True Horror

You may know Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat from Paranormal Activity, the 2007 found-footage horror film that launched a blockbuster franchise. Now, inspired by the fictional haunting that brought them together, the friends and former co-stars are examining real-life stories of demonic possession, tracing the phenomenon from its earliest known accounts to its modern-day headlines.

The first volume proved the woods were not empty. This one asks how deep it goes. Erik Lake returns with a second collection of first-hand accounts: new Bigfoot and Sasquatch reports, lights that track through the trees, voices with no speaker, and encounters that happen after people already know what they’re looking at—and still can’t explain it. The pattern is sharper this time. Same kinds of places. Same kinds of witnesses. Different nights, same unease. Lake keeps the academic restraint and lets the reports do the work. If Volume 1 made you glance twice at the treeline, Volume 2 ...

THE TRUE STORY BEHIND AMERICA’S MOST INFAMOUS KILLER — AND THE LIES WE TELL TO LIVE WITH HIM. The Psycho of Plainfield: The Real Story of Ed Gein – Separating Fact from Fiction By Miles Donovan Before Hollywood turned him into a monster… he was a quiet man in a small town. On a bleak Wisconsin farm, surrounded by frozen earth and religious fear, a son lived under the shadow of a mother who ruled him with sin, shame, and silence. Decades later, when the world discovered what he’d done, it wasn’t just the horror that shocked America — it was the ordinariness. This is not the ...

Starvation. Poison. Cannibalism. Extermination. History's worst horrors weren't committed by monsters. They were carried out by governments, documented in official records, and conducted in broad daylight while the world looked away. You know the atrocities everyone remembers. The ones taught in schools, commemorated in memorials, discussed in documentaries. This book is about the others. The mass deaths that were buried, minimized, or erased from collective memory. The systematic cruelties that unfolded in isolated places where no one intervened. The horrors that killed thousands—...

Our world is built upon mysteries, so when somebody tells you nothing is impossible, you best believe them. Unexplainable Happenings is a thoughtfully-curated anthology series of occurrences most would deem impossible. Bone-chilling beholdings, unwilled encounters, and the unthinkable all come together to create an unusual and genuine series.

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with dashing Count Vronsky.

This book contains 101 bite-sized horror stories that are intended to scare and unsettle you. These are real peoples' accounts of the creepy and the occult - of their near-misses with madmen and paranormal entities. Each chapter is a short, stand alone campfire tale, a retelling of a frightening or gruesome incident that has stuck with the teller, something that gives them pause to this day when they find themselves alone in the dark. These stories have been collected with the knowledge that real life is scarier than fiction. 

Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall.

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

The woods hold secrets that will haunt your soul. In Strange Encounters in the Woods: Volume 2, Evan Grant returns with one hundred new first-person accounts of people who encountered Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Wendigo, Rakes, pale white crawlers, and other mysterious creatures in the wilderness—and survived. Ordinary hikes turn. Camps go quiet. Something watches from the timber, too tall, too thin, or impossibly pale, and then it moves. These are the stories of those who ran, hid, fought, and made it back with the memory still stuck in their teeth. If you finished Volume 1 and still listen ...

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.

From bestselling author Ethan Hayes comes Halloween Haunts, a chilling collection of spine-tingling tales perfect for the most haunted time of the year or any other if you're into being scared. Known for his knack for capturing the eerie and the inexplicable, Hayes takes readers on a journey into the unknown with stories he’s gathered over the years—true accounts of encounters that defy logic and explanations that remain just out of reach. This anthology is a tapestry of terror, weaving together ghostly apparitions, sinister urban legends, and unexplained phenomena that have lingered in...

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...

Over 732 pages with 120 unique stories! Extraordinary encounters. Unexpected humor. Endless challenges. Life-threatening diseases. Unthinkable trauma. From peculiar conditions and mysterious ailments to remarkable recoveries and medical mysteries that defy explanation, STAT: Crazy Medical Stories draws from real-life accounts told by the healthcare professionals who lived them. Each chapter drops you into a crazy case as the doctors, nurses, and first responders themselves remember it. The stories take you across emergency medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and beyond. Prepare for a ...

Something is out there. These are the people who saw it. This is the last book. Erik Lake closes the series with fifty first-hand accounts with over four hundred pages of what people found when they left the trail: Bigfoot and Sasquatch sightings, lights with no source, apparitions at the tree line, and encounters that never fit the official story. A former anthropology professor, Lake keeps the same approach he used in the first two volumes: the reports first, the interpretation second. No padding. No tidy answers. Just the witnesses, the woods, and the pattern that keeps repeating. If the...

Embark on a spine-chilling journey with a compilation of authentic encounters with cryptids that will send shivers down your spine. This book of true horror stories, presents genuine accounts, some refined for clarity. Immerse yourself in these narratives to gain insight and, perhaps unsettlingly, solidify your belief in the existence of cryptids like Sasquatch, Werewolves, and Wendigos. Brace yourself for a thrilling exploration into the eerie and unknown.

50 Terrifying Stories and Over 400 Pages. People go into the woods for quiet. Some of them come back with stories they can’t explain. Former anthropology professor Erik Lake collected those stories—Bigfoot and Sasquatch sightings, lights with no source, figures at the edge of the firelight, and encounters that don’t fit a field guide. This anthology treats them as evidence, not entertainment: what was seen, who saw it, and why the official answers keep falling short. Lake doesn’t ask you to believe. He asks you to sit with the reports. After that, the forest is no longer empty.

They’ve stalked Europe’s haunted woods and prowled America’s forgotten roads. Now their blood-soaked legacy is exposed. Werewolves have howled through our darkest stories for centuries—but what if the legends were true? In this unnerving collection, author Ethan Blackwood hunts down the origins, folklore, and chilling real-world encounters behind the world’s most terrifying shapeshifters. From ancient European villages to the eerie backroads of rural America, you'll discover: The horrifying roots of werewolf myths across cultures Real-life accounts from survivors who claim they ...

Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams. Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was inspired by an 18th-century Japanese folktale? Unearth the...

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche SECOND EDITION: UPDATED AND ADDITIONAL CONTENT!!! From Ethan Hayes, the bestselling author of WHAT LURKS BEYOND and ENCOUNTERS IN THE WOODS comes a new series which focuses on the most interesting and creepy stories he has collected. These stories detail strange and mysterious accounts from the people who encountered them and survived to tell their tale. From encounters with Bigfoot and Sasquatch to demons and spirits who haunt and torture their victims and even mystical tales from antiquity. The stories ...