Horror Unknown

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again. Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an...

With heart-stopping terror and psychological trauma, The Clan takes you on a terrifying journey of the macabre, through the imagination of author D. Andrew's nightmares. Deep in the forest of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, an orb of light illuminates the night as something crawls from the otherworldly rift. A monstrous entity emerges into our world, hungering for flesh and blood. Sheriff John Grady stands unsettled on his porch. An unearthly howl sends a chill through his body. His senses tingle, a feeling of dread envelopes him like a dark cloak. Something very bad is about to ...

A Russian Drama best seller now in its second edition! In February, 1959 nine young hikers on a cross country ski trip mysteriously died under horrific circumstances. It is one of the great mysteries of our times. They would be found with missing eyes, even a missing tongue, crushed bones, and stripped of their clothes (later found radioactive) in minus 50 degree temperatures. Theories range from their being murdered by the CIA to space aliens, to even "Abominable Snowmen". This book explores this famous incident using a technique known as "Higher criticism" to explain their terrifying ...

It happens every year. A select few disappear, never to return. From The Falkland Islands to the Himalayas, Puerto Rico to England, people are vanishing without a trace or explanation. A young man who's lost everything stumbles across an ancient secret. Can he unlock the mystery? Will he find those who need him? Can he escape the Unknown?

Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi. Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their...

In a world beyond the walls of sleep, Randolph Carter goes in search of an opulent and mysterious sunset city. First, he must go to Kadath, home of the Gods, where he hopes to be guided to the city of his dreams. No one has ever been to Kadath, and no one even knows how to get there - but that won't stop Carter from trying. In this masterful adaptation of Lovecraft's classic novella, I. N. J. Culbard captures Carter's journey through the dangerous and spectacular Dreamlands in beautiful, gripping detail.

Have you ever wondered what really goes on in the woods at night? These campers found out the hard way. In this collection of short scary stories, you'll hear real-life accounts of campers, who encountered strange entities in the woods. From the wendigo to the sasquatch, these reports will chill you to the bone. If you're looking for a good scare, this book is for you. But be warned: Once you start listening, you may never want to go camping again.

Some doors were never meant to be opened. Some tales were never meant to be set free. When seventeen-year-old Sahara O’Saughnessy discovers a rift into the realm of lore, the most haunting stories she’s been telling her friends come to life, and she must find a way to stop them before they tear her world apart.

The silence in the deep woods is not always empty. Sometimes, it’s listening. The Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650-mile journey through the last great wildlands of the American West. Thousands walk it, seeking solitude and adventure. But they are not always alone. For decades, a steady drumbeat of testimony has emerged from these remote spaces—chilling, firsthand accounts of encounters with something that should not exist. This is not a book of folklore. It is a sober presentation of testimony from the people who know this wilderness best: seasoned thru-hikers, Forest Service employees, ...

It can’t happen to me, it can’t! A moment that paralyzes the body, freezes the soul, and curdles the blood; a few seconds of the depth of horror known only in nightmares can appear and scowl into your face. The horror stories in this anthology can create that effect on you; but nightmares are transient since they come, they go and the friendly light switch, the first rays of dawn, the sound of the milk deliverer; in short, a reunion with the mundane and the familiar brings us back to sanity. This collection of stories is not about dreams, horrifying though they might be, it is about ...

A small-town farmer needs $500 cash after a devastating divorce, so he takes a miserable overnight job cleaning out the town's colossal, derelict grain silos. What he uncovers beneath the concrete floor is not sludge, but a vast, living, subterranean network. The Nest Is Awake. A swarm of alien arachnids—intelligent, coordinated, and using corrosive venom—is emerging from the earth's depths. They communicate with rhythmic clicks and travel undetected through the valley's drainage and irrigation pipes. The annual Harvest Feast has just begun, drawing the entire population into a single, ...

A hundred years ago, five women disappeared. Now, it's happening again . . . Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major film about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. New Avalon isn't an ordinary island. A century...

Out in the mountains, Zack and his friend, Uta, discover what they think is a large fossilized dinosaur egg. This could make their fortune! Zack takes it home to keep it safe. Only the egg isn't fossilized - it's hatching! And there's an angry mother dinosaur out there, who wants her baby back. Includes a full lenght fascinating interview with the author, Paul Zindel.

They went looking for a missing girl. They found something else. Twelve-year-old Lily Mercer vanished into the deep timber of the Pacific Northwest. When a specialized tracking team answers the call, they expect to find a lost child frightened by the dark. Instead, they find a trail of impossible footprints, a campsite torn apart by staggering force, and the crushing realization that they are no longer the hunters. As night falls over the remote mountain ridge, the operation transforms into a desperate fight to stay alive. The isolated timberline hides an intelligent, relentless apex ...

At 0228 hours, the valley filled with light. Not from a flare. From the creature itself. The mission brief said Splinters. Pack hunters. Delta-class. Documented since 1971. Corporal Morrow read the field manual. He also counted the missing pages. Entry 001 doesn't exist in the copy he was issued. Four pages, cleanly removed before binding. Whatever the Titan Containment Unit knows about what lives beneath the Norwegian ice, the field team was not told. By the time they reach Station One, they understand why. The bodies are arranged. Not where they died - moved after death, oriented toward a...

In this collection of short scary stories, you'll hear real-life accounts of campers who encountered strange entities in the woods. From the wendigo to the sasquatch, these reports will chill you to the bone.

The DogMan Deep in the heart of the Michigan wilderness lives a creature born of pure rage and hunger, feared by the natives, stalking European settlers, and haunting the cities of modern times. The DogMan, a large, powerful, and vengeful beast, strikes fear into the hearts of any unfortunate souls unlucky enough to cross its path. Larger than a Sasquatch and stronger than a werewolf, the small towns of central Michigan stand no chance when faced with the return of the Michigan DogMan. As fear takes hold of the community, the boundaries between myth and reality blur, and a small group rises...

Some roads are longer on the inside than the outside. You know this road. You have driven it: the motorway at two in the morning, the country lane that loops back on itself, the junction you do not remember passing. You have driven it and arrived safely, telling yourself the strangeness was tiredness, or the radio, or the particular quality of light that fog produces over flat ground in October. You have been mostly right. The Path in the Fog is a collection of twenty original horror stories set on the roads of Britain—and on the roads beneath the roads, the ones that only become visible ...

Something is waiting in the water. Beneath quiet lakes, beyond breaking waves, under ice, inside flooded tunnels — it watches, listens, hungers. The Black Below is a chilling collection of twenty horror stories that plunge into the oldest fear known to humankind: what lives beneath the surface. From deep-sea trenches where ancient shapes stir, to lonely reservoirs where drowned voices sing, each tale drags you deeper into darkness where oxygen thins and terror tightens its grip. You will meet fishermen who haul up more than they bargained for. Divers who discover structures that should ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF VANISHED AND SATAN'S HOLLOW "Absolutely terrifying," Mark T. "I couldn't sleep for days," Sarah from Dark Dreams newsletter Brief summary- When a mine collapse seals five men deep underground, they soon realize the claustrophobia is nothing compared to the relentless, unseen horror that stalks them through the absolute darkness. EXTENDED SUMMARY- The collapse begins not with a roar, but with a sickening, tectonic groan that vibrates through the marrow of the five miners’ bones. In a heartbeat, the support pillars of Sector 4 shatters like dry kindling, sealing the main ...