English Horror

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

Torture. Cannibalism. Cruelty. Execution. History is filled with tales so grotesque and chilling they sound like fiction, but every one of them is disturbingly real. From ancient empires to medieval kingdoms and beyond, rulers and regimes devised punishments that turned human suffering into spectacle. Victims were roasted alive, devoured by vermin, blinded with burning irons, flayed, impaled, drowned, or crushed under beasts—all carried out not in secret, but as deliberate displays of power meant to terrify entire populations. This book uncovers the most shocking execution methods and ...

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.

“The walls whisper. The floors watch. The dead remember.” World-class pianist Sebastian Carmichael is on the brink of collapse from the pressures of his demanding touring career. Desperate for respite, he retreats to the tranquil English countryside, hoping to find solace in the quietude. Little does he know that his decision to purchase a crumbling seventeenth-century building for renovation will thrust him into a perilous quest for answers. As Sebastian delves into the restoration, the ancient walls start whispering secrets, and he becomes captivated by a mysterious woman whose ...

29 Brand-New Sci-Fi Horror Stories. The future is now, and it's not what we were promised. The optimistic science fiction of old was wrong. Progress is not linear, technology creates as many problems as it solves, and the concept of a better tomorrow has become an abstraction that is in no way guaranteed. When looking at the future now, we no longer ask what is possible, we wonder how we'll cope. Contained within this anthology are 29 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors.

A fast-paced horror novel from award-winning, supernatural suspense writer, Brandon Massey . . . The night is full of wild things... When Kym Phillips embarks on a road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles to take her younger sister to college, she's anticipating an opportunity to bond with her sister and a chance to see the country. And as an accomplished, single professional with her thirtieth birthday only a week away and no marriage prospects in sight, Kym is looking forward to some quiet time to reflect on the frustrating course of her love life. Waiting for them... He roams the lonely ...

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Abandoned mines filled with mysterious whispers, hotels that don’t want you to check out, bloody Valentine’s Day gifts that you’ll wish you never opened.

Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set.

One town. One nightmare per night. Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. Clowns that haunt your nightmares, mirrors that bring terror to those who gaze too long, babysitters unaware that an escaped maniac stalks the night. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you. Consume one per night... or devour them all at once. Ready for your next night in Haunted Hollow?

Set in 12th-century Jerusalem, Pilgrim follows the treacherous journey of a German knight and his companions as they return home after seven arduous years battling for God in the Holy Land. Within this sprawling tale lies a tapestry of medieval horror, intertwining history and folklore, encompassing both a metaphysical and literal odyssey.

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.

A scenic shortcut turns into a road to hell. Five friends searching for one last taste of adventure. A detour that isn't on any map. When their car mysteriously breaks down deep in the isolated Appalachian wilderness, their dream road trip curdles into a claustrophobic nightmare. The silence of the forest is heavy, broken only by the feeling of being watched. The only sign of life is a creepy, dilapidated general store and its stoic, unsettling owner. Stranded and desperate, the friends soon discover they are not the first to take this road, and that the woods have a horrifying history—a ...

In Return of the Devil, the cracks in Joseph Banbury’s universe have unleashed chaos. Six years after the Epoch, a parasitic force—born of the Abstract and feeding on the instability of creation—threatens to consume reality itself. As nightmares spill into the world, the new Morningstar Tribe must reunite with Joseph, the God who abandoned them, and uncover the truth he tried to bury. Now, with Earth collapsing and Hell unraveling, the only hope for restoring balance lies in the unthinkable—the return of the Devil. Their journey will take them through the Axis Mundi, across a ...

A Family Fights to Survive in a World Overrun by the Infected… From the author of Crawlerz comes the first five gripping novels in a brutal, emotional, and action-packed seven-book saga. When a rapidly spreading infection plunges the United States into chaos, Randy and Kelly are separated from their daughters by more than a thousand miles of carnage. With civilization collapsing around them, the family must navigate hostile terrain, from the rocky shores of Block Island, Rhode Island to the sweltering Florida heat, facing not only the ravenous infected, but desperate survivors who will do...

MEGA 7-BOOK OMNIBUS BOX SET Thrill to the nonstop zombie action and nerve-shredding suspense! For the first time ever, the uncut editions of the seven books of Zombie Apocalypse: The Chad Halverson Series are together, including Horde, the winner of both the Independent Press Award for Best Horror Novel 2022 and the American Fiction Award for Best Horror Novel 2021. The end of the world has begun. The undead rule. The US government is a shambles. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson knows how to play dirty. He knows how to win. He also knows some of the government's darkest secrets, and the ...

Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: The title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently, Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared Matheson to be one of his favorite writers. Find out why as you listen to the classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing.

When Jack’s car breaks down in the middle of a cross-country road trip, the mysterious house at the top of the hill is a beacon of hope. If he can borrow a phone to call for help, he’ll be on his way in no time. But someone - or something - has other plans. Soon, Jack finds himself trapped in a nightmare that defies logic, where a depraved killer on the loose is the least of his problems. Will Jack escape before it’s too late?

Possibly the darkest and most shocking six scary short stories yet ever created from bestselling author Stephen R. King. An instinct of passion and disrespect for decency and humanity fill this volume of life experiences we mostly keep in the back of our conscience, never wanting to bring to the forefront. Its truly sick!

When the dead rise up to challenge the living for control of the earth, a small group fights for survival. This is all four books in the Dead series. Dead Air, Dead Calm, Dead Weight and Dead End. There is nothing new, other than the editing, but I saw a lot of people buying all three books so I put together this compilation.

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