Roots Horror

A cursed boarding school. A missing father. A girl written into a nightmare. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Wednesday, and dark supernatural horror. When Elaine arrives at Raventree Institute, the shadows already know her name. Students vanish. Mirrors whisper. The forest at the edge of the grounds feels alive—and hungry. And the only person who seems to notice what’s wrong, Liz, a girl in a battered gray hoodie that no one else remembers, might be her only ally against the thing beneath the roots that devours the living. As the school closes in around her, Elaine discovers she ...

Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfather's vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people's faces don't hang right anymore—except they do, once you look more closely. Transformations warp the children's sense of time and place, the very land itself seeming to encroach upon them.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A modern masterpiece, this is a classic Gothic thriller-fantasy from bestselling author Erin A. Craig, about doomed love, menacing ambition, and the ghosts that haunt us forever. In a manor by the sea, one sister is still cursed. Despite dreams of adventures...

there is no happy ending. Loneliness is a code to be cracked. Be careful what you compile. Maya Corbell is a digital sin-eater. By day, she trawls the darkest corners of the internet for Veracity, scrubbing the web of its violence and filth. It is a soul-crushing, isolating existence. By night, she copes through a secret, desperate ritual: Technomancy. By weaving her hair into intricate, circuit-like braids, Maya hacks into the ambient electromagnetic field of the server farm, building a sanctuary in the static. Her sanctuary is a pristine, eternal 1999 shopping mall. And waiting for her by...

In this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets. Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity...

Are you brave enough to enter a world where the line between reality and nightmare is impossibly thin? The Horror Files beckons you into a realm where legends stir from the past, and every corner hides a terror waiting to strike. This is no ordinary collection, it's a descent into darkness, where fear takes on many faces, and no secret stays buried for long. Ancient myths claw their way into the present. Unsolved mysteries evolve into chilling realities. Brutal horrors of today collide with the restless whispers of forgotten legends. With 18 heart-pounding stories, The Horror Files will ...

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbinding historical fantasy set at the crossroads of race and power in America. It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided—between those who work the mystical arts and those who do...

A beautiful forest. A terrifying legend. It’s 1986. Two strangers, hundreds of miles apart, grapple with disturbing incidents in a one-of-a-kind quaking aspen forest.

Fresh off my Voodoo-tastic vacation to New Orleans, I find myself presented with the first test of my newly discovered magic. There’s been a murder in the neighboring town of Pine Shoals and the victim has decided she’s not cut out for the spectral life and needs a gentle push into the Otherworld. As it turns out, conjuring some magic and telling a ghost to ‘go towards the light’ isn’t quite good enough, and now the hysterical ghost is stuck in some kind of limbo land. It’s up to me to solve her murder before the poor ghost goes insane—or, becomes demon food. Whichever happens first.

Welcome to the City of Angels—where every dream has a shadow. Legends of Los Angeles peels back the glittering surface of Hollywood to reveal the ghosts beneath the spotlight. In forty haunting tales of fame, obsession, and ruin, Los Angeles becomes a city alive with secrets: a phantom director still filming his masterpiece, a cursed headshot that erases actors from reality, and a talk show that won’t stop broadcasting—no matter how many of its guests are dead. From Beverly Hills mansions humming with regret to the haunted neon of Sunset Boulevard, each story captures a different side...

I’ve got a ring on my finger and a date circled on the calendar, let the wedding planning begin! As luck would have it, the chapel I’ve got my heart set on, is plagued by the not-so-nice spirit of a former bride. She died on what was meant to be her wedding day and isn’t going to step aside to let anyone else take her place at the altar. She claims the chapel is cursed and points to her own murder as a sure sign, but I’m not convinced. I’ll have to keep my new reaper powers in check and solve this case the old-fashioned way if Lucas and I have any shot at starting our happily ever after.

Some girls get their hearts broken. Valencia got her soul snatched. Valencia thought she had it all. Fly hair, decent grades, and the kind of confidence that made people pay attention. Then she met him. Older. Smooth. Dangerous fine. The first time felt like a dream. But it wasn’t love. It was a spell. And once he had her, everything started to rot. Her edges thinned. Her skin dulled. The smell of decay followed her everywhere. And the nightmares? They wouldn’t stop. She thought she was the only one. She wasn’t. With her best friend Kiyah by her side, Valencia dives headfirst into ...

British fantasy and Bram Stoker-nominated author Gemma Amor brings together a unique line-up of thirteen authors to explore heritage and horror, featuring stories from Gabino Iglesias, Erika T. Wurth, and many more.

Conventional wisdom has it that the origins of the horror genre are found in the nineteenth century, in works like Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this paradigm-shaking new book, Bible scholar and cultural historian Brandon Grafius argues that the Bible is, among other things, the world's first work of horror literature. The tropes and themes that we find in slasher movies, body horror, folk horror, and zombie apocalypses were kickstarted by the Bible. Before Godzilla, there were the monsters arising from the sea in the book of Daniel.

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) 'killer plant' in fiction, film and video games. Step within to marvel at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's giant wisteria and H.G. Wells' hungry orchid; hear the calls of the ethereal women of the wood and the frightful drone of the moaning lily; and do tread carefully around E. Nesbit's wandering creepers. Every strain of vegetable threat can be found within this new collection.

For Lee Harris and his cohorts, it was meant to be a simple holdup; the kind of robbery they'd done many times before. Go in, scare a few people, and get away with the money. A piece of cake, with nobody being harmed. But when the job goes bad and a man winds up dead, they soon find themselves on the run with the Rozzers hot on their tail. With little choice but to lie low for a while, Lee soon fetches up at a safe house far from prying eyes. But the small cottage tucked away in the back of beyond soon proves anything but a sanctuary. For Lee, it is the beginning of five days and five ...

Hollis Varn returns to Fenwell Hollow expecting paperwork, property, maybe a quiet inheritance. What he steps into is something older: Tallow House, a house that listens. A stitched ledger called the Roll, buried memories that don’t belong wholly to the past, and an orchard that catalogs names like fruit.

In the third installment of The Daughters of Dark Root series, Maggie's life is endangered by a malicious curse. Her only chance at saving herself and the life of her unborn child is to reveal the memories kept within a set of crystal globes. They alone hold the key to Dark Root’s secret past, and who she really is. This is a stand alone novel and should be listened to after The Witches of Dark Root and The Magick of Dark Root.

“Burn if you must,” it whispered. “But you’ll only seed the ash.” When Tessa Morrell returns from the depths of the earth, she carries something with her—something ancient, patient, and alive. The town of Ashford Bend seems untouched: blue skies, smiling neighbors, freshly painted porches. But beneath the surface, something hums. The cornfield breathes. The houses pulse. The mirrors reflect more than they should. As Tessa unravels the strange transformation of her once-familiar hometown, she uncovers the truth about the Bloom—a vast, fungal intelligence thriving beneath their ...

Brought to Summerville after his brother’s sudden death. Don Moore quickly finds himself surrounded by the mystery of Summerville, Wisconsin, and the Palmer House. A resort started in the early 1800’s, offering romantic getaways with an old-world flair. With the intentions of only staying a week to finalize his brother’s estate. Don has to make the choice of closing his brother’s bookstore. Or starting a new life far from the hustle and bustle of Chicago. Quickly he is drawn into the old-world charm of Summerville. As well as the friendliness of the people. Especially Dotty West, ...