Cat Horror

Veteran horror screenwriter and novelist Jamie Nash leads us into the shadows of Blake Snyder’s legendary Monster in the House genre—and sheds light over the secrets to crafting truly terrifying tales.

Victoria is shocked to discover her ancestors owned an ancient manor and it was hers for the taking. All she had to do was go and live in it for a time and it was all hers. If she didn’t want it, she need do nothing. Well, that wasn’t an option at all! Of course she wanted it. Enough so that when rumours of a nasty ghost and it’s hauntings reached her, it didn’t phase her. Afterall it was probably talked up wives tales, and the mere sounds of rattling sabres and a moaning staircase couldn’t actually hurt you. When the first strange incidents happen, Victoria is forced to consider ...

Thousands upon thousands of cats crazed with bloodlust. All over the vast city it was happening, and no one seemed able to stop them - the police, the army, the scientists. And cat after cat was infected by the ferocious fever that, for the first time, made them the masters of man....

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Atra Hart’s shadow has grown teeth. It moves on its own and whispers her name. She calls it Dread, and it threatens to devour her mind. When a fire breaks out at the asylum where she’s locked up, Atra seizes the chance for freedom, only to witness an electric-purple rift split the sky open. Like Dread, the rift is visible only to her. Then, she awakens back in the asylum, unharmed, as if the fire, the escape, and the rift never happened. But everything feels wrong. No one remembers her old life. Her family, her friends—even her past—have vanished.

When monster hunters Rick Becker and Sarah Dalton retreat to the Smoky Mountains for a well-earned vacation, they expect peaceful hikes and quiet nights. But when a gruesome attack shakes the nearby woods and massive feline tracks turn up near a tourist cabin, peace quickly gives way to something darker. As legends of the Wampus Cat begin to blur with reality, Rick and Sarah are pulled into a chilling investigation that uncovers not just ancient Cherokee myths, but evidence of a secretive research facility hidden deep in the forest. With the help of trusted allies and a mysterious Cherokee ...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of the Year Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil” (New York magazine) as she...

The First Collection of Twelve Stories is a captivating collection featuring the brilliant detective Lord Peter Wimsey in a series of thrilling, often witty mysteries. This illustrated volume includes such unforgettable tales as The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag, where Wimsey faces a bizarre crime involving a mysterious cat, and The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker, which pits the detective against a cunning adversary with a penchant for dark humor.

An evil witch, Morella White, runs a cat cemetery deep within rural England. Unbeknownst to her grieving clients, she is raising their beloved fur babies from the dead as grotesque zombies. Morella lusts after a half-cat, half-man demon, who lies buried somewhere under farmland soil. One special feline zombie can help her achieve her aim. Enter Jasper, who turns zombie after a scrap in the woods. His owner, Amber, discovers he has unique psychic powers. She’s prepared to fight to the bitter end to protect her beloved cat from falling into Morella’s clutches. Thus unfolds a thrilling ...

A Prodigal Daughter. A Seeping Malevolence. Her Ancestral Home. Anna Underestimated Her Legacy. That Was A Grave Mistake. Anna Markham’s old family home has come to her as an inheritance. Estranged from her family she has not visited the house in decades and now as she steps through the threshold of the abandoned house, left to her by her late sister, the air is thick with the scent of decay and the weight of unspoken histories. As Anna delves deeper into the heart of her inheritance, she is confronted by more than just the physical disrepair of the property. Shadows dance at the edge of ...

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare that culminates in a strategy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this...

“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! STARRED review from Publishers Weekly! Anticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more! Sundial is a new, twisty psychological...

“If you ever doubted that your feline companion has her own inner life, just watch what happens when she falls asleep, and loses conscious control of her physical being . . . a twitching of limbs, a quivering of the jaw, sometimes, perhaps, a snuffling noise or a meow.. . . Cats may indeed be...

Kevin Mason, a struggling author, stepped outside of his normal genre to write a horror piece. His book, the story of a serial killer truck driver, upset some of his normal fans. His wife certainly wasn’t happy about it! But to him, there was more to his book than a fictional story. The book was based on the story told to him by his sister-in-law about her truck-driving ex-husband. Although he was now long dead, the things the man had done to his wife spoke of an aberrant personality that garnered Kevin’s attention. He wrote the book as a warning to people – especially to women – ...

I got the cat because my therapist said I needed “connection” and my sister said I needed “less silence.” I did not realize this would involve chanting, blood contracts, or a pamphlet printed on unsettlingly good paper. At first, it’s just a cat. Aloof. Judgmental. Stares at the corner of the room like it’s watching something I can’t see. Normal cat stuff. Then he starts leaving the flat at night. Coming back smelling like incense and damp carpet. Then I find the symbol. Then the meetings. Then the gentle but very firm suggestion that I’m holding him back from his destiny. ...

It is twelve years since the Great Reconfiguration and life in the continent-spanning network of Smart Houses is safe, sedentary, and sedated. Karl, Sam, and their children navigate this reality through implants and mood-balancing stims, living as much in the digital as the physical realm. However, when a tiny, impossible kitten enters their lives – unregistered, unthinkable, and utterly forbidden - a sequence of events is set in motion that will shatter their carefully constructed, user friendly world. As their home twists and turns against them, comfort becomes confinement, security ...

Each day we are forced to make countless decisions, but do the choices we make truly define who we are? Aren’t we entitled to make a few mistakes from time to time? It is, after all, what makes us human. But for a small group of Braddock County officials, making the wrong choice one chilly November afternoon would prove far more detrimental than any of them could have imagined. Nora Clarke lived alone in the house that her late husband, Bob, had built for her and their daughter, Meghan. But after Bob’s death, Nora began to change. She became reclusive, isolated, withdrawn. She had shut ...

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King "Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen...

“13 Black Cats” — They took my cats. Now I’ll take their lives. They say black cats bring bad luck. In this forgotten village buried under frost and fear, it’s a belief that kills. Spot was the thirteenth. Slaughtered, discarded, and devoured by the things that roam the night. Like the twelve before him, his only crime was being mine. My name is Morana. These cats were my family, my only solace in a cruel, superstitious world. The villagers called them omens. I called them love. Now I call for revenge. Told through the eyes of a grieving and vengeful woman, 13 Black Cats is a dark...

Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies. "[Narrators Christopher] Ragland and [Katherine] Fenton deliver a powerful, emotional performance in this...