Horror Anthology

Eight monsters. Eight lies. You already know these stories. A werewolf howls at the moon. A vampire craves blood. A mummy guards an ancient tomb. That's the deal you signed up for: familiar monsters, familiar rules, the comfort of knowing exactly what you're afraid of. Break that deal. In Classic Fear, every monster you grew up with is still here... the wolf, the witch, the wandering dead. But none of them are what the legend promised. A father disappears into a locked shed every full moon, and his family never questions why. A support group offers a sick woman something warmer than a ...

The monster that is Haunted Reels has returned, and now no one is safe. Featuring twenty-four brand-new, never-before-published stories by a mix of Hollywood legends and rising film-industry stars, Haunted Reels 2 continues the menace its brooding predecessor started, only this time it has a grudge. Beware the murderous vandals, maniacal crackpots, and diabolically possessed contained within this book, for once you let them loose, there’s no telling what they’ll do next.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY LOCUS AWARD FINALIST A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?”...

31 Brand-New Dark Fantasy Horror Stories. Bloody corridors of ancient rock. A castle surrounded by poisonous thorns. A lost temple of traps and corpses. A subaqueous cave at the bottom of a cursed lake. These are the places where secrets are buried, where ancient evils are summoned, where beasts are imprisoned, where the insane lie in wait. These are tombs of darkness and nightmare, where if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back. Heed the warnings of your elders and return from whence you came. Ahead lie monster lairs.

"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 Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker. Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author's career. Sidelined through...

If you prefer to take your horror yarns with copious amounts of spilled blood, eviscerated guts, dollops of messy gore, and dark, disturbing themes, then boy howdy, does HellBound Books have a terrifying treat in store for you! If not, please not this book is definitely not for the faint of heart! With a foreword and brand-spanking-new, never-read-before short story by the grand maestro of extreme horror himself, Matt Shaw, this collection of eighteen stomach-churning tales of terror is guaranteed to have the bile rising and heart thumping with each turn of the page.

Not all monsters are fantasy. Some are very real, and they walk among us. They're our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. They're the people we're supposed to trust...and they know it. Contained within this anthology are 35 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors and best-selling novelists. Brace yourself for the unexpected and unimaginable horror of...human monsters.

All 3 volumes of Chunks of Terror bundled into one huge, terrifying collection! 67 Tales of Terror told in a true story style that will curdle your blood and send shivers down your spine!

Behind every picket fence lies a secret. Behind every closed door, a nightmare. Welcome to the towns you were never meant to find… Step into fifteen standalone tales of creepy small-town horror, where dusty roads, flickering streetlamps, and friendly smiles conceal something rotten just beneath the surface. Each story pulls you into a different forgotten place, and each place hides something that refuses to stay buried. 🌒 A farmhouse well that whispers promises of rain—at a terrible cost. 🌑 An abandoned train station where the dead still buy their tickets. 🌘 A colonial house ...

Step into the darkness with Midnight Terrors, a collection of five spine-chilling short horror stories crafted to haunt your imagination and keep you awake at night. Perfect for fans of psychological horror, supernatural thrillers, and suspenseful mysteries, this book delivers relentless terror in every tale.

Step back into the stories you thought you knew... and discover the darkness beneath. In Dark Fairy Tales Reimagined: 20 Twisted Versions of Classic Tales, beloved fairy tales are transformed into haunting, unsettling stories where magic comes at a price—and happy endings are never guaranteed. A glass slipper binds its wearer to a cursed fate. A hidden kingdom dances to keep an ancient evil asleep. A simple lie twists a boy into something no longer human. These are not the fairy tales of childhood. Each story drags familiar characters into shadowy worlds filled with betrayal, horror, and ...

No monsters. No aliens. No invasions. Just people. And the systems they built to save themselves. A mining ship begins carving the name of a woman who died years before the crew ever boarded. An AI quietly rations oxygen based on popularity instead of medical need. A colony ship discovers that democracy becomes something very different when the vote decides who gets to wake up. A rescue team boards a silent vessel whose crew has learned that making noise attracts something listening in the dark. Across eight unsettling stories, Vacuum Sickness explores the quiet horror of bureaucracy, ...

Twenty descents into the dark. Not all of them return. Beneath every cave system lies a question no survey map can answer: what happens when you venture so far that no one is coming to find you? The Last Descent collects twenty standalone tales of underground horror, each a self-contained nightmare drawn from the world's most remote and unforgiving cave systems. From the limestone hollows of the English countryside to the deepest verified shaft on the planet, from a Croatian cathedral built entirely of bone to a Kyrgyz mountain chamber where something the size of a mountain range is finally...

If you like scary stories, you’ve come to the right place! Over 80 tales of terror told in a true story style that will send shivers down your spine.

They Remember the Dark: Twenty-Six Tales of Quiet Horror Some stories whisper. Others scream. But all of them stay with you. Step through the door into twenty-six chilling tales of quiet horror — stories that linger long after you close the book. Inside, you’ll find haunted memories, cursed inheritance, bloodstained secrets, and things that watch from the dark corners of your mind. Each story is short enough to devour in a single sitting — perfect for late nights, train rides, or when you know you should turn the light off but can’t quite bring yourself to. From supernatural ...

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...

Beyond the realm of sight and sound, lies a universe perceived by a different sense. The Olfactory Unseen invites you into a groundbreaking speculative fiction anthology where the most profound secrets, terrifying truths, and breathtaking wonders are discovered through the power of scent. From the inventive mind of Orison Dusk comes a collection of twenty standalone tales, each a unique expedition into the extraordinary. Prepare to have your senses awakened as you delve into worlds where: A hardboiled detective tracks a killer by a phantom fragrance that leaves hallucinations in its wake. ...

I've written almost 30 novels, and about the same number of short stories over my career, and to give new listeners a glimpse of the gamut of my work in an inexpensive way, this book was brought into existence. Contained here are two short stories: All In and The Vampire of Menlo Park. Both are well placed in the horror genre, about devils, demons, inventors, and the undead.

NOTE: THIS IS A REVISED EDITION OF SIGN OF FEAR which has been unpublished. The Story FOOTLOOSE has been replaced due to its publication in a magazine, and has been replaced by the true story of THE MIRANDA EXORCISM MURDER. Other than that change, the contents remain the same as the original SIGN OF FEAR. In this anthology... NOBODY'S VAULT-Crime doesn't pay when the long arm of the law is helped by a hand of glory. OLD SEA AND THE MAN-It's hard to keep a good extra-dimensional monster down. THE MIRANDA EXORCISM MURDER-A true story of how faith turned a family into killers. If horror is ...

In this chilling collection of ten tales, Interview with the Devil: An Anthology of Horror invites you to explore the sinister edges of Joseph Banbury’s fractured world—and beyond. From the aftermath of the Epoch to standalone stories that carve their own path through terror, this anthology will leave you breathless, questioning the thin veil between light and darkness.