Halloween House

For the town of White Eagle, Montana, the house that served as the subject of ghostly stories by the campfire was a huge old mansion built more than 50 years ago by a wealthy industrialist as a summer home for his wife and five children. The house, void of love and laughter, served as a sort of luxury prison far away from the hustle and bustle of Hartford Harrington’s full and busy life in San Francisco.

“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages...

In this spooky Summerween romance, an amateur ghost hunter and a supernatural skeptic team up for a haunted home renovation project. But is their relationship the real fixer upper? Amity Callaway is sick of being known as the weird girl. As annoyed as she is that her recently divorced mom just...

Join Maddie and the gang when they find themselves knee-deep in a murder investigation on Halloween. There’s a documentary special being filmed at a haunted B&B on Halloween, and the bakery gets a last-minute order to cater cupcakes for the crew and guests. Maddie is reluctant to deliver the sweet treats because when she was there as a child, she got the fright of her life. But she plucks up the courage to go when her friends and family offer to join her. Then things get complicated when a ferocious storm hits and they get stranded at the house.

Two friends, a renovation project, and complex layers of history that are destined to repeat. Claire and Roxie team up to purchase an old house in the country in an attempt to leave the trials of their lives behind them. The women are both nursing fresh wounds from recent traumas and an unhurried fix-and-flip project represents an appealing change of direction. Eager to get the renovations underway, they start to peel away decades of wallpaper with the intention of bringing the house back to life. The project has barely begun when Roxie announces that she has invited her new boyfriend to ...

In the inaugural volume of Ghost Encounters, readers are drawn into a spine-chilling collection of true ghost stories, each recounted by the individuals who lived to tell the tale. From rural farmhouses to bustling urban apartments, these haunting narratives unveil the unsettling reality of the paranormal through raw, firsthand accounts, with each story pulsing with authenticity, capturing the fear, wonder, and lingering questions that follow an encounter with the unknown. Ghost Encounters, Volume 1 sets the stage for the series with gripping tales that blur the line between the living and ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER When a first date between a doomsday prepper and a nerdy film professor goes horribly, zombie-apocalypse-level wrong, the mismatched pair team up on a road trip to safety in this delightfully feral rom-com. “Frothy fun that manages to hit all the notes that zombie fans...

What if Halloween’s familiar traditions began with older fears? The Haunted History of Halloween: Creepy Origins, Ancient Beliefs, Forgotten Customs, and the Traditions That Shaped Spooky Season explores the eerie evolution of Halloween from ancient seasonal turning points to the modern celebration of costumes, candy, haunted houses, horror entertainment, and spooky nostalgia. Before Halloween became a night of porch pumpkins and trick-or-treating, it was shaped by harvest endings, winter darkness, firelight, wandering visitors, beliefs about the dead, household rituals, religious ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times "Ingenious."-The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else...

What if the costume you chose for Halloween... chose you first? Welcome back to Sleepy Willow, where Halloween isn't just a holiday. It's alive. Every costume hides a secret. Every piece of candy has a story. Every porch light could lead somewhere you never meant to go. Inside this collection of 51 spooky, kid-safe Halloween adventures, you'll meet masks that refuse to come off, whispering witch hats, haunted candy, creepy costumes that seem a little too real, mysterious streets that appear out of nowhere, and houses that don't exist until the sun goes down.

He let another woman haunt the space between them. Now he has to clear it himself. Natalie Bennett used to love Halloween. It was their holiday—the terrible haunted houses, crooked pumpkins, scary movies, and traditions she and Chris built over eleven years of marriage. Then Chris stopped showing up. His career became more demanding. His evenings disappeared. His weekends belonged to work. And when his beautiful coworker Simone started texting late at night, calling him her “work husband,” and giving him the admiration he clearly enjoyed, Chris insisted Natalie was making something ...

Did you know that the Winchester House, where the Winchester Rifle family once lived, is haunted? And no wonder—there's a door that opens to a 15-foot drop into the garden, another plunges you 8 feet into a kitchen sink, and staircases circle back or dead end at the ceiling. In our story, Jesse and his best friend sneak inside just before an earthquake strikes. Experience their thrilling adventure in this middle-grade book about America's famous haunted house. Bestselling authors Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters tackle the mysterious Winchester House during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ...

You do not need advanced drawing skills to paint a glowing pumpkin, a misty ghost, or a haunted Halloween night. You need simple shapes, atmospheric washes, strong silhouettes, and a clear way to use light and shadow. Watercolor is perfect for spooky seasonal art. A soft moonlit sky, a glowing jack-o’-lantern, a pale ghost, a crooked fence, a bare tree, or a dark cat against the night can create mood without complicated detail. Spooky Watercolor Made Simple is a beginner-friendly guide to painting Halloween-inspired watercolor scenes while building real watercolor skills along the way. ...

I signed a waiver giving the masked man I’ve been obsessing over permission to hunt me. In my defense, it seemed like a good idea at the time. The Reaper is the reason I keep coming back to Redvine Hollow. He’s huge, silent, and always wearing that mask. And apparently, just as obsessed with me as I am with him. I came here because I wanted to feel something. I wanted the adrenaline. The fear. The thrill of being chased through the dark by a man who knows exactly how badly I want to be caught. I wasn’t supposed to want him. But somewhere between his hands around my throat and his ...

In this enthralling novel—already in production as a major movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Caitriona Balfe, and Emma Laird— the award-winning author of Absolutely & Forever and The Road Home brilliantly reimagines Daphne du Maurier, and the origins of her timeless...

The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses—and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it...

From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel comes a spine-chilling novel featuring nine gripping stories based on real events—including four all-new, never-before-shared tales—of the terrors that hide inside us all Have you ever...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A haunting, fearsome story of a father searching for his missing daughter and finding darkness—both human and not—at every turn, from the “mind-blowingly good” (Stephen King) author of Coffin Moon and Fever House “Let there be no doubt: Keith Rosson is the...

'A ghost story and a police procedural all rolled into one with bags of tension… I couldn't read it in the dark!' Reader review ★★★★★ 'A stunning Halloween read' Reader review ★★★★★ 'I finished it in the early hours as I needed to find out what happened!' Reader review...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR In Stephen King’s iconic second novel, “an undisputed master of suspense and terror” (The Washington Post) transformed the horror genre with a vision of evil that descends upon a small New England town. Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in...