Short Horror Evil

From the writer who brought you the best-selling short story collections DREAD, CREEP, and CURSED, comes a new set of tales that will force you to lock the doors and turn on the lights. EVIL forces you to confront the most terrifying element in our world - EVIL. In each story, we see how it manifests and then consumes those who dare to think they can battle it. In this book, GOOD doesn't triumph over EVIL, it runs away and cowers under the bed and hopes and prays it goes away and never comes back. Can you handle something that is filled with pure EVIL?

Dare to enter Harmony House... if you can survive its curse. Nestled in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, Harmony House is a striking estate with an allure that draws people in—only to trap them in a web of terror. Five new owners have crossed its threshold, each unaware of the horrors waiting inside. What starts as a dream home quickly turns into a nightmare as they confront the malevolent spirits that haunt its halls. Each story reveals the twisted history of Harmony House through the eyes of its ill-fated residents. From terrifying apparitions to sinister forces that toy with the mind, ...

23 STEPS TO EVIL Twenty-three stories. Twenty-three steps. One dark descent you will not climb back from. Evil always finds a way to challenge the good. Humans are weak by comparison, and that weakness leaves the doorway open for darkness to emerge. In this chilling collection of supernatural short stories, master of dark fiction Roger David Francis invites you to take twenty-three steps into the shadows. Each Step is a story all of its own. Some will shock you. Some will make you think. Every one of them will leave a chill you simply cannot shake. A mother and daughter check into the wrong...

This is a short story. Suffering from sleep deprivation for months, Anna begins hearing a voice in her head. The voice provides her with the reason why she can't sleep and tells her what she must do to finally get some rest.

Thirteen nights. Thirteen knocks. Thirteen chances to say no. When Marrow Lane returns to her Appalachian hometown of Dredge, she expects grief and memory. What she finds instead is hunger—an ancient presence the townsfolk call the Hollow. Every autumn, it comes to collect what’s owed. Sometimes it takes crops. Sometimes it takes names. And sometimes, it takes people. This year, the Hollow has learned her name. Armed with her mother’s journals, a handful of lamps, and the stubborn help of neighbors who don’t all trust her, Marrow fights to rewrite the bargain. Ash lines, wrong doors...

Ryan isn't your average serial killer. People pay him to kill those who deserve to die and he loves every minute of it.

Three stories. One pull you don’t walk away from. The Festival arrives without warning—lights burning too bright, music carrying too far, laughter that doesn’t belong. Flynn tends the machine that was never broken. Brenda hears the bells and knows what they mean. Lacy follows a voice she should have ignored. Each path leads to the same place. Together, they form a single turn of the wheel—where the draw begins, the lines blur, and leaving is no longer a choice. Enter the Festival. Includes Flynn, Brenda, and Lacy.

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life... until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue - but then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up. Now he can see evil... as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague... and whois the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man... or the walking dead.For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about....

Before there were churches. Before there were kings. Before there were names. There were the first gods. Across the British Isles lie ancient places older than memory — stone circles raised to unknown powers, burial mounds sealed with dread, moors that whisper in forgotten tongues, and forests that do not welcome trespassers. The land remembers what humanity has tried to forget. In The First Gods of the Isles, Adrian Cave delivers twenty chilling tales of folk horror and ancient evil rooted deep in Britain’s sacred and cursed ground. Archaeologists unearth what should have remained ...

A haunted house has a victim. This building has a tenant. The Verge is the best conversion in the district — exposed brick, good light, a hundred and forty residents who saved for years to live there. It's also killing them. Five deaths in eight months. A fall down a railing that passed inspection. A marathoner's heart. A woman drowned in a bathtub with no water in her lungs. And every single one happened in the new part. None in the old. Napoleon Nightshade reads the insurance claims that don't fit in a folder — and he knows that you don't own your home. You occupy it, provisionally, ...

Something is moving beneath the ice. In the Arctic, a research team drills too deep and awakens what should have stayed buried. In a Colorado mountain town, a carwash becomes the last fortress against an army of the frozen dead. At a remote ski resort, an ancient artifact resurfaces after centuries of silence. In an Alaskan wilderness, a lone caretaker discovers that the ghost town he's been maintaining has been dying from below long before he arrived. And at a drive-in theater on a winter night, four teenagers discover that some movies were never meant to be watched. They are patient. They...

Todd had always wanted to write professionally, but despite numerous attempts could never sell any of his stories. Frustrated, on a whim he decides to try using an exotic artifact, a "wish doll", to give him a story that a publisher will accept. What he doesn't realize is what he will have to do in return.....

You don’t know what waits below — until you fall. During a remote climb, Max’s partner disappears into a narrow fissure. When Max descends after him, he enters a darkness that twists sound, warps space, and feels alive. A tense psychological horror short story for fans of The Descent, claustrophobic terror, and the creeping, Lovecraft-tinged atmosphere of underground horror. --- ⭐ Part of a Four-Story Collection Below the Rift is one of four standalone psychological horror novellas included in They Came Into Our Lives: Horror Collection, a complete Kindle horror volume that brings ...

MORT: THEY THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A DOLL SUMMARY In the fog-choked streets of Victorian London, young Edward Thorne makes a discovery that would haunt his waking hours and plague his sleepless nights—a porcelain doll with haunting blue eyes and a painted smile, its delicate features somehow preserved despite the grime of the cobblestones where it lies discarded and utterly forgotten. Yet Edward’s heart races with childlike wonder as he gathers the abandoned treasure into his arms, its weight strangely solid, almost warm against his chest, and he hurries home through gaslit alleys to ...

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

Angela and Terry return home after several grueling months of filming the popular television show, Let's Switch Houses!, only to find their residence in ruin. Sure, the décor and framed photographs are the same; the color of the walls hasn't changed; the furniture sits unmoved. But something is off. Their quiet New Jersey home feels tainted. Angela can sense it. Crawling inside her. Infecting her mind. Poisoning her thoughts. Then the nightmares begin. Awful, lucid visions that cause her to question her own reality.

A lifelike dummy. A strange dinner party. A soul that won’t stay dead. When struggling actor/waiter Luke Barrett is assigned to serve a bizarre memorial dinner, he doesn’t expect the guest of honor to be a creepy carpool dummy—or for the night to follow him home. But soon, Luke begins blacking out. Seeing things. Becoming someone else. As his reality unravels, he realizes the dummy isn’t just a lifeless prop. It’s watching. Waiting. And it wants in. From bestselling author William Massa comes a chilling short story of possession and occult terrors. A quick read that can be read or...

Story #1: The True Eaters. Taylor got a lot money from a man in a supermarket. It was in exchange for a special job he had to do. If he had known what job the man was talking about he would never have taken the money! Story #2: The Hitman. Jim knew the Dark Web is a scary place but a certain situation took him there. He hired a Hitman to kill his wife! Little did he know things would get out of hand like this. Story #3: The Plague Doctor. It all began one night when I came back from school. I'm an introvert who has no social life and no friends either. So as usual, when I came back, I ...

I Say Your Name in the Dark Nights is Jonathan Maberry's never-before published adventure that blends swordplay, action, adventure and horror. Kagen Vale—disgraced former palace guard, damned by his own gods, on the run from bounty hunters and assassins—discovers that no matter where you try...

Dive into "Enchanted Echoes," a thrilling collection of short stories that takes you from the familiar to the fantastic. Explore a variety of magical and mysterious worlds. Meet a man trapped in a strange place, aliens with secret plans, and a stranger with a dark agenda. Experience a surreal romance, and join a sister on her journey to the edge of life and death. Get ready to see a woman transform into an alien and follow a ghost as she seeks justice for her death. Watch out when two girls accidentally call forth an evil spirit they can't control. Each story in "Enchanted Echoes" is ...