Short Horror Evil

From the writer who brought you the best-selling short story collections DREAD, CREEP, and CURSED, comes a new set of tales that will force you to lock the doors and turn on the lights. EVIL forces you to confront the most terrifying element in our world - EVIL. In each story, we see how it manifests and then consumes those who dare to think they can battle it. In this book, GOOD doesn't triumph over EVIL, it runs away and cowers under the bed and hopes and prays it goes away and never comes back. Can you handle something that is filled with pure EVIL?

Dare to enter Harmony House... if you can survive its curse. Nestled in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, Harmony House is a striking estate with an allure that draws people in—only to trap them in a web of terror. Five new owners have crossed its threshold, each unaware of the horrors waiting inside. What starts as a dream home quickly turns into a nightmare as they confront the malevolent spirits that haunt its halls. Each story reveals the twisted history of Harmony House through the eyes of its ill-fated residents. From terrifying apparitions to sinister forces that toy with the mind, ...

Something is moving beneath the ice. In the Arctic, a research team drills too deep and awakens what should have stayed buried. In a Colorado mountain town, a carwash becomes the last fortress against an army of the frozen dead. At a remote ski resort, an ancient artifact resurfaces after centuries of silence. In an Alaskan wilderness, a lone caretaker discovers that the ghost town he's been maintaining has been dying from below long before he arrived. And at a drive-in theater on a winter night, four teenagers discover that some movies were never meant to be watched. They are patient. They...

En cada uno de los cuentos de El buen mal, Samanta Schweblin nos abduce a otra dimensión donde quedamos en contacto íntimo con sus personajes. Encandilados por el fulgor de la inminente tragedia, vulnerables y profundamente humanos, advierten cuánto podría transformarlos la irrupción de lo inesperado. A algunos los dejará de pie frente al dolor, a otros dialogando con la culpa y a todos atravesados por la incertidumbre. ¿Importa saber qué es verdad? Se trata, de principio a fin, de ser partícipes de un fenomenal artificio literario.

Three stories. One pull you don’t walk away from. The Festival arrives without warning—lights burning too bright, music carrying too far, laughter that doesn’t belong. Flynn tends the machine that was never broken. Brenda hears the bells and knows what they mean. Lacy follows a voice she should have ignored. Each path leads to the same place. Together, they form a single turn of the wheel—where the draw begins, the lines blur, and leaving is no longer a choice. Enter the Festival. Includes Flynn, Brenda, and Lacy.

MORT: THEY THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A DOLL SUMMARY In the fog-choked streets of Victorian London, young Edward Thorne makes a discovery that would haunt his waking hours and plague his sleepless nights—a porcelain doll with haunting blue eyes and a painted smile, its delicate features somehow preserved despite the grime of the cobblestones where it lies discarded and utterly forgotten. Yet Edward’s heart races with childlike wonder as he gathers the abandoned treasure into his arms, its weight strangely solid, almost warm against his chest, and he hurries home through gaslit alleys to ...

You don’t know what waits below — until you fall. During a remote climb, Max’s partner disappears into a narrow fissure. When Max descends after him, he enters a darkness that twists sound, warps space, and feels alive. A tense psychological horror short story for fans of The Descent, claustrophobic terror, and the creeping, Lovecraft-tinged atmosphere of underground horror. --- ⭐ Part of a Four-Story Collection Below the Rift is one of four standalone psychological horror novellas included in They Came Into Our Lives: Horror Collection, a complete Kindle horror volume that brings ...

A lifelike dummy. A strange dinner party. A soul that won’t stay dead. When struggling actor/waiter Luke Barrett is assigned to serve a bizarre memorial dinner, he doesn’t expect the guest of honor to be a creepy carpool dummy—or for the night to follow him home. But soon, Luke begins blacking out. Seeing things. Becoming someone else. As his reality unravels, he realizes the dummy isn’t just a lifeless prop. It’s watching. Waiting. And it wants in. From bestselling author William Massa comes a chilling short story of possession and occult terrors. A quick read that can be read or...

Waking the Dead by breakout author Bryan Asbury features eight short stories that will take you by the hand and lead you down a dark, shadowy path where terror and retribution reign supreme. Asbury, the product of far too many 80’s and 90’s cinematic thrillers, knows what horror fans want, and he knows how to deliver! Lock the doors and sit back, because this is a collection that you will appreciate—at least until it’s time to shut off the lights...

Ryan isn't your average serial killer. People pay him to kill those who deserve to die and he loves every minute of it.

Before there were churches. Before there were kings. Before there were names. There were the first gods. Across the British Isles lie ancient places older than memory — stone circles raised to unknown powers, burial mounds sealed with dread, moors that whisper in forgotten tongues, and forests that do not welcome trespassers. The land remembers what humanity has tried to forget. In The First Gods of the Isles, Adrian Cave delivers twenty chilling tales of folk horror and ancient evil rooted deep in Britain’s sacred and cursed ground. Archaeologists unearth what should have remained ...

This is a short story. Suffering from sleep deprivation for months, Anna begins hearing a voice in her head. The voice provides her with the reason why she can't sleep and tells her what she must do to finally get some rest.

Frank Stedman is an ex-athlete who retired due to injury, but his critics feel his lackluster NFL career should have concluded sooner. Having failed at everything since leaving football, he goes back to Pearl, Texas, because he has no place else to go. Debby Newsome has worked for every media outlet her father owns. When Frank arrives in Pearl, she is hiding out at Daddy’s retirement ranch, determined to do something on her own. Thomas “Buddy Tom” Matlin is an aged African-American ranch hand and Frank’s boyhood friend and mentor. Buddy Tom knows where all the bodies are buried. As ...

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life... until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue - but then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up. Now he can see evil... as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague... and whois the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man... or the walking dead.For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about....

Angela and Terry return home after several grueling months of filming the popular television show, Let's Switch Houses!, only to find their residence in ruin. Sure, the décor and framed photographs are the same; the color of the walls hasn't changed; the furniture sits unmoved. But something is off. Their quiet New Jersey home feels tainted. Angela can sense it. Crawling inside her. Infecting her mind. Poisoning her thoughts. Then the nightmares begin. Awful, lucid visions that cause her to question her own reality.

Y’ALL AIN’T RIGHT is an anthology of Southern Extreme Horror stories featuring 17 of the best extreme horror authors in the genre. From gator infested swamps to the overgrown backwoods, be careful how far you venture off of the main road. And if you hear banjos… well, you better paddle faster!

I Say Your Name in the Dark Nights is Jonathan Maberry's never-before published adventure that blends swordplay, action, adventure and horror. Kagen Vale—disgraced former palace guard, damned by his own gods, on the run from bounty hunters and assassins—discovers that no matter where you try...

In the quiet shadows of her family’s past, Vivienne discovers a power she never knew existed—and a darkness that may consume her. When a desperate attempt to heal her aunt Carolyn unleashes forbidden magick, Vivienne opens a door to an ancient and primal force, one that has lain dormant for centuries. The entity she summons is more than a demon—it's a living, breathing hunger that feeds on her fear, her soul, and her very essence. As the shadows grow, Vivienne finds herself caught between the faith that once anchored her and the magick that now threatens to tear her apart. With every ...

In this, the sequel to "The Wish Doll" we meet John Bender, a veteran detective who thinks he has seen everything. But now he has this new case, a murder, and the suspect, Todd Forrester, has already admitted it to it-but now he claims it was all just a work of fiction. The story he tells is truly a bizarre one, he claims a "wish doll" grants wishes-at a price. John thinks he is full of it. He's seen head cases like this before. Or has he?

THE HEALER SUMMARY Driven by an inexplicable malaise that feels like lead in her veins, Evelyn exhausts every Western diagnostic before turning to the sweltering, chaotic fringes of rural India in a final, frantic bid for life. When a local guide whispers of a legendary healer on an unnamed island deep within the silt-choked delta—a master said to devour the darkness within the body—she does not hesitate, boarding a decaying skiff with the last of her strength. However, as the boat scrapes against the jagged shoreline of the mist-shrouded isle, her relief curdles into a cold, paralyzing...