Myth Scary

The history of the United States if full of stories detailing heroes and patriots, but there’s a darker side. These are tales about creatures, ghosts, UFOs, and an assortment of high strangeness. In Legends, Myths, Monsters and Ghosts, author, George Lunsford, has researched the tales which will send a shiver down your spine. With meticulous detail he has found stories from each state in the United States, from Maine to California and from Washington State to Florida and all in between, that will not only entertain you, but leave you afraid to turn off the light. So, sit back, relax, and ...

New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant takes us on a terrifying journey into the unknown where human frailty meets the awesome power of nature and myths come to life. "A claustrophobic, deep-sea terror tale that will leave readers glad to be safely on dry land." -Kirkus Reviews "Absolutely...

"Between the three of them, author Alex Michaelides and narrators Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith cast a spell that will have listeners glued to this suspenseful novel every chance they get." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner "The audiobook is narrated primarily by actor...

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, ...

They’re just ordinary kids living ordinary lives… until the strange and eerie comes knocking. In this chilling debut by R. C. Hill, eleven spine-tingling tales interrupt the everyday and bring nightmares a little too close to home. Experience stories ranging from a backyard pool with something lurking beneath the surface to an innocent school field trip that ends with a life changing insect encounter. A girl ignores her family’s warning to stay inside after dark... and discovers why no one ever talks about what lives in the mountains.

The woods are quiet. Too quiet. When you step off the marked trail and out of the firelight, you are no longer at the top of the food chain. This gripping collection delivers spine-chilling accounts of backcountry survival, plunging you into the deep isolation of the wilderness where you are entirely alone with the things that hunt in the shadows. From the crushing, territorial strength of massive apex predators to unnatural, predatory mimics testing the boundaries of your campsite, these encounters will make you rethink your next outdoor excursion. Inside, you will discover: Entities that ...

The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.

Mythical creatures, shapeshifters, and magic – a gripping fantasy series for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Narnia. A hidden island shrouded in fog. That unseen place Out There on the mainland where something terrible happened years ago. Only a handful of people left in the world... Or so the children are told. When Hal and Robbie make an astonishing discovery in the woods, they realize the adults of the small community have a dark secret. And the arrival of a mysterious woman at school proves it. Who is she? Where on earth did she come from? The classmates are more determined ...

You can escape the woods. But you can never outrun the bloodline. Elara Vance survived the Briarwood Holler massacre. She escaped the fire, the fangs, and the horrific truth of what slumbers beneath the Appalachian ridge. The official report called it a tragic forest fire that claimed her research team. But Elara knows the truth. The deep, cellular chill inside her has nothing to do with the trauma. Her silver scar thrums with a dark, terrifying rhythm. She brought a piece of the holler back with her—a gnawing, ravenous emptiness that grows stronger as the moon waxes. She is a ticking ...

A quiet mountain town. A final night of movies. An unstoppable force emerging from the dark. The Pine Ridge Drive-In is closing its gates forever, and manager Emma Reeves has planned the ultimate all-night movie marathon to send it off. The lot is packed. The projector is humming. The crowd is ready for a scare. But the real terror isn't on the screen. Deep within the dense forest bordering the lot, a legendary apex predator has been pushed to the brink by decades of corporate greed and environmental destruction. Tonight, it is reclaiming its territory—and it will tear through steel, ...

A weekend getaway was supposed to mend a fractured family. Instead, it woke a forty-year-old curse. Former search-and-rescue diver Owen Rourke just wants to reconnect with his grieving teenage daughter, Sadie, at their old vacation cabin. But when a violent summer storm traps them on the water alongside a hundred panic-stricken tourists, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. Something massive, intelligent, and relentlessly hungry is hunting the crowded shallows—attacking boats from below and tearing through steel like paper. To survive a night of claustrophobic terror, Owen...

Off the jagged coast of Maine, a remote community keeps its secrets buried deep—until the bodies refuse to stay down. When insurance investigator Nate Halpern arrives to audit a string of suspicious maritime claims, he expects to uncover a mundane financial scam. Instead, he finds a town bound by a blood-soaked pact. For two centuries, a powerful local family has protected a horrifying lineage, masking brutal massacres as tragic boating accidents and collecting the payouts to fund their silence. But the sedation protocols are failing. The chains are breaking. And as a catastrophic storm ...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

North America is a land rich with history and folklore, where the echoes of heroes and patriots blend with tales of the unknown. But beyond the familiar narratives lies a shadowy realm of mystery. This book unveils spine-tingling stories of legendary creatures, ghostly apparitions, UFO sightings, and unexplainable phenomena that stretch across the continent. In Legends, Myths, Monsters, & Ghosts: North American Edition, author George Lunsford takes readers on a thrilling expedition into the heart of North American folklore. With exhaustive research and vivid storytelling, Lunsford has ...

Nature always fights back. Blackridge Summit Resort is expanding, and management refuses to let a forecasted snowstorm or wildlife warnings delay their multimillion-dollar schedule. They order the explosives detonated on the upper ridge to clear the way. The resulting blast triggers a catastrophic slide that buries the ski lift, crushes the communications tower, and leaves hundreds of guests trapped in a freezing, powerless hotel. But the detonators did not just break the snowpack. They collapsed the roof of an ancient, hidden cave system, exposing a den that has belonged to a clan of ...

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 ...

The power is dead. The dam is cracking. The countdown has begun When a catastrophic blackout plunges Mercy Ridge, West Virginia into total darkness, former lineman Owen Vale rushes into the storm. His brother, Logan, has vanished. Logan spent years being dismissed as a paranoid fanatic, obsessively documenting a chilling pattern: whenever infrastructure fails, an enormous, winged entity with burning red eyes appears right before the collapse. Now, the entire county grid is failing in a massive cascade. A multi-county blackout has isolated the valley, an upstream dam is fracturing under the ...

Some cages should never be opened. Beneath the Nevada desert, the subterranean ORIGIN facility was built to study and contain the world’s most dangerous biological anomalies. Now, all communications have gone dark, the containment locks have cycled open, and the lab has become a slaughterhouse. When elite operative Jack Rourke and his extraction team are sent down into the reinforced concrete corridors to secure a high-value asset, they expect a standard rescue mission. Instead, they find a massacre. Trapped hundreds of feet underground, Rourke’s squad is forced into a brutal war of ...

The silver didn’t kill him. But the cold might. Caleb is a ghost, walking the dark edges of America to keep the beast inside him hidden. But his last fight left him broken. Poisoned by toxic buckshot and stripped of his healing, Caleb needs a place to recover. He takes an off-the-books job at Ironridge, an isolated, high-altitude mining outpost shutting down for the season. The grueling work and absolute isolation are exactly what he needs. Then the storm of the century hits. Trapped in a historic blizzard miles from civilization, the skeleton crew loses radio contact, power, and their ...

Some things in the deep woods were never meant to be captured on film. Wildlife biologist Lena Hart has spent her career debunking anomalous footage. Lens flares, motion blur, misidentified bears—she’s seen it all. But when a cheap memory card pulled from a remote Pacific Northwest survey site yields an image that defies all biological logic, her rigid skepticism is completely shattered. Tasked with retrieving the remaining equipment from the deep-woods perimeter, Lena and a small team of researchers hike into the dense, unnaturally silent canopy. What begins as a routine retrieval ...