Strange Horror

In "Strange Highways," a floundering alcoholic gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night his life began its downward spiral 20 years ago. But on this dark journey, he’ll be supremely tested by conflict with his successful, charismatic older brother, his loss of faith, and the clash between good and the ultimate evil. Sink into this binge-worthy collection of beloved Koontz short stories, featuring denizens of hell, vengeful children, and eerily human-like robots that will send shivers down your spine.

From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house’s warped and unsettling floor plans When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an...

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche SECOND EDITION: UPDATED AND ADDITIONAL CONTENT!!! From Ethan Hayes, the bestselling author of WHAT LURKS BEYOND and ENCOUNTERS IN THE WOODS comes a new series which focuses on the most interesting and creepy stories he has collected. These stories detail strange and mysterious accounts from the people who encountered them and survived to tell their tale. From encounters with Bigfoot and Sasquatch to demons and spirits who haunt and torture their victims and even mystical tales from antiquity. The stories ...

In this collection of short scary stories, you'll hear real-life accounts of campers who encountered strange entities in the woods. From the wendigo to the sasquatch, these reports will chill you to the bone.

Weird Tales: Strange Stories from Egypt Embark on an extraordinary journey with "Strange Stories from Egypt," a collection of horror short stories that transcends clichés. Immerse yourself in authentic Egypt, where legends come to life, and the line between reality and fantasy blurs. The networks are buzzing: "A collection that takes us on a journey and gives us chills!" – Évasions Littéraires. "A captivating, magical, and chilling short story collection." – Lire Imaginaire. "A fantastically horrific short story collection, brilliantly written." – Books Feed Me More. "A collection ...

Lance and Luna Lingmell are settling in nicely to their new town. It feels wonderful to live someplace where they finally fit in. Not to mention cool bonuses like becoming best friends with the son and daughter of the President of the United States, and a secret video gaming room. Not to mention, discovering their new found magical abilities. Unfortunately, they hardly have anytime at all to enjoy their new surroundings before the strange birds show up. When fellow Mistylockians become frozen; seemingly turned into stone statues, it takes way too long to connect it to the arrival of the ...

In this anthology, Anthony Ventrello presents 12 tales of the macabre, the strange, the supernatural, and the unexplained. Some of them are based on actual events, while others delve deep into the darkest and scariest parts of the imagination. These are tales of: A displaced family who move into an old house with a dark secret in its attic. A college student who gets a little extra help with a research paper from its subject. A silent film enthusiast who finds himself in face to face with his long-dead celebrity crush. A heart-broken man revisits a previous place of happiness. An stalker ...

Over 400 pages of thrilling Bigfoot and Sasquatch encounters! The Big Bigfoot Book: Volume 4 is a captivating anthology of 100 Bigfoot encounter stories drawn from my book series, I Saw Bigfoot and Encounters Bigfoot. This collection brings together the most intriguing and persuasive eyewitness accounts of meetings with the elusive creature known as Bigfoot, spanning various rugged and remote regions of North America. Each narrative offers a vivid exploration of this legendary figure, blending mystery, fear, and fascination to challenge our perceptions of the known world. Perfect for both ...

A war veteran applies his combat skills to the challenges of corporate management. Supply-side economics is a chef’s secret ingredient for the success of a fast food giant’s new menu item. A hobbyist’s pastime wreaks havoc. Siblings thought they’d inherited a house of death; they were wrong: they’d been bequeathed something far, far worse! What the new kid in school found in The Locked Room was nothing less than a balance of power. Sometimes bookmarks are more than just placeholders––a lot more! We never know what we may find at the end of the road. A superhero chooses to ...

The Vault of Horrors includes case files more chilling and dark than ordinary files (if there are such things as "ordinary files" within the SCP vaults). The SCP Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. Many of these anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening physical or psychological harm. All of them undermine the natural laws that the people of the world implicitly trust in. These are their case files. Note: Case files include ...

When a mysterious monolith hungers for blood…when a boy who’s treated monstrously is drawn to monsters…when cold children eaten by the streets want to make a young junkie their next meal…when Little Red Riding Hood is vengeful and full of rage…when a disembodied hitchhiker will do anything to get home…when the Gurgash are out to get you…when a sister pushes her sibling too far…when a family’s afternoon sail turns into a hellish nightmare. Eight bite-size pieces of eerie horror in one slim volume, the perfect little dark companion for lovers of horror to curl up with. Pour ...

Beneath the serene façade of Twin Pines, an ancient evil waits in the shadows. For Emma Flowers, a troubled teenager grappling with her father's mysterious disappearance and her mother's overbearing nature, life has become a labyrinth of bad moods and unanswered questions. Then, after a night of bad storms, Emma finds her neighbor’s dog dead in the middle of the street. As the mystery intensifies, teenagers around town begin falling into coma-like, nightmare states. As the creature moves in on Emma, she begins to uncover the evil’s origins, discovering dark parts of her own past in the...

Half a year has passed since Blaine and Laura had gone through the ordeal of the mysterious castle. They have moved on, at least for the most part. But the tragedy has motivated them to explore other mysterious areas that involve unsolved murder cases and disappearances. After hearing about an abandoned amusement park that was shut down due to a series of disappearances, and an owner that seems to have vanished, Blaine and Laura decide to investigate. But like the last time, they have no idea what they are about to get themselves into.

Strange Hours: Pop Fiction Stories for the Restless Mind is a hauntingly addictive collection of short fiction that blurs the line between the ordinary and the uncanny. Each story is designed for late-night reading, when the world is quiet but the mind won’t rest. From a dating app that knows too much, to a midnight TV channel that speaks your secrets, to an elevator ride that swallows its passengers whole, these tales lure readers into unsettling worlds that feel one step removed from reality, and dangerously close to home.

Audible presents a special edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde narrated by Richard Armitage. With Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Richard Armitage tells the story of a conflicted man who seeks a remedy to free the monster inside him from the clutches of his conscience. Following his celebrated performance of David Copperfield, Armitage delivers another powerhouse performance as the narrator of this Gothic tale.

“I fear not the dark ... but what may lurk within it” From the author of the bestselling series, Encounters in the Woods and What Lurks Beyond, comes a new series focused exclusively on the creepy, scary, and dangerous things that lurk in the deep forests. Ethan Hayes has been collecting firsthand encounters from people all over the world for years and in Fear in the Forest, he has saved some of his best stories for the pages ahead. From terrifying face to face encounters with Bigfoot and Sasquatch, to horrifying instances of being stalked by a Wendigo and Black Eyed Children; Ethan ...

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality, and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

What if the America you know is only half the story? Beneath the official history of the United States lies another nation—one that exists in sealed archives, suppressed testimonies, and the fading memories of witnesses whose accounts were deemed too impossible to believe. This is the Whispering Republic, a shadow America where towns vanish from collective memory, where time flows backward, and where the dead return to age in reverse toward their own births. Twelve Chronicles. Twelve Impossibilities. One Terrifying Pattern. From the traveling theatre troupe in 1889 Kansas whose ...

"The perfect blend between Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft." --Sheila Shedd (Author of Heart of Jet) Dark Forces are Everywhere. Dark Forces of Nature has all the excitement and imagination of the best works of classic science fiction. This collection of twelve original tales of cosmic terror and mad science by best-selling author Tristan Vick are sure to thrill and entertain you. In this collection of short stories, you will find the following tales: 1. Solar Winds -- During a spacewalk on the outer rim of our solar system, an astronaut hears ominous and strange whispers talking to him and...

Enter a world of darkness and desolation, of delusion and destruction, of daring and death. Enter the personal hell of Christopher Irving in the thrilling novel, "This Side of Midnight" by David Halk. Christopher, a recluse and a failure, collects corpses for company and the dead become better friends for him than the living. But a mysterious voice threatening his own death puts Christopher on a mission of violence and murder as the only way to save himself. The line between the living and the dead becomes blurred with deadly consequences in this dark psychological thriller.