Creepy Ghost

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 ...

"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. ...

She came to Branford Manor for a brief stay. Now, it demands her life. For Melissa Weller, a road trip to the quiet, small town of Russelfield, Alabama, was supposed to be a temporary escape. Reeling from a crushing defeat in a prestigious martial arts tournament, all she wanted was a serene retreat at Branford Manor to train and rebuild her focus alongside Magic—her talking Yellow Lab who carries secrets of his own. Instead, she steps into a living nightmare. On her very first day at the estate, a malevolent entity ambushes Melissa, binding her to a sinister curse: ten days of torment by...

Sherlock Holmes declared, “No ghosts need apply.” But ghosts did apply. So did supernatural banshees, apocalyptic pale horses, vampires both as human and as bats, and headless horsemen. One hundred years after he was defeated at Trafalgar, Napoleon returned to avenge his loss on the descendants of Lord Nelson. This special collection celebrates the encounters of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson with creepy elements of the supernatural as they are recorded in the best-selling series of new Sherlock Holmes stories – the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Craig Stephen Copland. Included ...

Halloween has rules. Never trust every piece of candy. Never assume the skeleton is only a decoration. Never visit thirteen houses in a row. And whatever you do, be home before the final porch light goes out. This collection features 13 scary Halloween stories for kids ages 10–13 and beyond...

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 ...

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, ...

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE Asylum 13 Tales of Terror is an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted 5th on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 & a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Anthology Fiction Welcome to Blackwater Heights. You will never leave. Perched high above the crumbling fishing village of Ermsby, Blackwater Heights was built on blood, bone, and misery. Now a private asylum for the forgotten and the damned, its gothic towers hide secrets that tap... tap... tap... ...

The Big Book of Scary Stories 2 is a massive collection of horror short stories built for readers who want fast, brutal chills with zero filler. Open to any page and you’re dropped straight into a fresh nightmare - the kind that starts with a normal moment (a ferry ride home, a hospital corridor, a quiet street) and then tilts sideways into something wrong. This volume delivers creepy tales, ghost stories, and supernatural horror with a sharp edge of modern dread — the feeling that the world is still the world… but something is watching from just outside the light. You’ll find ...

Discover the chilling stories and eerie legends behind the most haunted castles across the globe in Haunted Castles of the World. From the shadowy corridors of Bran Castle in Romania to the tragic romance of Cawdor Castle in Scotland, this book delves into the paranormal activities that have captivated and terrified visitors for centuries. Join us on a journey through time as we explore the dark histories, spine-tingling ghost sightings, and supernatural phenomena of twenty of the world's most haunted castles. Each chapter combines historical facts with eyewitness accounts and legends, ...

In a forgotten garden where ghosts still tend the vines, hungry rabbits never stop eating, roses bleed, bats swarm the night, and a walking pumpkin waits in the shadows, thirteen terrifying tales reveal that some gardens are never truly abandoned. From haunted plants and restless spirits to strange creatures hiding beneath the soil, each story reveals another terrifying corner of a garden that refuses to die. Just remember: once you enter the garden, you may never find your way out.

“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...

What if the scariest ghost stories weren’t stories at all? The Ghost Tapes is a chilling collection of real first-person encounters from some of the world’s most haunted locations. From the echoing halls of the Stanley Hotel to the suffocating silence of Alcatraz’s Cellblock D, each account is told by those who lived it, and some who barely escaped. A travel blogger wakes to find a green ribbon in her hair she never packed. A ghost hunter records children singing a rhyme no one alive remembers. A museum visitor stares into a doll’s glass eyes, and it blinks back. These aren’t ...

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. ...

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...

They weren’t looking for ghosts. They were just doing their jobs. A baker shaping loaves at two in the morning. A diver on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. A census worker on a West Virginia porch. A corrections officer passing a cellblock that was sealed decades ago. They’re ordinary people who know their workplaces down to the last detail, which is exactly why they notice when something doesn’t belong. In this third volume of the series, twenty-five first-person stories bring the unexplained into the most familiar places: an old man folding shirts in an all-night laundromat a ...

A twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her. "A fiendishly creepy ghost story."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim "Hide-under-the-covers...

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...

Step into the shadows with The Big Book of Scary Stories by Mike Nesbitt—a chilling collection of over one hundred terrifying tales designed to keep you awake long after the lights go out. From haunted houses and cursed objects to restless spirits and sinister whispers in the dark, each story plunges you into a world where fear lurks around every corner and nightmares are waiting to be unleashed. Inside these pages, you’ll encounter Crimson Manor, where ivy-covered walls hide secrets that claim the souls of the curious. You’ll meet Lucinda the Shadow Doll, a porcelain terror who moves...

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...