place that doesn’t trap bodies. It traps grief. Inside, reality bends. Time fractures. Faces appear where they shouldn’t. Whispers know things they shouldn’t know. And something beneath the darkness doesn’t hunt people… It understands them. The deeper Cassie ...